it'sssss back

today makes the 36th time the earth has gone around the sun since i took my first breath...

i'm gonna spend it finishing up the quilting on one of my favorite vintage quilts....i'll share pictures later :)

and i have a pot roast in the crockpot, mmmmm...

 

already, again??

that pesky birthday thing is back :)  today marks the 35th time the earth went around the sun since i started breathing- 35....not too shabby. i did notice the other day that i have a little patch of grey hair *shrug* i've had a grey eyebrow hair for a couple years now, so i knew the grey head hair was going to be setting up shop soon...

i had a fun day sewing with friends at lisa's house. i worked on my 30s swap blocks and ate chocolate cake.

i found out this weekend that i share my birthday with the wonderful Bonnie Hunter. very cool....a fellow 123 baby. i wonder who else shares my birthday

*goggling that*  here's a list if your interested....i recognize some names...i see a princess...hello! where's my name????

also of note- today is chinese new year, the year of the dragon...新年快樂

birthday summary!

i know that y'all are excited to hear about all this!!

my cookie cake from davis, complete with princess wand candles for 'her majesty'

my friend Lisa also helped add to the girth of my waistline :) it was delicious and i ate the whole thing!! by m.y.s.e.l.f ! i was told that if you eat your own birthday cake that the calories don't count....right? :)

see that brown icing- that was not just brown icing...nuh-uh...that was chocolate fudge icing! i had a sugar rush or two or three...

look how thick it is was! oh my cookie goodness...

here's the cute little bug pouchy thing that davis found for me- it's sooo cute! it sits next to my computer monitor.

and here's all the S blocks!!! now when i posted that i wanted blocks from my blogland friends i underestimated y'all! i thought i'd get 6 -10 and i felt that was being optimistic!

grand total: 38!! holy cow!! thanks you all!! i have a quilt on my LA that i have to get done today, then i'm all about playing with my blocks! i have a border and backing already picked out and i promise a future post of that- you'll get a kick outta it, i promise!

the one that traveled the farthest came all the way from scotland! i got 3 from canada and one from alaska! i must admit- canada has some very pretty stamps!! HEY USPS- get some artists to design some artistic stamps like canada!

a big thank you! to all S block contributors:
alberta p-judy j-saska-deb b-diane w-lisa d-michele b-goergia k-ronnie m-tracey p-karen k- kay-lisa w-dee t-lisa n-julie a-linda l-dory m-brenda s-wille l-karen m-cindy t-leslie m-leslie c-kathy w-kathy s-meg f

i will treasure this quilt forever!

meg even included some cookie treats for barney. i knew something was up with that particular envelope. barney was very insistent on me opening it...the power of his nose never ceases to amaze me....

the celebration parade!

as y'all know sunday is my coming-into-this-world anniversary and i have L.O.V.E.D. the parade of 'S' blocks that have appeared in my mailbox. everyone has made me smile. i will give them their very own post soon!  i've been playing with them on the design wall....

today i got a box!!! my friend jess made me a pillow!!!

i love the little snail....thank you jess!

i can't wait to take a nap and drool on it :)


 

joann sent me a pattern to enable my stash bash....it will have to wait, i have other future flimsies in line ahead of it.

thank you joann!

birthday day

i had a great day! thanks for the birthday wish comments!

davis went to our local chinese buffet and got me a box of my most favorite cakes (anybody can go to the store and get a sheet cake) there is a lanuage barrier, davis was trying to explain the the owner what he wanted, and the owner kept pointing to them on the buffet. then our 'normal' waitress noticed davis and came over wanting to know where i was at, he explained the situatiuon to her, she explained it to the owner, and i got my cake!....they melt in your mouth like cotton candy and aren't sugar heavy....

i forgot to mention that barney's shares my birthday...he got his share of cake. lucky enjoyed a slice too....lucy turned her nose up in true feline fashion

one two-three

so today is the thirty-third time i celebrate my entry to this world *wave*


(let them eat cake)




(ETA: that's not lucky....it's a pic i found on the web)


so i got curious, what else happened today in my lifetime?

1977 -$1.5-million Serge Lepage dress exhibited in Paris
1977- Miniseries "Roots" premieres on ABC
1983- "A-Team" with Mr T premieres on NBC
1986 - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
1988 - Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, complete first nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands
1989- Surrealist painter Salvador Dali dies at age 84.
1991- "Seinfeld" debuts on NBC-TV (yada yada yada)
1995- In Toronto, Ontario surgeons at The Hospital for Sick Children perform a 17 hour operation to separate Pakistani Siamese twins Hira and Nida Jamal; Nida died a month later
2003 -Pilot 1 and 2 of the television series MythBusters.

(wanna read more)

{evil smirk}

i LOVE it when a plan works out the way it's planned! yesterday (it's after midnite) was davis's birthday,and i must say a BIG thank you to the ladies (and gents) from the APQS and MQR chat forums for the help! my email birthday bomb for davis was a HUGE success!!! i posted on both forums that i would like everyone to send davis a birthday greeting email. well, what a response he got! he got greetings from the UK, australia, norway, finland, canada, and of course the good ole USA. i watched him smile ear to ear opening them all and reading them. i asked him when was the last time he recieved international birthday wishes? he LOVED it!

being the man he is, he sent a thank you to each and every one...quilters really are selfless.

to quote davis's reply to one nay-sayer: "there may be strange people, but no 'strangers' in the quilt world...."