birthday: noun

the anniversary of a birth

My friend Jamie has been visiting with me for our special "holiday"...we have been celebrating our birthdays. Hers was in October ( if you follow my blog, you know I forgot it , bad me ) and mine is coming up in February. So we got a shared birthday cake, and some yummy wine!

Jamie, while she has been here has also been cooking for me too. Here she is cooking our birthday dinner of Roasted Red Pepper Asparagus soup! So nice to have someone cook for you ;)

And we also had cheddar cheese biscuits to go along with the soup. Plated ( of course ) on a pair of chicken dishes! And see my hand crafted ceramic butter dish that I bought from a local artisan from Dillsboro, NC back before Christmas.

And now...lol I am having Jamie pose for my WOYWW picture. pssssttt....I cleaned it up. ( very proud smile ...I mean I don't do it often, hey...I'm too busy to clean, yeah that's my story and I'm sticking to it! ) BUT, since Jamie was coming to visit I decided to clean 'er up! Also....I admit that since I had my Cricut Circle Blog hop and her visiting me, I wouldn't be able to craft any so it actually would stay clean for a couple of days, so that made it even more worthwhile to do  ;) So without any further ado....here's Jamie in my ( as good as it's gonna get ) clean craft room posing with my latest publication that I have recieved in the Cricut Magazine, November issue where I have a double page spread ( pp. 40 and 41 )

oh....and btw...we were messing around in Barnes and Noble bookstore and I got to peek in the February issue of Cricut, AND discovered they did a tutorial on one of my projects ( the froggy Valentine bookmark ) and it's a 4 page spread...omgoodness...I think I yelped ( embarrassing to admit but I actually did yelp ) and ran walked quickly over to Jamie to show it to her. I was soooooooooooo excited! hee hee