September Birthdays

It is September, as you are most likely aware, I admit to double checking the calendar because how could it be so late in the year already?

We have some birthdays in the family this month including one of my sisters, a daughter in law and a nephew. I truly do hope they have lovely days.

This month the birthstone is sapphire, and the flowers are aster or morning glory. If you are interested, please take a moment to see what I found on Zazzle, eBay and Amazon Handmade that are all about the beauty of the morning glory flower. Being fully transparent these will be affiliate links and I could earn a small commission if you click and then make a qualifying purchase. The choice is yours. The gratitude is mine.

From Zazzle...

Isn't this a lovely keychain?

From eBay...

I found a signed limited edition print by artist Mary Ann Vessey.

From Amazon Handmade...

Birthday month or not wouldn't you like this suncatcher in your home?

Back with more again soon. 

Take care and stay cozy! 

Happy Weekend

Over the weekend one of our grandsons turned three years old. I got him a card that played the song happy birthday. He called today to thank me for the card and to play the song so I could hear it.
I want to tell this little superhero happy birthday here on the blog and share one of my favorite pictures of this cute little man. This was at Thanksgiving last year. He found a quiet spot, paper and pencil and decided to do some drawing. Sorry Tristan but I can't remember what you told me it was a drawing of now.

EtsyBlogger Birthdays

I am a member of the EtsyBloggers Street Team and have been for nearly 2 years. The group got started around August of 2007. The purpose of the group is to create buzz about Etsy and our team members. To be on the team there are a really just three basic requirements. We have a chosen member each month that all EtsyBloggers are asked to write a post about. We have blog carnivals every other week with 2 topic choices each time. You need to write a post for a blog carnival at least once a month. The last requirement is to put the links to those posts in the roll call thread for the month on the team message board.

One of the other perks of membership is that each Monday an EtsyBlogger is featured on the team blog. There is a sign up thread for that on the message board. I share doing the Mini Monday feature with Lily of Tulips Treasure Box. It is called Mini Monday beacause we use the Etsy Mini widget to show off the shop. To be featured when your name comes up on the list the member needs to be current on the membership requirements I told you about in the first paragraph.

One other thing on the team blog is birthday greetings done by me each week on Friday for those active members who had birthdays in the previous week. This week I posted about two great members and wanted to share them with you here. The first is the shop owner of Spotted Cow Soaps and the second is Shell Mitchell. Both of them are outstanding artisans and if you come to the blog here you will see why. If you are getting this in a reader please come on over because the Etsy Mini widget does not show up on your feed. I really want you to see their products.

See I told you they had great stuff!

In A Funk and Determined to Get Over It

Click on the card to see the shop on ArtFire it came from.

I had a birthday this week. It was on the 8th and I am now 54 and for the next 6 months a year older than my husband. He likes to remind me of that. It was a nice day spent at home and then out for dinner when Jim got home from work. I don't think any of this has anything to do with the state I am in right now. I am finding it hard to function, I feel irritable and angry and there is no outside source to be causing any of these feelings. I am going to have to fix this from the inside out and I will because I don't like me this way. Maybe it is just me and special days. I remember, now that I think about it, feeling a bit of why bother around Christmas and Easter and Mother's Day this year.

Thinking back on my own birthdays, the ones that I really enjoyed they really had nothing to do with gifts or food. It had to do with spending time with the family. My favorite times are when we are all gathered at the kitchen table playing cards or other games. The radio is on and we finally settle on a station for all age groups, singing along, laughing, talking and relaxing. It gets a little silly when Tammy and Cindy start singing along with Journey. Jimmy and Jason both had great nights beating me at Scrabble which does not happen often. I think I hold the family record for being on phase 1 and having the highest points in the card game Phase 10. I don't like sitting next to Jim when we play cards. He always figures out what I need and never discards anything good to me. But it is all fun and the winners are gracious and the losers had fun too.