Thursday, July 2, 2015

My birthday!

Thursday:

My birthday started with presents. My main present was an iPhone 6 (I had been using a 4S) and my son chose this beautiful cover for it:

My daughter gave me body lotion, hand cream and lip balm.

My husband also gave me this stunning colouring book, with a set of 72 artist pencils.



I had bought my children colouring books for Christmas and loved them so much I bought one for myself, but this one is actually made for adults. Apparently grown-up colouring books is a thing now, as an anti-stress technique. I used to colour in a lot as a child before moving on to cross-stitch embroidery and then painting miniatures for Dungeons and Dragons. In all cases I am not required to be able to draw! The design work is done for me, I just get to choose the colours and soothingly fill them in.

It was a day of indulgence, and as such I am not going to give myself a report card today. But tomorrow is another day!

9 comments:

  1. Happy birthday, Natalie. I hope the upcoming year is less traumatic than the past one. Eileen

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  2. Happy birthday! What lovely gifts and kudas to Tim on noting that you took an interest in the coloring books last year, and got a creative gift idea, how delightful!

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  3. Happy Birthday Natalie! Great presents and I LOVE that phone cover. I read an article not too long ago about the adult coloring books and was like"cool". Enjoy.

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  4. Happy Birthday Natalie! I hope you have a wonderful year! You sure got very lovely presents from your family. That's so nice. :-)

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  5. Happy birthday, Natalie! Have a wonderful year ahead. Wishing you all the best.

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  6. I have that coloring book and LOVE IT!!! It's the best one! :) Happy Birthday!

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  7. Happy birthday! What a great bunch of gifts you received from your family.

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  8. Thanks everyone! Reading back this post it seems like the presents were the only things I cared about but that's just because I wrote it in the morning just after I opened them then only wrote a couple of lines in the evening. I had a lovely day.

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  9. Happy belated Birthday Natalie! What thoughtful, lovely gifts your family gave you!

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