I was a birthday girl this week.

It's already February 1st!Wow!
One more week (and a whole month in fact) flew by!
Somewhere between floods and disasters happening everywhere in Greece due to the bad weather and a new leftist government in discussions with the Europeans,causing unbelievable positive and negative reactions at the same time all over Greece, this little girl here (that's me) had her birthday!
As I mentioned I didn't celebrate it  but I was really happy to receive some gifts and I am showing them today.I know more are in the post somewhere so I will show those when I receive them!
First hubby bought me a new mobile phone. Not that I needed one but he insisted!

He also gave me some money and I got myself three pullovers since it is sales time here. I hadn't bought anything for ages and I didn't even know what size I was!!!!!

The two are Bershka and the bottom one is H&M.
I also received lots of phone calls, facebook messages, SMS, e-cards and a couple of cards on the mail.
This one from my dear friend Maria Jose in the Acores,

 this handmade one from my dear friend Carolyn from England,

and this one from dear Juliana in Scotland. It's a Victoria &Albert Museum card.

Juliana also sent me a birthday gift and a Pay It Forward gift (a facebook game)
Here is what there was in her parcel.

 Chocolate of course, Crafts Beautiful magazine with a quilling set,

 felting wool, sequins, buttons ribbons and beads in gorgeous hues of blue,

  a little cute Barca ornament,

 this butterfly was hiding...

 ...a gorgeous set of sea glass wired wrapped earrings and pendant made by Alienstoatdesigns on etsy and ebay.

 some lovely soap,

 a set of lovely sea glass fridge magnets Juliana made herself,

 and a very beautiful tote bag printed with a photo of her sea glass made by SusanSeamaiden.

 Juliana thank you, you have been very generous with me always.
This week I also received a lovely pair of earrings that I had won on a giveaway a long time ago on Efzincreations blog.

 The earrings I had won were a Christmas design. They never arrived so sweet Triada of
The Purple Balloon gave me a second chance to choose another pair and I chose this lovely cupcakes earrings pair which arrived in time for my birthday!Thank you Triada!

And thank you Zina for hosting the giveaway!

It was my birthday!

On the 28th.
I went to school in the morning.
It was fun playing a recycling game with my 5th graders.

I treated my fellow teachers with this orange pie. Every one loved it.You can find the recipe here.

Coming home I was met with a happy family. Hubby,son, Barca!
I cleaned after Barca, ate fish soup made by hubby, unfortunately not very successful one, and spent the rest of the day with school preparartion and answering e-mails, phone calls and saying thank you to facebook Happy Birthdays! Ok.I would prefer a more lively one, but hubby was under the weather, son was at after school tutoring and Barca was restless!
Anyway here are my gifts.
Hubby updated my computer so now it is much much faster!Great I can blog faster! He also got me a SonyExperia White with his mobile contract for a very good reduced price. But he had given me that weeks ago!I am not yet used to it!Smartphones, my....!What does the name mean? That you should be extra smart to use them?Those touch screen tactile features are beyond me!Anyway I will get used to it!

(photo from the Internet)
Have I told you that the day I got my new mobile I found a Samsung Galaxy in the street? Fortunately I found the owner as well and returned it!
My mum brought me lovely roses.

"She is taking photos! I can go out!"

 "Are they edible?"

Another gift was the blooming of my Christmas cactus.

Finally I received some birthday cards and gifts.
Birthday cards from Brigitte in France, Maria Jose from the Acores, Carolyn and Cathy in England.

" I won't eat those they belong to you!"

And gifts.

Cross stitch magazines from Brigitte.

 Tea cards and Cottage Gardens booklet from Cathy.

Thank you every one for the lovely wishes, gifts, cards, warm thoughts for me!

Poppytalk Winter colours 2011 Friday silver and gold.

As this was my first time at Poppytalk's colour week I tried to post new photos taken that specific day or up to a month earlier.Otherwise I would end up with hundreds of photos and one has to monitor the time one spends in front of the computer! Not always possible. So today after school and just before going to visit my Godson in hospital again after his operation I took some close up photos for today's colours silver and gold.

 Spray painted golden shells. This was a first try I might make more of these next year.

Silver and white flower candle.

 A silver bow on a silver grey box that had a lovely sea glass bracelet inside.More photos on another post.

 Double riding knights on a small porcelain dish I bought at an antique bazaar,made in Gien France.

 Handmade silver snowflake felt pin with beads bought at another bazaar and pinned on my son's cap which I love wearing.

 Golden red and green Xmas crackers sent to me by my dear friend Cathy in England for next year's celebration.
Apart from Poppytalk now.
Today I received these beautiful crocheted snowflakes from dear Gara from the sea glass circle of friends.

 I tried to decide where I will have them decorated for the rest of the winter. I can't possibly keep them away till next Xmas.

 I think they look better in the second picture although the pic itself is not that good.

 The framed pictures behind the branches are flower fairies bought framed from England years ago.

 Dear Cathy's parcel also arrived today from England and it was huge. I felt like it was Xmas again and Santa had arrived. She had wrapped everything so nicely and I adored everything she sent.I will show bits and pieces in several posts.Thank you my dear dear friend and keep well!

 She even made this little patchwork pin for me!

Last but not least a handmade birthday card from Carolyn, also from England,a more recent pen friend.