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 and I am sorry I didn't make any post for a few days but things have been hectic. I am doing so many things that there is no time to blog or read blogs. But I will catch up I am sure.
So on my birthday, it was a school day, we didn't do much.
I spent all the afternoon trying to say thank you to each and every one who sent me wishes on facebook, by e-mail or on the phone! I would like to say thank you to everyone who remembered me. I admit facebook does a great job reminding us of birthdays so I got wishes from people I know would never remember when my birthday is. But the same goes for me too!
I made a ready made lemon pie

 which of course Barca coveted.

 Spot the candle!
I got some lovely roses from my mum.

And some parcels arrived.
From dear Cathy in England useful school, office and home items.My pupils already loooove the stickers!

From dear Juliana and John in Scotland great magazines (Oh yes one more Mollie Makes issue!!!!!), with kits, amazing beads for my stones, delicious chocolate and handmade earrings!

Also from dear Brigitte in France a lovely notebook and a handmade bead necklace.

And a packet of shells and sea glass from my dear Maria Jose in the Acores!

A beautiful handmade card from dear Carolyn in England

and this lovely e-card from dear Ian in England again.

I know there are parcels on their way to me from other parts of the world, I got notifications from their senders but they haven't arrived yet!
Still I thank you all very very much!
I also received this lovely pendant from Christina (Cel Chan) of Celdeconail who is one of my new friends in my Etsy Greek Street Team.

And  I got this handmade driftwood boat from my long lost High School best friend Dora with whom we managed to meet this weekend after 15 years! (Sorry we were talking so much that we forgot to take pictures!) Hopefully we will meet again soon and take pictures too!

And this beautiful Phantom of the Opera mask earrings from my director and fellow actors and actresses at my Drama Club.

 Again Barca was really interested!

And this lovely Mudo Concept cushion and fistiklocum (Turkish Delight with pistacchio nuts-my favourite) from my dear friends Aykut and Sehnaz from Turkey who were in Greece on a short visit and we also managed to meet this weekend. Again I forgot to take a picture! Unbelievable!

Finally a lovely shawl by my dear best friend Gia whom we visited today for my Godson's birthday!

Thank you every one for the lovely gifts!
It was such a great weekend! I will talk about it more in future blogposts! I am only adding here details that concern my birthday!

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!