Thursday, April 28, 2011

Birthday Antics

I celebrated another birthday the other day... somehow they are coming 
faster and faster as the years roll on !
My kids were all home so it was really good to be together and get teased about the grey hairs in person.
My two girls baked me a cake and decorated it so pro !


Among my gifts was this big box and they all told me not to shake it as I 
was going though the 
"I wonder what it is ?" guessing game. 
Well, they had played a trick on me and 
this is what was in the box :




This is a teapot made by Brandon Phillips of Abilene,Tx. I have been admiring his pottery for quite sometime. Brandon has the eye of an artist and the touch of a fine craftsman. http://www.etsy.com/shop/phillipspottery
About three weeks ago he posted some new pots in his online store and I decided to treat myself to this zinger. After clicking the "purchase now" button I told myself that I wouldn't start getting impatient about it, I would just push it out of my mind and chill... 
But towards the end of last week really I started wondering where the heck it was and had to stop myself from anxious thoughts. The day of my birthday I was really thinkin about how nice it would be to have it arrive that day and asked my daughters  to make a special trip into the post office but they only came back with the usual - no box from the states.

Anyways - they got me ! 
The teapot had arrived on the 19th and they had scooped it up and hidden it from me !

But more importantly, I got the teapot - intact and even better than the online pictures. Although I must say, Brandon does a really good job of photographing his work. The person purchasing his work from one of his photographs can rest assured that they are seeing a good representation of the work.

I think I'm going to learn alot from this teapot.




5 comments:

gz said...

lucky you, he makes good pots!

Trish said...

Colleen..HAPPY 'BELATED' BIRTHDAY!!So you are an April birthday too..:)
What a terrific surprise from the kids..it is so great when we (the Mom) can be totally 'caught'. And, yes, what a teapot!
Have a great day.
T.

ladyofclay said...

Thanks Ladies !

gz said...

just seen your comment on Hollis' blog- and went to follow yours. Found I'm already following! I thought that I'd lost contact when the family geek upgraded the Carpenter's computer and lost all my bookmarks!!
How are you?
xx gz

ladyofclay said...

Hi gz,
I'm fine, thanks for asking.
I hadn't meant to let the blog go idle but... 1 week turned into a month... ect. !