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.