Happy birthday! I would wish for a bunch of tiny people to move into your miniature houses to bring you extra delight, but if there's anything I've learned in the past year, it's that little people are pretty high maintenance.... ;) ;D
Hope you have a great year ahead!
Happy, happy birthday, Shiral! I heard it through the grapevine that certain blond, Deryni Duke is opening a bottle of Fianna wine to celebrate. ;D
Thanks Evaine and Jerusha!
Spent Sunday Night in San Francisco and yesterday, Mom and I spent money like Ivana Trump, er "Stimulated the San Francisco Economy" in stores around Union Square. Then came home and had a dinner party at a local French Restaurant. Today, my actual birthday will be a little less vigorous, but I'll still do some puttering about and amusing myself this afternoon.
Melissa
Happy birthday, Shiral! May it be a wonderful year for you!
Happy Birthday!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Belated Happy Birthday Shiral.
Quoteyesterday, Mom and I spent money like Ivana Trump, er "Stimulated the San Francisco Economy" in stores around Union Square.
Nods sagely at idea of doing such a community service on your birthday - very public spirited of you. :D
Thanks everyone. It was such a fun birthday, I forgot to freak out about how old I am. ;D
Jerusha, please tell that blonde duke to get his ducal self over to my place with the wine! Aaaaalaaaric.... I'm still WAAAIIITING. No need to wake Richenda.... ;) :D
Melissa
As if all of that bellowing for Alaric isn't going to wake Richenda? So much for being discreet! :D
Quote from: Evie on February 07, 2013, 09:00:50 AM
As if all of that bellowing for Alaric isn't going to wake Richenda? So much for being discreet! :D
I did NOT bellow, Madame! I just thought it at him really, really hard. =o)
Melissa
Shiral, Look who's image I acquired recently.
I bet anything, you have his image too, but here is a fresh look just in case you misplaced it in the move.
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Happy Birthday!
Now that's what I call a birthday present! And I'll bet he's bringing you that slice of birthday cake - you can always count on our Duke of Corwyn. :D
Hope you have a wonderful birthday, Shiral!
Happy birthday, Shiral!
Happy birthday, Shiral!
And ooh, Laurna! Thank you for posting that "birthday card"; now I have something to work from when I get around to recreating Mini-Alaric's 1:6 scale shield! ;D
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Shiral, Look who's image I acquired recently.
I bet anything, you have his image too, but here is a fresh look just in case you misplaced it in the move.
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Happy Birthday!
Wow, that's what I call a BIRTHDAY Present! =o) Alaric in full battle-rattle on his horse.
Thanks, Laurna! So far it's been a nice birthday, but it IS just 9:30 in the morning.=o) I am being supervised by Dmitri as I write this. I think he wants an ear scritchie.
Melissa
Happy birthday, Shiral. :)
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Happy, happy birthday, Shiral!
Aerlys, where do you find these cakes? Wow!! :)
I have a really big pantry...
LOL :D
Wow pretty cake!
I hope those are real flowers and not spun sugar. Truly, I can not tell.
Aerlys, I think this makes you the official pâtissière for the Duke of Corwyn.
Shiral, please continue to have a most Happy Birthday!
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Happy, happy birthday, Shiral!
Wow, Gorgeous Cake, Aerlys! Thank you. With all those children, how DO you find the time? ;)
Melissa
Quote from: Laurna on February 05, 2014, 02:28:43 PM
Wow pretty cake!
I hope those are real flowers and not spun sugar. Truly, I can not tell.
I think they are probably gum paste. I have seen some pretty realistic flowers made that way. It's an amazing art form. So yes, feel free to eat the whole thing...except the candles, of course!
It's a little early in my time zone (and therefore in Shiral's time zone because she's several hours behind me), but I'm going to post anyway. Happiest of birthdays to one of the original Zipper Sisters! :D
Seriously, I hope you have a great birthday, Shiral. :)
Have a wonderful, happy birthday, Shiral!
I'm sure the Duke of Corwyn will be sending along birthday wishes as well, along with a nice bottle of fianna red. :)
Happy birthday, Shiral! ;D
Happy birthday
A very happy birthday, Shiral!
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Thank you for the good wishes, everyone! It has been a nice, if not classically birthdayish birthday today. However. I am wearing my new turquoise bead bracelet--my birthday present to me-- right now.
I'm staying at a very pretty bed and breakfast in Oaxaca. I figure all the walking we're doing to and from the center of town must be burning at least some of the calories from our meals. Especially on the way back, which is uphill. For someone who inconveniently dislikes black beans, beer and avocados-- three staples here-- I'm eating very well!
Melissa
Happy Birthday Shiral! If your day is a pretty in central California as it is in So Cal, then it is a very pretty day for walking, indeed. I hope you enjoy the bed and breakfast. Very nice!
Well yes, but right now, I'm on vacation in Mexico. :D
Thanks for the beautiful cake, Aerlys!
Melissa
Mexico is the sort of place I only dream about going on holiday. Enjoy
Hope you had a great birthday!!
Happy birthday, Shiral! Hope you have a wonderful day, and that His Grace of Corwyn stops by with his own best wishes and a flask of fine fianna!
Happy Birthday. I have it on good (ducal) authority that you cannot get drunk on Fianna wine ( wipe that smirk off your face, Sean Derry!).
Happy birthday, Shiral! :)
it's a beautiful day, today, your birthday! Go outside and enjoy!
Happy birthday, Shiral!
Hi Everybody,
Thanks for the birthday wishes! So far, so good! Will be heading over to Santa Cruz for some retail therapy later on this afternoon. =o)
Melissa
Happy, happy birthday, Shiral!
Happy birthday, Shiral! It's your day again, and I hope it is a lovely one.
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Another Happy Birthday to you Shiral.
Do you think this could be Alaric come to our shore?
Happy birthday, Shiral! I hope you have a wonderful day!
Happy birthday, Shiral! :)
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Another Happy Birthday to you Shiral.
Do you think this could be Alaric come to our shore?
Well, I'D sure let him in! =o)
Thanks, Laurna!
It's your special day again, Shiral, and I hope it's a great one. Happy birthday!
Happy birthday, Shiral! For some reason there are not a lot of shiral-themed cakes out there, but maybe a geode cake might be of interest?
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Happy birthday, Shiral.
Happy birthday, Shiral! :D
(And cool cake, Evie!)
crazy cake! Happy birthday Shiral!
Happy Birthday Zipper Sis!
Happy birthday Shiral !
As a matter of fact, I read Dhugal at Work last night (again!). What a great and vivid short story !
A very happy natal day Shiral. I hope it has been a lovely day. Duncan says that he and Alaric lifted a glass in toast to your special day. Best wishes for a great year .
Hello everyone! Thank you all for your birthday wishes! So far, so good in birthday-land. I didn't make it chat yesterday because my mother and I were in San Francisco for a weekend of pre-birthday culture. We saw Tchailovsky's Sleeping Beauty at the SF Ballet on Saturday Evening, had an overnight stay at the St. Francis Hotel. Did some new clothes shopping yesterday morningish. Ate lots and spent lots.
Evie—WOW, what a birthday cake! Beautiful, and entirely acceptable.
Aang—thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed the story. 🙂 ("Dhugal at Work—Dhugal grows up and gets an office job.) 😉
Bynw—thanks, Zipper Bro!
Melissa
Happy birthday, Shiral! Hope you have a fantastic day.
Happy birthday,
@Shiral !
Happy Birthday, Shiral!
Happy birthday, Shiral!
Happy birthday Shiral
Happy day.
Sorry I'm late to the party, Hope I am on time for the cake.
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Happy Birthday, Shiral!
And to the pygmy lions too!
Thank you all for your kind wishes! So far, so good on the Birthday front. Not making a huge fuss this year, but had a nice Birthday Eve birthday party at my Monday evening writing group which always begins with a potluck supper. Two beautiful bouquets of roses, now gracing my living room coffee table, and the left-overs of my birthday cake, provided by my mother, is in my refrigerator. Took today off work to just do stuff I want to do.
Laurna thank you, the cake is adorable!
Melissa
Happy birthday, Shiral! Hope I'm not too late for cake!
Happy birthday, Shiral! Hope you have a wonderful, marvelous day.
Happy birthday!!
A BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, SHIRAL!
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May your day be wonderful!
Thank you, Everyone!
A bit late, but happy birthday,
@Shiral !
Not late at all, right on time since today IS the day. =o) But I am very flexible when it comes to birthday wishes. The intent counts for everything.
Melissa
Happy Birthday! And wishing you many more just as happy. Lovely cakes!
A very happy belated birthday Shiral. Sorry to be late, but since the Duke of Corwyn , our beloved Alaric, came by with a bottle of Fianna, I am sure you didn't miss me. I hope the two of you had a lovely time talking and sipping the wine. Hope you got a birthday kiss. Wishing you a wonderful year to come. Also, love those cakes!
It's your birthday again, Shiral! I hope you have a wonderful day!
Happy birthday Shiral. I hope you can do something good.
A Wonderful Happy Birthday For You, Shiral!
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Keep on with those great houses, they are so cute!
Happy birthday Shiral. A toast with Fianna red, a dance with that hunky Duke of Corwyn, then a kiss with many good wishes. What more could a girl ask for? Hope it has been a lovely day and you have a super year to come
Happy birthday, Shiral!
Happy Birthday!
Happy belated birthday, Shiral! Here, have a boar's head cake! :)
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Thank you everyone! Considering that I was extraordinarily limited in what I could do and where I could go on Friday, I actually did have a nice birthday this year. Since my mother has had her two doses of the vaccine, and I am in good health, we had a masked and socially distanced visit in my living room when she brought over my birthday presents. (Cute slippers, and a new set of bedsheets and a nice big pillow that Dmitri has now taken possession of.) In return, I gave her her long-delayed Christmas presient. (I ordered it on time, but it didn't get shipped until late December and got snarled up in the mail for several weeks until it finally arrived.)
After she went home, I did some painting, then got a Chinese take out dinner from my favorite local Chinese restaurant, and watched Moonstruck. Then enjoyed the birthday cake I baked.
Melissa
Happy Birthday, Shiral! Give us a few minutes, I think the catering dude's just putting the final touches on your birthday cake.
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Happy birthday Shiral. Hope you have a fabulous day to match your fabulous cake (which you definitely deserve). Hoping there are more stories to come about the relationship of Alaric and Brion. You are an amazing writer.
Happy Birthday!
I hope it's a great day!
And I hope you'll write more stories here in the new year!
Happy birthday, Shiral! That is some cake! Hope you have a wonderful day.
A very Happy Birthday, Shiral!
That is quiet a wee castle that he be building there. Would love to see that in person. Where is the Portal.
Have a Happy Day!
Happy birthday, Shiral!
Glad that cake is so big, because we've got quite a party going here. :D
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Happy Birthday, Shiral! Give us a few minutes, I think the catering dude's just putting the final touches on your birthday cake.
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Evie, How did you know I love Duff Goldman/Charm City Cakes? :) Thanks for the birthday wishes, everyone. It was a pretty good birthday. My mother, brother and sister and I had a cracked crab lunch at my house, I opened some nice gifts and then we took a walk around my neighborhood. After our walk, we ate the birthday cake I made last night. It's a sponge cake recipe from Julia Child's
Mastering the Art of French Cooking that I've made several times before, just not terribly recently. This time around, I didn't keep enough volume in the egg whites, and the cake was in the oven for about 5 minutes longer than it really needed. We agreed I wouldn't get the famed Paul Hollywood handshake for it, but I thought it was pretty good, nonetheless.
And part of me was thinking "I baked my own birthday cake and now you're
critiquing it?" Sooner or later, having a family of British Baking Competition fans can circle around and bite you in the posterior when you least expect it. ;) Anyway, still a pretty good birthday, and the four of us polished off three cracked crabs, we had a lot of laughs, and soon I'll go watch some Winter Olympics on TV.
Melissa
Glad you had a good birthday! My daughter loves Duff too, and I'm pretty certain I saw the episode when this Hogwarts cake was being built, since when she still lived at home, I think she watched every episode of every cake baking show that was on Netflix at the time. (This was when she still wanted to be a pastry chef.)
Belated birthday greeting, lovely Shiral! I hope the crab and cake treated you well. :)
Happy Birthday, Shiral!
Have a very happy birthday, Shiral!
Happy Birthday 2023, Shiral!
I hope you had an excellent birthday!
Thank you, everyone! I had a very nice birthday lunch arranged by my Mom. A great time was had by all. I was a little sorry that the timing meant I had to miss Zoom chat today, but I'll see you all next month.
I not only turned over a new year, but a new decade this time. I'm a Rabbit (according to the Chinese Zodiac) in the Year of the Rabbit, and my birthday coincided with February's full moon. These celebrations can be exhausting! But at least I know I'm not a werebunny.
Melissa
Happy belated birthday, Shiral! (I was very tired yesterday and never even turned on my computer.)
I'm glad you had a good time with your family!
Happy belated birthday Shiral. Glad you had a lovely time with family. Enjoy your next trip around the sun.
Happy birthday, Shiral! Have a wonderful year.
Happy Birthday, Shiral
I hope your Shiral Crystal will show you good fortune today!
(And not just the rain forecast.)
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Happy Birthday, Shiral! What a coincidence, I was just looking for this to send you:
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Happy birthday, Shiral
Happy birthday, Shiral
Happy birthday, Shiral! May the saint of your day bless you ... let's see, Saint Agatha (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_of_Sicily#Iconography), what was her tale ... eeee! Maybe emulate her steadfastness, not her fate!
Belated birthday Shirals to you. ;)
Happy birthday!
Quote from: Evie on February 05, 2024, 01:10:57 PMHappy Birthday, Shiral! What a coincidence, I was just looking for this to send you:
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Oh hey, what a fantastic Crystal! Alaric is going to be SO jealous!
Thanks, Evie!
HAPPY(belated)BIRTHDAY Shiral!!! May your new year be amazing!
Happy birthday Shiral. Hope this will be the best year ever.
Thank you everyone for the birthday greetings! It was a nice, but low key birthday.
Melissa
Happy (Belated) Birthday!
Happy (Belated) Birthday, Shiral! I've been gone from the castle for a while. Sorry I was untimely in wishing you a happy birthday. May this coming year be a good one for you and your family! :D