Saturday, June 16, 2012

20? 40? 80?

Nope! 60! Today is my 60th birthday and my 5 year blogaversary!

Thank you to everyone who reads my blog. Your comments keep me tatting, blinging, collecting, and having a wonderful time.


This was supposed to be a no presents birthday, but Dave surprised me with a new apothecary jar. My sister Janet had given me one for my birthday two years ago, but last summer I tripped on the rug and knocked it to the ground. Who knew glass could shatter into so many pieces?

Dave asked me if I needed to buy some more thread, because the jar is not full. No, I don't need to buy more thread... I just need to clean my sewing room, where I know there is plenty more 20, 40, and 80 Lizbeth thread... probably more than will fit in the jar!

P.S. ~ There will be a giveaway to celebrate this special day. I'm not telling what the surprise is, because it's not finished yet. A winner will be chosen from the comments to this post. The drawing will be sometime next week, once all the family has returned home and I have recovered from the celebration!

75 comments:

  1. Happy Birthday Diane! You don't know me. I am one of those anonymous folks out in tat land that enjoys reading your blog and seeing your tatting. Wishing you a lovely day to celebrate all the blessings of life.

    Sarah

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  2. ♪♫ Happy, Happy Birthday to YOU! ♪♫
    ♪♫ Happy, Happy Birthday to YOU! ♪♫
    ♪♫ You're good to go,
    So count the candles and blow! ♪♫
    ♪♫ Happy, Happy Birthday to YOU! ♪♫

    Please count me in for your party-rific giveaway.

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  3. Happy Birthday Diane. Have a great day celebrating with your family.
    Patti in Spokane

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  4. Happy 60th Birthday Diane!!! I send many wishes for a day filled with joy and tatting! I love the jar with such lovely thread!

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  5. Happy Birthday. The jar is a neat way to store thread visibly and decoratively.

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  6. Happy Birthday - and I remember that first jar, because I thought it was such a wonderful idea that I had to buy a jar myself. I filled it with tiny balls of DMC
    80.However I discovered that it was not a good idea to screw on the lid, at least not in our climate - too much humidity. So I've left it open to allow air to circulate.

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  7. Happy Birthday and Happy Anniversary. May you have plenty more of both. Keep up the great tatting and that is a good idea to show off your thread. :)

    Yvonne

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  8. Oooo - cool way to display threads!!

    Pick me! Pick me!

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  9. Happy Birthday to you,
    Happy Birthday to you,
    Happy Birthday dear Diane,
    Happy Birthday to you!

    and many more.
    what a fun way to show off your threads.

    have a fun day celebrating with family.

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  10. Happy Birthday Diane! I hope your day is special and the year to come a wonderful one! Lovely jar...the threads are so pretty displayed that way!

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  11. ♫♬♬♬♩♩♮♬♬♯♬♬♬♬♬♬♫♫♫♯♪♪♪♪
    Happy Birthday, Diane! Have a great day and a wonderful, healthy, happy year and many, many more!
    Fox : )

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  12. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
    I really love how the balls of thread look in that jar. It looks like a huge eye candy jar!

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  13. Happy Birthday Diane!! What an awesome present and also awesome display for the colorful threads! With your shuttles displayed next to the jar in such a beautiful displace case. Hope your special day is full of all the people and things you love!!

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  14. Happy Birthday, Diane! I have been following you for a few months now. It's funny that you would put the jar on today. Yesterday, I was in the Home Goods store here. I saw the same jar. I resisted. Now I am going to have to go back and un-resist it.

    Thanks for the wonderful blog!

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  15. Happy Birthday Diane.

    Tomorrow we will be celebrating the June babies - a 2yo little people and my brother.

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  16. Happy, Happy Birthday! And many happy returns of the day!
    Hope you have a splendid celebration.

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  17. Happy Birthday Diane. Good wishes for the day and every day that follows.

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  18. Splendid glass jar, a great way to show off threads. Congratulations on your birthday and many happy returns of the day!

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  19. Happy birthday, Diane! Hope you have lots of fun!

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  20. Happy Birthday !!

    Enjoy your special day ; )

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  21. Happy Birthday! I hope you have a great day. I love the idea of putting thread in the jar.

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  22. Diane, I know you will have a wonderful Birthday celebration with your family. Enjoy every moment, laugh, cry, and embrace it all - remembering the past and making new memories. It's your day so have fun and enjoy all 24 hours of it!!!
    Happy, Happy, Happy 60th Birthday, Dear with many, many more to come
    !!!

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  23. Wishing you a wonderfully Happy Birthday! I always enjoy reading your blog. It inspires me to do better and be more creative. I love the jar, too.

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  24. Hi Diane, happy birthday with the whole famely. You are still a yonster. I was sixty a long, long time ago.
    I love your work and hope you can make much much more
    hugs
    Riet the B-engel

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  25. Happy Birthday to you. That is a wonderful jar. Have a wonderful day. Eat cake.
    Elizabeth

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  26. Happy Birthday. I love the wonderful jar. Have a great day.
    Eat cake today.
    Elizabeth

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  27. Happy Birthday to you. Love the wonderful jar. Be sure to eat cake today.
    Elizabeth

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  28. Happy birthday from the OG. Think how much beer, champagne, wine or whatever your tipple is that you could get into the jar if you didn't have thread in there!!! That would be a humdinger of a hangover!!!!

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  29. Happy Birthday Diane! Have a wonderful day.

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  30. Happy Happy Birthday, Diane! I love how you display your threads. I'll nhave to start searching for a similr jar.
    Cindy (rbqdalaska@yahoo.com)

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  31. Happy Happy Birthday, Diane! I love your thread jar. Looks like I'll have to start searching for something similar.

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  32. All my best to you on your birthday today!!!
    Kelly

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  33. ¡Feliz cumpleaños de Tegucigalpa, Honduras!

    The apothecary jar was the first thing I noticed about your photo today, and I thought, 'ooh, what a great way to display thread!' I've decided I might have to borrow your idea! Thanks!

    Many happy returns!

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  34. A very big Happy Birthday!!!!! You share a birthday with another friend of mine.

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  35. A very big Happy Birthday!!!!! You share a birthday with another friend of mine.

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  36. Happy Birthday Diane! I love your apothecary jar, what an original way to display your threads. I also love the iris colour way in your previous post. I wish you a wonderful day!

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  37. Happy birthday! Love the wood chest along with jar! Hey I know someone who also could fill it with thread! lol
    Hope you have fun with your family!

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  38. Happy b-day ...i wish you happyness

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  39. Happy birthday Diane. Oh how I wish I had a sewing room. My tatting and craft stuff is spread all over the house. If we ever move my husband say's I'll need a big big skip for it all. Today I've gone mad and bought another 10 balls of Lizbeth thread arn't they wonderful colours. Love the way you display yours,you see them next to other colours that you would never dream of going together buthay ho they do.HAVE A GREAT BIRTHDAY.

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  40. Happy bday Diane & many more! Enjoy ur day & beautiful gift! Thanks for all ur awesome entries!

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  41. Happy Birthday, Diane! What a wonderful day to have a birthday!

    Happy Blogaversary also. I always enjoy reading what you write. Thank you for taking the time to blog.

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  42. Happy birthday and happy blog-versary! I enjoy your blog and always admire your work. Keep it up! :)

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  43. Happy Significant Birthday to you!
    Best wishes for a wonderful day, and many more to come.

    LOVE the apothecary jar - especially filled with thread :)

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  44. A very happy birthday to you, Diane! The jar is a perfect way to display your threads and still have them close at hand. :)

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  45. Tanti auguri a te, tanti auguri a te! Tanti auguri, cara Diana, tanti auguri a te!
    With love from Rome!
    May your birthday be a wonderful one! Great jar!

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  46. Woo Hoo..Happy Birthday!! You should have said you needed a little more string. Tatters, can never have enough string or shuttles.

    Marie

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  47. Happy, happy birthday, dear Diane!

    May you year (and decade!) be full of fun and creativity! You deserve all the best!

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  48. Hope you have had a wonderful birthday, that jar is a great way to display thread. Happy Birthday

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  49. Hope you had a wonderful birthday, I love the jar for your thread display. Happy Birthday

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  50. Happy Birthday. I love the jar!! You should have asked for a little more thread. We can never have enough thread or shuttles.

    Marie
    West Pine Creations

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  51. Congrats! May this be the beginning of a decade blessed with family, friends and frivolity!

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  52. Congratulations, both on your birthday and blogaversary. Hope you had a wonderful day, and may God grant you many more years!

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  53. Happy 5 year blogaversary and very happy 60th birthday. Sorry this is a day late but just flown back from Singapore!

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  54. Happy birthday, I hope you have a wonderful day,
    Your jar looks lovely and with all the different coloured threads it will look beautiful

    Margaret

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  55. Feliz cumpleaños, espero que se cumplan tus deseos.Besos.

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  56. Many Happy Returns :D Hope you had a great day :D Britt in Australia

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  57. Diane, Happy Belated Birthday. I wish I knew earlier about it as I would have wished you yesterday. In fact, now we have something in common....yesterday was my birthday too!! That was really a coincidence. Recently I have met some people with whom I share the wonderful day. Hope you had an awesome day to celebrate your milestone.

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  58. Happy Birthday and Happy anniversary on your blog. I could nearly copy your profile but would only have to change that I am a public library librarian. Best wishes for many happy returns of the day, Diane.

    ~Heidi

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  59. Belated Birthday Greetings. Hope you had a wonderful day. Love your display jar.

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  60. Belated Birthday Greetings. Hope you had a wonderful day. Love your display jar.

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  61. Happy Birthday Miss 60! How very sweet of your Dave to give you a new jar for your threads. They look as delicious as candy sitting in that clear view. Celebrate and enjoy this entire year. I can attest that it only gets better from here. Happy Birthday to you...

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  62. Happy Birthday to you! Love the jar! Have a wonderful day!

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  63. I was off line for a couple days, so happy belated birthday :X:X hope you had a wonderful one!

    Warm wishes sent your way and I dream for you to have all your desires met this year !

    Bri :)

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  64. Bon Anniversaire, Ms. Diane! :-D (Yeah, yeah, I'm late...). I hope you had a wonderful day! I LOVE the new jar --I'd like to take a swim in it, please! ;-)

    ♥,
    Stephanie Grace

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  65. Happy Birthday, Diane! I would have never guessed you were even close to 60!
    My birthday was in May and I turned double nickels!
    Ha, and at first, I thought your title was talking about tatting thread size! LOL

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  66. Happy Birthday!! And that jar looks really pretty with the threads in it! :)

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  67. Wow, two big events! I'm a little late to the party, but I certainly wish you a Happy 60th! You're happier about it than I was about mine, but that's a good way to be! You'll always be young at heart!

    And your 5th blogaversary, too! Guess you figured you'd always remember the day you started your blog! We're sure happy you did, because you amaze us with your skill, speed, and excellent posts. Hope you had a great party!

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  68. Happy Birthday! and many more.

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  69. Happy birthday Dianne...please don't give up blogging, tatting, blinging and all the other wonderful things you do...your ecouragement for others (me included) is inspiring and we love you...

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  70. Happy 5 year blogaversary and very happy late 60th birthday! It looks like it was a great one. I love your little jar!

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  71. Happy Birthday! Can you believe all of us -- we'll enter to win anything! Of course, since it's from you, I know it's going to be something good (not dryer lint or grass clippings or something).

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  72. Happy Happy Birthday! I love the idea of thread in a apothecary jar!

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