Of Birthdays And #Pets

This past Sunday (November 13th) was my birthday.

 

I wanted a birthday cake, but with how difficult – and expensive – it is to get any vegan birthday cake that isn’t chocolate (I don't like chocolate cake) I decided I’d just make my own.  This isn’t the first year I’ve done it, and likely won’t be the last.  Anyway, this year I made a two layer lemon cake with lemon butter icing between the layers.  Yes, despite the word “butter” there, it was all 100% vegan.  It was also very tasty, if I do say so myself.  LOL! You can see the cake in the below photo:

 

 

Also in the photo with my cake are some of the things I got for my birthday: a cuddly Hedwig the owl, a large ball of rainbow coloured wool, a tube oof Fruit pastels (which are vegan –friendly these days) and two packets of gummy Kevin the carrot sweets (which also happen to be Vegan-friendly, even though Kevin is a promotional figure for one of the supermarkets rather than something specifically aimed at vegans).  There’s another cuddly toy Kelly ordered for me that hasn’t arrived yet due to delays caused by international shipping timelines, which I’ll show you when it gets here.  I also got some money, and a couple of cards.  The cards from my Dad and Rita are in the below photo.

 

 

There were fireworks that evening.  My friend Kaila from the ACB Crafters calls was telling me she'd arranged them especially for me for my birthday.  Kelly says otherwise, and insists it was just a coincidence that someone was using some of the fireworks they got for Bonfire Night on my birthday.  I think I like Kaila's answer better.  I think you can figure out which is true yourself.  LOL!

 

Anyway, a big thank you to everyone who sent birthday messages, cards, money, presents, or some combination of those things.  I want you to know that every single one of them is very much appreciated.

 

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We had a sign made for Artemis’ vivarium as an early Christmas present.  It has a picture of a tortoise on it along with the words “Artemis’ House” and is now hanging up in his vivarium (we decided not to wait until Christmas to hang it up).  Here’s a photo of it:

 

 

Artemis isn’t in the photo due to being dug in asleep at the time it was taken.

 

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When Mam was here during my birthday weekend she took these photos of the dogs:

 

One where Logan is cuddled up against me while I was sat on the floor, and Lilie is beside us on the floor with a great big doggy grin on her face that makes it appear she’s laughing at us for some reason…

 

 

And one where Logan was just sat in front of my Mam staring at her and looking adorable…

 

 

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Other than the fact I finished the first of a pair of loom knitted socks (as in, finished the first sock of the pair; still need to make the other one to complete the pair) and moved my other craft projects along a bit, there’s not really anything else that happened during the past week besides the usual day to day routine of housework, petkid care and playtime, Zoom calls, etc.  So I’ll let this do for today.

 

I hope you’ve had a great week.