Friday, September 11, 2009

A Birthday Gift Away!



Hello everyone! Tomorrow is a big day for me...drum roll please...my half century birthday! Fifty!?! It's hard for me to even wrap my mind around the fact that I've been alive for 50 years... it seems such an impossibly short time since I was small enough to ride on my father's back, play house in a big chair (with my sister and two brothers!), and hide in the tall grass of the field behind our house. And I'm sure it was just a moment ago that my children were sweet little babies and I was a new and fairly terrified young mother. Now they're young men, still sweet but so grown up! Of course it seems that way to my parents too, I was talking to my Dad on the phone yesterday and he seemed astonished that I had the audacity to get this old! :) I guess in his mind I'll always be his little baby girl with the bow scotch taped to her head.

My First Birthday



So since it's a nice, round, and rather eventful birthday, I felt that I wanted to share my big day with my friends online. To this end I've decided to have another gift away and hold a drawing for the little birthday pixie at the top of this post. She's holding cake of course...what's a birthday without a bit of cake?



All you have to do to enter is simply respond in the comments section of this post and you're in...easy peasy! If you are a fan of The Fairies' Nest on Facebook you can leave a comment there as well and be entered twice...if you're not a fan... and why is that?!...you can become one by clicking on the fan button at the top right side of the page. Make sure that you leave some way to get in touch if you don't have a blogger or Facebook profile! I'll throw all the names in a hat and have a drawing on October 1st. That's my youngest's birthday so it seems fitting...maybe I'll even let him pick!

Good luck everyone!

38 comments:

  1. Love your work! Fellow NattyKids member... this is a great gift-away! We'd be thrilled to have her as part of our family.

    Thanks!!

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
    Jen
    www.SewnNatural.etsy.com

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  2. Hi again,
    I don't do Facebook (long story) but I do now publicly follow your blog! Hope that counts. :)

    Happy bday again,
    Jen DOT s DOT chandler AT gmail DOT com

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  3. happy happy birthday!
    i love the idea of gifting on your own birthday.
    mamaks.etsy.com
    mama@mama-ks.com

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  4. Happy birthday! Mazel tov. I love the birthday fairy. Multi-colored polka dots are so joyful. We should be giving you presents. I send glad blessings.

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  5. Wishing you a wonderful joyous birthday and a completely magical year!

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  7. What fun! I love giving a present on my Birthday too! Happy, Happy Birthday and we love your you fairies!
    Beccijo
    http://www.beccijo.com
    http://www.theenchantedcupboard.etsy.com
    http://www.theenchantedcupboard.1000markets.com
    http://thereluctantcitydweller.blogspot.com

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  8. A BIG Happy Birthday to you Cynthia! I've just had mine, too. (You get used to the being-in-your-fifties thing after a few years - I've just had a birthday too - I'm beginning to stare down sixty - eeek! - now that's SCARY!) Still a few years to get used to the idea, however.

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  9. Huge Happy Birthday! Still got you beat - I'll be 55 in just another month or so...
    keeping all my fingers crossed that I win your adorable pixie!

    Have a WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY!

    :0)
    xx

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  10. Gosh, for some reason I thought you were only 20! :O)
    Happy 50th birthday to you!
    Hope it's a good one Cynthia.

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  11. Happy happy birthday tomorrow! I hope the fairy shares her cake!

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  12. Congratulations on your milestone, I hope its a great day for you. Love the fairy, especially the little cake, very cute!

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  13. Being fifty is fabulous! Happy Birthday! Celebrate it in a big way for at least a week or more! Kimberly

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  14. Your work always leaves me feeling happy! What a charming little sweetie.

    PS I think you should tape a bow to your head for old time's sake. :)

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  15. Happy Birthday! Love your work, especially the Crow Girls!

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  16. Happy Birthday to you! Warm wishes and bright blessings for a wonderful birthday!
    Anna aka AlleyOoop@comcast.net

    Your work and its creativity are very inspiring!

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  17. She's adorable! And Happy Happy Birthday to you! I'm almost there myself... so I say 50 is the new 30! YAY!

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  18. Happy Birthday Cynthia! I think the world is more magical because you are in it! I hope this is your best year yet!

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  19. Happy Birthday! I'm so happy to have found your blog; I love your work! Your dolls are so magical!

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  20. Happy Birthday! Every thing gets better when you are 50 :-)

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  21. Oh that is so cute. Hope you have a special day.

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  22. I LOVE being in my 50's! I have more confidence - well, I think I just have more of everything that counts, actually. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have (I was 53 in April!).

    Happy Birthday and God's Blessings!
    Barbara
    bepotter@gmail.com

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  23. *waves* Hi! And happy birthday! I found your wonderful dolls on Deviant art. Fifty, eh? Me too. it does seem to mean we're old enough to know what we want and to do it, just for ourselves. Like doll-making.

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  24. Happy Birthday Cynthia, a little late :0) I just love your fairies! You are an inspiration ! And I am amazed how artist always seem so young!! Of course I am not that far behind you. Blessings, Hugs :)

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  25. Happy Birthday to you~~ Happy Birthday toooo you! I hope you had the best ever! And live another happy and healty 50 years!
    I just had my big 50 too! Ain't it grand?!!
    xoxoxo

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  26. have a happy and wonderful birthday!!!
    best wishes from switzerland,
    filz-t-raum.ch

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  27. Happy Birthday! I hope you do something wonderfully fun!

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  28. It doesn't seem like it's been all that long at all, since those days of the big chair house, the tunnels in the long grass, and the four bratty children - esp. since some of those children are still so bratty!
    Besides, we simply don't get old in this family, didn't you know that?
    Much love, yer sis

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  29. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! And many many MORE! Yup, those ol' bdays are pesky, sneeking up and wham! you're the BIG 50 - OMG! ;0) I've put a few bdays behind me since 50 and let me tell ya, it's all cake after 50! Whooooo! HAVE FUN! Love your dolls, always have. Best, Ani

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  30. Happy Birthday, what a great attitude. How could I resist entering.
    Kat

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  31. I love your work and would love to win a little pixie! Happy late birthday!

    :)

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  32. I LOVE your designs! Such talent.

    Amanda @ fineprintsdesign@gmail.com

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  33. Happy Happy B-Day! I would a little pixie to start a collection with!

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  34. Happy birthday! I hope your day was wonderful. I would love a chance to win your doll.. I a ma follower as well!

    I love the Rapunzel you just posted too- what a cutie!

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  35. Just discovered your site, your dolls are enchanting! Would love to win the sweet pixie!

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  36. Happy Birthday! I love your dolls, as always. I will have to talk to you about some more of your animal dollhouse dolls for Christmas giving.

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