I'm a bit older now, obviously.
Today's plans? Well-fought board games, good friends, Champagne, and hors d'oeuvre.
And, no, I'd rather not talk about those sea-green candles, okay?
Red between the lines
50 minutes ago
07 November 2009
Time Marches On
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Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday! Let the champagne flow. May the killer Scrabble gods be with you. What I noticed first in the picture was not the candles but your hands. Very expressive!
No apologies,but I am guessing you will take full credit for the riotous braided rug and baby's red booties. You share the day with my brother. Many happy returns of the day. GT
Let's talk about the wonderful rag rug instead. Hope it's a great day.
Sending mucho happiness your way. Light those candles; they're better burning...but just at one end. Which board games? Please tell us later, after your various champagne fueled victories.
Happy Birthday, and I imagine those candles to be a wonderfully fragrant bayberry bringing back wonderful childhood memories!
Happy Birthday AAL! I'll raise a glass in your honor at the Mirleton Festival this afternoon!
p.s. I remember my mother having candles in that color as well.
Happy Birthday to the aesthete's Aesthete. Love the party hat. Hope you wore one today.
Childhood traumas... Happy Birthday. May your daughter enjoy your candles more.
happy birthday ! ! !
Bonne Fête from bilingual Canada! Avocado green candles? Obviously a child of the 60s. If the candles were green, the furniture must have been "colonial," and the flowers were likely plastic. Don't cringe, it was okay then! The taste you display now more than makes up for the "sins" of the father/ mother. Let's see. Judging by your age in the photos, the stylistic references, and the degradation of the Kodachrome color, you must in your late 40s. But we'll deduct 5 years for vanity and correction of error and arrive at...perhaps 43? No secrets on the Internet, right? Many happy and swellegant returns of the day! Hope your birthday cake is as delectable as one from Fauchon served on old Sèvres (with Dom Perignon served in Lalique flutes)!
Square with Flair
Happy Birthday :-) I must say -we could have been brothers or at least cousins when we were young - we should do a side by side comparison of our childhood pictures! haha
Hope you had a marvlous evening -sounds like you had one planned!
Have a wonderful birthday. Your blog gives so much enjoyment, and I look for your entries each day. I am still pondering Coco Chanel's "after midnight" remarks.
P.S. The rug caught my eye immediately. They aren't that easy to make. I read once of how you have to handle the tension in the weaving to keep the rug from buckling up as an end product. Isn't it wonderful?
It's the braces holding up your trousers that prophecy
a future devoted to matters of Style~do admit!
Happy Birthday, dear Aesthete.
A Happy Belated Birthday Aesthete!
Belated Happiest of Birthdays Aesthete! Let's make it a week long celebration shall we?
Sending a virtual bottle of Veuve Clicquot with the wonderful holiday ice jacket your way. http://www.eclicquot.com/productdetails.cfm?category_id=1&product_id=4
Thanks for the photo! I am a recent follower of your blog on my iPhone so information requiring an Adobe Reader is not always available. I had thought you were a man, but a friend said you were a woman - not that it really makes any difference! After all, an aesthete could be a woman, no? In any case I thoroughly enjoy your blog!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!! FOR A MONTH!!!!!!!!!
boy......easy and elegant life put his money where his mouth is.!!!!
i need to learn how to do this! would have! new to this! and wondering if I will ever see the light of day!
lots of animals here.....so it does tear me away from the computer.
DANGER.....computer all the time. it is very tempting!
Just a warning. don't forget outside animals!
just got a rescue peafowl......peahen and chick. 2 dogs (rescue)..cats.....ditto......and 5 bantam chickens!
A menagerie in Montecito!
Happy every day!
Penelope
Penelope
I say the Aesthete gets an entire month of celebration of the birthday!
I say.....(because I know of these things and I am older than all of you.) it all shows in this picture!
the curiosity! the enthusiasm! the joy! the taste! (you can't see it; but I CAN!!
THE SEEDS WERE ALL THERE!
and the proof is in the pudding! I hope you were surrounded by people who encouraged you and told you you knew everything about everything.
because you did!
(can you imagine such a thing......I actually was!!!)
We are such beneficiaries of your knowledge and curiosity!
You are a HUGE GIFT TO US ALL!!!!
XXOO
Penelope
ps now I will do my alzheimers exercise. don't take it away!
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