Birthday Blogging No. 1 - Dalton Pottery

Firstly can I say a very BIG thank you to all of my crafting friends who sent me birthday cards. I hope to get them all photographed later and post them here.

The cake was made by the pottery/art cafe owner - very, very chocolatey- yum!

I may be 50 but I can still move pretty fast - that's me blowing out the candles.

Cutting the cake.

Andrew's girlfriend, Hazel with the plate she painted - she is an art student and paints in miniature, very slowly. This is her doing her 'Shopping Channel' pose!

Here are the teeny tiny feathers she painted.

Andrew doing a manic shopping channel pose with his plate, he also paints in detail, but much more abstract.

Close up of Andrew's plate.

Steven painted a teapot with a colourful lid and spout and musical notes going round it.

This is Shona, Steven's girlfriend and 'Jeremy' as she named her super-bright cow money bank.

Brian's sister Isabel made a Scottish themed dish with thistles and a hint of a Saltire flag inthe centre.

Margaret, my MIL decorated a Sundae dish which she plans to use as a vase.

Brian chose a butterfly because it had defined lines and used the marker pens rather than paint.

Here is the pot I painted, it can be used as a pencil pot or a vase.

We also did spin art, where you spray paint at a board which is rotating - that was a lot of fun, this is mine.

More Birthday Blogging tomorrow.