(I’m sorry – but if you find this post a bit bragging, don’t read it. You may not be aware of the fact how much I cherish these memories and don’t want them to fade^^)

It’s the time to sum my birthday up, which has probably been my best birthday ever, beating my last year birthday ^^

Everything started more than a month before the day, when Zaphiel got me a cute bunny tea cup

and an original Japanese bento set I’d dreamt of, along with the set of cute molds and other items helpful when preparing boxed lunch (the cloth, chopsticks and extra molds aren't in the photo, the photo's taken from eBay, by the way ^^). I couldn't restrain myself from using it before b-day, as it helped me keep my diet and not munching on sweets.

 

So cute!

 

As my birthday was supposed to be on Tuesday, making it impossible to celebrate it with my family, I decided to throw a small humble party on Sunday. It was delightful, with yummy food and desserts (prepared by Mom and me, nothing ready-made!), Chinese & Japanese plum wine <3,>

My parents have finally seen (?XD) an artist in me, buying me some ultra-useful stuff that’ll help me to improve a lot. Dad gave me a huge tablet (wait, is it huge or is my hand that small?;) ) and Mum ordered a Lightbox for me (this one’s really huge too, in the photo it’s turned on, so you can see the workspace only. When it’s turned off, it’s even greater!) Thank you so much!! Love you<3

 

I got some sweets and cash from my Auntie and cousins, but as you can imagine how Polish banknotes look like, I won’t publish photos here ;)

My brother gave me a gift wrapped so nicely I didn’t want to open it.

As the Lindt cherry-flavoured chocolate on the top suggested, the whole present was cherry-themed and included a cute Wild Cherry set from Bodyshop <3

However, the person who’s won the Master of Wrapping title’s Zaphiel. Look at this:

Butterflies!!<3>J Thank you, Darling!!!:*  

I also got some flowers – roses from Zaphiel and amaryllis from my Mum.

Oops, I forgot about Melanie, a beautiful girl figurine I got before birthday (from Zaphiel, of course:3)  who’s a new sister to Alice, but as I haven’t introduced Alice yet, I will post the photo of Melanie only:

 

<3

But that’s only the beginning : O

On the next day, after work, I was invited to the best sushi restaurant in the city (like, there two of them at the moment, but that doesn’t matter ;) ) by Zaphiel, who encouraged me to eat whatever I wanted...ahem *blush* so we ate a lot. Really a lot XD *forgot about the diet for a moment*

Grilled eel!

Teriyaki shashlik!

Sushi!

Suuushiii!!

And a drink named Tokyo Sun. It may not be visible here, but it was enormous XD

Phew!

The food was totally delicious~

And then, the day came!

Zaphiel surpised me by giving me an ____awesome____ picture, which he printed and put in frames, along with this art, too: http://zaphiel-san.deviantart.com/art/You-have-sun-in-your-eyes-139384741?loggedin=1 

(no photos here, but I bet you can imagine high-quality prints in frames?;)

At Deviantart, I was delighted by more fellow artists, who drew pictures especially for me, too. It was so moving ;_;

In the afternoon, when I went to work, I got more presents and wishes from my colleagues :

 

Beautiful, white heather, scented candles, a towel with my name and a box of Raffaello (my fuel when I draw XD) Prettyyyyy*_*

And when I finally went to the classroom, the children surprised me by drawing a picture for me on the board and singing Happy Birthday. So sweet of them!!! ;_;

 

In the evening we decided to eat out with my dearest Z., but since the Greek restaurant turned out to be full of cgigarette smoke (eyuck! I didn’t know there are restaurants that aren’t 100% smoke-free), we ended up eating at McDonalds at 10 pm XD

 

And when I thought my birthday is over, I was surprised by fellow deviants who I happen to know IRL at school. On the next day, when I was working, I saw Jannet, Shirral and Kuba holding a homemade Bundz birthday cake Jannet baked.  Unbelievable! And they sang Happy Birthday in front of all the students *.__.* I was so moved I didn’t know what to say!

It was the coolest birthday cake I’ve ever received *__* And it was so yummy, too! Thank you, guys!!

There are some gifts that I orered from eBay but they did’t arrive on time, so I’ll update the post as soon as I get them.

^__^

As I’ve mentioned before, you may not fully realise how delighted and happy I feel! Being a kind of recluse for most of my life, I’m still surprised by how many wonderful people I meet everyday. I don’t know what I’ve done to deserve all that goodness – but be sure I’m really thankful for making those days so awesome and meaningful to me. Thank you again! I hope I’ll be able to do something in return. Lots of hugs!!

 

Oliko