Today I celebrate my 29th birthday…. yay…. I finally got here! I think there were MANY times as I was growing up my Mum was convinced that I was never going to get here either because she could of killed me before now….. for …..well…..I can‘t remember what she knows and doesn‘t know so I will play it safe and just say….. lots of things I should not of been doing….{lol}….. I have always loved Birthdays just not my own and for the past two weeks I have been hushing people when they very kindly remind me that…. its my Birthday on Friday…..grrrrrrr or that I am turning the BIG 29! only one year off 30.….. I don’t know what my thing is about not get excited about my birthday….…I have lots planned for this birthday and it is going to be a busy few days, last night I had Family Dinner which was lovely, today I am going to the movies 😉 having lunch with my Mum and Sister, then spending the afternoon with some of my favourite little people {my Nieces} and finishing the day with my normal Friday night card class….. My Bestie, Elise is coming to Sydney from Brisbane for the weekend and she thinks we are going to party all weekend….. I am not so sure about that one…..
I know the song goes “its my party and I will cry if I want to” {well I am a bit of a cry baby at times but I will hold back the tears} ….. I want it to be….. “it’s my birthday and I can do giveaways if I want too…” I am sharing the birthday gifts with YOU…. I have not done BLOG CANDY in forever….. Here goes…..
Leave me a comment on whatever you like…. to help you here some ideas… tell me if you have a birthday survival tip? funny birthday stories? something about my blog {keep it nice kids} any good challenge sites you have found….pretty much anything you want to tell me…. I want to hear it…. I am starting with one birthday gift I will add another gift for every 29 comments… so if I have 58 comments I will give away 2 gifts…. If I have 87 comments 3 gifts…. And so on…. What are the gifts? It will be a surprise….all wrapped up, looking pretty as a birthday gift should and I can give you a hint it will be Papercraft related gifts…. Everyone can enter, all my SU demos and overseas readers welcome to play along… I want lots and lots of comments….so give them to me 🙂
The fun ends 12am on 22/4/2010. Winners advised by email…..
After ALL that I do have a card….. I bright one….
I used Taylor’s sketch challenge from last week, I love her sketch’s and work in general…. she is one clever little cupcake 😉
Yes…. put on your sunnies for this one…. I went bright…. a little sewing crazy and over excited with glitter which is STILL all over my craft room….
Great NEWS….. I have a second post coming tonight….. 7pm Sydney time I will have a Inkspiration sketch 21 challenge and it is GOOD…. GREAT….and I don’t normally say that…. see you tonight……
….leave me a comment…..go on….you could win……. 🙂
Thanks for stopping by
Happy Birthday Teneale, hope your day is as special as you are! Have a wonderful day with your mum and your sister and your girlfriend too! , Enjoy the movies and remember to do something extra special just for yourself, go and splurge on a new dress, some pretty papers or a new stamp set, or stop by somewhere really scrumptious after the movies and pick out a wicked desert.
Happy 29th Birthday! Hip Hip Hurray! Hip Hip Hurray!
Laugh lots and enjoy the day You deserve it!
Happy Birthday!!! I hope that you have a wonderful day. I love to visit your blog daily for inspiration. You are so talented and I love to see all the wonderful creations. Thanks for sharing your talent with all of us.
Hi Teneale.
Wishing you a wonderful wonderful 29th. Don’t fret on the age thing, we can’t change it. Just enjoy life. That’s the important thing. I’m having my 40th in 7 weeks time and it doesn’t bother me at all.
Have a great time celebrating with your family and friends over the weekend.
Nikki
Happy Birthday – 29, well I remember 29 – it was nice! I feel like I know you, from reading your blog or at least checking on it everyday. Have a great day and my tip for surviving a birthday is to be loud and proud about it and scream it from the roof tops – telling people not to talk about kind of fuels them! Oh and have lots of cake and chocolate and wine and….well that just really tells you more about me doesn’t it? Great card by the way, as always thanks for sharing.
P.S. Forgot to mention I loovve your card as always. I don’t do brights often either but I think this set works well with them.
Hi Teneale!
Wishing you a SUPER DUPER Birthday for today! Hope its filled with lots of craft and cake!
Karen
x
Hi Teneale,
Happy 29th Teneale – sent an SMS already, but you can never have enough birthday wishes! I think age is a state of mind, I’m turning 55 this year, but mentally I feel about 30! Wish I could be 29 again.
I am so excited that you are on Makeesha’s Design Team because now I know I will be getting a Teneale fix on a regular basis – can’t believe it’s even physically possible, but your work is more and more beautiful every day, sometimes I just feel like crying when I see your creations because they are just so incredible. There just aren’t enough superlatives to describe your work, I am totally in awe of your talent.
All the very best to you,
Robyn xx
Happy Birthday Teneale. Wishing you day full of love, hugs and presents!!!
Happy birthday Teneale!!!
thankyou so much for all of your amazing papercraft inspiration. I love seeing all your creations on your blog. have a fantastic day – may there be many wonderful more!!!
Karyn
Hi Teneale
Stopping by via Marelle’s Blog…she said hop on over so….Wishing you a very Happy Birthday!!
Have a great weekend with lots of fun & celebrations!!
Christina
hi there Teneale, when i found your site, i was absolutley stunned by your wonderful talent. your cards are absolutely gorgeous. i have just signed up to be a demonstator and can’t wait for my starter kit to arrive, that will be my birthday present to myself (lol) mine’s not till December. hope your birthday is sensational and special, especially when you spend this time with your best friends and wonderful family.
cheers enjoy your day.
Happy Birthday! Love the stitching on this card! I wish I knew how to use my sewing machine:)
Have a great birthday, I love your blog and have eagerly awaited every post since you first put pictures in your online gallery. Your work leaves me in awe. I dont know how you manage to use your cards to give people, they are artwork and should be frames, rather than enveloped.
Have a super time Teneale, only 29 just the once so party hard!!! i love the card it is just gorgeous.
Anne
🙂
Holy dooley!!!! We all want some blog candy wouldn’t you say!!!!! So many comments so soon after posting – very very impressive!!! It obvioulsy means you have LOADS of people who faithfully check your blog (like everyday!!!!! :))…so first things first, HAPPY biRThDAY!!!!! Hope you do really enjoy having a special day all just for you – I really hope its spectacular!!
Just like your card(s) – i LOVE the stitching on this – the slightly random pattern of it and espcially LOVE the ribbon…I have to go back and have a real good hard look at it again!!! Thanks so much for sharing with us stalkers…heheheh
Happy happy birthday…xxx
Happy Brithday, hope you have a fantastic day.
hi Teneale,
to tell you the truth for some reason earlier this year i wasn’t looking forward to when i turned the big 29!! you must get to an age when it does start to bother you eh!? especially when you have a 9 year old letting you know quite loudly!!
AND i too was amazed i got there as both my parents threatened on a weekly basis that i would make it to 21!!!
but here we are and i’m sure your parents as just as proud of you as mine are, we all try our best even if we are VERY Trying along the way! LOL
have a good one with the girls! 🙂
Mel B xx
Ahem… *cough* …. Fa la la la laaa….
Ha-p-eeee birthday tooo you,
Haaaaa-p-eeee birthday to you,
Haaaaaaaa-p-eee Birth-day Miss Teneeeeeeaallllle-la!
Hap-ee birth-daaaay toooooooo yooooouuuuuuu!!!!!!!!
Just a little bad singing for you to enjoy 😉
I figured, what would be the best thing to get you for your birthday, and then it came to me! A CHALLENGE!!!
So Tenealle, your misson – should you choose to accept it – is to create a BOLLYWOOD themed card! You can take that any way you like.
You are extremely talented so I think this will be a breeze for you 😀 😀 😀
Hi Teneale
A very big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you. Hope you have a wonderful weekend with your friends and don’t be worrying about the years – 29 is a wonderful stage of life – but then every stage is great if you let it be. I am twice your age (ok, more than twice !) and I celebrate every birthday and give thanks that I am able to do so. Remember the saying ” Age is strictly a case of mind over matter – if you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter”.
Have FUN,
Mary
PS I loved your playful petals card today and thought yesterday’s was just fantastic, and thanks for the heads up on Sex in the City. Like you I will be going to the Gold Class to see it with my Daughter (No cocktails though !! but maybe a Bailey’s).
Happy Birthday Teneale! I’m a regular reader of your blog but I’ve never had the courage to post a comment before. I just love your work! You are one super-talented woman!!!! I especially loved your bow tutorial.
Hope you have a great birthday and a year filled with friends, laughter and most of all fun.
Happy Birthday , remember your age is only a number, I was once sent this wee note from a dear friend as I was approaching the Big 40 !
“Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather a skid sideways, Champayne in one hand – strawberries in the other, body throughly used up, totally worn out and screaming WOO HOO what a ride !
So enjoy your Birthday Teneale !
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU TENEALE Love the card you chose to show on your birthday. Happy and Bright like yourself. Have a great weekend
Happy, happy birthday Teneale!
I was scared of turning 29 too, but 30 whizzed by uneventfully! And now suddenly 32 is not far away 🙂 So here’s to making your last year of ‘twenties’ memorable and full of fun.
I hope you receive some beautiful ‘Teneale-inspired’ cards for your special day!
Happy 29th birthday Teneale. What a lovely card. The colours look fantastic and I love the shiny look! I love doing sketches myself – it can give me a bit of direction when I need it!
Happy, HAPPY Birthday Teneale!!! Hope you have a FABULOUS day and get SPOILT, SPOILT , SPOILT!!!
xx Sarah
Happy happy happy birthday Teneale. You give us gifts all the time with your fabulous fabulous cards. Do you know how GORGEOUS they are? I just love seeing what you’ve been making in that craft room.
Hope you have a fabulous weekend of celebrations. Look forward to your 30s too. I’ve got a decade and a bit head start and I think each decade we women get more confident and less bothered with what others think (except our near and dear of course.) I could have used a dose of that in high school I think! Hope you have a lovely weekend and best wishes for your 29th year!
Cheers, Sue
Happy Birthday Teneale, may all your wishes come true. How I wish I was “29” again. I always say I am as it was my favourite footballer number many years ago. My last child took awhile to work out that if I was 29 my dear hubby married me when I was only 4…you gotta love kids to spoil your day (LOL). Enjoy Marls
Two new card updates in one day…this is a super present to all of us!! Thanks!!! Hope your day has been delightful. Enjoy; )
Happy Birthday Teneale. I knew you were super special your born the day after me!!! April babies are tops!!
I hope you had an absolutely gorgeous birthday and were spoilt rotten!! And it woud seem I will be seeing you at convention!! So make sure you save a swap card for me!! I can’t wait to catch up.
Enjoy your night
Steph X
Forgot to say lurve your card too! It’s sooooo pretty! X
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Thanks so much for sharing your talent and beautiful creations with us 🙂
Lou
Happy Birthday Teneale, hope you have a great day. Your work is an inspiration and your so talented. Thank you for sharing.
Julie
Happy Birthday Teneale,
I wish i was 29 again, but then again i would have to go through turning 30 again it only took me six years to come to grip with that one forty and fifity not a problem. Have a great night at the movies and keep posting all those wonderfull creations hope to see you soon. Angela
A very special happy birthday Teneale! Oh to be 29 again….embrace it and have a wonderful weekend with your bestie, do lots of celebrating and being spoilt silly.
Happy Birthday Teneale! Hope you have a great one! Again love your work! Your a super star! Oh and absolutly LOVE the card you made for this weeks inkspirations challenge! AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Teneale, Happy Birthday! Wow 29 is a great age! 36 is even better lol!! Wishing you a wonderful day with family and friends. Thanks for continuing to inspire me with your wonderful work! Keep it up!
Best wishes
Natasha V.
Hope it has been a special day for you, Teneale! (I wish I was 29 again!!!) 😉 My family will NEVER let me forget my 21st … when my dad MADE me make a speech … and I sobbed “this is the happiest day of my life!” … the irony was the tears running down my face! (So I can totally relate to the cry baby thing you mentioned!) It can be a curse! Sounds like you are going to be spoilt rotten … so that is just lovely! It is always nice to have some “me” time on that one day of the year that you don’t have to feel guilty! Lotsa birthday hugs, Andrea xxx
Happy Birthday Teneale 🙂 It’s my 29th in a fornight…so I know how you feel! I’m also not a big ‘birthday’ person, no one around me can understand that either as they all are!
Hope you had a great day today – doing whatever it is that you want to do!
I also did a ‘you’ inspired card last week for my sister’s birthday – thanks for the inspiration (she loved it – it’s on my blog via the link if you feel like checking it out).
I love the card too – very bright and happy!
Tamara
Hi Teneale
I have loved your blog for ages, you are such a super talent 🙂
My birthday tip (I’m 34) is: birthdays are special and you deserve to do something on your special day because you are special and you deserve it 🙂
Happy Birthday……
Teneale~
Have a very Happy Birthday!! My birthday is in two days…on the 18th! Yay for April Babies!!
I just found your blog in the last week or so and I have enjoyed every post! I especially LOVE the ribbon treatments!! You are a very talented artist and I will enjoy visiting time and time again!! Happy Stampin’!
Happy birthday Teneale, hope you’ve had a very fun and special day. Enjoy the moment, it only happens once a year and it’s nice to be spoilt. I love seeing your gorgeous talent – keep it up and keep on inspiring all of us. God bless xx
Have a great birthday! I enjoy all the work you post on your site. I am an April birthday too! Just enjoy and don’t worry about the numbers. It is only a number.
Hey Teneale! Happiest Birthday wishes from Canada! I turn 29 this year too (just in June) and I’m in the same boat you are.
Love your cards! Thanks for all the inspiration!
Happy Birthday…..the best birthday for me was when I turned 40 and my husband took me to Arizona. I live in Minnesota and it is cold in November. Being in the heat made me so HAPPY. Best thing to do for your birthday is things that make you happy!
Celebrate!!!!
My first comment is: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
My other comment is: I absolutely LOVE your blog. When I am browsing other places on the internet, I can always spot one of your cards from the beautiful bows. Thanks for sharing your inspiration with us.
Happy Birthday!! I hope you hve a fantastic day!
I have recently discovered your blog and am truely inspired by all your gorgeous creations – thank you for sharing them with us!
Enjoy your last year in your twenties – and, if you can believe it, being 30 is the BEST and not as scary as I thought it was going to be!!
Christine
Happy Birthday Teneale!! It was my birthday on the 15th April! I can only wish to be 29 again ( my friends and I say its our 16th anniversary of our 21st!!!!! (37) )
Love your blog and always pop by for inspiration but have not yet left a comment!
Enjoy time with your friends! Smile, Laugh,Eat, Drink and Dance!!!!
Happy Birthday!!! Hope you have a wonderful day. I love to visit your blog and check daily for ideas and inspiration. Thanks for sharing your wonderful ideas and creations with everyone.
I have to say I just love the Carrie On Card you made in the last post, but then I love all your cards. Your attention to detail is wonderful.
Happy Birthday Teneale, and thankyou for sharing all your creations each week.
Happy Happy Birthday Teneale!! I’m a Christmas Baby (about a fortnight before), so I often get lost in the Festive Season…. I have thought of celebrating in June. I do believe birthdays are super special and should be celebrated in a big way. I’m so glad to hear you are spending lots of time with loved ones.
Onto the card – absolutely stunning! I really need to buy that stamp set now 🙂
Hope you had a awesome day yesterday and and fabulous weekend. It’s not a bad thing joinging the 3-0 club (next year!)