The thought had crossed my mind to do a thoughtful, insightful, soul searching post about being at the mid of my life. BORING!!!!! I tossed that idea for a FUN GIVEAWAY!
I hope you will join me in the excitement of the day and participate in a fabulous giveaway to help make my milestone birthday a great day for everyone!!!!
I AM FIFTY!!!!! LET'S CELEBRATE!!!!!
Oddly, to make the number 50, it takes 25 spools of Aurifil thread! Makes me wonder if it takes 50 to make the number 100 but I am not going to push it any further than 50 at the moment!
ALL of these GORGEOUS threads are part of the giveaway!
Also, in the giveaway is Hey Dot by Zen Chic for Moda!
The bright colors and dots on every piece is amazingly clever! This is a layer cake folded to get the photo!
Oh My Goodness! Look at all of the COLOR!!!!!
For the icing on this non fat, sugar free, DELICIOUS giveaway cake...
And Aurifil Color Card! This card has 270 STUNNING thread samples to make a perfect selection every time!
Are you ready to play?
One very lucky winner will receive 25 spools of Aurifil thread ( colors and weights as shown) , Hey Dot by Zen Chic for Moda ( as shown) and one color card!
The giveaway is open to all of my international friends! The giveaway will close 01 August and the winner will be announced on or about 03 August ( the kids are still home for Summer break so it may be 04 August).
If you are a no reply Blogger, please leave your contact information in your comment.
There are many options to enter. You do not have to do them all for a chance to win. The more options you choose, the more chances you have to win :o)
I am so very happy to be around another year and even happier that I get to celebrate it with YOU!
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 350 of 350Congratulations! Best birthday memory - a romantic dinner with my husband overlooking Istanbul - magic!
Hope you had a most wonderful birthday. I would say my best birthday was two years ago, my youngest granddaughter was baptized on my birthday.
Mostly my birthdays are really low-key and involve family dinners, which I really like.
Happy Birthday. I had have à fantastisch birthdayparty When I got 60. With THE hole familie to THE Zoo
My birthday being on New Year's Day, we are always celebration from the night before, friends, food and laughs. Have a great one.
I don't particularly have a Best Birthday Memory. But I hope yours is spectacular!
Happy 50th Birthday!! My children planned a surprise for mine 5 years ago, it was wonderful, I hope yours is just as great
Happy birthday. 50 is a big one. I had a flashing tiara for my 50th!
HaPpY Birthday!!! Thank you so much for sharing it with us!!! I will be 39 in December. My most favorite birthday is when hubby surprised me with a beach trip in July on my 35th. He has to get creative. Lol! My b day is the 15th of Dec., his oldest is the 14th of Dec. & our daughters is on Jan. 10. With Christmas & birthdays all together. Sheesh, I feel so sorry for him! Lol
Happy birthday, what a super special way to celebrate!!
What a milestone! I'm 44 on the 12th and wish I could go back to my late teens and tell myself that I shouldn't care one whit about what anyone else thinks. Just take care of yourself and LIVE! Travel, dance more, etc... What would you want to tell your younger self?
Happy birthday! My favorite memory on my birthday is that was the first time I felt my daughter move when I was pregnant, best birthday gift ever!
my favorite b-day is a toss up...16th I got a Horse and 50th I got a Juki :-) Happy Birthday and Thank You!
Happy Birthday. Each birthday means another year to adventure!
Happy Birthday!! Hope you have a wonderful birthday!!!
Happy Birthday. The best is yet to come.
Happy Birthday!!! I am just 5 years ahead of you... maybe you will catch up?
Favorite Birthday memory... there have been lots but the scene that always pops up is when I was allowed to have my first party. I think I was in 5th grade and had 5 of my besties there:) What fun that was!!!!
My best birthday was age 11. I was able to get my ears pierced, and I was 11 on the eleventh!
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Happy birthday, Kim. Enjoy. So generous of you to offer a giveaway to celebrate. My favorite birthday memory is probably when my eldest child implored his father to take him to a quilt store so he could choose a piece of fabric to wrap my birthday gift in. I had always used bags for gifts. So lovely that my young son "saw" what his mom liked. He was probably 8 then and now the kids continue to wrap my gifts in fabric.
My favorite birthday memory is actually for my grandfather's 90th. We made a tiered cake and put 90 candles on it. By the time we got mostly finished lighting candles the side if the cake was burning. Happy 50th!
I had a Sweet 16 th birthday party, where we dressed up like Raggedy Ann Dolls.
Susie
My parents threw me a surprise 15th birthday party that was very memorable!
Happy Birthday and thanks for the giveaway!
Happy birthday from another 50 year old.
Happy Birthday! My 50th was quite some time ago and I had not even considered sewing or quilting at that point - I did not even own a sewing machine back then. I recently started to self-learn to quilt and joined the Splendid Sampler QAL. That was where I discovered you and your blog. I have to say that I LOVE the way that you photograph your SS Blocks and those used for the blog. They are so very colourful and artistic.
Wow, thanks for the great giveaway! I love all my birthdays, but I guess the best was when I turned 50, half a century! Next year 60!
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My 35th birthday can't be topped, I was in Paris with my church choir, and went to the top of the Eiffel Tower. It was awesome!!
Happy Birthday! What a way to celebrate!!
happy Birthday! My 50 was fabulous ana Alaskan cruise with my DH and a lovely dinner once home with all the grown kids. As a special gift he found 4 beautifully made paper blocks framed and matted that hang in our bedroom. Hope your celebrate is full of fun, family and cake! thanks for inviting us all to celebrate.
Happy Birthday to you. I hope you have a great day. I really don't have a birthday that I remember that was my favorite. I do remember that my niece went in labor on my birthday ,but my great niece was born 10 minutes after my birthday was over. Arghhh.
Happy 50th Birthday! Hope you celebrate In style! Don't have a favorite birthday as it seems I am spoiled every year on my birthday! Thank you for sharing your birthday with this wonderful giveaway!
Wishing you the happiest of birthdays, Kim! I turned 50 last years and determined this would be the very best decade of my life ... And it has. I wish for you the very same blessing. Enjoy? (And thank you.)
Congratulations on reqching this milestone birthday! I hope you have a wonderful day and that this coming year will be filled with blessings! And how wonderful that you are sharing your birthday with your followers! All the best!
Happy Happy Birthday Blessings!! :)
My fave Birthday was my #40...the girls made me a cake..decorated like Merry-go-round! Plus put 40 candles on it!!! LOL The boys said gonna call fire dept!!! Was such a fun dinner...and cake was definitely a Surprise!! :D
Thank you for chance to Win your Amazing Give-a-way too!! :)
Happy Birthday! My best birthday was when my mom tried (though failed) to surprise me with an early dinner. But the best was tickets to David Copperfield (magic) for the evening of my birthday. It was an awesome show and I had a great night that night.
Happy birthday!! All birthdays are a blessing..my next one will be 64!! Thank you for a wonderful birthday giveaway!!
Happy 50th Birthday! I can't believe I will turn 70 in a couple of months. Don't blink, the time goes very fast!
Happy birthday! My favorite birthday was my 40th -- my quilting friends threw a surprise party for me with black decor and a black cake -- have you ever tasted black frosting?! Yuck! Gifts ranged from sweet quilted things for "old" people, lol Great fun. Happy new year!
Happy happy birthday. May you have a very special day.
I love all of my birthdays! I love to have a carmel cake or a strawberry pie to celebrate!
I'd enjoyed my 50th and hope you do as well!
Happy Birthday!!! What a great day! I've had lots of great birthdays and even though some of those were celebrated in far away exciting places around the world, the older I get the more I truly cherish the birthdays at home with my family. jarvenpa1ne(at)gmail(dot)com
I lost my father at 4 and mom had 5 kids. My 8 year old brother opened a bicycle shop and bought me a beautiful doll for my 5th birthday.
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Happy Birthday! 50 is great!
Happy birthday. Hope it was great. I wonder how many spools it'd take to build a cake.
Happy birthday. Hope it was great. I wonder how many spools it'd take to build a cake.
I cant think of a best one.... some memorable ones, but not a best.
My husband surprised me with a HUGE 60th birthday party. He rented TWO houses in Deep Creek, MD and invited all my family -- brother, sister, their spouses kids and grandkids, our kids and their spouses and our grandkids. Oh, and did I mention this was a SURPRISE!!!??? It was a terrific weekend with lots of laughter and love. There will never be another like that one!
Happy birthday! I will be 60 in February. I wonder how many spools of thread that will take! Love the chance to get up each day and see the sky and quilt if I can!
Happy birthday Kim! I hope it's a great one!
Happy Birthday to you🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 my best birthday was a couple of years ago hubby forgot and we climbed into bed together I sang happy birthday to me his face was priceless😏
Happy birthday! I guess my favorite birthday would be this year. It's a blessing to have birthdays no matter what age! On my last birthday, my quilting friend and I went on a quilt shop hop! We had so much fun and laughed and laughed! Of course we added to our stashes!! The next day I had lunch and cake with my family!
No way, 50? Happy birthday! I'll be 38 in two weeks!
What delicious colors!
One of my favorite birthdays was in college. I spent the summer term living in student language dorms, in an intensive Spanish program. At the end of the term, a trip to Mexico was planned. My birthday was in the middle of this trip, as was two other girls' in our group. Our hosts threw a dance party, and honored us at the party. The next day was Sunday, and after attending church services with our host families, my host family had a huge family dinner, and surprised me with a wonderful Mexican-style cake and singing for my birthday. The silly thing was, someone grabbed my camera and took pictures, but the family was singing and clapping so loudly, a hand got in the way, and you can't actually see the cake in front of me in the picture!! No do-overs back then, with film! Ha ha! But it was fun birthday and a fun trip.
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This year was my first birthday as a Grammy ❤️ It was the best ever!
Congratulations on reaching 50. I really struggle with my birthday, best birthday ever then? Probably quietly celebrating with my husband after being ill for years and finally having a diagnosis and knowing I would get better! Sometimes it's the simple things.
Happy Birthday! One of my favorite birthday memories is being at my niece's house and her son who was about five made me a birthday card. This year for my birthday he sent me a handwritten note wishing me a happy birthday and saying he hoped I'd visit soon. He signed for his older sister and himself but tacked on a "your favorite" next to his name. Such a charmer!
Happy Birthday, warm wishes!
Every birthday is a special - but this year it was very special for me - we struggled with a very seriuos disease and we are still together - my husband and me!
Happy 20th Anniversary of your 30th Birthday :-)
Before my father left for Vietnam, he bought me a bike and taught me how to ride it. My last memory of him.
When I was about 10 I got a "real" doll house. Before that I had made my own out of an orange crate made of wood.
Knowing that I was pregnant after more than a year trying!!!
Happy Birthday, 50 is FINE! Best birthday memories are with friends and family. crystalbluern at tds dot net
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! My 50's have been great, I know yours will too.
Thanks for the giveaway!
How lovely! Welcome to the "dark side", as it were. It's great over here...we just need a little more light on our sewing and a really good needle threader!
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HAPPY 50 YOUR LIFE IS JUST BEGINNING!
On my 22nd birthday, I was in DC and we got a behind the scenes tour at the Capitol building from a friend who worked for a Senator!!
Happy 50th birthday! My favorite birthday present was a trip to Paducah quilt show which was quite a few years ago. Enjoy you say.
Happy Birthday! I am 52. My best birthday was when I turned 50. My family flew in from Montana and Indiana to celebrate it with me. That was my best birthday ever. Enjoy your birthday week. ;) janie(dot)mccombs(at)yahoo(dot)com
Happy 50th! I got here a year before you and it's not so bad!!! Thanks for such an awesome giveaway for the momentous occasion! 😊
Happy birthday! It's really hard to think of one birthday in particular that was special. They all have been great. Thanks for the giveaway
Happy birthday Kim! I'll be turning 50 this year as well. I hope you have a truly splendid mid-life celebration! Any birthday that I can get my family together, and cook for them is a fantastic one, those are my favorites. ;-)
Happy 50th Birthday, my 30th birthday is something I will always remember, probably a little to racy to account for it on here, but it will stay my favorite for a while :)
Happy birthday! My favorite memory was the year I thought I would be home before my husband and instead he surprised me by being home with my gift (a set of patio furniture) set up on the deck complete with lit candles, appetizers and cocktails.
Happy Birthday! I think every birthday is fun and special.
Happy birthday, Kim! Thank you for sharing your big birthday with such a big giveaway! Birthdays are a good thing to have. I'm grateful for every one I've had.
Bets birthday ever was my 8th. Mom took us all to the nearest McDonalds (40 minute drive) and on the way home in the car I got to put my head on the shoulder of the boy I had a crush on. There is a photo of this event and he is blushing and trying to get away from me!!! I am smiling like a cheshire cat!!! Ahhhh to be 8 again!
Birthday was good! I did enter your contest for your 50th Birthday but forgot my email address so here it is ginnyb1313@verizon net
Happy Birthday! It's my birthday month too! Aurifil thread and Moda fabrics...what could be better? jamicarr.jc @ gmail. com (just take the spaces out)
50! I'm just about there too...such mixed emotions with this number!
I have to say one of my favorite memories is the year my kids took it upon themselves to make my birthday fantastic while my husband/their dad was deployed. They managed to order an ice cream cake, hide it at a friends house, buy gifts, decorate, and take me out to dinner! They made it a much better day than I expected it to be!
hmmm, a fav birthday memory is going to see Newsies on broadway with my best friend for a joint 30th birthday! so much fun! :)
The 50s are great
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Happy birthday!
Every year I can spend with my family is a special memory. As I get older, this is more important than a year gift I could get.
My favorite bithday memory is the angel food cake that appears every year!
My favorite bithday memory is the angel food cake that appears every year!
I've always really struggled with birthdays, to be honest. But when I turned 30, I treated myself to a solo trip to Paris. I stayed with a friend who lives there, my mom watched my girls, and my husband kept working to save up his vacation days. It was a great way to recharge. :-)
happy 50th - welcome to the club!
I made a quilt to celebrate mine and had a wonderful family dinner complete with a giant bottle of Vueve'
50 really is fabulous
Happy Birthday Kim!!!
My best birthday memory? Well, my birthday is between Christmas and New Year's, so any time someone remembers it is a good year!
Cheers to you in celebration of your 50th birthday!! I'm only 6 years and a few days behind you. ;)
Cheers to you in celebration of your 50th birthday!! I'm only 6 years and a few days behind you. ;)
Oops, I published before I was finished! My favorite birthday celebration was my 40th. I was able to spend a week in the Midwest, celebrating all week long with different portions of the family and groups of friends. 🎂
Happy Birthday! Love the decorations!
What a fantastic giveaway! Happy birthday, lady!
Wishing u a very happy birthday n many more to come 🙂 My best birthday was when I was 25. My mom n dad sang a song for me while I was cutting my birthday cake n then they smeared my entire face with cake.. And not to forget I got the most number of presents that year 🙂
Happy Birthday! I think my favorite birthday was my 17th birthday. We had a family meal at a nice restaurant and I just felt like I was on my way to being an adult.
Belated Birthday Greetings - hope your day was Fab-U-Lous :)
Happy Birthday! I just celebrated my 50 birthday also... I threw myself a party!
Happy Birthday! I had the big 6-0 this year so I know about big birthdays. My favorite memory was a few years ago when we went to help my younger son move out of his apartment. I dressed for cleaning and when we got there, we went to grab lunch. At the restaurant, I found my other son and his wife who had come to surprise me. We didn't have a lot of cleaning to do, they just wanted me along for the surprise. They came home with us and we all celebrated my birthday.
My best birthday ever though not the actual day but one day before it I had my second son. My birthday is on 3/17 and he arrived 3/16. cutest boy!
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Happy birthday Kim! My favorite birthday was my 16 th party!
Favorite memory - 7th birthday gift of a big girl bicycle!
Happy Birthday. I am too old to remember but I think my 16th birthday my mom had a party for me and I got a sewing machine. Last year I turned 60 and I am cancer free, all my children, grandchildren and many friends came. That is my other best.. lol. Thank you for a chance to win this super fabulous prize.
Happy Birthday! When I turned 50 my sister and daughter to me out for a spa day and tea at a big fancy hotel. Then when I returned home my husband had planned a big surprise birthday party. It was a great day!
Happy Birthday! 🎉🎂🎉 I think my 40th may be my favourite - we went to Las Vegas for the first time and met up with my parents and my great-aunt & great-uncle. It was the first trip we were all together!
Happy Birthday Kim! A few years ago I went downstairs to let the dog out and noticed a bow on my sewing machine. "Hmm, that's strange" When I looked closer it was not my cheapo machine but a brand new Juki. My husband is awesome!
My hubby gave me a cd for my 50th. Didn't doeak to him for two days until I opened my front door to a surprise party! He had gone ALL out. Everything forgiven and still laughed about! Life begins at 50. Happy 50th!!!🎂🎂🎂
Happy Birthday to ya! I share a birthday with my twin brother and we live very far away from each other. One year, he managed to call me, and the first thing he said was Twin Powers, activate! I answered, in the form of, an ice cube! And the miles and years slipped away :)
We didn't do much on birthdays other than the cake and ice cream when I was little. So my first Birthday card came from my sister in law the year after I got married. I was so surprised!
My best birthday hasn't happened yet, but will be this one, when I will be old enough to retire at the end of that month! The ones celebrated with my daughter are always great, and very precious.
Best wishes on your birthday. Life gets better and better!
First I hope you had a very Happy Birthday! Turning 50 this year is filled with lots of wonderful quilters doing the same.
My birthday memory would have to be the year I turned 25 and then boyfriend, now hubby, took me on a round the world holiday visiting the spots I wanted to go to: Denmark, Paris, London, Fiji, and Melbourne, Australia - to meet the family. Had a ball and since I turned 50 this year we just returned home from 2 weeks in Iceland. Very nice.
Have a great year!
My favourite birthday was my 60th when I moved to Victoria BC from San Francisco - I invited all my new neighbours and my family for an afternoon tea party in our new house.
Pauline
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Happy 50th! It's going to get me soon too! Best birthday memory: My mom sent me one of those cards with the year you were born and all the things that happened that year...it was the year MY BROTHER was born! LOL I thought it was funny!
My best birthday memory is when my Mom made me a carousal cake. That was 62 years ago!
Happy 50th , It's just a number your always as young as you feel, some days I feel my age then others I'm still in my 20s . Hope you enjoyed time for you.
Hi! Happy 50th! My best birthday was for my 60th birthday when my sons threw me a surprise birthday party! It was fabulous!
Diane
Wow! And Happy birthday! My favorite birthday memory is a toss up between my 16th birthday ( which was a total surprise!!) and my 30th birthday( that I thought everyone forgot- I felt like a brain dead mother of toddlers And my mother and aunts took me out to dinner while my husband watched the kids -an even better surprise!!)
Happy birthday! Run wild!
Happy Birthday!!! My favorite Birthday was at age 10. That was a long time ago! LOL I got a Chatty Cathy doll and a doll bed and a little doll quilt made by my Grandmother! I still have it. Thank you for a wonderful give away! midwayfarms@hughes.net
Here's to 30 more years of crafting! Happy Birthday!
Hi Kim, it's nice to meet you via your Blog.
Happy 5-0.
Favorite birthday memory was my 5th, it's in Aug so I was getting ready to start kindergarten. All my little friends and cousins sitting around our round oak dining table with me in the middle. Thank you.
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I think svery birthday is my favorite! Hope you birthday was awesome!
My 40th. My fiance planned a great weekend in Portsmouth, NH (such a great town) and we wandered and shopped and atea nd bought some amazing wine and cheese and balsamic vinegar and then we had a great night sleep in a wonderful hotel he had booked. It was nice, just he and I which was very different than the expected 40th party with everyone. Happy 50th to you! coudre at dmdrafting dot com
Happy Birthday! I celebrated the whole month of June this year! Enjoy an eat cake!
Happy Birthday! I celebrated the whole month of June this year! Enjoy an eat cake!
My favorite Birthday is always the next one coming up!! (Just around the corner in August). Happy Birthday to you and great sewing!
My 50th a evening out with friends and family fab
Happy Birthday! Best birthday surprise was finding out my husband ordered a gazebo for our back yard. I had told him years before how much I like gazebos!
7th birthday got my special teddy bear from my daddy. Now almost 30 years later and still have it. So special! :)
7th birthday got my special teddy bear from my daddy. Now almost 30 years later and still have it. So special! :)
Happy Birthday! Im turning 50 soon too!
I think that my 63rd birthday was my favorite. My husband who passed away 6 months after my birthday gave me a dozen roses something he had never done in the past. I will never forget it.
Fifty is Nifty, but you already know that. Happy, happy birthday! Celebrate wildly.
Yay!!! I hope you had a great day! Happy Birthday.
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Happy birthday! My 50th birthday was my favorite! Co-celebration with my niece's sweet 16! We had a blast!
My favorite was 16, couldn't wait to drive.
Happy Happy Birthday! I stopped counting on my 50th! LOL Now with the last of my kids moving to adulthood I enjoy my sewing, art and taking classes for things I enjoy!
Happy birthday! What an awesome giveaway. Thank you.
Happy belated Birthday!!!!! Thanks so much for a chance to win this amazing package of goodies!!!!
Happy Birthday! WOW-50 years-congrats! My favorite birthday memory is the time I got 2 free tickets to the Backstreet Boys concert for my daughter( her favorite group). The look on her face was precious-she & I will never forget!
Welcome to the 50 club.
Hope you had a wonderful bday!
Happy Birthday! My favorite birthday gift was just this past month where I was surprised with a Sew Steady Wish table for my sewing machine. I'm just a beginner quilter, so this would be an awesome prize to encourage me. Thanks for offering it!
I always envied my my sister's, 3 of their birthdays were in August. Mine is in March and more often than not we had snow so no outside fun in the sun activities. But on year we had a St Patricks theme and I remember running all around outside looking for 4 leaf clovers. So much fun!
I love the way you designed your 50, with the spools of thread. What an awesome giveaway you are having for your birthday!!!! Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Happy Birthday - live begins at 50, doesn't it?
Happy Birthday! I must have blocked out my 50th because this year I was thinking my 50th birthday was upcoming and I was picking out things I wanted to do to celebrate. Darn. I missed my chance...
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It is hard to believe we are past 50 in the Splendid Sampler. My most meaningful one was Lots o Love. I'd love to win. I even had a block put out on my birthday - Pencils, I am new to quilting and some of these techniques are hard for me and I'm glad so many designers are giving us permission to be happy and do what makes us happy. It is not to be stressful.
Thanks
JoAnn
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