Happy Birthday to me!
This is my brother Ryan and me, doing the "I’m a little teapot" song
and dance number in my parents’ kitchen. I think I am about 7 years
old which makes him 5. Do you see the dress? Elastic thread – that’s what I am talking
about! Too bad the dress is long gone.
Because I like giving gifts just as much as I like receiving them, it’s giveaway time. Comment on this post and if your name is drawn, you could be the lucky winner of a patchwork belt or tote bag (not these ones exactly, but similar). I’ll post the lucky winners (yes, plural!) on Thursday. C’mon all you lurkers, make my day!
OK, that’s it for now. I’ve got some celebrating to do!
Happy Happy Birthday Erin! I hope your day is absolutely FABULOUS!!!
Oh my gosh, first! Happy birthday to you from a not quite lurker. 36 is so young! I love your blog and your inspiring projects (that twirly skirt is on my list.)
Happy Birthday Erin. You are s crafty…I wish I had that gene.
Cathleen
Happy birthday!! I hope you have a great day! I really love your creations š Anybody who makes such lovely things deserves to be happy!
Happy 36 Erin! Love the picture of you with your brother… and how exciting to offer a giveaway! You really are feeling gifty!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! My middle son’s birthday was yesterday, so I can tell you with authority that May babies ROCK! And Ooh Ooh Ooh sign me up for that drawing!
Happy Birthday Erin! Have a great day!
Happy Birthday,
You are not that old as the wall
phone is push button, not dial!!
happy birthday to you!!! your blog is very refreshing and inspiring, as is your parents wall paper… š
Happy Birthday!!!!!!! Hope you have a wonderful day. š
Happy Birthday! Love the decor in your picture! I think we grew up in the same era! :o)
happy birthday girl!!! fun swap last night!
Happy Birthday!!! wishing you a great day and lots of sweet treats:) jamie
Wishing you a super Happy Birthday!
Best wishes, enjoy!
Happy Birthday! I’ve been reading your blog for a little while but I don’t think I’ve posted a comment before. I thought this would be the perfect time to de-lurk.
Happy birthday, Erin! Hope you have a fabulous day.
Happy Birthday! There is no way you are 36! Not that it is old, it is that you look so young! I want your genes!
Happy Birthday Erin!!
Happy Birthday!
Happy b-day! Can I PLEASE have the tote bag – it is so cute!
Happy Birthday! (Love the old photo — I’m 37 and that was the same era I grew up in. I think we had that same phone hanging in our kitchen!)
Have a wonderful day Erin!
Love the photo…….adorable…..and how about that dress!!!!!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Erin! What a great picture, I need to go raid my parent’s photo stash!
Happy birthday to you! I hope your day is a great one!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
That wallpaper just makes me so nostalgic for shag carpeting and “wood-grain” linoleum.
Happy Birthday! What a cute picture. I really think that look is coming back. š
Erin,
Happy Happy Day! Growing up I had a similar dress. In fact, my sister, Erin, and I had coordinating ones. One was yellow and the other orange – think early 70’s! I loved that dress. My mom mde them for us including the smocking. I really enjoy your blog and inspriation even if this is my first comment. I have started back crafting (sewing and knitting) after the births of two kiddos. I am gld to be back!
Heather
Okay, lurker coming out: Happy birthday, I love that picture, it reminds me of some movie…can’t wait to see your tutorial for a similar dress…although I just turned 33….;-) Enjoy your birthday…
YAY!!! Happy birthday, Erin! I’ve been waiting for this day to arrive… something will be coming your way soon (a little belated, I admit). Since I’m already a proud owner of one of your fabulous belts, please omit my name from your drawing and let someone else share in your sewing love. Have a wonderful day.
Happy, happy birthday! Have a wonderful day!
Happy Birthday! I hope your day is full of hugs and kisses and you eat lots of cake and ice cream, or sushi, or whatever it is that you love.
i really don’t comments enough, i know, but i do love reading your blog. your super-cute twirly skirt has been at the top of my to-do list for a while now, and i can’t wait for the new dress tutorial!
wishing you a very happy birthday – don’t forget to eat some cake and ice cream!!
Happy Birthday! It is funny how things that once were are back again. The dresses for instance. I guess they were never gone just out of sight.
Happy Birthday again!!
Erin, my new friend, I hope you have a wonderful birthday! (I’m only one year behind you.) Eat lots of cake!
Happy Birthday Erin!
Happy birthday! I hope you have a fantastic day–love the blog!
Happy Birthday Erin! Hope it’s a great one.
What is old is new again.
See, we are right on the cutting edge of fashion. I was out and about the last couple days and these dresses/tops were in all the stores.
That fire red hair is gorgeous!
Happy Birthday! Have a lovely day!
Happy birthday from a new lurker! I am waiting and ready for your next tutorial, I have the fabric, elastic thread, and a list of little girls I know who would love a easy breezy sundress!
Have a great day with your family!
I hope you have a super birthday! That photo is just great. Thanks for the gift of your blog. I really enjoy visiting it. You always inspire me.
Have extra fun today!
happy 36th erin!! let’s hear it for geminis and may birthdays (i’m right behind you turning 35 on friday. yikes) hope your day is fantastic and full of elastic thread. cheers.
Happy Birthday from one Erin to another!!!
happy happy birthday to you!
wishing that all your dreams for your 37th year come true!
i just found your blog and love it! i so want to appliquƩ some onesies for my little girl now! and she is totally getting a twirly skirt when she is just a little bit older.
happy birthday!
Happy Birthday! You are still a young chicky!
PS I love free stuff–Pick Me!!
Happy 36th!!! What a nice thing to do—a giveaway! Is that an image from “Where the Wild Things Are” on your brother’s shirt?
Happy, Happy Birthday! I hope your year is full of good things.
Happy birthday. Thanks for sharing your creative energy.
Happy Birthday!! Based on the dress and decour I think we are around the same age. š I love your work! Crossing my fingers!!! š
Happy Birthday! I remember when every home had one of those phones on the kitchen wall. We did!
At your request, I’m delurking today. Love your blog!
Happy Birthday! That pic is so great, I love the dress. I think there’s a pic of my sister and I doing something similar in dresses like that as well.
Happy Birthday!! That is a great picture – the wallpaper and phone look just like what my mom had in her kitchen way back when.
Yay! Happy Birthday! I had tons of those dresses growing up too and I love my daughter in them now! love reading your blog!! š
Happy Birthday! You and your lil’ bro’ are too cute!
Happy Birthday Erin! Hurray for elastic thread!
(I hope today is my lucky day…your work is absolutely lovely.)
Ok, guilty as charged. I’ve been lurking for a month now. I love the shirred dresses you have made and am eagerly looking forward to your tutorial.
Happy Birthday!
I hope you have a very Happy Birthday! De-lurking to tell you I love keeping up with all of your adorable projects. These new dresses are the bees knees.
Happy Birthday, Erin!
I have my elastic thread and material all ready for a cute dress for my 6 year old. Thanks for all the great ideas on your blog.
Susan
Erin—Happy Birthday!!! I hope you have a great one!
The picture is so entertaining, not only because of what you’re doing but the 70s colors, too. Love it! It reminds me of so many of my childhood pics of my brother and I… gasp!
Happy Birthday!
I love the elasticated dresses too. My Mum used to make them for me and my sister- they felt so special. A girl at school asked if she could have one and my Mum made one for her- I was devastated! I have just bought some shirring elastic in metallic to have a go at making one this Summer- wish me luck!
Don’t eat too much cake š
Kerry
Gee! Hope i’m not too late to join in the chorus of ‘happy birthday’ š i muz admit i’m tempted by your generosity for i’ve been seeing lots of beautiful crafts on the web ever since my friend introduced me to it, and they’re all amazing stuff! Keep up the good & creative works. Seeing your blog always cheers up my day *_*
Whoa! Work that plaid wallpaper, kids! Happy birthday from a lurker.
Happy birthday!!! Hope you have a wonderful day celebrating YOU!!
All the best~
Kim
Happy birthday! I hope you have lots of delicious food and can celebrate your heart out.
I’m a new reader here–love the swirly skirt tutorial!
Ok, so I’m a lurker too – but love the blog and love the goodies – Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday, Erin! You and your brother look cute. :0) Though I’d love to win one of your totes or belts, I won the apron you gave away not too long ago and I want to give someone else a chance to win one of your creations. So, you don’t need to include me in the draw. Oh, look at me being generous. Like I would have won anyways. :0) Hope you have a great birthday!
check it out! such a fun photo. tried on a similar sundress and it didn’t fit the way i remembered when i was a kid. must be the post-nursing- two kiddos boobs.
happy birthday!!!
I’m sure I had a dress just like that (I’m turning 37 this year). Patiently waiting for your tutorial on the sundress. I tried making one for my 2 year old and well, I must have done something wrong! Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Erin! That photo is priceless!
Happy Birthday to you! I’ve just recently discovered your blog and have been truly enjoying it. I look forward to the dress tutorial. Have a wonderful day!
– Sarah
Happy birthday, Erin! Love that your folks had a harvest gold telephone to match the harvest gold wallpaper. I think we had avocado on avocado at our house. š
happy happy birthday erin!!!
that dress really is awesome. š
enjoy your day!
Happy birthday! Have a great day…
Happy Birthday!
I love your blog – you’re inspiring me to do my own.
Have a great day
Happy Birthday girl!
Can I say? … I actually like the wallpaper w/that phone to match!
Whew, it took me a long time to get the blank comment form, so many birthday wishes!
“Hapde Burfday” to you, as Jack would say.
happy b day to you!!!
omg that pic of your brother looks just like my husband did when he was that age. red hair and all. i was doing such a double take.
o yeah and um… pick me pick me!! lol
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
….and yes….i love the dress.
happy happy birthday, erin, dear!
i hope you have a great day – i had a dress like that when i was 7, too!
happy birthday…love the dress!
Happy Birthday Erin! Wishing you all the best!!
Happy birthday and many happy returns! (from a new lurker…)
Wow! Can someone get too many birthday wishes? Well, here’s another one: Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Erin, happy birthday to you!
Happy happy birthday!
Happy Birthday! boy do i remember dresses like that when i was a kid. Good times I tell ya. Hey, have you seen the fabric Walmart is selling that’s already got the elastic work done for you? All you have to do is sew two sides together to make a dress!
Happy birthday. And many more.
Happy Birthday..Happy Day…Happy all year long!!!
Happy Birthday! I wish you every good thing in the coming year! Thank you for your creativity and great projects. Have a happy happy day!
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I used to have dresses like that and I miss them so. Course I realize now that I couldn’t wear them without incident since I’m no longer a flat chested five year old. Pity, no?
Wow – HAPPY BIRTHDAY my sweet! Hope it’s a fabulous day!
happy, happy birthday to you! i hope your year is full of lots of love, laughter, and blessings.
and that wallpaper in the photo…we had something so similar growing up with the same phone too!
wow. i came over to wish you a happy birthday and now i see that YOU are the one giving out the presents! what a hostess, to have goodie bags at the party. win or lose, i still hope it’s a happy one.
Happy Birthday!
How sweet of you to give gifts to others on your bday. And thanks for talking about shirred dresses that is ALL I can think about lately. Seriously I am dreaming about them, now I just need the time to sew a few up!
Happy Birthday!
That is one styyyylish dress. Elastic thread rocks!
[email protected] xxxxx
Here’s another birthday greeting from a former lurker: happy birthday to youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! May the coming year treat you well indeed!
(Am I the only one that kinda misses the wonderfully washed-out tones of photos from 70s? Remember those little square prints with rounded edges? Oh, dear, I am dating myself, aren’t I?)
happy birthday, sweet erin!
please don’t pick me – i just wanted to wish you a wonderful birthday!
xoxo
Happy birthday, lady! 36, huh? Such a young thing ;).
Happy Birthday. Wow I can’t believe the number of comments you have received. That’s awesome.
Happy Birthday, Erin! I’m lovin’ the very Brady wallpaper in your photo. You guys are too cute!
Happy B-day Erin! Hope you got to relax with Fatty today! Fun Swap yesterday!
(I am number 100!)
Marcia
Happy Birthday!
Yours is one of my favorite blogs out there! Love that picture, reminds me of our kitchen when I was a kid. I think we had that same phone!
Have a happy day!
Amy
Happy Birthday! I hope you have a great one.
Happy Birthday to you! That’s such a great picture – so cute!
Happy 36th Birthday, from one 36 year old Erin to another :o)! I hope you have a very special day and a great year ahead!
I love that picture of you and your brother. You look so much like my sister in that photo it is uncanny, I’m going to have to dig out some photos to show you!
Cheers!
oh, happy happy birthday! you are so flipping cute in that picture.
Happy 36th Birthday, from one 36 year old Erin to another :o)! I hope you have a very special day and a great year ahead!
I love that picture of you and your brother. You look so much like my sister in that photo it is uncanny, I’m going to have to dig out some photos to show you!
Cheers!
happy birthday, I hope you have a fabulous day. We are the same age, I turned 36 early this year too yay!!
Happy birthday, hope you have a wonderful 36th birthday!
Happy birthday from one May baby to another (mine’s tomorrow)
i’d like the title of “lucky winner.” happy thirty-six.
Happy Birthday, Erin! Have a wonderful day!
Happy Birthday to an awesome, talented blogger mom.
Erin – happy, special day filled with dancing, singing, eating, smiling and memories. Love your blog even tho’ I’m not a blogger in return. I made twirly skirt a few weeks ago for my grandaughter. So much fun. You inspire!! Special Birthday blessings, jan
happy 36! Hope you feel the blog love today from all of us out here that you inspire.
I found you through Sour Cherries blog and I nearly spit wine out of my nose, onto my computer, when I saw that photo! That could have been my brother and me – red hair and all.
You know how some photos have a timeless quality – you just can’t place the era in which it was taken? Not so with this photo! I love the harvest gold wallpaper and phone. The 70’s – good times!
Happy, happy birthday!
Happy Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday! Love your site. I’m heading towards 36 in just a few weeks myself.
happy happy birthday! i’m a lurker… but i’d definitely delurk for those beautiful things! you are so talented.
Happy birthday to you! I’ve just recently discovered your blog, but I’m fast becoming a devoted reader.
Happy Birthday……. I also had many dresses like this when growing up. My Mom made all of my clothes…….. we lived in Hawaii and she would make them quite long, almost a Mumu. Well, long dresses don’t work well for running, jumping rope and monkey bars! I always heard the “thump, thump, thump noise when running. (My legs hitting the fabric… almost past the point of stretch!)
Have a happy birthday…. we enjoy peeking in on your days!
Happy birthday! It was my son’s third birthday, too. Hope you had as much fun as he did. I’ve been subscribing to your blog for a few weeks now and am really enjoying it. I’m a beginner sewer and you inspire me to keep trying. I have a tiny fabric stash and hope to have one even just half as impressive as yours some day. š
Happy Birthday of course.
I’m envious of that bright red hair!
Have a great year of adventure!
Love, love, love your blog. It definitely inspires me.. now I just need some time to create.
Happy, happy birthday! Enjoy your special day : )
happy birthday new friend!
I’m a bit late but best wishes for your birthday! Love your blog & love the memories your photo jogged for me (especially the swimming cozzie suntan!!).
whoo hoo! geminis!
happy birthday!
in a few days i, too, will be able to join in celebrating
(don’t you sometimes wish you could still wear the clothes you did when you were younger… if only they grew with us)
Happy Birthday! Hope you enjoy your day and spend it well. I enjoy looking at your blog and seeing all the unique things you make. Again have a great day.
My brother is named Ryan too and his birthday is April 22 and mine is June 22. Your sandwiched right in the middle. There is something cosmic about that : ) I had one of those dresses too and in the winter I would wear it with a turtleneck and gaucho boots. Loved it.
Happy Birthday. I hope you have great day.
Happy Birthday Erin, I’ve so much fun reading your blog.
happy birthday! have a great one.
Happy Birthday! š Cute picture!
happy birthday to you…happy birthday to you…
happy birthday dear Erin,
happy birthday to you!!
(pick me! pick me!)
Aw, how cute! I was just teaching that to my 10 month old daughter the other day, she thinks it’s hilarious! Happy Birthday Erin, I hope you have a lovely day š
happy birthday Erin I hope you had a fab day
My birthday is on the 26th .May is a good month to have a birthday
Kindest regards Beth
Happy Birthday to you!!!!!! I LOVE that photo…so adorable and you are a fashion icon!!! Happy Happy!!!xoxo
Happy b-day! Hope your day was filled with joy and gladness and cake!
Happy b-day! Hope your day was filled with joy and gladness and cake!
Happy Birthday….If I win, I’ll send you a picture of me when I was 5 and my brother was 7!!!
gotta love that wallpaper.
Happy Birthday!
goodness…so many posts! I only came here to get the twirly skirt pattern! Happy Birthday to You! Oh and I keep forgetting to buy my shirring elastic, every time I go to the sewing/knitting/haberdashery department I come away forgetting to buy some. Today’s the day!! I am going into Cambridge to get some supplies!
Happy Birthday. What a cute pictue, and that phone, man its so cool.
I hope you have a very special day.
Suzie Sews (UK)
Happy B-day to you!
love that dress….love the kitchen art on the walls. My Mother’s kitchen was just like that.
A very Happy Birthday to another May baby. Love the photo – very 70’s daggy! Hope you had a great day with you lovely family. It’s coming into winter here but I reckon my girls would look good in those dresses with a long sleeve top under and boots – v cute. I’m off tomorrow to get my elastic.
Happy day to you, Erin! I so love your freckles in that photo. I bet you hated them growing up, didn’t you?
Happy Birthday! Thank you for sharing your wonderfully crafty and artistic life.
Have a great birthday! I truly enjoy reading your blog and find your projects inspirational.
Happy Happy Birthday! I hope your day is wonderful with lots of goodies!
OH, happy happy birthday!! Hope you have a great one!
The giveaways so so great too. Thanks for the generosity.
I think I could guess your age now – based on my own- and the fact that I had a dress just like that! And – my brother looked just like yours at the same age. Now he is a big scary looking carpenter. I have your blog in my fav’s – i check in every day or two – there you go…totally delurked. Hippo Birdie 2 Ewes.
I’m an idiot – just spotted the 36! I’m 33 this year – I was close!
happy birthday even I don’t know you and just found your blog. I love the stuff you make, so I think i will visit you often in the future. Enjoy your day.
Happy birthday! I thought you were pulling each other’s hair in the picture like my brother and I did when we were young.
Wow that is a lot of comments! Happy Birthday a day late:)
Happy, happy (day-after-your) birthday to you! I hope you had a really lovely day, and today is just as nice š
(Wow, we had that phone when I was growing up, too…why is a phone making me all misty & nostalgic?)
That photo made MY day! Hilarious! Happiest birthday wishes.
That photo made MY day! Hilarious! Happiest birthday wishes.
Happy birthday!! Love the picture!!
Both the belt and the tote are gorgeous. Happy Birthday, and best wishes for many more!
Woo Hoo I’m 38yrs so I’m a little ahead-happy birthday-first time visiting like your style..
Good wishes to you on your birthday! You make lovely things!
Happy Happy Happy Happy Birthday!!! And cute cute dress! I love it how styles go round and round… you think something is gone for good when the decades pass, but then here it comes again, those dresses are poppin’ up everywhere! I think you can even buy the material already gathering with the elastic thread so you can just add a seam and you have an instant top or dress!
Happy Birthday, Sweetness! Consider that necklace a prezzie. =)
and of course, awesome photo. I’m a sucker for redheads. =)
Happy Birthday! Love the picture.
Erin, Happy Birthday! Oh, I remember doing the little teapot dance to entertain my family… sweet memories
happy, happy, HAPPY birthday erin! I’m lovin’ that dress (and the wallpaper, too!)
I’m a lurker too, and I might be too late for the giveaway, but I turned 36 on May 5! Here’s to 36 years young!
Happy Happy Birthday!
happy belated birthday!
De-lurking, indeed! There are so many lovely blogs–yours, of course–that I jumped into the blog pool last week! Happy birthday. I love the photo: how I longed for red hair when I was that age (still do, as a matter of fact!).
You’re right – that picture is a stitch. I think Nolan was even younger than that when we first met in high school. Time sure flies!
I am so glad that you are my friend and I love you dearly. Hope your day was the best yet!
Happy Birthday! See what happens when you offer a giveaway! Wow! 172 comments thus far. I think the most I’ve ever gotten was 18 or 20 and that was with the offer of a free latte! The belt reminds me of my youth (as does your dress) and the bag is fabulous!
Happy Birthday. I just found your blog and must dive in to the archives.
Happy B-day little teapot! How cute are you?!!!!! So cute!!!!!
ok, i’ll delurk! i enjoy reading your blog most every day. i hope you had a wonderful 36th birthday.
Happy birthday! beautiful sundresses… can’t wait for the tutorial.
Happy Birthday!
um…
oh my gosh i am 178!!!!!!
i have never seen so many comments-ever!!!
happy birthday, darling!!!
What an adorable picture!Happy, happy birthday!
Happy Birthday Erin! I love your blog… lurk it everyday!
I have to say, I think I lived out of those type of dresses up until I was 7 or so… Heck If they made them now, I’ll wear them… I don’t have any boobs anyway! HEHE!
The chance to win one of those belts or totes is a great reason to come out of lurking! I love the sundress and look forward to the tutorial. I hope you had a great birthday and many happy days to come!
hope you had a good b-day, erin. love the dress!
Happy Birthday from a lurker. Love your style
Happy Birthday from another lurker. I enjoy the blog; may you have many more blogging years to come. I know that phone…spent many teenage years on one just like it. Love the tote bag!
Happy Birthday, Erin!! And what a cute photo š
Oh May Birthdays are the best ~and giving is way better than receiving!
188 now! Happy Birthday.
Sorry Erin, this is belated but Happy Birthday and have a fruitful new year ahead!
p.s. you know what, my birthday candles have been fixed on 24 for some years now, so this year, I’ll increase by 1 when the time comes. š
189th, Clara
Awww! Happy, happy belated birthday!!! Shame on me for getting behind on my blog-reading! I even missed the drawing, darn it!! Hope y’all have a lovely holiday weekend!