...fall birthday...

...it's that time of year again...

...the Man has had another birthday...

...Scout chose the perfect card...but it has always bothered Scout that there are no cards (really none) that say 'Papa'...so he has always either made a card...or changed a purchased card from either Father or Dad...or when he was younger Daddy...to say Papa...because that's what he calls his Papa...

...I really should have photographed the process...This card is a tri-fold card and it said Dad in raised letters in the heart on the front...so the first thing he did was to sand off the upright portion of the small d...then he mixed up some peachy coloured paint to match the heart...and spounced that over the sanded part of the heart...and lightly around the rest of the heart too...just for a little blending...then all that was left was to take a sharpie and make the capital D in...to a large P...trace over the existing a...and change the remaining ball of the lower case d into another small p...and then add an a...

...it probably took me about as long to type all that as it did to actually do it...because you know me and my rather well stocked craft room...we had all of the supplies already...and we think the custom card turned out great...

...you could of course with a little paint change any part of the card to say whatever you wanted...the only additional step here was the sanding off of the raised lettering...

...but we celebrated in the usual way...a nice dinner...and then the Man's favorite caramel iced cake...

...which, of course I've blogged about before...

...I think we'll make short work of this cake...

...a little bit of present opening followed...the Man got a new and much needed laptop...they sure have gotten a lot smaller over the years...and I did take some photos of him with the new laptop...it's blue...I mean it's outside shell is blue...but he didn't want me to post any of the photos so I'm not going to...

...and the beautiful flowers are from some dear friends in West Virginia...so sweet and pretty...

~Have a lovely day!