Happy Birthday Sgt. Tibbs

Happy birthday Sgt. Tibbs :drink

I called past the cybershop and picked up a nice chocolate cake :-D



and I thought some nice bubbles :drink



Hope you have a great day with family and friends :drink

 

Happy bday

 

A day early, even...thank you! :-D

I did my party last night so I could have the good bartender. There was cake. So much cake. Milky Way Cake. And the guy made me a keepsake box for my jewelry that doesn't fit in the matching jewelry box he made me last year (they're both black walnut).

 

Yep that's the International Dateline for you

Nice looking jewelry boxes :-D
Your guy must be quite handy :cool

 

Happy early birfday?!! :-D:-D

Wood finish looks great!

 

Happy birthday, Sarge! :wine:dancer
Cheers..

 

I'm a day late! Happy belated birthday

 

Thank you all! You're not late at all, Speculant, it's today. :-D I'm celebrating by going to see the LEGO Movie (again) with my niece and her kids. I was originally going to go by myself. The trouble with throwing my party two days early is everyone is done now, and now it's actually the day.

The guy is pretty handy! He's been restoring and making furniture and stuff since he was a kid, and has had his own business doing it for the last ten or so years. In addition to the two jewelry boxes, I also have a really cool pair of mahogany candle holders he made me for Christmas. Everything he makes me is unique; either he'll change what wood he uses (mine are the only black walnut jewelry boxes) or he'll change the style slightly (the other candle holders have thinner swirls closer together). :heart

 

Oh wow!! Those candleholders are beautiful :cool :-D
Really great quality work and I bet he is really proud of how they turned out :-D
Over here it is not so easy to find quality woodwork items as it is becoming a lost skill. Everything is now mass produced by machines in Asia at the lowest possible price and it is made from who knows what

 

He has an entire basement full of scraps and castoff wood of various kinds...tons of mahogany he rescued from his dad's house (his dad was using it for firewood of all things), and lord only knows what else down there. He does use machines for some of it, but it's all hand assembled and a lot of the detail work is hand done. He also pays close attention to grain and makes patterns where possible. I met him about a month before my birthday last year and he came up with the jewelry box with the doors (which he'd never made before, mine was the first), and now every present-giving occasion I get all excited wondering what I'll end up with. LOL

Tonight I ended up celebrating by going to see the LEGO Movie with my niece and her kids. Third time for me, second for her, first for the kids. It was awesome! :-D