Picspam - birthday gifts 2016

[dieastra]

As promised, here are my birthday gifts. But first a very special thank you to vjezkova for that awesome and cute birthday cart from Jacquie Lawson! I took the time to play it all. I know and love their advent calendars, they are always done with so much love. But this was the first birthday card I got. Thank you very much!

And now on to the gifts, as usual under the cut.



A new rucksack as the old one is falling apart:



From my brother - a nice file folder:



Houseshoes and socks - mothers always think practical ;)



Sweets - I love Toffifee. It's a caramel hull, filled with nougat and a hazelnut. Yummy!



After getting cows for so many years (see the Cows tag) I asked to get sheep now, and sheep I got!



A little fox, and a flamingo that is of the "shake your wings with solar energy" kind:



I was hunting for this 2 Euro coin all year long. Each year they do a different one with a picture from a German state and this year it was Saxony. You may recognize the Zwinger from my pictures of Kirk and Spock doing Sightseeing in Dresden



And then my brother said he wants to play the matches game like he used to do as a child. You lay a lot of matches into a circle on the table, and in between little gifts and sweets. Then people throw a dice and count, and either you get a match or a gift. You take them so the circle gets smaller and smaller. I won these two, the cow is a pen sharpener actually:

Comments

[alumfelga.livejournal.com]

Great gifts! The coin is interesting, I suppose they don't make that many of them.

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

I just looked it up, there are 30 Million of them. 30.000.000. So why took it so long for me to get one? ;)
I guess a lot of people must collect them. I always look at the back of coins I get or give away.

[alumfelga.livejournal.com]

So the coins were mixed with normal coins and there wasn't other way to get the special ones except getting lucky? I can imagine it takes long since eveyone who got lucky has kept the coin and there was less and less of them...

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

When they came out in the beginning of the year, it was said in the newspaper that you could go to a bank office and get them there. But when I tried to do that they said they didn't have any. But yes, these are just ordinary coins. I guess collectors can get them from their collector places, so they are new and not used, but you probably pay more for it then and I was not THAT desperate. I also don't have any of the others. I rather use my money to buy action figures, as you probably know ;)

My brother has quite a coin collection, all the Euros from all the different countries and other coins as well.

I guess since it was the Saxony coin, everyone in Saxony wanted to keep it. If I had been on vacation somewhere else, I might have gotten it easier there. I see the coins from the other states all the time.