Birthday Dispatches
February - Cratersville - Junior Year - Jelly 16

Cupcake Birthday

At first, I tried to hide them. Then, I tried to make them at the last minute, hoping they wouldn’t be found. I even tried to bake them in one of the ovens at my mom’s tea shop. As a final act of desperation, I tried to split them up—hoping

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January - Creators Realm - Jelly 24

Happy Bird Day

Hello January Babies! You are truly lucky to be born in January. Not only is your birthday free of being over-shadowed by the present-wrapping and merry-making of December, but you have National Bird Day to celebrate in your birth month to boot! Now you might not be much into birds,

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December - Creators Realm - Jelly 24

Holly Jolly Birthday

Hello to all you December babies! Tis the season to be jolly and to celebrate your birthday! In this month’s post, I wish to share a helpful hint on tackling those “single-gifters” who combine your birthday gift and your holly day gift into one nifty package. First off, I’m on

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November - Creators Realm - Jelly 24

Pumpkin-Spiced Birthday

While I love pumpkin spice like everyone else, what I really love, when fall comes around, is spicing up everything in my life with winter squash and decorative gourds* of every kind—especially pumpkins. I decorate the rooms of my boho-chic caravan with pumpkins—sometimes plain, sometimes accented with various symbols and

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October - Creators Realm - Jelly 24

SPELLtacular Birthday

For reasons I have revealed elsewhere, October is—for me—a month of haunting fascination mixed with eerie dread. In Cratersville, when I was growing up, October was known as the month that held the all important night where all us kids dressed up in costumes and ate obscene amounts of candy—chocolate

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September - Creators Realm - Jelly 24

FALLtastic Birthday

Autumn is almost here! Autumn is my favorite time of year—except for when I was still in school, which made fall a bit like a sour ball. Sure, it was the sweet time of the year, but school gave it a tart punch. That being said, besides being gorgeous weather-wise

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August - Cratersville - Jelly 11

Fun Dog Birthday

It seemed like a good idea at the time. This is my refrain when I’m faced with the fallout from one of those that’s-not-quite-what-I-was-expecting moments. Take the time my sister Poppy and I were planning a birthday surprise for this girl at school. Her name was Suzi—short for Susanne, a

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August - Creators Realm - Jelly 24 - Hobo Magician with Rabbit Mascot

Magical Birthday

Another month has come and gone, where’s the summer going! Of course, here in the Creators Realm I don’t experience summer the same way that I did in Cratersville, or as I do when I’m staying in the Wanderlore Grove. That’s okay because I always have my eternal clock hovering

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July - Creators Realm - Jelly 24 - Sunny Butterflies with Rainbow Stars

Star-Spangled Birthday

Hello July, and Happy Birthday to all you July Babies! The great thing about July birthdays is that you don’t have a lot of other major holidays to steal the limelight from your special day. The bad thing about having a July birthday is that a lot of people are

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June - Creators Realm - Jelly 24 (almost)

Birthday Butterflies

Celebrations and me have an awkward relationship. Thanksgiving, Winter Wish, Shamrock Day, I can get into. Mostly because the centerpiece of said celebration isn’t me. But, birthdays are another story all together. Let’s just say that I get butterflies whenever I think about my birthday approaching. I don’t like being

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