Happy birthday!

[vilakins]

Have a happy blue hippo!

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[kerravonsen]

You win. You did a much much better birthday greeting than me.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Awww, just glitter text and a cute pic!

I'm still trying to work out what to do for NaArMoMo.

[kerravonsen]

A very fitting cute pic.

I'm still trying to work out what to do for NaArMoMo.
How about...
- sketches
- paintings
- bead necklaces
- knitting
- pressed flowers
- photographs of your cute kitties
- digital art
- make a kite, fly it, and let it get stuck in a tree for passers-by to admire
- sand-painting
- cake decorating
- pizza decorating
- Fimo or similar craft clay sculpture
- bead making
- wooden bead painting
- basketmaking
- wreath-making

That enough ideas? 8-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I can't do some of those, but yes, others will feature. It's topics I'm short on.

[kerravonsen]

It's topics I'm short on.

How about one for every letter of the alphabet? That would cover 26 days, at any rate.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Thud! :-)

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

That is one spiffy hippo!

(And, yes, Happy Birthday, mistraltoes! :))

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

He's from a museum, but I can't remember the details. :-)

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I think he's from the Smithsonian museum, and is Egyptian, and they named him William. IIRC.

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Sorry, I have a bookmark of William. Not from New York, thoughl; just the shop in the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney.

[ex-lizzzar998.livejournal.com]

From the British Museum - I used to be always buying their lovely hippos. I mistakenly logged in before as anonymous.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I really should have looked at where the picture came from. It's a beautiful thing.

I live to google...

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

William is looking straight ahead, but otherwise very similar to the one on this post. He's from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
http://www.metmuseum.org/store/images/Z.sc.F0322.L.jpg

This is ANOTHER blue faience Egyptian hippo with lotus painted on the side. It was apparently an extremely common theme.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/animal_gallery_02.shtml

This looks like the one you've used- it's from the British Museum as lizzzar said.
https://shop.thehungersite.com/store/item.do?itemId=6536&siteId=220

And this site is devoted to the Blue faience hippopotamus of Ancient Egypt, with a number of good links. There's even a link to a blown-glass Christmas ornament.
http://www.davidgill.co.uk/cg/bluehippo.html