Thank you to everyone who wished me a happy birthday yesterday! I believe I've already replied to all of you, but I wanted to say it again because I really appreciated it.

The day itself was good. My best friend woke me up with a phone call from across the country. He's not the greatest with remembering dates, but he always makes the effort to remember to call me on my birthday. A few hours later another friend asked if I wanted to take a drive with her down to the US because she had to pay some bill at Kohl's and it couldn't be done online with her Canadian bank account. She offered to pay for a t-shirt and some sweets that I was going to buy while we were at the mall down there. T'was very kind of her. Then I had dinner with my family a few hours after we returned.

I must admit, I was very touched by all the happy birthday wishes that I saw on here. Genuinely. I'm not a Twitter or Tumblr user, but I didn't receive any such messages on my personal Facebook page (though two of them said it vocally, and one of them said it on here). I never expect birthday wishes from them, but I often wish they would.  I'm not looking for extravagant gifts or parties or whatnot, but I view greetings of 'happy birthday' as a way of showing the person that their existence and the time spent with them is significant enough to you to make note of the anniversary of the day that  they came into existence. It's selfish of me. In my friends' defense, many people aren't very good at remembering dates and I'm a bit odd in that I remember the birthdays of people I lost contact with years ago. But that's why I found it very heartwarming that so many people here took the time to send me a happy birthday message.

Okay, my ridiculous mental process aside, I need a bit of help on deciding how I progress with my pony plushies. I decided to try a bit of needle sculpting on the face of one of my Rainbow Dashes to see how it would look. Mind you, it was 5:00am, I had no instructions or experience with needle sculpting, and I didn't measure and mark any of the points. In short: I did it free-hand on a late-night whim.

This is the comparison photo between the face of a slightly needle sculpted Rainbow Dash, and Daring Do's unaltered face.
The contours in the mouth, nostrils and the bridge of the nose are slight and easier to see in person, but it's a bit more apparent in the full-view photo. And if you don't mind helping me out, you can select your preferred appearance at my latest poll [link] .

And I'm very sorry to the people waiting on pictures of the mochi. I was going to do it today, but then the sculpting thing happened last night and I thought I better get that out of the way first. Mochi will be next!