You look so modern and fab the way you've styled your dress with the booties! I hope this string of family celebrations is a wonderful as your birthday was!

You look great--sounds like a wonderful birthday!

Super fab!! And I'm cracking up about the "dressed up" husband!

Happy birthday! Your outfit is so inspiring. Love the booties! Love the max effect! Lovely.

Belated happy birthday to you! My BF does the Birks, too, and he's 52. Only for casual times, though. Glad your sweetie dressed up for you! Welcome to your new decade!!

You look so beautiful, Amy, and I'm glad you had a wonderful day! You radiate HAPPINESS!

Happy birthday Amy! You look wonderful in your amazing handmade dress and I love your cute hair and smile!

A very happy belated birthday to you! So glad you had a great day, and it shows! You are glowing. Love your outfit--it makes me even more confident about my own recent purchase of wedge booties. You look fabulous!

You look so beautiful, Amy! I love your outfit - glad to hear you had a great day.

Happy Belated Birthday and what a great look! From one of the newest of newbies on the site!

Linda

Happy Birthday! You look fantastic!

And besides being vicariously happy for Amy's awesome day, I am suddenly steeped in nostalgia for my past happy visits to Seattle and outlying areas.

Last time there, we had a really nice lunch here:

http://www.campagnerestaurant.com/cafe_menu.html

And there's this pizza place opened up by a pizza-obsessed transplanted New Yorker, who is married to a woman whose food blog I used to follow. It looks good, too (and blogger Molly is currently writing a memoir about their experience in opening up the restaurant):

http://www.delanceyseattle.com/

The blog is orangette.blogspot.com. She is very up on delicious places to eat...and really, the food was so good in Seattle in the short time we were there! My gourmand husband wanted to change jobs and move there!

(......fondly recollecting good times in the Pacific Northwest)

You are a designer! What a fun and distinctively pretty dress - and it suits you beautifully Amy! Your special day sounds FAB-U-LOUS!!! (Although skating here in subzero weather, I can do without.) *Wink*