My hubby and I celebrated our 3 year anniversary in January. I wrote a little something celebrating that and posted it on the project marriage blog. You can read that post here. But today, I wanted to share with you the present I made for my hubby. It took lots of planning and lots of work, but I’m really proud of how it turned out! :)
It is a sentimental decorative piece that I made for our 3 year anniversary, we now have it displayed in our room on the dresser.
There were five parts to this gift.
The three jars themselves were representative of the 3 years we have been married, and the candle was to symbolize the rest of our lives that we have left to live, and to love together! I’m not going to add more drops/papers/kisses every year to keep the total accurate, we would end up needing really big jars if I did!!! so the candle represents the rest of our time together
Treasures Evermore says
What an awesome idea.
Fawn says
Oh my goodness…you have to stop…you’re making wives like me look bad!! :) Now, really, this is beautiful! Who would have thought to write I Love You 1,095 times or to fill a jar with 26,280 drops of water? I’m impressed. How did he respond to all this love being poured out?
Kathryn says
Oh my goodness this is the best anniversary gift I have ever heard of! So cool!!
Anna @ Feminine Adventures says
What a wonderful idea! I’m not very good at commemorating symbolic events. Thanks for the great ideas. We have a few months until our 6h anniversary, so maybe I’ll actually make time to be creative too. LOVE the water droplet idea. :)
Jenn says
Wow, that is such a thoughtful and creative gift! You are so awesome to write I Love You that many times :) That speaks much bigger than a store-bought gift. Thanks for linking up with Thrifty Thursday!
DannielleSB says
Stopping over from Modest Mondays… :-) just looking around.
You kinda ruined it for me, I thought you really added a drop at a time lol. I was like wow! I didn’t think I could do that. Smart thinking of a way to measure it out.
God Bless you! You have a beautiful family.
Megan C. Stroup says
So sweet! I think sentimental gifts > expensive store bought gifts any day! Great idea.
Mary Seaman says
Geez girl! That WAS a lot of work! I bet he enjoyed it as much as you did making it. You are more woman than I am, I would have had to resort to typing it out and coping it! You better start planning tomorrow how you are going top this one!
Anu@MyDreamCanvas says
This is lovely!! I look forward to seeing you at My Dream Canvas. Have a great week.
Home Coming says
Such a beautiful idea! I’d love if you’d link up to The DIY’ers! http://homecomingmn.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-diyers-29.html
Manda Wolf says
Very sweet! My hubby and I are celebrating our 3 year anniversary next month. But we aren’t getting each other any presents we are going on a trip!
Fawn @ Happy Wives Club says
It’s so funny because I am making my way through all the link up posts (I try to divide it up each day so I can get to them all by the end of the month :)) and came to this one and thought, “Oh my goodness, Paula’s at it again with another amazing anniversary present!” And then I realized this is the same one I read before. Whew! You were making me look bad – LOL.
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