It’s our Anniversary! (7th, that is)

Well, officially yesterday was our anniversary. We were married on Friday, Oct. 13, 2004. It was a dreary, rainy day and the sun came out when we were taking photos after the ceremony. Funny thing is yesterday was a dreary, rainy day and the sun came out at about the same time it did 7 years ago. How amazing is that?

We decided a while back to do the celebrate thing for our anniversary this weekend. We gave each other little things yesterday. Bill gave me a very touching card that I’ve re-read at least 10 times since getting it and 35 little post it notes with “Love You” written on them posted all over the house. I gave him an e-card, a Cthulhu cup cozy (hand crocheted by the lovely Jade Bartlett) for him to take to work for a laugh, and a real card.  Otherwise it was a fairly normal evening in our house… dinner, family time, unwind after kids are in bed, etc. Today I woke to find a love note written on the storm door in dry erase marker from Bill and I gave him his other, sweeter, present when he got home from work. I used this tutorial and template download to make it. He loved it. Here it is:

Here’s the other gift I gave him:

Photo courtesy of Heather Bartlett.

Bill will give me my other gift this weekend. I can’t wait! Tomorrow we are going to have dinner at El Dorado and after dinner we will go to the “Ghosts of Sotterly” performance at Sotterly Plantation. Sunday we will wake up late after enjoying an evening without the kids. (Thanks to my in-law’s for letting them spend the night Saturday!)

Back to Hooking!

As it pertains to crochet. Get your mind out of the gutter! lol I came across a cute little brooch pattern on Ravelry called Swirly Brooch. I loved the look of it and decided to give it a try. It’s a Pay It Forward gift for Heather LaBelle in her favorite colors. I think it kind of looks like African Violets… in a kind of abstract way. I can’t want to give it to her. I hope she loves it.

I used size 10 crochet thread in the following brands/colors:

Caron Grandma’s Best Mercerized Cotton – 92 Purple

Coats Aunt Lydia’s Classic Crochet Thread – 0449 Forrest Green

J. & P. Coats Royale – 495 Wood Violet and 484 Myrtle Green

Size 2 steel crochet hook

I used vintage Zayre polyester sewing thread in a deep purple to attach the swirls to a sterling silver pin back.

I loved working on this. I think it took me two evenings, with distractions, so maybe 3 hours total. I think I’m going to have to make lots of these to have on hand as gifts to give. It would be lovely with beads and/or metallic thread, too.