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Tuesday, September 06, 2011

I Heart You Plaque

I have two wedding days.  Actually, one is a sealing day.  My family is LDS and two years ago we became an eternal family.  It was a long-awaited day and one that was full of every emotion on the face of the planet.  I was a new, sleep-deprived mother and was so overwhelmed.  What a long day that was.  But it was such a great day.  One that deserves to be remembered.

I haven’t posted a whole lot of romance ideas since February.  We got busy with life, work and summer and our date nights took a bit of a hit, but with this anniversary, it seems like a good time to put a few of my ideas out there.

Here’s a fun little gift.  It was inexpensive and, as I’m sure you know by now, I love me some personalization!  It’s basically self-explanatory, so I don’t really have a tutorial for it.  A wood burning kit, a steady hand and a big bucketful of patience was all it took.  Well, and my rice bag at bed time (my back was awfully sore from bending over the counter for so long).  Obviously, my husband’s name is in the little blacked out spot… sorry, but privacy is worth something.
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I started out by drawing my design lightly with pencil.  Then I used the heat iron and burned my design into the wood.  I’d never done any wood burning before (unless you count campfires), so I did a little flying by the seat of my pants and on-the-job training.  Or experimenting.  Whatever.  In any case, I really love the way it turned out.  I sure hope My Mr. Right does too…

pic 1  I included two dates on our plaque.  Our wedding date and our sealing date.
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If you’re interested in purchasing one of these little cuties, you may do so in my Etsy shop.  Of course, it will come with your details, not mine.  You may also consider this for a father’s, mother’s, or grandparents gift with the names of your family/kids or the grandkids.
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Krista

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11 comments:

  1. Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave today [07 Sep 01:00am GMT]. Thanks, Maria

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    Tania

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  3. I love this idea! You are so creative! I’d love for you to link your adorable project to Things I’ve Made Thursdays. I’m trying something new this week- We have two sections to the party- one for kids’ things and one for “Anything”!! I think this post would be an awesome addition to the “Anything Goes” party!

    Hope you’ll stop by on Thursday and link up!
    Melanie
    http://bearrabbitbear.blogspot.com/2011/09/things-ive-done-thursday-new.html

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  4. CUTE! Ive always wanted our initials on a tree, and this is perfect. Im adding this to my wish list!

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  5. so great. i have been wanting to make one of these for such a long time!
    i would love for you to link this up to flashback fridays! flashback fridays is a place for bloggers to share vintage, retro, old posts, anything that comes to mind with the word flashback!

    you can check it out here:
    http://lovenotesbylauryn.blogspot.com/2011/09/introducingflashback-fridays.html

    the party will be open til thursday, so come join in!
    {love} lauryn @ lovenotesbylauryn.blogspot.com

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  6. Ha! Love your comment diatribe! Love this wood inscription. Lovely idea!

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  7. I saw this on Craft-O-Maniac. What a great idea!

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  8. Very cute! I like the simplicity of your design. Thanks for sharing.

    Brittany aka Pretty Handy Girl

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