Thursday, May 27, 2010

2 Years Already?

I can't believe how time flies, but it does. On Tuesday, Mr. D and I celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary. In honor of this lovely occasion, I googled wedding anniversary presents and found out that the traditional gift for the 2nd anniversary is cotton. Since he's always asking me to make him something I decided to make him a cotton t-shirt. Now before I could start shopping for a pattern, my buddy Karen stepped in and put me on to the Burda Style t-shirt for men. Once I printed out the 22 pages and taped them together(man was that a lot of work), it was smooth sailing. The fabric was from Walmart. The second part of his present was an embroidered hand towel for when he goes to the gym. Yes my friends, I recently purchased a used embroidery machine for a whopping $80. Don't you just love it? I'm still learning how to use it, but I was able to do this much so far. He liked it.

16 comments:

Susan said...

Happy 2nd anniversary!

Omega said...

Congratulations on your 2nd anniversary. The gifts look nice, I like the towel.

Faye Lewis said...

Happy anniversary!

Tanya said...

Happy Anniversary. I'm so jealous about the embroidery machine I want one but don't want to pay hundreds of dollars, I guess I better start stalking them on Craig's list, the towel looks great.

Karen said...

"He liked it."

He'd better. :) That's some nice work - and the embroidery machine looks like it's coming along well.

Barbara said...

Happy anniversary! The towel was a nice idea.

Karin van D. said...

Happy anniversary! Great that you made something out of cotton for him. On our second wedding anniversary I did something similar: I made him handkerchiefs with his initials embroidered on them. I love to give those kinds of presents!

Elaray said...

Happy Anniversary!

$80 embroidery machine! Fantastic!

meli88a said...

Nice job on that t-shirt. I thought it was store bought before I read your post all the way through!

marit said...

Happy anniversary! You made him a great gift!

Angela said...

Happy Anniversary! Great gifts and a wonderful score on the embroidery machine!

Carolyn (Diary of a Sewing Fanatic) said...

Happy 2nd Anniversary! And of course he liked it, it was made especially for him by his beloved!

Eugenia said...

Happy 2nd anniversary to you and Mr D. I love your gifts - making something is so very special and both the shirt and the towel are lovely.

Sheila said...

Happy Anniversary! The T-shirt came out great and totally love the embroidered towel.

Michelle said...

Happy Anniversary!

Myra said...

Happy Anniversary! I love the T Shirt and I left an award for you on my blog.

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