Sunday, November 6, 2011

wedding gift

Two weeks ago a colleague, Hildegard (yes, that's her real name and she just turned 30 this summer!) got married. As usually, everyone else of our team at work spent some money for her wedding gift and I was the one to collect it and turn it into a gift.
When I was in the same situation in summer to collect the money for her birthday gift and had asked her what she would like, she had no idea. So this time I didn't ask long and decided to just give the money to her (young married couples always need money anyway) and only would put it in a special box or something that had to look fancy (because it was a wedding gift) and was not so very expensive (because I wanted to give her as much money as possible and spend the least amount of it).
So I went to a special place and bought a hollow body shaped like a lighthouse (approx. 4 Euro) and a small wooden box (I think it was 2 Euro) and some decoration sand.
I cut a shoe box open at 2 sides, took a lot of old newspaper together with wallpaper paste and created a rock, painted the lighthouse and the box and put it together.
Finally I cut brown paper in a boat shape to have people sign it as a card and made a flag that had the wedding blessing on it.
That's how it turned out:









4 comments:

JLTan said...

I think Hildegard's name reminds me of a famous philosopher.

Jim said...

You are very nice for your friends, Tina. It turned out very looking very nice.

Hope your Christmas was Merry and Blessed.
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Sorry this is late. I ran out of steam yesterday, sitting is hard on my back.
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Jim said...

You are very nice for your friends, Tina. It turned out very looking very nice.

Hope your Christmas was Merry and Blessed.
..
Sorry this is late. I ran out of steam yesterday, sitting is hard on my back.
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rsctt said...

beautiful!




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