How I Made My Wife an Anniversary Gift This Year
Now I'm not one to brag (I clearly am. I've created a whole website just about me!) but I only went and made my wife a beaten bronze bowl for her anniversary present this year.
I love the whole anniversary = specific material thingy. Like Diamond Anniversary is 60 years or Silver is 25 years. When faced with the millions of anniversary gift ideas that you can buy off of the internet it's nice to narrow it down to one material at least.
This is about to get really bloody super photo heavy! Are you ready?! Here. WE. GOOOOOO!!!
A couple of years ago (5 year anniversary = wood) I massively outdid myself by carving a picture of the three of us (me, the missus and the sprog) out of a piece of MDF.
Last year (6 year anniversary = sugar) I didn't quite deliver the goods and only managed to buy some last minute Irish bonbons from a confectioners in Killarney.
This year (7 years = copper) I was determined to excel myself. With the 'spare' time from giving up my job I didn't really have any excuse not to smash it out of the park.
So here's what I did...
I got my sh*t together!
I drew around a big lid...
...and cut that bad boy out!
Safety first - File those sharp bits.
Hammer over the edges just for good measure.
Then place the sheet of copper on top of the roll of duct tape and open up a can of whoop-ass with the round side of the pein hammer.
Ta-daaaaaaa! Romeo dun.
Almost... Thinking that a battered bowl might not be the most romantic present ever I also made a pair of copper 'leaf' earrings as well. One of them weirdly glows translucent as well. Weird!
Anyway, here are the YouTube videos that I used to help me. Credit where it's due.
Bowl - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e6Z9QQieAk
Earrings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdsEk_NdaT8