a DECADE of lurve

Me and my partner/boyfriend /live-in-lover
call him what you will have been together now
for a whole DECADE
"wow" i thought "i should get him a really good present"
well i couldn't think of anything he'd want or need
to be honest it's hard enough to think of something to buy him
for birthdays and christmas

so i decided to make him a decorated jar
containing little treasures from our holidays
over the last ten years

i just can't help myself when walking along a beach
but to look at the pebbles and shells and sea glass
i've always got little treasures in my pockets!

i have been taking little envelopes to put my treasures in
when we go away so that i know exactly where they came from
so i decided to label all the little pebbles
so although Kos was not my favourite holiday
it does have my favourite label!

i also decorated this tiny glass bauble
to dangle from the cork lid
at the moment the glue is still wet {it is on the inside}
so you can't really see this at it's best!
i glued tiny snippets from vintage dictionaries
with decade and love explained to the inside
swirled a bit of glue around and added
some sand from Kos and then some red glitter.

i cut a disc of thick red felt for the bottom of the jar
and then piled up the little rocks
i finished the jar off with a vintage cloth tape-measure bow &
a heart button
I decorated the lid with a heart torn from another vintage dicionary page, the two parts of a broken button screwed into the cork
and our initials
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there are more photo's on my flickr feed
with little snippets of story for each pebble!

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then i worried about whether he would like it or not
which is always the way when i make presents

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he said it was sweet.

{he accidently bought me a GIANT bag}