dinner at eight

Last week my husband and I celebrate our eighth anniversary.  My gift started with inspiration from  these adorable pillow cases!

Since we went to France for our honeymoon and our bedroom is black and white, I knew these would be perfect!  I used the translation "good evening" to put together some items that would ensure that we had a "good" evening. To start with we had dinner at 8:00 at our favorite French restaurant on the Cape.  For the gift I used the pillow cases as the tissue paper (the bronze heart tissue paper that I made kept smudging and I didn't want it to get on the new white pillow cases).  I included the movie "dinner at eight," a new cd by one of my husbands favorite Irish artists, a chocolate "8," and some prosecco that had a bronze foil wrap.  I love that this gift included a lot of meaning for both of us and our evening turned out even better than good, it was fabulous!

that's a wrap

Next week will be my eighth wedding anniversary!!!  I am still trying to get my gifts and movie organized.  The traditional gift is bronze and although I didn't get a bronze gift I was hoping to at least wrap it in something bronze.  After doing some looking online and in stores I couldn't find any plain wrapping paper that I liked.  So, I decided to make my own!  I bought a bronze stamp pad at Michaels and have a variety of heart shaped stamps.  I originally thought I was going to use brown craft paper, but now I am leaning more towards white.  We are going to the Cape next week so I will be offline, but make sure to come back so I can show you the finsihed package and my gift ideas!