Last weekend the girls made us an anniversary dinner and dessert. They have been making a plan for our anniversary since we got back from our honeymoon lol they're sweet! I let them decide what they wanted to make, as long as it was easier because they don't have much advanced cooking experience. They decided on baked cod, corn on the cobb and redskin mashed potatoes with cheesecake for dessert. Talk about gourmet! I took them shopping and they picked everything out themselves and then put all of the groceries away. On Sunday they got started cooking and I helped them a very tiny bit with showing them how to slice a lemon and reaching some spices or carrying the heavy pots filled with water for their potatoes and corn. All in all, it was delicious! Doesn't it just look delicious?!?
We have a PACKED weekend and we're both so excited for our mini-vaca this weekend, it is much needed!
The Itinerary:
Friday: dinner at home, Weezer Concert at The Shoe then back home for the eveningSaturday: Breakfast at home, Mad Potter to paint ourselves a serving platter or bowl, roadtrip to Columbus, check into our hotel then head over to the Crew Stadium for the game!
Sunday: breakfast at hotel, exploring Columbus for a little while, go to hotel and get all dolled up, head to the Shadowbox for some dinner and to watch Spamalot. We're staying the night in Columbus again and then we'll be heading back home in the morning after breakfast.
We are really excited!! We had a plan to do glassblowing but that fell through because they apparently don't do the deal we were getting on Saturday's and we had already purchased our non-refundable tickets to Spamalot.... I love Ryan and all but I was not about to pay $250/person to do glassblowing when I found a deal for both of us to do it for $120. We decided to change it, although it took some time and more research, we came upon Mad Potter which will be just as good, if not better because we can be artistic and show off our personalities in something that we'll bring out everytime we have a party (which is a lot)!
Side Note: I could paint pottery all day, everyday! I would LOVE to own a place like Mad Potter or Let's Go Doodlin' or one of those places that does the Wine and Canvas nights in the future... It would be awesome!
The Gift:
So the first anniversary is traditionally paper, modern is clock. We chose to go with the traditional gift and get really creative with it. We wanted to spend as little as possible on the gift so that we could have more for the mini-vaca. I have no idea what Ryan has done, he says I will love it and that he has created it himself and it is cheesy... I'm sure I'll love it. So of course, with an artsy husband, the pressure is on because paper can mean so many things... I am creative but I can't draw to save my life. So I scoured my Pinterest Boards and google to help me think of some things to do. Well I ended up with a combination of things that I think he will love.So I made him a canvas portrait of sorts. I painted an 11x13 canvas with our blue wedding color that has a bit of a pearl/metallic shimmer to it. I then went onto Microsoft Publisher and typed out the lyrics of our wedding song in a very pretty, cursive font. I then laid out a heart shape on top of the lyrics, I chose hearts that were 3x3 in size so that they could cover enough of the lyrics in each heart. I made tow hearts in red with our initials and our wedding date inside of them. I printed them on white cardstock and cut out the hearts inside the lines because I didn't want the black outline on them. I will be gluing those hearts onto pieces of foam and gluing that onto the canvas. I'm excited about how it's going to turn out... The colors really pop together!
The next thing I made was a passport and airline tickets to twelve different foreign destinations. I got this idea from here. I printed all of these things on cardstock... It just made it seem stronger to me. With this passport, I will be putting a picture of him in the photo section and gluing the little stamps on the pages. I also made airline tickets to each destination... One for each month! It will end up costing more than just the price of paper but each date is in the house and will cost almost nothing (minus price of food but that would incorporated into our food budget). Our first destination in Cairo, Egypt in October because we will be going over to Ryan's aunt's house for an Egyptian themed Halloween party... Which will cost us nothing except for gas money but will be a fun night without kids. I made an itinerary so that he can have a little schedule to know which dates to save for me for our dates based on the airline tickets. A few of the dates we can do while the kids are here, just send them to the other room or do it after they go to bed. We're going to hopefully get sitters for the dates but if not, they're all at home so it's no biggie if they are here.
For this gift you will need to get your significant other (links to free printable items included):
1- A Passport
2- The Itinerary
3- Stamps for their Passport
4- The Card to tie it all together and so they have a clue to what you're doing
5- The Airline Tickets (this was my favorite part!)
For my countries I used: Caribbean, China, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico and Russia. I am blessed that we live 10 minutes from a Jungle Jim's International Market which sells like everything from every country which will make our international dates super easy to pull off! Here's an example of how I did my tickets. I used a photo editing software to combine four tickets onto one page so that they could be a little smaller than the 8x10 size they come in... I also got to save paper in the process :)
Don't they look like the real thing?!? I was SOOO impressed by this!
I decided to recreate the card for my own spin on things because the one they had didn't quite tickle my fancy. I've attached my version below:
The site recommends cooking something for dinner from that country and setting the scene a little (ex: towel in the shape of an animal, togas, blue water and a beach ball in the bathtub, etc.) depending on where the journey takes you. Then watch a movie that is set or based on that country (ex: Aladdin, The King and I, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, etc.). It is such a simple and fun idea but I think he will love it!
So there you have it, two things made my me for my hubby that cost me almost nothing. I had to buy cardstock, canvas, paint and will have to purchase special foods once a month but my total was under $10.
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