Today is our second wedding anniversary.
It's hard to believe that it's been two years; it feels like the wedding was just a few months ago. I guess time flies when you're having fun, eh? As a wedding gift I gave James an engraved pocket watch and he gave me a pair of pearl drop earrings. For our first anniversary - the paper anniversary - I gave him subscriptions to a couple magazines (Imbibe and Make), and he gave me The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook, which has quickly become my favorite cookbook in my collection (shhhh, don't tell the Joy of Cooking, it'll get jealous). The second anniversary is the cotton anniversary. Since I have more time then money I decided to embroider a set of cotton handkerchiefs as my gift to James. I've never embroidered before, but I have done a lot of cross-stitch, so it didn't take me too long to get the hang of it. After consulting a book on needlework and studying some hand embroidered napkins from some long dead relatives I dove in. And I'm rather proud of the results.
The next needlework project I want to take up is learning how to crochet. I'm hoping that's as easy to learn from a book as this was.
Happy 2nd anniversary, Sweetie!
