{special touches}

My extended family has collaborated on throwing my grandparents an anniversary/renewal of vows ceremony and party next weekend. It has a hawaiian theme and they'll be taking a week's vacation in Hawaii beginning the following day. Today my Mom and sisters, Aimee + Sarah came over to help me make the centerpieces. I got the idea to make these "wands" from a really fabulous book called The Handcrafted Wedding: Special Touches for the Perfect Day. The wands are in a medium sized jar filled with beach sand (shhh, don't tell! *wink*) + sea shells. A tag that says "Happy 38th Anniversary with love..." (that matches the favors) is tied around the jar with natural twine. Then we filled a small jar with large sea shells and tied a ribbon around it. Lastly we have tiki (and other similar) "vases" we're going to fill with large, bright flowers. These three pieces will make the centerpieces.

Well, it wasn't that long ago that we got the Tahoe but for transferring of names purposes we ended up trading her in yesterday. We purchased our very first brand new car- a 2006 GMC Envoy Denali. She's a real beauty. Smaller than the Tahoe but with a lot more ammenities and we should save on gas. (Let's hope so!)

I hope you're having a Beautiful Sunday!