It happened one day, a good friend sat me down and asked if I would be one of her bridesmaids for her upcoming wedding. Of course I said yes. Over the next few months we talked plenty of times about wedding details, mostly all the crafting the bride herself was doing. Making soap, decorations, centrepieces. The things she and her soon to be husband were creating for the wedding were beautiful and unique and just like the couple they are. During all this talk the bride and I did discuss wedding gifts. For her, just my being there and purchasing a bridesmaid dress for the wedding was enough, she didn't want any additional gift. For a lot of months I didn't really think about gifts, figuring we had it all sorted, then one day inspiration struck.
A little bit of background on the musical heart.
(I completely forgot I was writing this blog originally starting it in 2015 and rediscovered it Jan 2017 while going to write a blog about the Creative Ink Festival - more on that later)...now back to the blog
When the bride and groom first moved in together, it was during a change in my life, as I was separating from my now ex-husband. I needed a place to live. Turns out the groom was leaving the perfect place and it was a nice and cozy and affordable place, and I was able to move into it. On the door of the suite, was this musical heart. The groom loved this heart and for both the bride and groom music has been a huge part of their lives. Personally I was never a fan of this heart being on the door and I ended up covering it up with a Penguin wall hanging I had, but I always knew it was underneath and how much it mattered to the bride and groom.
A few months earlier, before I started making this musical heart, I just started to learn cross-stitch, having only completed one project so far (with tons of mistakes). Undertaking this new project, including creating the pattern for it, was quite the challenge. I was so pleased how it turned out in the end, and the bride and groom loved it.
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