Wedding Season

Its wedding season again!

Irene Harrison's retirement

Irene - may you have the retirement you have been planning - we know you will be kept very busy socialising and enjoying family, friends, new and old hobbies - ENJOY!

The celebrity herself:

Well today is Irene Harrison's last day working as a teacher at one of our primary schools. Irene taught 2 of my children and is a long serving member of staff, and well known in our community. It isn't unusual to find a few of the children who attend school nowadays are children or relatives of children Irene had previously taught at school over the years.

Irene had mentioned to myself and a couple of my friends [who regularly meet at school etc for fundraising and parent council stuff] that she had recently taken up horse riding. Suzanne [you know who you are LOL!] came up with the idea of the horseshoe seeing as she knew I had made one previously for a wedding this year. I had tried to incorporate the school colours of purple, silver and black. I managed to find gorgeous black ribbon with purple tartan, I spray painted the horse shoe silver and then dressed it up with some purple and silver embellishments and some bling!

Irene was delighted with the gift!

The horsehoe retirement gift:

Horsehoe painted silver

Horse shoe all jazzed up:

Presentation is in the smallest of details:

Retirement and gift cards:

All together:

A Horse Shoe Wedding Token

The completed horse shoe:

Diamonte and bead details:

Work in progress:

Yes that is indeed a geniune horse shoe from the farriers! This was a commission on behalf of a friend's friend. I must admit to toiling a little in sourcing the brand new, never used horse shoe! It's been a true labour of love creating this wedding token. However, I would have been delighted to receive something as real and genuine like this on my wedding day but we didn't have the crafters, tools and materials then as we have available nowadays!