Forty Year Old Scrap Happiness
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Forty years and two days ago I walked down the aisle…
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I Do
…and married my favourite photographer.
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Sweet
I carried Sweet Peas in my wedding bouquet…
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Cake!
…and using scraps of fabric from the wedding clothes, I made outfits for these clothespeg dolls that went on top of the wedding cake.
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1985
…we’ve changed a bit, but we decided at the time that, in the words of Robert Frost:
Life is only life forevermore, together, wing to wing and oar to oar!
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ScrapHappy is a group of bloggers (links below) who post monthly about using up scraps! All genuine scraps are allowed, and any material. Blog posts are published on the 15th of the month – I really love to see what people are doing with bits and pieces saved from the scrap heaps! If you think you’d like to join the group, contact Kate who devised it with a Swedish friend – her blog is the first link below:
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Quimper Hittys 
Congratulations! 🎉
Thank you so much!
Happy anniversary to you both!
We appreciate the good wishes!
How utterly wonderful 🫶
Congratulations ❣️
That’s very kind – thank you!
Touching, beautiful and heartfelt congratulations on your 40 years together. It appears that scrapping has been a part of your life for some time. Love it!
40 years of ups and downs, that poem was more apt than we could have imagined! And yes, scraps have been part of my life probably forever, and in past generations too – with my grandfather weaving rag rugs, my grandmother making quilts…
What a lovely story and many congratulations on your Ruby Wedding Anniversary! I am very impressed that you made the dolls to top your wedding cake! A beautiful momento of the day.
I have been making one kind of doll or another since I was about eight years old! I had scraps leftover from wedding dress and shirt-making; I had clothespegs, it seemed like the sensible thing to do! It was nice to get the dolls out of their tissue paper wrappings and celebrate again!
Any excuse for a celebration! And those dolls are gorgeous and such a brilliant moneto.
Congrats! That would have been an awesome wedding cake!
The cake was awesome! It was a fruitcake, made by me with my mother and grandmother, and useing my great-grandmother’s recipe! It really was special even without the clothespeg dolls!
congratulations….how charming your cake toppers were and what a lovely couple you make!
Awww – Thank you ❤ The Clothespeg cake toppers were a fun extra! I am glad I made them, and kept them.
Happy Anniversary and that was a lovely post with the Hittys honoring your union!
Thanks so much…I don’t normally post about real live much except coincidentally, but I recognised the clothespeg dolls outfits and thought to myself Hey, I made those with scraps! Perfect!
You are so talented and occasionally you can give us a peek into your other life 😉
Happy, happy anniversary. Love your cake toppers – in some ways you haven’t changed a bit. And so, row or fly on and on.
Isn’t it true, it doesn’t feel like I thought 40 years would feel. Life is interesting… but it’s also funny and yes on we go
Happy happy Anniversary! And may you have many more happy days together! ❤
Thank you very much! We are looking forward to experiencing good times and challenges.
What a beautiful dress you wore, and how blessed to still be so happy together, wing to wing and oar to oar. Felicitations! May the next decades bring you even more joy.
Thanks! It was a very 80’s wedding – all pink and grey. Luckily I like pink, and Mr Photographer liked the shirt I made, though I am not sure grey was in his favourite colour category. Wing to Wing and Oar to Oar describes our journey so far! Hoping for joy, however it gets defined in the future!
My wedding was pink and grey too!
Happy Anniversary and congratulations for you both. You are great team in this blogging World and I love your stories in Miniature World. Thank you, I loved your photographs and this miniature couple too. Love, nia
Thank you so much nia, we have seen many things in 40 years! Mr Photographer doesn’t take pictures of the Hittys very often, but when he does we love the results!
Wonderful. Congratulations. May you have many more. 💜