Wooden wedding anniversary - gift suggestions

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Its rapidly approaching my 5th wedding anniversary (25th August). I have got as far as finding out that the gift should be wooden this year but am now drawing a blank.

I would like something a bit different and quirky but am not sure what. My wife bought me a message in a bottle for our paper anniversary which I really liked as it was so different.

Any ideas / suggestions? My life is at stake if I don't have something that morning.
 
Toilet seat?
 
guillotine :|






What? :|

Its made out of wood (mostly) its defo diffrent and if you get fed up of the wife.whoooosh bobs your uncle. Pratical i say.
 
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A coffin.......................




Or a crucifixion cross............






Or some of these gifts
 
A Wooden Bear cotton Reel / Needle Holder that I made for Julie for our 5th Wedding Anniversary (Wood) in 1981 and were still together :love: I made it because she could never find the cotton and needles,

and obviously thats not all I gave her


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gramps said:
How about this?
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I really like these. Will have to see how long for postage.


stormcrow said:
Get a pair of apple trees
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No garden unfortunately.


admirable said:
Toilet seat?
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I think I'd get more use out if this than she would... And our current one is comfy.

pepi1967 said:
guillotine :|






What? :|

Its made out of wood (mostly) its defo diffrent and if you get fed up of the wife.whoooosh bobs your uncle. Pratical i say.
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Now this idea I like :D although you can remove the word if.

Yv said:
Plenty of ideas HERE or howabout one of the wood carvings or bits of furnture made with chainsaws or from tree bases/roots if you want to 'stump' up a bit more cash? :D
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Lol, not bad. We got this far without the dodgy puns. Cash isn't too plentiful and our house is small / moderate sized. No space for extra furniture. That website looks interesting, I'll have a good look when she's not about.

tiler65 said:
A coffin.......................

Or a crucifixion cross............

Or some of these gifts
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Well a coffin would definitely get used, hopefully not for some time although it could be used as a wardrobe until then.

No garden or space for the crucifixion cross.

And as above with the website.

Just Dave said:
A Wooden Bear cotton Reel / Needle Holder that I made for Julie for our 5th Wedding Anniversary (Wood) in 1981 and were still together :love: I made it because she could never find the cotton and needles,

and obviously thats not all I gave her
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That is brilliant, and attempting to make something myself may make it a bit more special. Although she isn't one for sewing, I do all that.

crofter said:
A piece of wood.
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Original, and I imagine many many uses.

mark4183 said:
a wooden spoon and chopping board and tell her to get in the kitchen
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She cooks as well as she sews. Although if you can get wooden microwaves...

Thanks for all of the ideas, I will go through and look properly at the websites when I have time. I appreciate the help and will let you know what I get.
 
For our 5th anniversary last week I got my wife a pencil :D
 
jason7579 said:
That is brilliant, and attempting to make something myself may make it a bit more special. Although she isn't one for sewing, I do all that.
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Thanks Just Julie loved it I know its naive carving but its the thought and love put into making it, that counts :thumbs:

I bought her an expensive watch as well, which she still wears :thumbs:
 
Make something yourself.....:thumbs:
 
Give her a stick. something else to beat you down with :D
 
Box of matches.

(and some nice candles to go with)
 
why don't you just fling back the duvet on the 25th and say 'hey babe... look, i got WOOD!!'... and just take it from there.. she'll love it :clap:
 
leftcurl said:
why don't you just fling back the duvet on the 25th and say 'hey babe... look, i got WOOD!!'... and just take it from there.. she'll love it :clap:
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Yep, you owe me a new keyboard. :lol::lol::lol:
 
Nice suggestions, I think I will find a big stick and see if I can carve a nice spoon myself. Then spend a bit more on a posh meal. Thanks for all the help.
 
Thanks everyone for the help.

The big day was last weekend and I managed to get a couple of nice lumps of wood the week before. I gave them to an Arborist to chop into pieces (I attempted with a saw but spent about 2 hours to only get half way through!!!)

As I left it a bit late and the trouble I was having cutting them I went with plan B which turned out like this...

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I was quite happy with the result, I burnt the lettering in with a soldering iron. I need to try to tidy it up a little but didn't want to ruin it.

Also went out for a nice meal and to the imax (cinema is great, 2 hours without having to speak to each other).

I still have lots of wood left over and will attempt to make one of those Welsh love spoons as I like the idea of them and fancy a little project.
 
Wood turning lathe?
 
A lump of wood (either big branch or small trunk), I'm pretty sure it was cut into pieces with some kind of chainsaw and I sanded it by hand, then pencilled on the words and went over them with a soldering iron. Nothing else done, would like to varnish it but I like the current finish, will test on another piece before I commit to varnish this piece.
 
well you did a great job hope shes happy with it.
 
Thanks, she really liked it. Not sure whether she liked the 12oz steak we had later on more though :)

I was also really pleased with how it turned out, my usual writing is similar to a 3 year olds on red bull, took me about an hour or so just to burn on the text.
 
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