I heart my husband!!!!

My husband and I have been together for almost 35 years....32 of those married.  And I have to say that I'm a very lucky woman.  Sure it's not perfect...who's is? and we have our moments but for probably 95% of our lives we have had no major problems and that includes building a house together. 

My hubby has this amazing ability to know what I want even if I don't know what I want myself.

So here's the deal...about a month before Thanksgiving I decided that I needed a new centerpiece for the table.  I really like having a fancy table at Thanksgiving and Christmas.  I like the fabric tablecloths and napkins, the good china and good silverwear.  And every fancy table needs a centerpiece. 

I knew what I wanted....I just didn't really know how to express myself.  So I took pen to paper and came up with this design.

As you can see from my drawing.....my artistic skills leave a lot to be desired.  But I just knew that my husband who IS artistic could take this caveman drawing and make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. 

Let me just preface the following by saying that my husband and I have been together a long time.  And for the most part we don't argue about much of anything.  We do however have a difference of opinion on when things should be done.  I am very conscious of time....ask me any time of the day what time it is and I could probably tell you within 5 minutes of the actual time.  And I do it without wearing a watch.  Let's just call that "My Gift".  My husband however  knows two times of day.  Daylight and dark. 

So Thanksgiving is fast approaching and I have no centerpiece.  I'm beginning to get a little worried as I see nothing that looks like it could even be the beginning of something resembling a centerpiece in his welding shop.  But low and behold...at the eleventh hour he appears in the front door with the following.

In a word....I was gobsmacked as my British friends like to say.  I'm sure these pictures don't do it justice but it is indeed EXACTLY what I had in my minds eye. 

There is height and depth to them.  I can't decide if I like the tea lights or the small votive candles in them.  But I wove an artifical grapevine through the piece and placed real squash at various spaces.  When the candles were lit it was magnificent.

Next to the bedspread that it is on....it appears to be gold but it is not.  My husband rubbed guilders paste on the "bark" so that is a mottled brown and green and the "holders" are a greenish brown as well.  
I am so lucky to have been with someone who knows me better than I know myself sometimes.   Thank you sweetie.  I probably don't say it enough but I love you!!!!