My surprise 25th . . . I love it

On our wedding day, Dean's favorite cousin (who he called his uncle) Ken Hill gave us a 5 ounce bar of troy silver. He said that he wanted to make sure we made it to our 25th, and for use to be sure and find out what it was worth on that day . . . he paid $50 for it in 1987.

So Dean took this bar to a friend of ours that does custom jewellery, and started the process about 7 months ago. He asked Alexander Brancier to customize a necklace signifying our 25 years together out of this piece of silver. Alex took the silver bar and made a symbol of our time together . . . if you look closely you can see the XXV in the spot where the chain goes through, the clock in roman numerals signifies the time we have spent. This was all custom made.

There is on piece left of that silver bar. We are going to cut that into 3 pieces. One piece for each of our children to polish and maybe put on a chain, and one piece for Kens daughter, and our wonderful 2nd cousin Cheryl Hill so that she can have a little piece of her dad memory, as he passed away a few years ago, and he was a wonderful man.

It is a lovely piece that I will be so honoured to wear tomorrow to the Royal York hotel for an evening out with Dean Pearson (work related too). Thank you Deano for a lovely surprise, and Alex for some lovely work. I am so excited to wear this!!!