Amazing Achievements

A regular customer of mine recently asked me to make a card for his wife for their wedding anniversary, just as he does every year. He asked me create something showing their kids and their amazing achievements this year. Their sons are both doing brilliantly. Gabi was very recently chosen to receive the Award for Excellence from the President of the State of Israel, President Ruvi Rivlin, at his home on Yom Ha'atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day). His twin brother Adi has achieved very high grades at university throughout the year, and their sister, Ella, has been picked to play netball for Israel in the 2017 Maccabiah, the third-largest sporting event in the world, which is often referred to as the "Jewish Olympics".

A high-achieving family. Dad has every reason to be proud!
I suggested showing a picture of his wife and the three kids on the card. I have shown Ella holding a netball with the Maccabiah 2017 logo on it. Next to her, Gabi has a sign saying מצטיין הנשיא (the President's Award for Excellence) with a picture of the award he received on it. He is wearing his brown Golani beret. Mum is beaming proudly between her children. Finally, Adi is holding up one of his complicated maths papers. I added a pink heart because, well, it is an anniversary card!

Her husband was the first to order an anniversary card but, as I have come to expect with this couple, his wife also called me a few days later and requested one too. It's happened before.

For this card, my customer sent me a lovely photo of her and her husband and asked me to recreate it in paper. The photo showed them sitting at a table in Milan eating pizza and drinking wine. I edited out the people in the background who had nothing to do with the picture and simply showed the couple enjoying their evening meal.

Now, at this point the story just gets silly! First of all Mizzie let it slip to her husband that she had ordered a card from me (I always play innocent and of course never discuss my customers). Then her husband happened to come home early from work on the day I popped by to deliver the card. He hadn't collected his yet either! He of course guessed why I was there.

So, there was no element of surprise when this couple opened their customised cards on the day of their wedding anniversary, though they both received quite different cards, totally unique to them.

"Thanks Lisa! The cards are amazing" Mizzie wrote to me, and her husband messaged "Thanks for the cards (both of them!!!)". Hee hee!

* This post has been shared on Seasons, The Good. The Random. The Fun., Make it Pretty Monday, Inspiration Monday, Amaze Me Monday, You're the Star, Our World Tuesday, Pictorial Tuesday, Tuesdays at Our Home and Wordless Wednesday (on Tuesday).