Antlers...

I've been on the lookout for some good antlers since I saw this photo and fell in love. I've been wanting to recreate this look for our bedroom as a symbol of our marriage (post about that here). With my husband being a hunter along with his brothers, friends, grandfather... I was sure that someone had a set of antlers sitting around that would work for the job.

Around Christmas time we were in his friends barn while they were working on some projects. Husband said, "Remember how you wanted to find some antlers? Go look over on the rafters." So I walked to the back of the barn and saw the most beautiful antlers hanging from the beams. They were perfect!

"Whose antler's are these?" I asked. Then husband reminded me of something I had long since forgotten about. They were his antlers!! The last time that he went hunting before we moved from Utah 7 years before he had gotten a deer on the muzzleloader hunt. They were his antlers! The only ones that he had gotten in our marriage so far. That made them all the more meaningful to me. 

 Hunting tag still in place. I can't believe that I had forgotten about these antlers. His friend had been keeping them safe in his barn for all these years that we have been gone. He had planned on mounting them for Trent but never got around to doing it. I'm grateful that while I have the hunter/fisher/gatherer husband who acquires such items as antlers, he's not opposed to handing them right over to his wife to get all crafty with them.

I'm holding off on making the clay flowers for now, I think I will tackle this project when we move in a few weeks. But I'm very excited to get this project underway. I think it's going to be beautiful!

And just for nostalgia's sake... here are some old picture that are from that hunting trip back in 2004.

Ready to go out hunting...

 Horseback riding in the mountains {gosh I look young}...

Husband with his deer {promise this is the only time I will show a picture of a dead animal on my blog... unless it's a fish}.