| Reaching a tenth wedding anniversary these days | | | | date. |
| certainly is something to be celebrated. Maybe if | | | | Aluminum is the easier and more traditional of the |
| the difficulty had been foreseen, the ones | | | | two metals to choose for a tenth anniversary |
| assigning metals and stones to anniversary may | | | | gift. After ten years of marriage and meal |
| have given something more valuable than the | | | | preparation, new aluminum cookware could be a |
| traditional tin or aluminum. Trying to stay with | | | | very welcome gift. There are aluminum canister |
| those substances when choosing an imaginative | | | | sets and wonderful aluminum wastebaskets with |
| anniversary gift can be a challenge. Here are | | | | pedal operated lids. Spun aluminum, with fine |
| some 10th wedding anniversary gift ideas. | | | | parallel lines all over the surface, is especially |
| If you have been to shops featuring Mexican | | | | attractive and practical, because it does not show |
| products, you may have seen many items made | | | | scratches. |
| from tin. Consider a mirror in an ornate tin frame, | | | | Perhaps you can find some of those wonderful |
| candlesticks or a selection of tin Christmas tree | | | | aluminum beverage tumblers from the fifties that |
| decorations. | | | | came in unique colors like turquoise, magenta and |
| You could provide a selection of various food | | | | chartreuse. There were matching coasters as well |
| products, each in their tin. Imagine the happy | | | | and, of course, being the fifties there were |
| celebrants opening up a box filled with ten tin of | | | | ashtrays. Depending on the design, aluminum |
| breath mints or ten assorted tins of crackers or | | | | ashtrays could be re purposed as candy dishes or |
| cookies. In your search, you may find special, | | | | a collection of them could be transformed into a |
| commemorative tins. Tracking down one that it | | | | wind chime. |
| dated from the year of the anniversary would be | | | | If you want to be even more original, consider a |
| a special treat. | | | | project that we did back in home mechanics class |
| Tin is associated with the star badges that | | | | in grade school. We each started with a large, |
| sheriffs wore in the Old West. Toy stores offer | | | | circular piece of aluminum, 12 inches or more in |
| play versions. Two of these could be the focal | | | | diameter. We engraved a design in the aluminum, |
| point of a card you make for the occasion. The | | | | using a blunt-nosed awl wiggled back and forth to |
| text of the card could talk about the couple, or | | | | etch the lines in the surface. Then we bent up the |
| about knowing how to keep the peace in marital | | | | edges to form a tray' a one-of-a-kind |
| territory. | | | | masterpiece. |
| Some craft kits use tin as the medium for | | | | A basket with ten rolls of different varieties of |
| making pictures by pounding nails and making | | | | aluminum foil would be a fun gift. More |
| indentations in the tin. The tin creation then is | | | | appreciated, though, may be a bottle or two of |
| mounted on wood. You could get one of these | | | | champagne' with the token aluminum at the top |
| kits to create a very special, personalized gift. Or | | | | of each bottle. |
| you could assemble the materials yourself and | | | | Once you have found your gift, consider wrapping |
| make your own version of a wedding sampler in | | | | it in aluminum foil for another special tenth |
| tin, featuring the name of the bride, groom and | | | | anniversary touch. |