My husband loves WWE! He has always wanted one of those real World Heavyweight champion belts that he can hold over his head and yell “do you smell what the rock is cooking”… at least that is what he says all the time! Since the real ones are super expensive I decided to make him one!
That is three layers of that fake leather from Hobby Lobby. We also went to a friends house and spent countless hours (thank you Arley) cutting out actual pieces of metal! He even bent the main plate so it curves around my husband! That belt is super heavy!!
Starting from the left the first plate is a stitching of the temple and the date we were married. The second is the flag of where he served his mission and the dates he went. The far right is MFT from Argosy University because he got his Marriage and Family Therapy degree from Argosy, and the BYU is where he became a Licensed Social Worker. And the middle plate says across the top “World Heavyweight Champion”. He loves this thing!
You can’t see it in this picture, but we even got large gold snaps so he can even wear it!
And like mentioned above, he does the thing when he holds it over his head…
This took a lot of time, but it was one of the most rewarding projects I’ve done!! I love that my husband loves it so much! He has taken it to work to do therapy sessions with it. He talks about how he is a champion in his life and asks how his clients can be/have been champions in theirs!