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One of my buttons from the 90s. I came out as bisexual in the 1970s. In the 1980s I belonged to the Boston Bisexual Women's Network. This button is from the Bisexual Resource Center.
Some folks find the term confusing (or think bisexual folks are "confused"). As with everything else, different individuals define the term differently. In my case it means I look not at the gender but at the person when it comes to a relationship.
this was an attempt to make a quilt like this one: flickr.com/photos/eggmoney/400373863/ , mine doesn't look like hers which really worried me at first, the buttons were an afterthought in place of quilting stitching and I love them, in the end I'm happy with it
Project Specs
Pattern: b14-27 Jacket (available for free)
Pattern Source: DROPS design
Yarn: Malabrigo Sock in Lettuce 57g (255 yds) and Boticelli Red 74g (325 yds)
Needles: Addi Lace 24" circular needle size US1
Finished Size: 6/9 months, but I think think my finished jacket will bit a 12/18 month old child better.
Modifications: Slipped the first stitch of each row on button bands and continued the slipped stitched border around neck hole. Used other end of skeins to work sleeves to cut down on finishing time.
The exterior of Dyffryn House at Dyffryn Gardens.
It is in Dyffryn in the Vale of Glamorgan. Not too far from Cardiff. The gardens are owned by the National Trust. There is also a house on the site, that is undergoing refurbishment, it opens at midday (the parts that are open though).
Dyffryn House was first home to Admiral Sir Thomas Button in the 16th century. Then in the 18th century the Pryce family took ownership. The last family to live in the house was the Cory family from the late 19th century.
Bought by John Cory the house you see today is mostly his remodelling. John's only daughter Florence was the last of the family to live here, passing away in 1937.
The estate was bought by Sir Cennydd Traherne, a local land lower. This is when it began it's life as a training centre and then a conference centre.
The conference centre closed in 1998. For a brief period the house as due to become a hotel. Much of the damage was caused by this plan.
In 2013, 17 years after doors closed, the National Trust has reopened the house to keep the story going.
The house is Grade II* listed.
Location
Set within the large public grounds of Dyffryn Gardens; 2km to south of St Nicholas.
History
Built 1891-3 for John Cory, the well known local industrialist and philanthropist; the architects are said to be Habershon and Fawckner of Newport. There had been an Elizabethan house on the site, successively owned by the Button and Pryce Families. Dyffryn is principally renowned for its gardens, which were laid out for Reginald Cory (John's son) by Thomas Mawson, the internationally known and prolific garden designer; work began in 1904-5. After Cory's death Dyffryn was sold in 1937 and purchased by Sir Cennydd Traherne who leased the property to the County Council. Some internal alterations were carried out in conversion to a conference centre.
Interior
Lavish interiors the main rooms of which are designed in a wide variety of styles in a manner often favoured by wealthy C19 owners. Some of the chimneypieces are said to have been brought from other houses. The single most important room is the Great Hall which echoes those of major C16 country houses (eg Hampton Court and Burghley) with its full height, mock hammerbeam roof and large end window. The walls are enriched with two tiers of pilasters carrying friezes, a dentilled cornice to top and corbelled round arches with gilded keystones below over a panelled dado. 5-bay implied double-hammerbeam roof which is herringbone-boarded. Grand timber chimneypiece with massive cornice carried by full height terms; stone fireplace surround and overmantel with Ionic columns flanking coat of arms. Enormous window to N end with coloured glass depicting Queen Elizabeth I; round-arched doorway below with double doors and marble columns. Splayed dais recess to W wall with coffered ceiling. At S end the minstrels gallery is carried on curved brackets and spans an open passage leading from the staircase hall giving access to the Great Hall and neighbouring rooms, the doorways to which are surmounted by large plaster relief 'tondi'. To the E of the Great Hall is the Billiard Room which has a dado, with integral bench seating, below a deep band of carved panelling in an exceptionally florid Renaissance manner; similar frieze and chimneypiece and a deeply panelled ceiling with ceiling bosses. The Orchid room to S has painted ceiling, Ionic columns and gilded surrounds to wall panelling. Immediately next door is the Rose Room which is in a broadly C18 French style (see especially the delicately painted ceiling with corner roundels and the gilded festoons to the beaded surrounds of the wall panelling). The fine marble chimneypiece however is more ca.1600 in style with tapered figural pilasters, Smythson-like bosses and strapwork surrounding an equestrian figure with a French inscription: "Dieu Benit La Zouche de Courson". To the W is the Tulip Room (now Dining room) with ribbed ceiling including Gothic foliate bosses; bowed W end backs onto the Bar while the N wall backs onto the wainscotted Staircase Hall which at its E end has wall-arcading in a similar manner to that of the Great Hall. Broad stairs with long flights; shaped tread ends and panelled newels with finials. 1st floor landing has paired marble columns and beyond that the stairs continue in a similar manner to 2nd floor. The Oak room opens off the Staircase Hall. This was formerly the dining room and has a panelled ceiling, wainscotting and mullioned and transomed windows all in a Tudor/Elizabethan manner; similar style inglenook-like fireplace with oval smoke window. The two remaining public rooms to W are the Bar and Lounge for the conference centre. The former has lightly ribbed ceiling but luxuriantly foliage encrusted marble chimneypiece in an C18 manner and reuses a remarkable French style 7-double branch chandelier; modern panelling. The lounge has unusual plaster ceiling with broad ribs and thistle, rose and daffodil ornament to square, diamond and lozenge shaped panels. Fine French chateau style marble chimneypiece with putti flanking round-arched fireplace containing Fleur-de-lis fireback.
Exterior
Eclectic design derived from the French Renaissance and English Baroque styles, the former is particularly seen in the Mansard roof and some of the window treatment and the latter in the Great Hall block to the main facade. 2 storeys and attic; rendered elevations with freestone dressings. Hipped mansard slate roof with balustraded parapet over the main cornice; stone chimney stacks with bracketed cornices. The main front to N is dominated by the tall, square Hall block that projects to left of centre; this has balustraded parapet with urns and a pedimented front over a giant, 5-light, round-arched window enriched with keyblocked ornament. The symmetrical part of the design is that there are 3 storey 'towers' to centre and ends. Ground floor is advanced to right of the hall block with similar parapet and urns. Includes two, 5-light, bay windows, with similar glazing to that of the hall; between these is a similar 3-light window beside the present, round-arched, main entrance with spandrel ornament. In front of the hall block is a projecting lobby/porch and a porte-cochere onto the Carriage Court; this has paired Doric columns and a rusticated entrance surround. Glazing is mostly of horned sash type; the attic windows to the pedimented dormers are round-headed in a French manner; some heavily keystoned casement windows to ground floor left with voluted architraves. To right stone wall screens modernised part and the rear of the stable courtyard. 5-window left hand (E) side including shallow splayed bay. Symmetrical 13-bay garden front to S including projecting end 'towers' and broader projecting central bay, which is pedimented in a similar manner to that of the hall block; includes tripartite to 2nd floor and bay window below. The 'towers' have niches containing statues to ground floor. Midway between central and end bays are 2-storey splayed bays; these are linked to the central classical veranda which has paired Doric columns and balustraded parapet with ball finials. Modern extension to W and beyond that is the converted former stable courtyard with pyramidal clock-tower to S range, originally the coach-house; semi-circular windows to loft.
Reason for Listing
Graded II* for its exceptional interiors and also for the importance of its setting at the heart of Dyffryn Gardens.
References
Information from Mrs P Moore;
Mawson T (1926) The Art and Craft of Garden Making, 5th ed., p386.
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Notes:
Set within the large public grounds of Dyffryn Gardens; 2km to south of St Nicholas.
Source: Cadw
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.
Seen from near the Vine Walk.
I think these will become kitschy cocktail rings.
They're made of vintage and new buttons, plastic flower parts, and freshwater pearls or swarovski rhinestones in the centers.
Jenson Button in the McLaren - Mercedes MP4-27 at turn 9 of Circuit Gilles Villeneuve during second practice for the 2012 Canadian Grand Prix.
It was late in the afternoon and a slight chill was in the air. Best to button up your "cycle clothes".
Copenhagenize - Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog
Sunday afternoon photography with a packet of mushrooms. This one's another attempt at focus stacking
Button for our upcoming support-package. Will be printed only for this package.
Available soon at ecstaticsunrise.com
ODC2 - Launch
24/05/13
I made a launch button for my rocket ship today, so now I'm ready to launch myself out into space. The rocket ship itself is to big to fit in the frame so I just shot the button instead.
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My first attempt at thread crochet and it was somewhat of a challenge with my shakey shakey hands. But yay happy pretty button!
Cookies decorated with hand made rice paper rosettes and fondant buttons see tutorial on how to make them here bubbleandsweet.blogspot.com/2011/03/cookies-make-me-happy...
64 - Pause Button Song (6:32)
Maidstone October 1986
People: Paul Fallon, Martha, Colin Smith, Paul, Nick Shaddick, Reuben Pinkney, Nick Scullard, Mark Smith, Mark Enright, Mark Orphan, Samantha Sutton, Lorraine Farrow, Neil McLeod, Timothy Davies-Pugh, Ian Elliot, Peter Jones, Adam Cole, Nicola Percy, James Gosling, Otto Smart, Chris Rowland, Carl Foster, Kevin Grey, Keith, Andy, Rebecca, Nicola Medlik, Jaqueline Mouncey, Charlie Adlard, Alice Smith, Nick Collins, Gill Ewington, Rachel Chiddley, Jane Hanley, Nigel Lindley, Martin de Sey, Paul Mercer, Colin Smith, Sue Haseltine, Andy Weatherall, Garreth Roberts, Vincent Hawkins.
Well intentioned exercise at creating something from a media deconstruction, a song of sorts with all music created from the same basic edits of instruments, with a narrative spliced together from words spoken by a great number of other students, the narrative being a description of the process by which the video was made. This was a nice idea, if a little over-ambitious given the technology of the time. Frustratingly I have since seen someone else do exactly this, although they cheated so far as I'm concerned through using a much wider range of sampled instruments.
At last a new mask! I have been working on several designs, but this one I happened to finished first.
This mask is quite different to the others I have in progress - it has a lot of buttons on it. I am not quite sure how much I like it, so any feedback would be interesting.
Civi War era buckle and button exposed on the surface of a freshly dug pile of dirt at a construction site in Oxon Hill, Maryland and found by me in the mid 1970s. At the time I was not looking for artifacts, but instead was looking for any interesting geology that might have been exposed in the excavations. During the Civil War the nation's capital was surrounded by various army camps and forts and this location must have been one of them. I have often wondered what else I might have found if I had had a metal detector with me at the time.