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This series is of some little shortbread buttons I made for my baby shower (in March 08 - I'm a bit behind in uploading ;-p). Topped with pink and blue tinted white chocolate (as we chose to keep the sex of our baby a surprise). We now have our darling little girl, Lucia, who whilst in-utero was named Button!
I got a bit out of control with the processing of these photos - I wanted to try every possible variation! I've narrowed it down to 2-3 variations of each to upload here. I think the simplest ones ended up looking the best.
"every day in may" photo for 052706
When I was a kid, I loved sitting on the stairs in my grandparents' house and playing with a jar of buttons. My grandmother's button collection is now one of my treasures. This photograph shows a white vintage buttons from that collection.
I kind of wanted some text on this but then could not decide if I liked it and my original thought was to go b&w with it, maybe leaving the red one in color but then I liked this mix of colors. I might be playing with this one some more.
#1-buttons 111 pictures in 2011
Read more about these buttons at the purl bee:
www.purlbee.com/the-purl-bee/2007/3/14/collecting-buttons...
Went button hunting today ... in our city of 110,000 people I had a hard time finding any retailer who sell them! These are from Walmart's craft section. I remember the "good old days" of fabric stores with walls full of buttons ... and once I met a button-maker from Germany. I guess everyone Internet shops these days ... but I'll just keep on with my old fashioned button-hunt!
Run With Scissors now has these adorable promotional buttons!!
designed by Courtney at youwillwontyou.blogspot.com/
and made by Kyle at www.buttonarcade.com/main.html
For more info, check the blog :)
I was trying to take a quick candid shot of Sue and the kids walking down Via Giulia, but as you can see it didn't come out that great. I stepped around the corner to take another photo, and when I came back out onto Via Giulia, a solider with a HUGE gun was shouting at me and coming my way. (I didn't notice until I got home that he was gesturing to me in the background of this picture.)
He told me in very broken English to delete the photo I took of the street. (I think he spoke French, actually, as this is right around the French Embassy.) Yes, this very boring photo, which I probably would have deleted on my own once I got home. It was a thoroughly stupid request, but I wasn't about to argue with a guy with a massive gun.
I pressed a few buttons and was able to hide the photograph (which is a great camera setting to have), so when I scrolled through my photos and he saw nothing amiss, he seemed satisfied. (Thankfully, I only had to scroll through about ten photos, not all few thousand I had on the camera at the time.)
So I have no idea what the men were guarding, but here it is...
Credit to Kersten Frank (background layer), ClipartBest, IconEasy and FancyIcons for the buttons and bows. Charlie has been lurking in my stash for a long time so if you know who I should credit, please let me know.
I have been watching the war map slammed up for
advertising in front of the newspaper office.
Buttons--red and yellow buttons--blue and black buttons--
are shoved back and forth across the map.
A laughing young man, sunny with freckles,
Climbs a ladder, yells a joke to somebody in the crowd,
And then fixes a yellow button one inch west
And follows the yellow button with a black button one
inch west.
(Ten thousand men and boys twist on their bodies in
a red soak along a river edge,
Gasping of wounds, calling for water, some rattling
death in their throats.)
Who would guess what it cost to move two buttons one
inch on the war map here in front of the newspaper
office where the freckle-faced young man is laughing
to us?