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Buttons! Buttons!! AND, more Buttons!!! Routing around my vast collection has kept me quiet of late…now you know why 🙂 Creating little buttoned wonders! Sheer Bliss!!! To anyone, who shares the same passion as me for buttons, they will definitely understand! I’m sure the cost of the buttons far outweighs its sale value should they be carefully removed, even melted down, LOL!…though the pleasure of making them can’t ever have a true price tag! 😉
Making it special inside and out! A little rich red cotton fabric to line the oval wooden box! Sets thing off perfectly, I think! Just in case you missed how many delicious button were on this box……
An aerial view 🙂
Tomorrow is a special day for me ! Though, I think we should always think of TOMORROW as a SPECIAL DAY!!!! —Who knows what’s around the corner?!? Firstly, I would like to point people in the direction of a very special and extremely talented artist, called Ray Ferrer- he’s an extraordinary talented artist who’s just had a traumatic diagnosis http://wp.me/p2pdfM-nD please visit! Then I have an extremely talented couple, who have a site on WordPress called Iarxiv – wonderful illustrations and series of stories – tomorrow marks the start of their new ‘Blublets’ series http://iarxiv.com/2015/02/09/introducing-the-blublets/ – do please check it out!! I’m sure if past things are to go by, it will be wonderful 🙂 What is special tomorrow for me?…Well, it’s my five years of extra life…………. five years since I had a heart attack at the age of 43 (not over weight, no cholesterol, just hereditary, I’m led to understand) …..Making and creating, as well as gaining many new friends here on WordPress has given/kept me ticking along, for which I am so thankful 🙂 But, when I wake tomorrow, the next tomorrow will be one of the proudest days of my life, our daughter will officially graduate as Dr. Jen! Cap, gown and the works! – she’s worked so hard all her academic life and we love her to bits xx! I wish to congratulate her on her hard and dedicated path!!!!!!!!!!!
And then, couple more!
The hot glue gun and a million more buttons……..so,
More unique little treasure chests 🙂
……….enjoy your every tomorrow!!!!
My husband has survived Cancer for two years now so, like you, we cherish every morning that we wake up together:)
It really does make you see things in a different light after such events, every moment should be precious, but all too often beforehand we don’t realise and take things for granted especially the little things! Let’s hope we all have a good many happy years left in us yet 🙂
I’ll drink to that!
Have one for me too 😉
Truly looks like a treasure chest 🙂
Thanks Joanna 😀
And – take care of your heart!
😉 I’ll do my best ! 😉
What absolutely adorable boxes! They are so you with all those buttons! Knowing how much you love buttons I know how blissful you must have been while making these. 😉 What a special time it is for you and your family! I wish all of you the best. 🙂 xo
Thank you so much for your lovely comment Jackie! Lovely special moments, now also treasured memories after yesterday’s ceremony too 🙂 Oh, and the buttons…..what can I say, you know me so well 😉 xxx
Well, congratulations all round! I hope you have some fabulous celebrations. Now whenever I send out a heart ❤ it will remind me to cherish each moment. You're an inspiration Caren. ❤
Thank you so very much Sarah for your lovely heart warming comment! It was a special day and a very proud moment for us watching Jen yesterday, as it surely was for all the family and friends in the rest of the audience watching their loved ones also receiving their certificates! All I have to do now is recover from the marathon 22 hour day… eight hours of which were spent travelling…but, we wouldn’t have missed it for the world!!! 🙂
Wow, that’s some trip. Sometimes these things need to be done. You couldn’t miss Jen’s big day, for sure.
I hope Friday leads you gently into a nice restful weekend then.
It certainly was, and I must admit it’s catching up on me now for sure! I had a little gentle exercise today…buying new fabric for my next project …what better way to get an unwilling aching body on the move again ?? LOL 😉 And, already it has all been hand washed and dried ;-D Plans are already in place for the two twin cot quilts for our nephew and his wife(also called Sarah!) – so this weekend will be very busy but at the same time pleasantly relaxing too!!! I hope you have a lovely weekend too Sarah do you have plans?? or maybe its just a chill out in pj’s 🙂
What are you like!?! Do you ever stop? 😀 At least you can put your feet up while you sew.
We don’t have any plans yet beyond having a lie-in on Saturday morning. These days sleep seems to be as good a way to celebrate St. Valentine’s day as anything. 😉 I’ve got a cold at the moment so I’m not up to doing anything strenuous (like getting up, LOL).
LOL nope, I never stop!!! Elves and shoemaker remember ??- they still haven’t turned up 😉
I’m sorry to read that you have the dreaded lurgy/crafter’s lung – I hope you feel much better very soon! 🙂 As for sleeping through on Valentine’s (I’d actually forgotten it was this weekend – so many things on my mind!!) LOL I agree….maybe it’s our age and all?!? Maybe we can rename it as’Happy Snoring Day’! 😉
I bet you’d be just the same even if you had an army of elves turn up. 😉
“Happy Snoring Day”! I like that. Earplugs at the ready…
There’s no denying that WOULD probably be the case…but, just imagine how much more I would accomplish each day with my own little army – one of them would have to be a dedicated brewer up though!!!……..can’t work without my cups of tea all through the day LOL 😉
You’d be a one-women, tea-powered, craft powerhouse! I can’t work without liquid refreshment either. I developed a coffee addiction when I was studying for my A-levels. I was literally shaking from withdrawal when they were over. Now I can’t drink the good stuff – it gives me a migraine – I have to have decaff. 🙂
Love your description of me 😉 I don’t know whether to be sorry that you got a caffeine addiction or that you can only drink decaff now?? ( I can’t stand to drink coffee in any form ;-/) but I’m pleased that you don’t have to suffer migraines – a horrid condition, I know! Your fact about consuming huge quantities whilst studying reminded me about a couple of things about our Jen at Ox – No.1 boiling pasta in her kettle (she didn’t have kitchen facilities in her ancient rooms) – so a need to survive…all well and good, until we visited and she brewed up for us…YUK!!!!! we ended up with a frothy starchy cup of tea each 😦 – double YUK when she told us why! No.2 – there was a internal comp running to see who could get the ”blackest tea cup” by the end of the academic year….by not washing it out!!!! All well and good for those that took their tea black (no milk & no sugar) which most did, however, Jen took two sugars and milk in every drink! When I found out, I freaked – can you imagine how much sugar fed bacteria was thriving in her mug?? Thankfully I think she must have developed some kind of immunity – and survived! 🙂 What you students have to go through…!?! 😀
Well, my lie-in plan worked; I’ve only just got up! I expect you’ve finished those cot quilts by now haven’t you? 😉
I still get a few migraines a year but at least I know to stay away from coffee. What triggers yours?
I love your stories of the university brew-up. Yuck! Jen must have the constitution of an ox by now. 😀 I think I’ve read that the Japanese believe that the black build-up in teapots adds character to the tea. Or maybe I made that up so that I don’t have to clean mine so often. 🙂 My dad likes to build up a nice layer of gunk on his frying pan because he says it improves the flavour. Mind you he also says that he makes pastry to clean under his nails. He’s a rotter. 🙂 He definitely inherited some of his mother’s naughty sense of humour.
LOL…I’m still a bit shy of finishing them just yet!!;-)
Its good to know what to avoid and thankful you only get them a couple of times a year, Mine are brought on mainly if my neck gets strained, due to a double whiplash injury many years ago, but still it effects me! Your dad sounds like a very fun character, LOL… not too sure if I would want to eat any of his pastry though ;-D I’ve heard similar things about the teapot too – ancient fallacy or not, it’s sure saved a lot of people a lot of time in not cleaning out teapots!!!…and your dad too with his frying pan 😉 just, I’d never considered it for the cup too – perhaps that was the point and the students were doing a scientific experiment??! 🙂
Sorry to hear about your neck. Do you get the migraines often?
Yeah, I’m never sure just how much my dad is joking sometimes. He hasn’t killed me yet. He’s quite a good cook, so it’s worth the risk. 🙂
Yeah, the students were obviously doing a rigorous experiment. The ones in my son’s apartment last year were conducting a similar experiment last year. We think they were waiting to see how long you could leave uneaten food in the kitchen before it walked off by itself…
A wonderful sense of humour and a great cook too, you don’t get much better than that 😉 ! I’m beginning to think there’s a big niche in the market for books about student kitchens and how the people survive over a couple years on their course – I’m sure there are plenty who would want to read much about putrid foodstuffs and how it grows legs (as well as other furry things) LOL 😀
As for migraines, I’ve been lucky of late, though something as simple as rotary cutting too much fabric or quilting can set it off if I have my neck at the wrong angle – makes me sound sort of delicate LOL – I have to keep a good balance of not overdoing one thing for too long, probably my excuse as to why I’m always making different things 😉
“Student Kitchens” sounds more like a TV series to me, along the lines of “Hoarder Next Door”, “Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners” or “How Clean is Your House?” There’s some pretty amazing yuck on those kind of programmes. Mind you, a book with extreme close-ups might work…
Avoiding migraines sounds like a pretty good excuse for making different things. I had to stop knitting for a long time because I got RSI from cabling an aran jumper virtually non-stop. I tend to binge on my craft. It’s not pretty. It worries people. 😉
LOL! I can just imagine you in a corner knitting like the clappers…and growling at anyone who tries to come too close to your wip!!! 😀 Though, I can’t say much, as I’m like a blinkered bull once I get my teeth into something new, and as you know, it usually ends up with multiple versions! …A new potential TV GRIME series 😉 It probably wouldn’t even need a script – just the camera panning around in time lapse taking in the evidence and ensuing results
When I was in my twenties starting a new job in a new area, I signed up for pottery evening classes to meet people. It turned out to be a terrible way to socialize though because I was so focused on my pots. I ignored everybody. I even got competitive over the glazes which were in short supply! 😀
I bet you used to turn up extra early for classes in the end…just to make sure you got the glazes you wanted! 😀 😀 😀 Maybe you didn’t socialize as much as you might have wanted…but, did the pottery turn out well??
😀 I’d love to say yes but my vase leaks and the glaze on my thumbpot turned out patchy. I still love them though. 🙂
Have you ever had a go at pottery?
That’s kind of the result I think I would have, if I’d ever had a go at pottery 😉 Though I do remember Father Christmas brought me a potter’s wheel when I was little – I can’t for the life of me think what ever happened to it ?? I think my mum must had hid it in a cupboard so I wouldn’t make a mess!! Maybe one day…. ;-D
Did you not get to have a go on your Christmas wheel? That’s so sad. 😦
Maybe one day someone will let you loose on a real one. 😀 I never got to have a go on the wheel, we just did ours by hand, so-to-speak. I’d love to have a go but I’m sure I’d make a huge mess. But what fun!
I really don’t think I ever did – I certainly don’t remember having a go, and yet, I was so excited about it when I opened it! Shame really! Having a go on a real potter’s wheel definitely should be put on everybody’s ”To Do” list , I think, whether it turns out to be a complete disaster or amazing….I’m sure it would be a very fun experience for all (specially if you have a ”Ghost” moment LOL!! ;-D) Hmmm?? I wonder if the local Psychic & Medium society have a wheel??? 🙂
I’m up for that! Did I just type that out loud? 😀
LOL! LOL! LOL! Sssshhh !! I don’t think anyone else was listening/reading…your secret’s safe with me ;-D !!
Phew. 😀
🙂
Oh Caren, I just read through this post (my mum pointed it out to me – more about why she had to do that in a sec). Congratulations on your 5 year milestone! Health is very important to all of us, we just forget a bit, sometimes. Thank you for being with us, sharing and creating, WordPress wouldn’t be the same without you. Here’s to another 5 x 5 x 5 years of being with us 🙂
All the best to your daughter as Dr. Jen 🙂
Thank you so much for mentioning us too (and in such an important post!). I didn’t see your post because I stopped getting emails, for some random reason, no doubt, and the reader in WordPress has been choking off, stopping mid scroll which makes it hard for me to see beyond the first 10-15 posts. I hope this is something they fix soon.
Also, I usually get a trackback – a notification – that someone mentioned iarxiv, but this time, that too failed… Oh, well, the important thing is Thank you for being with us!
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Hugs from me and my husband
Irida, Thank you so much for your really lovely comments and hugs too!!! 🙂 And, thank you Irida’s mum too 😉 !! (I’ve had problems recently-see below)
I wanted to highlight your exciting new project, and, make a mention of how talented and hard both you and your husband work on your creative artwork and scripts (btw – loving the little Blublets already 😀 ) Thank you again so much for your lovely comments , they really do mean a great deal to me, and, I will definitely pass on your Best to Jen, as she was by my side when you were the first person to like and follow my new site 😉 Goodness, time has sped by since then…but, it was a special exciting moment!
I too had the same problems you are experiencing on WordPress last week, I couldn’t read through posts properly, or scroll back, likes from regulars ended up in my spam and lots of other annoying glitches, so please don’t worry!
As ever, it is my pleasure to keep up with your lovely creations, stories and artwork, and, I hope I can, for a good while to come – not sure if I’ll quite do the 5x5x5 extra years, but I’ll give it a good try 😉 xx
Your comments always make me smile – they’re so full of positive energy! Thank you for sharing it with us 🙂 🙂
Have a lovely weekend!! 😉
Helllooooooooooooooo, missed this post, work got in the way of my real life !!!! I’ve had to re follow your blog as my computermebob has some sort of seizure missing you from my reader Boo Hiss
Many many congratulations on your 5 years of tomorrows, and I wish you all the best for every tomorrow that greets you, and clever you for passing on your DNA to a Dr no less 🙂
Just wondering when you & Sarah are joining forces to visit the local spiritualist for a go on their potters wheel … I’m sure they are obliged to have one on the premises LOL
Loving your button boxes how adorable, as a fellow button connoisseur I’m able to inform you that ‘adorable’ is the correct terminology in describing your work
I’m already a follower of Ray & his work and sent him my best wishes the moment I heard of his illness, I’ll be checking out iarxiv ASAP thanks in advance for the heads up
Are you fully recovered from you travels and celebrations ?? and creating more stunning hand crafted works of art for us all to drool over ?
Take care ❤ ❤
Thank you so much Roma for your really lovely comments ❤ Even as I'm typing this, WordPress is acting up Aaargh!! – I have about 5 windows of it open – just trying to reply to messages – I can't tell if they are sending or not, unless I get a reply(Hope this and others do at some point) WP has been so temperamental lately! So, I'm not surprised about falling out of followers!
A potter's wheel and a quick psychic reading actually sounds like a good night out, doesn't it?! LOL…and, I do think I was very generous with my DNA – it must mean I have some good bits after all!! 😉
..my current project is like deja vu…two of everything…I'm hard at work making two twin cot quilts, followed by 2 cot tidies, then two lots of bunting for our nephew and his wife.(well not actually for them – you know what I mean)..such a challenge for such an important little room and they left all the design and colours to me as they want a surprise…no pressure then!!! all I can say is, she'd better keep her legs crossed until I finish LOL 😀
Your current project time restraint reminds me of the 3 Bears Shawl I knitted last year LOL I do hope you get to post your designs after the happy arrival, as for the potters wheel/ reading evening it sounds like an event that the Village Ladies would arrange and attend in full force, perhaps I ought to put it forward at the next Wicker Man committee meeting
Your project was something I thought about when I began this one. I am just about coming to the end of the little applique pieces on the quilts, so I hope things speed up again as they have been so time consuming!
LOL!! with such an enlightening experience on the cards I’m surprised you haven’t scheduled a meeting sooner, or at least sent your ladies into the fields to dig up some clay in readiness for the event
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Do you know of a moon light evening I seen a few of ‘The Village Ladies’ out and about with a spade in tow off up the fens….I was invited, but feared they had forsaken the Wicker Man ritual and descended to bumping their loved one off and were off to bury the evidence …now it all makes sense they were clay gathering …obvious now you have pointed it out LOL
Hope your project moves on quickly due to the expectants imminent due date 🙂
LOL! do you seem to be suffering from a shortage of menfolk in the village of late ?? perhaps your supposition could be right – or they have been reading our conversation and wanted to get prepared – better get that meeting called soon before you end up with a lot of frustrated clay gathering village ladies!!! 😀
LOL Hahahahahaha ‘The Clay Gathers’ I’m wondering if I ought to scribe my own novella “A slice of country life” with this title as Chapter 1
I have no doubt you could probably scribe many novellas about your local yokels and their exciting antics in and around the Tangled Backwoods LOL ..perhaps you could take a tape recorder on your morning strolls with K9 and surreptitiously make notes for subsequent chapters….it’d give the postie plenty of competition! for the next book prize!