I always imagined that the Queen would have good taste - and guess what? It has now been proven as fact - the Queen is a button lover extraordinaire just like little old me and all you guys out there! I just have to show you these images.......
On a recent trip to
London – I was stopped in my tracks outside a posh florists by this amazing
work of art.
It is BIG - taller than me and the image is made up entirely of pearly buttons!
Now, after plucking up enough courage to open the (very posh and amazingly clean) door ......(and act as though
I wander into top-end florists, all the time and order bunches and bunches of
floral wonderments, with no thought to the cost)......I went in..... To cut a long
story short I babbled on about loving buttons and working with buttons and the
propertier told me very kindly, without even raising his
head from the immaculate display of peonies he was creating, that I may take
picture. He also kindly imformed me
that I could purchase the said work of art for £14,000 – I think at this point
my cover may have been blown by my light spluttering hastily disguised as a
sneeze (all the pollen of course).
Anyway it turns out to be a panel created by Ann Carrington who is also creating a button encrusted banner
for the back of the boat that will carry The Queen in her Thames flotilla. I’ve
attached some pictures for you to look in wonder at what half a million buttons
actually looks like sewn on a panel so large that it has to be lifted by
forklift.
So on Sunday, while you're sipping your Pimms and munching on Coronation Chicken sarnies - pop the telly on and see if you can spy The Queen's "Brilliant Button Banner"!
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