Not the Easter chicken..

"Listen Missus ..... this is all well and good...but, where's me legs"? ... "Where, eh"?

.... Poor little goosie....

She's been checking out the shiny shell buttons I've added to my embroidery piece... and the thread wrapping for a button loop ...

That is not an elastic piece even though it may look like one.... not.... ...instead, it is many wrappings of embroidery thread around two other strands of thread.  French knots at the base.... there will be more in the vicinity...eventually...and... I have a further idea for those buttons... and now...a second loop is also on the fabric... for the other button... what fun!

Dusted ...

...with icing sugar snow overnight.  Mother Nature doing her thing again.  Exactly as I suspected.  It's not the "real" spring yet..... it's been faux spring for the past few weeks.  Some days were even as lovely as summery days..

For all of you who were weirded out by the bunch of bunny bits lying around....I got him assembled!  I gave him a chocolate brown ribbon to bring out the bits of chocolate in the brocade pattern...

ooops.... just a minute...

there... that's better.  Notice the difference? ...... whiskers!!  I had to run off to pluck some broom bristles for him. 

Here he is with pink bunny from a couple of years back... and a couple of tiny bears.  

Posie is totally distracted by the BIG pretty egg...but, I think little Scruffy is a bit worried by the size of those BIG bunnies !

The bunnies are only about 5 inches high seated, which always makes me laugh at the size of the tiny guys.... who are just the size of a big bunny foot....

Next, I'm using mohair for a funny bunny.  Well,... when I got a head stitched up...and this appeared.... it has to be a funny bunny, no?

... and.... here is Maggi's little guy from the same pattern...

She tweaked the legs for a bit more length and made his feet a bit larger... and gave the ears a tweak or two as well ... as you can see.  We put some chenille stems inside the ears so we could pose them.

Photo a Week....

Buttons.  That's the theme for today's photo of the week.

I love buttons... save every one I find.  Clip them dutifully from every new article of clothing...and also all the ones from old or worn out items I cut up for dusting cloths.  I have a bag of them somewhere... and this tray full in the top of my "vintage" sewing basket.  Well, it's old anyway... I hate to say vintage because that sure makes me feel OLD>... it was the one thing I wanted as a Christmas gift when I was a teen ... not exactly sure how old...and Mom got it for me.  I loved it then...still love it...

Anyway ...   back to buttons.  What a great invention!  And the uses!  Who could even begin to list those?  My favourite use for them has to be as faces for little pin dolls.  I use the type you can cover with a scrap of any type or colour of fabric.. then press on the backing and voila...a smooth surface to play with.  I like to try different sizes ... but, the large ones seem to be disappearing.  Can hardly find them anymore ...  except at one shop.

Another way for me to use traditional smaller buttons is for attaching arms and legs to some of the animals or even the dolls I make.  In fact....I have yet to try attaching doll appendages with buttons...but, maybe some day... for now...it is just bunnies and bears.

..... and finally ..... these......

Inherited from a 97 year old Dutch lady... who saved every button she ever saw I'm sure...

but, what the heck are they?  And were they bought or salvaged from something?  A uniform perhaps?  Although, I have looked at uniform buttons and they are much more detailed and clear.  Some of these almost look a bit worn on the surface .. there are 11 of them.  (ps... found the other one in the bottom of the bag..there are now 12 of them!)

... and, to me.... the image is almost scary looking... like some demon or devil ... very strange.....

Can't imagine why on earth she would have had these ugly things.  Turned one way and then upside down...still demonic to me..... what do you think? ....