Button Wednesday : CELEBRITY BUTTON ART CHARITY BOOK

It is Wednesday again, so it's BUTTON DAY on my blog !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



This Button Wednesday is about the Celebrity Button Art Charity Book. The book was launched in November 2010 and compiled by Karen Gammon, a retired art teacher from Staffordshire (UK). It contains over 240 pieces of artwork collected from celebrities around the world. Each piece of work is done around a button and a full list of celebrities participating is attached. Contributors include actors, actresses, royalty, academics, chefs, singers, authors, politicians and designers. The artwork has been collected over the past nine years. The book is a continuation of a fundraising project started at the beginning of the new millennium, and a range of charities will benefit. It is a marvelous initiative and the book is beautiful (I just had to buy it....). Next to the celebrity button art, it contains a short history of the button, button assemblages made from tens of thousands of buttons and lots of other information that is related to buttons. You can buy the book here.

Some of the art work presented in the book:


Have you seen a lovely, beautiful, stunning, crazy button or button-related thingy, or did you make something with a button / buttons, or did you even make buttons yourself, blog about it on your blog on Wednesday, and give the link here in the comments so that everybody can enjoy it !!

Tidbits : Skirt, Balance and Swap

OK, this was again not my best week.... After the flu from last week I got terrible balance problems. In the hospital they found out that I have Morbus Ménière and Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. Got some medicines and I have to perform some special head maneuvers during the day. Very sad about all this, and I have not registered any improvement yet.
Last Sunday I managed to finish the skirt for my friend Anne, just before the balance problems started. Hubby took some lovely pics of her yesterday.


And the end of this week was a bit happier too because of the secret winter swap from the European Street Team on Etsy. I received it yesterday and was so happy with it. The nauli sisters were my swap partners, and they sent me a lovely book and some gorgeous buttons. Thanks Eva-Dewi and Johanna ! I decided I am going to use the book as a portfolio for my button art, when my balance is right again.....

Etsy : EST Book Project Continues .....

I made another two pages for our EST book project (see the earlier blogpost); one for "P8 Accessories" and one for "Petronella Fashion". Here are the scans:

P8 Accessories




Petronella Fashion

Etsy : EST Book Project

The European Street Team (EST) on Etsy decided to make an Art Book where each member can have a page; inside is the art work, and outside information about yourself and your shop.
I decided to make a collage of the things that inspire me: fabrics, buttons and traditional clothing.

inside (traditional clothing of Marken in the Netherlands on old postcards and a cross-stitch; the colours of the fabric used for the arms are coming back in the background, the fabrics, the trims and the buttons):


outside: