Button Wednesday : Giant Buttons

It is Wednesday again, so it's BUTTON DAY on my blog !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It would be great if you could do the same; make your Wednesday a button day too. 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.


This Button Wednesday is about Giant Buttons often found outside button shops. I love those button signs ! And I am still trying to convince my hubby that our house needs such a giant button sign too :) I am starting with the Knopenwinkel (i.e. button shop) in Amsterdam that I visited last year. The same shop has also gorgeous button door handles (photos by ninimakes on Flickr).


The second one is at a shop called Tender Buttons in New York (Photo by Jo from Button Candy).


The third one is this giant yellow button sign above a tailor shop in Brugge (photo by Susan from Button It Up).

I don't know anything about this button sign which I found on Flickr (photo by Christina Anthony). I love the bright red colour !


No idea what this building in Latvia is, a button shop or a button factory ? Or maybe a bike shop ??? (photo by Gunta on Flickr)


And a button shop in Croatia (photo by Emily Kubec on Picasa)


And a beautiful one in New Zealand (photo by rlsycle on Flickr)


Last but not least, Guinness World Records' largest button at a button museum in Germany.

Buttons : "De Knopenwinkel"

Because I will be in hospital next week for another OP, I blog already about a fantastic button shop I visited in Amsterdam (in stead of my Button Wednesday Post). Pieter and I hired bikes in the hotel and biked along the canals in Amsterdam like real tourists. Then I saw this incredible large button hanging above a door and read something about "knopen" (dutch for buttons). So we stopped, and I had to look in.

I saw beautiful lamp shades totally encovered with mother of pearl buttons. I met Thea, the owner of "De Knopenwinkel" (translated: The Button Shop) who made the lamp shades, and it clicked instantly. I showed her my card and told her about the market the day after, and she was excited and promised to visit me at the market. I loved it when I saw her coming on the market and she loved my button creations. This will be the beginning of a very nice contact; I will make some stunning mother of pearl creations for her shop !