Last Chance to Enter, plus a few buttons...

Great whatever Great Aunt Selina has a change of view - she is now guarding some charming vintage tins with well-sorted buttons...But before any more button pics (and there have been a lot of them already today - check here for more!), please don't forget to enter my Auld Alliance Giveaway to win these Franco-Scottish gifts - you can have up to three entries, until my next post tomorrow! Lurking followers are particularly invited to comment, as I've been really enjoying getting to meet some of you already.So, back to the buttons. Last night I got to sorting "mamie's" tin (I'm thinking of her as mamie, which means granny) - it's the tin I bought from her generous family yesterday (I also got her bloomers!...)The buttons on the left, in the tin lid, are some interesting vintage ones from mamie's collection.

And again on the left, are mamie's mother of pearl buttons, to add to my own... When you add in my recent ebay winnings, which arrived today, it makes quite a nice selection.On the right, this time, are mamie's contributions to my 'pretties' - glass and flowery buttons. Thank you, mamie! She was obviously collecting until fairly recently (I allow clear plastic pretties, as well as glass - apologies to the purists).
Now, for the 'I'd forget my head if it wasn't screwed on' prize, here is a really super little bunch of buttons and buckles I've obviously had for ages - no idea where they came from, though!

Really rather good, though...And they are all resting under the watchful (but possibly ever-so-slightly-amused) gaze of Aunt Selina.In other news, Son 1 is vealthy (thanks Olga for that word, meaning very healthy) but Son 2 has had another miserable day at school followed by a trip to the doctor. So it's another day off tomorrow and a course of iron tablets - the doctor says it's perfectly normal for him to be tired after the virus, but I find it all a bit overwhelming - another day of cancelling my own lessons... I took some much needed sempervivum therapy, planting some of my 'chicks' in another pair of old boots, and felt much better.

Son 1 was so vealthy that he pranced around in our pool as it slowly filled up this evening - can you see his shadow?And finally a pickie for Sarah, of Red Gingham - look, in France, our butter is your favourite pattern!I've been meaning to snap that for a while...