Buttons + a Clock = a Birthday Present

Haaaaappy Birthdaaaaay to youuuuu, Haaaaapy Birthdaaaaay to youuuuu, (every one join in!) Haaaaappy Birthdaaaaay deeeeeear Caaathy! Happy Birthday to you!

My good friend Cathy was given a surprise birthday party back in April. Yay!  Unfortunately it was the last night of our guild  hosting Happy Zombie so I wasn’t able to make it. Boo! But later I gave her a wood 6 inch square canvas and told her I’d draw what ever she wanted on it.  To my delight Cathy landed on the idea of her favourite buttons. Yay! I love buttons and together we came up with the idea of turning the drawing into a clock. Yay! Her buttons were quite large so I had to scale them down to fit. That’s one boo and three yays! The yays win!

Cathy and I have an mutual adoration for buttons and get weak in the knees for our favourite ones.  I think it’s fair to say it’s the same affliction we have for notions and trims, which I suppose might seem strange to some, unless you have the same affliction. Lucky for Cathy, she own’s Stream Trunk Craftworks so she can get her fix through her store. Lucky for me, not only do I get to draw a lot of her trims notions and now buttons. Cathy has has been one of my biggest cheerleaders.  She has always been very generous with her encouragement, she’s commissioned my work and more recently licensed my work, for which I’m very honoured and grateful.   Plus she’s just so darn cute, smiley, sweet and can give it to you straight, which I really appreciate. Not to mention she has a great giggle!