Buttons Galore!

Since creating the Four Hearts and Gift Gallery almost a year ago now -( Happy Birthday to us) I've been intrigued about what women love to collect or what really touches them somewhere deep inside . Whether it's seeing that certain item in store that triggers a treasured childhood memory I'm not sure . For me it's a pleasure to watch people respond and connect with various items around Four Hearts and the responses are always different from giggling with their friends over a saying on one of the retro tea towels or a soft sigh as they spy something that evokes that special feeling or memory .


Top of the "Ohh" lists are : Owls , Dragonflies , Butterflies, almost anything retro and believe it or not BUTTONS! I would think anyone my age would have some recollections of Gramdma or Mum's bottle of buttons stowed away in case of an emergency 'missing button crisis'. Colourful , pretty and generally hidden away, out of the reach of little fingers , I know the bottled buttons sparked my imagination.



Now I don't have a bottle of buttons much to my shame but when my youngest daughter came into Four Hearts and saw the porcelain buttons we have in store she knew she wanted them and she knew exactly what she was going to do with them. so last Christmas Imogen finally took poccession of three porcelain buttons curtsey of Four Hearts and her parents and this is what she created in her bedroom .




Don't they look amazing . I love walking into her room and seeing them on the wall . It gives me that warm feeling of home,my mum and my childhood.

Debbie x