Buttons and Bows.....

Why do buttons always come off....whatever it is you're about to put on and in this case, my pink duvet cover; should I have bows instead or would I find those just as fiddly??

Buttons, why do we love them so much?  Well, I'm presuming you love them just as much as I do, don't you?  They're useful, decorative, handy and very useful, that is, when they've not come adrift and lost themselves?   I'm guessing they were all made out of animal bone to begin with, thus possibly expensive to produce, difficult to manufacture in large numbers and, all those willing/unwilling hands needed to make them - did they revolt against their working conditions, wage etc??

Do you know, I'm not sure, but I bet it would be interesting to explore the history of button making and blog about it!

But back to my pink duvet cover, which I'd planned to out on this morning.  I'd changed the pillow cases and the duvet cover, and struggling with the mattress mountain and thinking, now should I get help from the dear SO who was only waiting around for the qualifying action for the Australian GP in Melbourne, on Sunday, to be screened.  Should I call him in, I mean this is something I do all the time, on my own and perhaps it's quicker on my own; but then, why not, four hands will certainly get the job done much more quickly, so?  So  I did.  It was quicker and much more fun, as we laughed over the absurdity of struggling with my huge pink extra-King-sized duvet.  We tried the alternative method for ease of handling, you know, where you match up a corner of the duvet with a turned-inside duvet corner, holding the two corners together, and turning the inside cover outside, over the duvet ....phew!

Well, that was easy but then we had the button fastening to cope with, and that's the rub, for a missing button creates havoc with the button sequencing....and this created more laughter and more fun.  Brilliant!!

And the bed - a top duvet, the sleeping duvet, our memory foam mattress plus a huge solid mattress on top of the bed base plus a mattress topper and a lighter duvet in between, just for good measure!  Well, a bed must be comfortable, don't you agree?

And how do you get help with bed-duvet dressing, from the man of the house........well, you offer him his choice of daily-chore involvement which for us today was - help with the duvet or hoover the house.....and really it was not such a difficult decision for him to make in the end......Result!!!

And buttons........well guilty feelings here for there are several missing ones which need fixing on...sometime, when I've five minutes to spare?

And bows......very pretty, fiddly, nice in the hair, on a ball-gown or wedding-gown, on shoes...sometimes, and on bedroom soft furnishings.  And on pillows, those discrete bows on the reverse side instead of buttons; and isn't it easier to sew on bows than make machine button holes and then match up the button with the  button hole???

Ah well, life's a breeze.......Daisy