A wedding anniversary and a few buttons

Last weekend Alan and I celebrated our

♥ 11 year wedding anniversary ♥ 

Here is Alan and I on our wedding day in August 1999 with my gorgeous friend of 25 years, Kristen.

And here is one of the nicest recent photos I have of Alan and I together, all frocked up! 

 It was taken at a friend's wedding back in 2008 in which I was Maid of Honor. 

I don't think we have changed too much... 

...perhaps just a little older and wiser!

♥ Happy Anniversary Alan ♥

(even if I am a week late in posting it here)

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To celebrate our anniversary we went out for breakfast and then visited the Paddington Antique Centre. 

I hadn't been there in ages...gosh in at least around 7 or 8 years... but the memories of why I used to love going there came flooding back... 

OMG the jewelery!

So many gorgeous antique pieces in gold, rose gold, silver, diamonds... you name it they have it! 

The workmanship in the pieces is just exquisite.

One thing however I never paid much attention to when I used to visit this antique store many, many years ago was the buttons and boy do they now have a nice assortment!

So in celebration of our anniversary I treated myself to a few buttons which I plan on using within my beading.

The first are gorgeous art deco buttons. They have a delicate gold inlay and are in perfect condition.

The next is a set of 5 buttons. 

These ones are made of plastic with a metal centre but I couldn't go past them as I think they could look quite nice with some malachite.

And lastly some Czech glass buttons. 

They were really hard to photograph as they are so shiny and shimmery but they are black and gold and incredibly regal looking. 

I only bought two of these beauties but am thinking I should have bought a few more so I can create a necklace made using around 6 of these buttons beaded up!

Have you rediscovered something you used to love doing or looking at but haven't done in years?