SOUS DT Reveal - The Queen!

Reveal day again at

Stuck On U Sketches,

with one of my favourite photo's from my

 London trip with Daughter

The sketch from Our Leah

And, yes, we did see the Queen!

We had no idea when we went to London

 that it would be the

 State Opening of Parliament

 while we were there.

The Queen always opens the new

 session of Parliament,

a centuries old tradition,

and of course, they have the

 usual journey from

 Buckingham Palace to

 the Houses of Parliament

Papers are still

 Papermania "Portobello Road"

The crown is a Teresa Collins

 stamp from"Chic Bébé Boy" Collection

with Kaiser rhinestones to embellish it

This was the best photo I got

 of the Queen's coach,

sadly she was facing the other way.

 We were standing in Whitehall,

 just along from the Cenotaph.

 Having been to London many, many times,

 I have never been there when

there was any of the

pageantry stuff happening - so this was

 an unexpected treat and bonus to our trip

The Queen's Coach photo is mounted on a

 Nestabilities "Floral Ovals"

I have chopped up a huge bloom

 to use as decoration under the photo's

 and used

Prima "Monarch Diamond"

flower centres

The rhinestone butterfly

 was part of a Zva Creative flourish

The great photo of daughter and I was taken

by one of our friendly London Policemen....

The Queen's parade passed on its way

 to Parliament at about 11 o'clock,

 and then we had about a 45 minute

wait for her return journey, after her speech.

Lining the route, of course,

 are armed guardsmen and policemen.

Being the friendly Scottish girls

 we are, we soon got chatting

with the young constable

standing in front of us.

It fair passed the waiting time for us,

and him, and he was happy to oblige

 when we asked him to take our photo

(the only photo of the two of us

together on the whole trip)

So, another great memory,

printed, scrapped and stored for posterity....

That's my interpretation of the sketch,

what would you do with it?

Head over to

 Stuck On U Sketches,

 see the wonderful work from

 the rest of the DT and enter

 your interpretation for a chance at

 Top Three

See you soon

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