It's unfortunate that from the angle the picture was taken this incredibly cute teddy bear gingham brooch becomes a little like one of those pop-ups that suddenly appear while you're wandering around the web...not the ones encouraging you to make millions of dollars working from your home office...I'm talking about the IQ/Rorschach test that asks what you see in a picture...because, from this viewpoint, the brooch could represent any manner of things. A squashed pastry comes to mind right now but that could be due to hunger...or the word association tricks that the mind plays (bear...gingham...picnic...squashed pastry).

None of which, oddly enough, deters me from imagining it on my lapel...