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Queen Elizabeth II in Surrey

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“Ice Cream Ceramic”, Melting Ceramics by Livia Marin. This series titled Nomad Patterns, created by artist Livia Marin.

“Ice Cream Ceramic”, Melting Ceramics by Livia Marin

Each piece like ice cream ceramic, melt onto a surface but retaining the original printed pattern. Actually, it's a kind of Willow Pattern motif, an English man created a pastiche of Chinese landscape decoration in the 1790s “as if” it were Chinese. See much more on her website. (via) Google glasses. Hand-embroidered Insects and Snails by Claire Moynihan. Artist Claire Moynihan really good at to create tiny hand-embroider these tiny intricate British sculptures of insects.

Hand-embroidered Insects and Snails by Claire Moynihan

If you like her works, see much more on her websitke. ( via The Endless Swarm ) Royal. Her Majesty the Queen. The Queen is Head of State of the UK and 15 other Commonwealth realms.

Her Majesty the Queen

The elder daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, she was born in 1926 and became Queen at the age of 25, and has reigned through more than five decades of enormous social change and development. The Queen is married to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and has four children and eight grandchildren. In this section packed full of images and videos, you can find out more about Her Majesty's early life and reign, public life, marriage and family and personal interests. Elizabeth II. Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926[a]) is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states, known as the Commonwealth realms, and their territories and dependencies, and head of the 53-member Commonwealth of Nations.

Elizabeth II

She is Supreme Governor of the Church of England and, in some of her realms, carries the additional title of Defender of the Faith. Upon her accession on 6 February 1952, Elizabeth became Head of the Commonwealth and queen regnant of seven independent Commonwealth countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan and Ceylon. From 1956 to 1992, the number of her realms varied as territories gained independence and some realms became republics.