May 4, 2008
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Button Stash
Today at the crafty store I scored a bag of mixed buttons. GRANDMA'S GRAB BAG of mixed buttons, to be precise. It turns out I am endlessly amused by sorting through little bits of things and organizing them into little compartments by size and color. Yes yes. Plus, my button stash has increased exponentially!
These look pretty good and i have some big plans for them, rest assured, but in the process I ended up with a whole lot of crapola. Thanks a heap, GRANDMA. Witness:
I don't even know what most of this junkus is for. I assume it's useful for scrapbooking or something. I kinda dig the pink letter A, and there's a button with a panda face on it which amuses me only because of some obscure internet humor and I'm a just dweeb like that. There's also a hot pink.... thinger-thing? which says Viva LasVegas! and that's kinda spiffy. Oh, and the dolla dolla bill yo button is also pretty cool.
I stuck the plastic shark in there. Did i mention I'm a dweeb?
So as it turns out, new buttons + vintage flower stash + swarovski rhinestone hoard = button flowers, which will eventually become cocktail rings.
I'm a big fan of the yellow and grey one and the bigun' with the freshwater pearl plunked in the middle (yellow and grey are the IT color combo this season, you know). Plus, they all are matchy matchy with my spring flower bracelets, so there you have it.
Keep an eye on the ol' Ets, there may be extra bttons and kitschy junkus overflow showing up there soon.
Comments (5)
How exciting!
Looks like fun
You always photograph your stuff very well!
ha! i love your button stash. my brother gave me a bunch of buttons that belonged to his wife's step grandma (how complicated is that) and she had them all organized by color and i was thrilled to get them. how weird is that? i'd love to see those future rings as magnets for the fridge.
@princess_smartypants - ooo, fridge magnets. now that's an IDEA.
A couple months ago my mum and I were looking at my Gran's old buttons. I think they might be the source of my lifelong obsession with bitty sparkling things; when i was a kid they were in a drawer in her sewing table and it was such a treat to peek at them and pick out my favorites : )
i wonder what happened to my granny's button stash when she died? things were such a MESS that a bunch of stuff got donated to the salvation army simple because they would carry stuff off.
and, i used some of those groovy buttons on aprons, then decided others were simply too precious to part with.
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