Button Floozies

Coming up on November 16 is the day set aside to celebrate buttons, National Button Day; this is thanks to the efforts of the National Button Society .  Here are some of the buttons that are currently giving me joy: Bakelite heaven -- sewn to a bracelet cuff in amazing colors!  Bakelite and other early plastics. When you have lovely friends you often received unique and beautiful button art as gifts!  Shell set in metal. Two lovely pieces of jewelry created by someone, from buttons.  Plastic and metal. I discovered some carded buttons that were identified at a recent estate sale I visited.  These are my current favorites! He's a little blurry because he wouldn't sit still -- look at this little squirrel!  That tail! Celebrate your buttons!  Use them, display them, enjoy them.  This morning I sewed one of the very first buttons I ever collected onto a pumpkin I created, just for fun: I hope you will take a little time on Tuesday to celebrate your buttons, too!  If you do, and pu

 Lauren Peragine has some fun and wonderful button bouquets you will love: In a vintage lady's head vase! Holidays, anyone? These look good enough to eat! Sweet little squirrel I love this little cuckoo clock! Look at that little cake! More beautiful button art to come!

Some of my friends are repurposing their buttons into button flower art and making bouquets that are beautiful to behold! Liz has made these: And this one -- for me!: You can see all these and more on her Facebook page,  https://www.facebook.com/acheckeredpastshop ! More button bouquets to come!

 

Oh, to happen upon an estate sale and find a shoebox full of buttons on cards!  It's the perfect little sorting project to take home on a snowy day! I love the older cards, with their prices in the 20 cent range! Cheerful and colorful -- and even a "paperweight" rose button, antique black glass, and Jemima Puddle Duck! That fabulous tobacco card with a common button sewn onto it -- I don't know what I love more, the card or the button!  And oodles of black pearl buttons by Schwanda! This person knew a thing or two about buttons and collecting, as well -- they were expensive, but marked down, so bought four of the fifty or so cards she had in plastic bags.  I had to be choosy.  Here, black glass with silver paint, black glass with fired on enamel, collar buttons with "rhinestones" and pearl, and that tiny green glass composite button at the bottom. It makes for some fun time spent sorting -- but only if you love buttons like I do!

Here's a little heart I made from felt, with a cut-out to show a piece of salvaged, vintage table runner.  Button "flowers" accent it along one side.