Glass is always a good idea

It's so fun to see our Button Floozies community continue to grow.  We are close to 1,000 followers now, and when we reach that magical number we will be having another wonderful button giveaway!

Here is a lot of beautiful glass buttons I won the other day in an eBay auction:

These are black glass and I have been painted with pink accents.  They are what collectors call "mother/daughter" buttons as the sets are identical except for their size (and, in this case, number.)

More black glass, this time round with panted stripes:

I love these two glass buttons with a painted or perhaps transferred design in the middle; I turned one over so you could see how it is mounted:

These, to me, are the most special: they are glass balls and I do believe they are an example of blown glass, but it's hard to tell.  They could actually be plastic.  (I was so alarmed to see that the seller sent all these buttons in an envelope -- but by some miracle they all arrived intact!)

The ball buttons have some kind of pearlized coating.  Isn't that a lovely antique postcard in the photo?  It was a gift from fellow Floozy, Autena.

Now if you recognized these as not being glass, you are correct!  The green ones on the left are not buttons, strictly speaking, but rather they are trim -- something like sequins, only much larger and made of pearl.  I love that color!  The beautiful square ones on the right are carved pearl with red dye to make that geometric design.

Bargains can still be had on eBay if you look for them; I won these for 99 cents, so that even with $2.75 shipping, it was still a deal!