Button Floozies

My partner, Tamra, and I have sent and received our tins in the Fall in Love with Buttons 2012 Swap!  Here's the one she made for me:   Isn't it lovely?  She decoupaged it in Fall shades of green and brown -- and just LOOK at the gorgeous selection of buttons she sent! Here's a peek at the inside and the bottom; she used buttons for feet!  Tamra also gifted me that hand made barrette made of buttons!  How sweet is that?  I don't have any button barrettes, so it is really special! Here's the tin I made for Tamra.  I used fall themed papers, ribbons, and a bit of lace.  She said she liked vintage, like me, so I decorated the top with lace, vintage millinery flower pieces, and a very pretty old button. Here's how I did the inside: very simple with papers and felt leaves.  Sitting next to it is a card of vintage orange buttons I included, tied to a Fall-themed tag. Here's the bottom of the box, and, on the right, the fron...

Maggie participated in our Fall in Love with Buttons 2012 Swap , and has completed her exchange with her lucky partner.  Plus, she sent me a special hostess gift, too!  I wanted to show you on the blog because I KNOW those of you who are still working on your swap (like me!) will be very inspired! As you can see, she decorated her Altoids tin with felt and Fall themed buttons; then wrapped it all up in that colorful Fall fabric and tied it with orange and yellow rick rack!  It was such a fun little bundle to open! Here you can see that Maggie also decorated the inner lid with leafy paper, and filled the tin with some button gifts!  I love all the leafy motifs and the fall palette, but am especially enamored by the vintage ones, like the row of antique glass buttons still carded that she included! To further spoil me, she included another Fall fabric fat quarter and a sheet of button stickers! Are you inspired?  I hope so! For those participating, don'...

We have 36 people participating in the 2nd Annual Fall in Love with Buttons Swap -- what fun!  Emails went out to all participants with your assigned partner.  Please get back to me as soon as possible if you thought you signed up for the swap but you didn't receive an email.  This sometimes happens with problems with Blogger comments and/or the blog email (buttonfloozies@gmail.com). I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with for their tins!

I found a truly wonderful package in my mailbox this weekend, from Diana, aka Secondhand Rose, in Victoria, Australia! A few months ago, I was invited to write an article to be included in Australian Button Collector, a Journal of The Victorian Button Collectors Club, Inc.   I wrote about our Button Floozie blog and invited their members to join us in our button fun online! The Club has a website , but the journal isn't available online, so Diana was kind enough to send me a hard copy (on the right in the photo above.)  It's a pretty and informative magazine for the ca. 100 members of the club; Diana says about 30-40 regularly attend meetings, and they hold monthly meetings where they research types of buttons.  Doesn't that sound like fun? In addition to the Journal and a lovely note, Diana also send a full card of these magnificent woven buttons, along with a news article about the store they came from; as you can see, they are beautiful, old stock buttons...

Sign ups for this swap are now closed. Floozies have been asking me about the next swap, and I agree: it's high time we had another! Since the Fall in Love with Buttons Swap was so much fun last year, let's do it again! The   Fall in Love with Buttons Swap  is one-to-one; that is, each participant will be paired up with a swap partner.  We will each alter an Altoids (or similar sized for those living abroad) tin, filling it with autumn colored or autumn themed buttons, and send it to our partner! Check out some of the AMAZING beauties that were exchanged in our first annual swap last year: Fall in Love with Buttons Swaps on Flickr Here's an example of the one I made last year: The details: The standard Altoids tin is 4" x 2.5" "Altered" in this case simply means "decorated." There is a fantastic tutorial on how to cover a tin  here .  In it, she uses paper to cover the tin, but her instructions work ju...