Button Floozies

Fran used random.org to choose the lucky recipient of her beautiful buttons! Congratulations to Andrea Creates !  Andrea, please email me with your address so I can mail these buttons out to you!  Mail to buttonfloozies (at) gmail (dot) com. Thank you again to Button Floozie Fran for providing this wonderful giveaway!

***This post is staying at the top of the blog through March 5; please scroll down to see more, newer blog posts!*** My name is Fran and I make buttons. I started out 20 odd years ago making clothes under my clothing label "McAnaraks" and selling them at craft fairs around Scotland. Steve invents and makes wooden puzzles and resin dice. We met at a craft fair when I asked him if he could make buttons for me to put on my jackets. He said he couldn't. I managed to overcome my disappointment and we got to know each other anyway and we have been together for 19 years now. So it was buttons that brought us together. Eventually he started making buttons for me to put on the jackets I made. People often asked if they could buy them, but I jealously guarded them for use on my clothing creations. In 2009 I decided to have a go at decorating the buttons, and found that it was great fun and I was quite good at it, so we tried putting a few on sale at one of our craft fair...

Here are some new buttons I've been working on, the mould was made from a vintage button which we modified to make the holes bigger. These are quite chunky, but ooh I do like a chunky button, don't know about you....? http://www.mcanaraks.com/