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My favorite buttons - #2

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To celebrate National Button Week, I'm posting some of my favorite buttons and invite you to do the same! Take a look at this beauty -- it's encrusted with bling and china beads. Doesn't it look good enough to eat?! As you can see from the reverse, its base is metal.  I would have loved to have seen the garment this button was created for!

Buttons in Everyday Life

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Hello my fellow Button Floozies!!! I was at a friend's house for dinner recently and I flipped out over her daughter's little jeans! I took some pics for the express purpose of sharing them with you because they are so fun and SO SIMPLE! Check out the cuffs. (Her daughter is pretty darn cute, too!!) Here's a closeup. You could even use buttons in the same fun way on adult jeans with some rhinestone and black vintage sparklies, don't you think? And they would be really great on capri pants, too! My name is Kelly Aaron and I'm a mosaic artist in Kansas City and I use buttons in my work all of the time. This box features a plastic button that appears to have glitter locked inside on the bottom left corner. The gold ball on on the far middle right is also a button! There are all sorts of pink and black buttons sprinkled throughout this cork board. They add just the right accent! I stuck some green buttons in this round box, including the one with the large ...