Button Floozies

Hello, Button Floozies! If your boxes and jars are overflowing with button goodness, you can use them to help breast cancer patients. My good friend Hayley , breast cancer survivor extraordinaire, recently met a woman named Heidi Marble, an eight-year survivor of inflammatory breast cancer. Heidi has established a registered charity called Buttons-n-Dollars to raise money to help under- and uninsured breast cancer patients with their treatment. Using donated buttons and costume jewellery, she turns broken mannequins into works of art, which she then sells or leases. If you have costume jewellery or buttons to spare, please consider sending them to Heidi to help her continue her great work. Look at it this way: If you send some of your buttons to Heidi, you'll be making room in your stash for more! To learn more about Heidi, her book Waiting for Wings , and her art and to find out how you can help, visit her Undone website. Her shipping address is Heidi Marble Buttons-N-Dollars 2...

I've been on vacation for the last few weeks (coast of California from San Diego to San Francisco) and while I was in Monterey there was a street fair. I discovered a tiny table of vintage and found myself a baggie of green buttons...hard to capture the true colour but there were some very plain ones and a few special ones. Can't wait to get back to creating and use some of these goodies! If you are in the Monterey area, the dealer is Olio Vintage Fun 213 Lighthouse Avenue 831 375-6546 Hours - Wednesday - Saturday 10:30 - 5:30

Hi Fellow Floozies! :) I am just checking in.. things are lovely here in NH and I hope that everyone else is enjoying Spring as much as we are!! I would assume that things here at Button Floozies will slow down as vacations, ice teas, and sunshine get the way of our PC time. Enjoy your lovely blooms, sun and outdoor time! Play with your little ones! If you need a rainy day project to pass the time, pull out your button box and see where it takes you!

My blogging friend Sue recently posted about some button bouquets she made with her daughters and friends. She pointed the way to a tutorial at WhiMSy love . They look like fun!

I thought I'd post pictures of some cards I made on the weekend. They don't use a lot of buttons, but the buttons are the center of attention! I posted a bit about them on my blog .

Here are three HANDCRAFTED (from tree limbs in my yard) wooden buttons..made by my most awesome hubby!...Arent they just beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-a-u-tiful???...One of my customers in Canada had ordered a couple of sets of these for some knitting projects....and I asked my DH if he could make some extras for my ETSY shop .....so VOILA!...I LOVE how they are so natural .....and one-of-a-kind....like mother-of-pearl. I am sooooooooooo excited I found BUTTON FLOOZIES, and have been accepted into the blog group.....I have always loved buttons...I am sure everyone else can relate to the wonderful feeling of running your fingers thru a big bowl of YUMMY buttons....very relaxing!!....The hardest thing for me to do is actually USE my button stash.....I have my faves that I love to look at....but, I am trying to incorporate some into my scrapbook pages, cards and altered pieces.(its so hard to LET GO!!) Please visit my other blog StudioBeeCreations and my ETSY shop .....for more creations from The ...

I was going through my clothes this morning -- a pile for charity, a pile for winter (to be put AWAY!!) and a pile for summer as I prepare for my trip to California in a few weeks...and found this shell..which I'd forgotten I have!! How cool is that?!?