Button Floozies

I recently found a great tutorial to make a button necklace on the  Lilly Pilly  blog which is written by a lady in Australia. The necklace Jo made for her tutorial is beautiful and I know you'll enjoy her blog.  I made my necklace in the above picture out of vintage mother of pearl buttons. I am new to Button Floozies and look forward to sharing ideas for projects with fellow "floozies".  Also, I am always looking for metal buttons for my bracelets (my bracelets were featured in a post last week) and hope to discover new sources to buy buttons. Please stop by my blog,  Corgis In My Garden , and meet my three corgis, enjoy pictures of my dollhouses, and check out my craft projects.

Here's a fun way to use some of your black button stash for an unusual and cute Halloween decoration! We used an artificial pumpkin from Hobby Lobby so that we could keep and use this little pumpkin year after year!

Ravishing in Red A roaring lion and tiny, shell like glass buttons These are just some buttons I picked up at an antique store last week! It doesn't take much to make me happy...

This post and my last post go hand in hand, so I had to post it now before time gets the best of me. I mentioned that I made a tiny book for Michelle Gellar's tiny book swap . Along with the tiny books I sent to her for the other participants, I sent her a whimsy jar full of various crafting supplies... like... buttons, of course! I loved this yellow and red color scheme... even though it made me hungry for McDonald's french fries. 'Cause of the red and yellow colors... see where I'm going with that? ;) *chuckle* I originally posted about this whimsy jar here if you want to take a look. :)

I often post pictures on my home blog of my paper projects. I often use buttons as embellishments on these projects. Sometimes I forget to share them here. Shame on me! ;) I'm weeding though my posts now searching for those posts with buttons (there's lots of them!) and I will be posting them here for you to see. I have made several tiny books lately. I can't get enough of them. Julie Collings is the originator of these tiny books. See my post here for way too much information on tiny books. This is one of my tiny book collages (before it's copied and folded to make the tiny books): I made this one for a tiny book swap hosted by Michelle Gellar . Several of the "pages" have buttons on them. You can read more about this tiny book here . I will eventually get to posting about other tiny books I've made with buttons on them as embellishments, but if you have an affinity for tiny books and can't stand the wait, you can also look here . ;) This tiny book ...

I received a pretty, petite box from a friend recently. She decorated the box with a few buttons in my favorite color scheme: pale pink and pale blue. She also included my favorite supplies: a small jar full of buttons. Feel free to click here for more pictures of this pretty package.

I received a lovely package with a variety of craft supplies... including buttons: which is why I'm sharing the package with you. ;) I knew you would appreciate them as much as I do. I sent an assortment of supplies in return including buttons. Read more about it here . :) Happy Fall!