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This was for a lady who was retiring from a career as a seamstress. It was such a fun cake to make...I loved making the buttons and the thread reels. Everything fondant.
The final pieces in place.
We're still working on ideas on how exactly we're going to send this out since the original plan, once we saw the final backing cards didn't really make sense anymore.
So far "no go" on shrinkwrapping either. Suggestions?
Patience had a modest life with a modest husband and a modest wardrobe. One day something happened and she was never the same.
She secretly had that date tattoed on her back.
I am a hoarder of vintage fabric and trim. Not just any vintage fabric, but the kind that has been worn,
and washed,
and worn
and mended, and made do, then handed down.
The era after the great depression and just after the Second World War is my favourite, and the softies I make reflect the kind of make-do ethos that went with those times.
All fabrics are an eclectic mix with some mewer bits thrown in. All have vintage buttons for eyes and are hand embroidered.
Sometimes I give them stories stolen or stitched from my own.
Some of the softies were featured in Stampington's Stuffed magazine this year so they think they are famous.
Tengo una relación de amor con los botones; no sé por qué pero me encantan. Lo más raro es que apenas sé coser. Feliz fin de semana!!!
I have a crush with buttons, I don't know why but I really love them. Happy weekend, dear people!!!
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"Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on." ~ Camryn Manheim
Our Daily Challenge "Holes"
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I've been buying cotton plaid shirts from thrift stores and cutting them up for the fabric. The plaids will eventually become donation quilts.
In the meantime, I clip off the buttons and put them aside so that I don't add more plastic to a landfill. Still don't know how I will use these buttons, but I have a few ideas. Since I am still collecting shirts, my button pile will continue to grow as well.
The table cloth was found in a thrift store. The plate was made by a childhood friend who gave it to me as a birthday present years ago.
Image captured in support of the Macro Monday theme this week... bit of fun, found our button jar; this little cow used to feature on one of my daughter's coats when she was very little.
#ButtonsandBows
#MacroMondays
we're getting ready for a YS and i came across a small box that was labeled "small decorative buttons- brass" in my mom's distinctive printing. it reminded me that she often made little plaques/pictures with suede and these buttons, choosing a button that went with the intended gift recipient's interests.
macromonday- generosity
ODC/ODT- wide open (i interpreted it as wide open choices ~grin~)
and my heart is wide open thinking about, and missing, my mom :)
so i guess it will choose this one for today's DS (dailyshoot) too..........
#ds491 What reminds you of home? Make a photograph of it today.
wow, a 3-fer
COTH
111 pictures: #1 buttons
The Big Hoot has brought businesses, artists, schools and the local community together to create a public art trail of stunning owl sculptures on display across Birmingham from 20 July until 27 September.
All the giant owls have been sponsored by companies and organisations and at the end of the trail, they will be auctioned to raise money for Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
A selection of old buttons that my mum keeps in a tin (some of which are over 80 years old), passed down from my Grandmother, I guess they're for those stitching emergencies!
Some of my late Mother’s collection of buttons.
Camera: Konica Autoreflex TC (No. 2)
Lens: Konica Hexanon AR 50mm, f/1.7
Film: Lucky SHD-100 black and white 35mm
Shooting Program: Manual
Aperture: F/16
Shutter Speed: “B” (bulb) 25 secs.
Date: February 6th, 2019, 12.22 a.m.
Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A.
Developing chemicals:
2 minute presoak
Adox Adonal 1+150 (500ml water, 3/4 tsp. Adox Adonal) for 1 hour and 30 minutes at 20°C/68.0°F
15 second initial agitation, then 2 swirls every 30 minutes
1 minute water rinse
Ilford lfostop, 30 second agitation, 30 second stand
1 minute water rinse
Ilford Hypam Fixer, 9 minutes
2 minutes water rinse
3 drops Photo-Flo final rinse for 60 seconds
Autoreflex TC-2 Lucky SHD-100 01df
My first foray into slide film *and* cross-processing, a double whammy. Processed and scanned by those nice people at Photographique.
A little bit about the history of buttons:
Buttons and button-like objects used as ornaments or seals rather than fasteners have been discovered in the Indus Valley Civilization during its Kot Yaman phase (c. 2800–2600 BCE)[1] as well as Bronze Age sites in China (c. 2000–1500 BCE), and Ancient Rome.
Buttons made from seashell were used in the Indus Valley Civilization for ornamental purposes by 2000 BCE.[2] Some buttons were carved into geometric shapes and had holes pierced into them so that they could be attached to clothing with thread.[2] Ian McNeil (1990) holds that: "The button, in fact, was originally used more as an ornament than as a fastening, the earliest known being found at Mohenjo-daro in the Indus Valley. It is made of a curved shell and about 5000 years old."[3]
Functional buttons with buttonholes for fastening or closing clothes appeared first in Germany in the 13th century.[4] They soon became widespread with the rise of snug-fitting garments in 13th- and 14th-century Europe. (Wiki)
Special thanks and recognition to Flickr artist Buttons McTavish whose "For JKPP. April 13, 2011" provided inspiration for this digital interpretation. This portrait is part of a JKPP discussion