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Making some felt buttons... they'll be used to make flowers like these:
www.flickr.com/photos/bugsandfishes/3350744127/in/set-721...
"every day in may" photo for 052706
When I was a kid, I loved sitting on the stairs in my grandparents' house and playing with a jar of buttons. My grandmother's button collection is now one of my treasures. This photograph shows a white vintage buttons from that collection.
I kind of wanted some text on this but then could not decide if I liked it and my original thought was to go b&w with it, maybe leaving the red one in color but then I liked this mix of colors. I might be playing with this one some more.
#1-buttons 111 pictures in 2011
Went button hunting today ... in our city of 110,000 people I had a hard time finding any retailer who sell them! These are from Walmart's craft section. I remember the "good old days" of fabric stores with walls full of buttons ... and once I met a button-maker from Germany. I guess everyone Internet shops these days ... but I'll just keep on with my old fashioned button-hunt!
Run With Scissors now has these adorable promotional buttons!!
designed by Courtney at youwillwontyou.blogspot.com/
and made by Kyle at www.buttonarcade.com/main.html
For more info, check the blog :)
Little felt buttons made from felt and fabric. Each one is handmade by me. :) I love this fabric, it's a lovely fuzzy flannel. These measure about 1 1/2" high. Each has a pinback attached.
Credit to Kersten Frank (background layer), ClipartBest, IconEasy and FancyIcons for the buttons and bows. Charlie has been lurking in my stash for a long time so if you know who I should credit, please let me know.
I asked for a Tequila shot, and after the naked goddess bartender served my drink, I noticed there was a worm in it! I suspected it may be a Pennsylvania forest worm, so I made the bartender show me the bottle (and took a pic). It was Monte Alban brand tequila. It stated on the label that it came "with agave worm". So the worm was real.
Therefore, this was a rare honor & opportunity bestowed upon me, and I would be foolish not to truck on through.
MAN that thing was chewy! I thought it would be chewy like a jelly bean, but it was chewy like fried calamari! What a trip!
tequila worm, wedding cup.
purple.
Four Quarters Interfaith Sanctuary, Artemas, Pennsylvania.
June 12, 2016.
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BACKSTORY: Well, that was a crazy burn! So much shit I never expected to do, at WickerMan Burn 2016!
- Damaged Carolyn's car on the way in so that it permanently squeaks, except it got better by the time we left
- Ate a tequila worm (so much more chewing than you would imagine!) when naked-goddess-bartender poured me one, randomly. (I had to check that it wasn't something from the woods)
- Watched fireworks so dangerously close that I needed first aid for a burned eyeball (could this be why the vision in that eye went bad this year?)
- Learned to weave. On a loom. And wove some. Took video of weaving.
- worried about this spleen issue I have that is starting to feel less like a pain, and more like an actual tumor that you can distinctly feel on one side (still hurting as of 2017, CT Scan found nothing)
- controlled huge flamethrowers with laserbeams & buttons
- fun stuff on top of a 20-ft wooden ziggurat art installation (Carolyn was too scared to go up!)
- Watched a firework fireball zoom past Carolyn's head (she didn't even flinch) and catch the ground on fire 1 foot from her feet
- Made out with both members of a couple (beards can be soft?)
- Bounced in a moon bounce
- Saw Carolyn fall off a bounce-house ramp, tumbling in mid air, as onlookers screamed (one massage later, she's fine)
- Played with propane bubbles (cover hand, stick in fire, watch self burn) with zero regard for my safety or even knowing what they were ("other people aren't dying when they do this, so i'll do this, whatever this is. no, i won't ask anybody any questions about it or learn anything safety-related")
- Treated 2nd degree cooking burn with actual aloe leaves someone bundled up, just in case. Only had to walk 20 feet from my camp! No relation to previous bullet point.
- Tried [REDACTED]
- Used logical deduction to guide a damsel in distress to her campsite that she could not find, even though I had never been there. (If you want to flatter me, make me feel like Aragorn. I also accept pints of cherry tomatoes & great conversation)
- Received tons of compliments about my hair & badass cartoon shirt (and about my brain) (but I get that a lot... it's the others I'm not so used to)
- Worried about Andrea in rehab. Did all kinds of crazy things to maintain connectivity to check up on her. A lotta good that did. RIP, Andrea.
- Learned to always great one specific person with "Hi, Clint!" (Her name is not Clint. This is how she prefers greetings.)
- Wore My Little Pony boxer-briefs around strangers
- Sent video from the middle of the woods with a phone that only works when plugged in (tricky)
- Met the creator of games I've played for 15 yrs, & found out that the vintage set of game pieces my aunt found me in a thrift store are so rare that he was re-telling people about our set... Even when we weren't even there. So honored! To tell the man who invented Fluxx that you had the original Fluxx back when that was the only Fluxx you could get was awesome, too.
- But to make a reference to a specific episode of 2 Stupid Dogs to the creator of Fluxx, and have him know it and repeat it back... Wow.
- Chastised by Channy for not knowing how to spell my own name on facebook, becuase she wanted pictoral proof of my story that did not believe -- that the deer shit that came out of the deer when my Bonneville was totalled (while driving back from Dirk's) had splattered onto my car in the shape of Pluto the Dog's face. I totally sent her that picture!
- Lost 1 of 2 cameras, resulting in our pictures being quite incomplete (gee, real Burnery of whoever found it to not bother giving it back. If I find someone else's camera, I guess this means I'll have to keep it to break even?)
- Learned I can consistently inhale an entire nitrous oxide cartridge in one lungful
- Randomly given 2 beers by someone, only to ask to see her face, and, after introductions, us all realizing we already know each other already and are FB friends already (wtf?! what are the odds?!)
Saw a truck covered in fire driving down the mountain like nothing was going on. Overheard: "Are you seeing that? Is that real?"
Phew? Did I get everything? I don't know! One night, I never saw my camp during the night time, at all.
I have been watching the war map slammed up for
advertising in front of the newspaper office.
Buttons--red and yellow buttons--blue and black buttons--
are shoved back and forth across the map.
A laughing young man, sunny with freckles,
Climbs a ladder, yells a joke to somebody in the crowd,
And then fixes a yellow button one inch west
And follows the yellow button with a black button one
inch west.
(Ten thousand men and boys twist on their bodies in
a red soak along a river edge,
Gasping of wounds, calling for water, some rattling
death in their throats.)
Who would guess what it cost to move two buttons one
inch on the war map here in front of the newspaper
office where the freckle-faced young man is laughing
to us?
Buttons is the larger of these 2 little ones ... not sure yet if the smaller one is a buck or not .. but both are kinda cute!
I'm still experimenting with alternative wedding bouquets. I've got the paper flower folding down, now I'm on to buttons and felt. I whipped these out today. My plan is to make a bouquet of origami flowers and insert the button stems throughout. We'll see.
This is my photo for March 15, 2011.
Some buttons I made. Can you name them all? Hehe
They are for sale here:
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