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JAN 7-Today was cleaning day. When we were kids we used to draw room assignments. With 4 of us it made sense. Nowadays I still draw which room I am going to clean next even if it is just me cleaning. It was just on paper from a cup but one day I made these nifty covered buttons from upholstery job extras and I keep them in my old recipe box.
Bitty Buttons. I took an old drawing and turned it into a fabric design to print with Spoonflower. I could blissfully design fabrics all day, and easily be designing for an audience of one. Comments help me tremendously. You can share your thoughts on Flickr or of the Spoonflower pages: pink, yellow, blue and gray.
giant buttons from a cool garage sale, more like a guy who collected vintage machinery and ephemera selling off his stuff. the big pearl ones are hand carved and 3" across! the backsides are still textured and rainbow..like abalone shells...
this photograph features on my blog:
thefabricofmylife.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/buttons-galore/
i’m very excited to be able to share with you a photograph of the wonderful assortment of buttons that carlie from razz the kid sent me as part of the holiday gift swap.
you wouldn’t believe how much i squealed when i opened the box and saw such a gorgeous jar, full of equally gorgeous golden buttons!
for some reason when i photographed the buttons in the jar you really couldn’t see how amazing they were, so i decanted them into this beautiful teacup (a present from a rather lovely friend of mine) and they looked so ravishing i had to share them with you!
Talented work colleague made me a fancy quilted iPad cover from my buttons fabric, it's the business.
You can find my fabric here www.spoonflower.com/profiles/bitsofbobs
Custom made buttons turned from wormy pine, elk antler, caribou antler, pau amarelo, cherry burl, black walnut, purpleheart and the front button was made using sugar maple burl inlaid into African blackwood. These can be made in to suit your next project in whatever size or material you would like to add that extra special touch to your project.
These are the buttons that I am thinking about sewing onto the black Brioche scarf. They have yet to be baked in the oven (waiting to do more at a time) and I hope they'll keep their shape (never having tried polymer clay modelling before) - I found canes rather more difficult to make than I had anticipated. Could have to do with the fact that I'm way too ambitious for a mere beginner! Walk before you try somersaults! Oh well.
Buttons is very thin and has missing part of his ear and a bunch of marks on his body (missing fur and scabs) which may indicate that he has been - hurt on purpose by a sick individual(s). I can't prove it of course and his shelter records jut mention that he has bad cut on his ear. it was "mummified" and fell off. He is very friendly and gentle. Very thin. Eating with not much enthusiasm. Slight URI probably to blame.
Sorry for the cheesy collaging, but I'm into "little things" right now because of the Lalaloopsy minis.
This might be all random 'n stuff, but last week I went to see the new Miyazaki movie called "The Secret World of Arrietty" and it made me think of a cute old cartoon from the '80s called "The Littles." Anyone else remember this show? I used to enjoy watching it on Saturday mornings, though I admit my memories of it are a tad vague. I remember Lucy Little and how cute she was with her mouse tail and teeth. She and her brother were like Arrietty, little "borrowers" who lived in secret and borrowed things from humans that humans wouldn't miss. And they went on adventures 'n stuff.
Anyway, it was a fun show and I think the logo is so cute. Wonder if this is available on dvd...?
Yes, I bought these buttons just to use for photo props!
365 Days in Color, pink and/or white no. 12
104/365
It's, um, all the buttons. (Except maybe that one I took a really horrible picture of in Philadelphia. I wonder where that one is?)
For many years I was a "studio button" painter for button collectors. Although I sold everything I made, I kept a few for myself. These are vintage wooden buttons painted with acrylic and accented with India ink. The smallest button is 3/8 inch and the largest is about one inch.
Buttons are one of those things that just make me happy. They're wee and pretty and cute. I got one of those bags of buttons and these are a few of my favorites. They're sitting on my election scarf, I made it while we were watching the election results come in. I taugh myself how to do a triple crochet and I think it turned out fine. I love the color as well.