Buttons!
Originally uploaded by Big Sister.
A few months ago a co-worker was going through her mother-in-law's boxes of notions and came across scores of buttons. For the most part they are plastic dime store buttons, but they are really beautiful vintage dime store buttons. The original owner had organized the buttons for the most part by color so it was not too hard to take them out for a color-coordinated photo shoot. I have yet to use a single button, although I culled a number of them for another co-worker who wanted to teach his students life skills like setting a table, ironing, and button sewing. When I made S her Wee Wonderfuls Bunny I was a conscientious auntie and did not make button eyes. Although, tomorrow I might be making a sock monkey that will be in need of a pair of vintage button eyes.
Ooooh, wonderful. My favourites are the plastic ones with the fancy little edges and details. Lucky you!
Posted by: alison | November 02, 2007 at 12:35 PM
I love buttons like this. My mom has boxes and jars of new and old, (I don't like to call the buttons she bought vintage, she's gets all miffy about it) but it is okay to oh, and ah over the ones from from both my grandmothers' button jars. Have fun enjoying them!
Posted by: Elizabeth | November 02, 2007 at 03:56 PM
Those are lovely! We inherited my great-grandmother's button collection and I've had so much fun with it. Keep us posted if you use any of those!
Posted by: Rachele | November 03, 2007 at 12:49 AM
I'm so jealous! I remember a long time ago when stores would have button jars that you could just dig through. My mom had a button jar too, and it was always a treat to get to play in the buttons. I miss that. It's funny, I was thinking about the jars of buttons yesterday when I saw this:
www.marthastewart.com/good-things/button-napkin-rings
And hey, I don't use napkins that often, much less napkin rings, but I might if I had these!
Enjoy!
Posted by: Penny | November 03, 2007 at 07:34 AM
Last Saturday, whilst doing inventory, I sat on the floor and hand-counted 3,086 buttons by hand.
So, you know, buttons.
Not that yours aren't purty.
Buttons.
Posted by: Tanya | November 04, 2007 at 04:03 PM