Buttons

Jolene on August 29th, 2010

We’ve been renovating our house since moving in almost four years ago.  Progress is slow but steady and lately we’ve (read Alasdair) been ripping out the old electrics in one room that will eventually be our living room.  The old wire is a lovely thick copper wire that we just couldn’t throw away.  So, I [...]

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Alasdair on March 26th, 2010

Jolene made this wee bunch of ‘flowers’ a few weeks ago and has seemingly been doing her best to ignore it ever since, I’m not sure why though, personally I think it’s rather fab and so I’ve decided to go behind her back and share them with you! Unfortunately I struggled to get a decent [...]

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Jolene on February 27th, 2010

I’ve been busy making layered button pendants today from some of my vintage button collection.  These buttons have been collected from various elderly relatives over the years and there are some amazing buttons within that collection, some of which make great pendants within themselves. I’ve not even scratched the surface of the buttons I have, [...]

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Jolene on January 25th, 2009

Over the years I have amassed quite a collection of vintage buttons.  This morning I set out to sort my buttons, after all what else is there to do on a wet and windy Sunday afternoon?  The following pictures show the results of a day of hard labour with the button tins. first I organised them [...]

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