what to do with all those vintage buttons?

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 by colour

then I took some pictures

then I sewed some onto a piece of fleece and put it in a frame

and Alasdair took some arty pictures.

I have literally thousands of vintage buttons.  They’ll either be made into arrangements like this or sold as sets once they’re sorted and cleaned.