{321} blacked-out buttons

well, this is my third button name but i keep finding new uses for them to create my name! i saw this idea on another 365 blog (i apologize for forgetting whose!) and knew i had to try it too! only 45 names to go!!!

{273} so? buttons.

have you ever used that childish comment when someone says "so?" to you and then you answer "buttons". yeah, i use that one even now as a 30-year-old. i collect buttons and have hundreds upon hundreds of them. months ago i had started creating this name by sewing the buttons onto this green thrift-store placemat. then it became "sew" time consuming that i decided to set it aside. finally, today i hauled it out again but instead of sewing them on, i simply laid out the rest of the buttons. :)

{121} button letters

can it be possible that this is my first name using buttons despite my absolute obsession with them? 'tis true! well, this one took me a few days to make actually. who knew that hot gluing all these buttons together would be so time consuming! but it was totally fun to figure out how to shape each letter using my buttons. i thought this would use up most of my white buttons but it didn't. i'm still left with an enormous amount of white buttons. that's okay. i'll use them again for another name on another day.

the small white buttons from my collection fit perfectly (if not overflowing) in this beautiful pyrex friendship bird dish. it's one of my fave dishes (and, yes, that is a primary green mixing bowl in the background).

a close up of all the buttons used. my small brown buttons are stored in candy jars in the background.

{114} dust bunnies

i was exiting my craft room and thought that either my button cabinet had been painted grey or there was a serious layer of dust on top of it. of course, one finger swipe later i realized that it really was just crazy full of dust. that one finger swipe also led to me quickly writing my name in the dust before cleaning it off! it seems that often my names are coming to me accidentally and they come from simple things that we normally do--like, who doesn't write their name in dust when they have the opportunity? or, maybe it's not your name, but you write some sort of message, don't you? it's a pretty normal act. i just got a great purpose for it. :)

ah, my button cabinet. it once held dirty screws and rusty old nails but i re-purposed it into a neat holder for all of my buttons! it totally makes me laugh, though, whenever i hear jerry seinfeld's joke about who keeps all those little buttons you get with a new jacket or pair of pants. and he goes on to say "what kind of freak keeps them in little drawers and pulls each one going 'where is that button?!'" lol

vintage buttons

will my button collection make me a millionaire? not likely. but today i had an extraordinary haul of interesting buttons from the local mcc. i love the ones with the family crests on them. i just wish i had a way of discovering their significances. i guess i have some googling ahead in my future. but for now, i will share these few favourites.

i love buttons!