Buttons - i've always loved them...there is just something about small bits of haberdashery that really make me smile and buttons are one of them! I was lucky enough to get a part time job at Lincraft when at uni, and loved assorting through the buttons especially at stock take time, when all the stock had to be counted (yes all of it)...and I loved to just sit and count the buttons! Even as a little girl I would sneak into the spare room in our old home (which really was my mum's sewing and ironing room). I would sit on the floor with my mum's button collection and just have fun picking them up, looking at them, admiring them, lining them up in matching colours or size. Maybe a little doll would keep me company or sometimes my mum would be there whirring along on the sewing machine.
I asked my mum a while ago about that button collection. She walked out of the room and came back with this and told me I could have them - ALL! (ok, minus a few business shirt buttons but really who wants those??). I was pretty excited at this stage, until she said "BUT." oh no, has she changed her mind?? No, not at all.... she told me that she has had that tin since the 70's and I should keep all my buttons in there...phew...
So as I make things I love to rummage around my newly acquired collection of vintage buttons finding just the right match although there are some that are just so beautiful that it feels a shame to use them - i do really enjoy just looking at them!
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