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Buttons!
What would we do without them?
We sew them on to keep things closed,
or to keep things open.
We add them to our clothing for fashion.
We use them in our home decorations.
We give them to children to play with, or to learn basic skills.
We make them into jewelry.
Oh what a wonderful thing -
Buttons!
In Walt Disney’s animated movie
‘Alice in Wonderland’
Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum ask if Alice wants to play “Button, Button”?
We dye them to all the colors of the rainbow.
We make them out of plastic, horn, bone, twigs, metal, and precious gems.
Buttons made from coconuts
Humans have been in love with buttons for a very long time.
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In fact, for a very long time!
The oldest button found so far is one made of shell from 7000 BCE in Pakistan.
Feel free to count those zeroes again!
Archeologists found more discs with holes drilled in them made from ivory, clay, stone and bone. These dated back to 4000 - 5000 BCE.
Recyclart
In ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’
Willy references the game “button, button”.
Being the crafty person I am, I became curious about what others were creating with their buttons, besides utilitarian uses?
Handmade by Taylor Friese
Is it anything I would like to do? Is it anything I think I would like to teach at my local Senior Center?
Courtesy Carol Cahill, Pinterest
Well, I found a plethora of button projects! Let’s look at just a few.
The first 2 fall into the category of
‘Useful objects’
Courtesy Leslie Price, Pinterest
Courtesy Crafts and Creativity
What cute ideas to put in your sewing/craft area! They are both so simple I’m not even going to give directions.
In season 2 of ‘Dexter’s Laboratory’ Dee Dee says “Button, button, who’s got the button?” before pressing a red button to take off in a hovercraft.
Many of the button crafts I have to show you don’t even have to know how to sew.
Here’s another one that only needs glue:
Courtesy StylesatLife
You could make this with anyone’s color scheme and give as a charming gift.
Wouldn’t it be great filled with jelly beans?
Another no-sew project:
I found many postings of this on Pinterest; no idea of original idea.
I would add a backing cut slightly smaller than the finished coaster. You could use stiffened fabric, leather scraps, thin cork sheets…
The title of the Twilight Zone episode ‘Button, Button’ is a reference to the childhood game.
Next I have a few simple ornaments:
Dana; Sara Srogi; Pinterest
Glue some popsicle sticks together for the base. (Do this on wax paper to prevent messes on your table!) Then glue on different sizes of buttons. Add thread or ribbon for a hanger.
A simple craft for young ones to do also.
firefliesandmudpies.com
There is a tutorial for this, but really you just need buttons, glue, ribbon for hanging and a stiffened piece of felt for the base.
Budget idea: use poster board or shirt insert cardboard for the base instead.
Charlotte Prow; Pinterest
You will need buttons, glue, scraps of felt and an old plaid scarf and twine to make the snowman ornament.
Are you in love with buttons yet?
Courtesy Carol Cahill; Pinterest
In ‘Lost in Space’ Season 2, Episode ‘The Curse of Cousin Smith’ Major West refers to the ‘old childhood game of button, button, who has the button
I found so many wonderful
ideas of how to use buttons in your card making. Let’s start with Christmas cards. Here are a wfe :
Next are a few general cards wit:
Wordpress.com
Talita Rodrigues Nunes
H.Skelly for Splitcoaststampers Community; Pinterest
…and 2 more:
KEA
Archzine.net
There are many different styles of button flowers out there.These are just a couple:
Here is a diagram to help you make the above button flowers:
Julie Fitzgerald posted this on Pinterest
Crochet, anyone?
Buttons and felt seem to go
together so well:
You could easily make these into pins or magnets.
In ‘Little Men’ by Louisa May Alcott (published 1871) the Plumfield children reference playing ‘Button, button, who’s got the button?’
So what is this game/nursery rhyme I keepreferring to?to?
It’s a children’s game that has existed well before 1871 (see above).
to play:
Children stand in a circle with 1 in the center. They all hold out their hands, palms up and next to each other. The ‘it’ player has a button. ‘It’ goes around the circle and pretends to put the button in each child’s hands. ‘It does drop it into one child’s hands, but everyone pretends they have it. Then the first child guesses who might have the button.
“Button, button, who has the button? Is it ____?”
You go around the circle with each child having a turn, until the real button holder is guessed. The child who guesses correctly is the new ‘it’.
Let’s get fashionable with our buttons!
If you can do jump rings you could use this same idea and make a necklace.
Here’s a project that takes embroidery thread and beads:
Patti Bishop posted this on Pinterest
Is your button not quite the right color?
Here’s a clever trick to custom paint wood buttons:
I love this next fashion statement:
The credits for this are in Cyrillic. Sorry.
I have got to try this one.
Hot glue gun and Aleene’s Tacky glue here I come!
Okay blogspot has gone haywire on me and is doing really weird things with punctuation
and spacing GAAAhhhhhh
Time to stop!
Til next time
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I keep trying to fix the problem but have found no solution yet that works. I am so sorry for the messy look on this. It’s not how I typed it, truly!
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