That is, why did I do either of these projects...
I have BUTTONS, Buttons, and more buttons! Actually alot of them are quite old or fancy so I package them up and sell them in my ETSY store, but many are just plain ole buttons, the leftovers from sweaters and shirts and a few from coats and other ones when you buy six and you only need 4 -- you know that sort of thing...
Well, also being somewhat addicted to Pinterest, I have one of my "boards" as BUTTONS and looking through them the other day, I thought " I CAN DO THAT!" even though I really didn't need to and it took up time where I could have been vacuuming the stairs or dusting the ornaments or even washing the pots and pans, but instead I chose to play with buttons....
Not only buttons but a bunch of old costume jewellery that my Aunt gave me last summer -- those earrings and pendants really add bling to the buttons!
And really, do I need a reused peanut butter jar (painted on the inside with beige acrylic paint) with dozens of these things glued on? HMMMMM.... I did have in mind that it might make a chunky vase for the occassional live flowers that find their way into my house, but then do the flowers want to compete with fake diamonds?
And then I was surfin' through some web sites and came across a quilt of 'canning' jars -- You've seen them, right? the jar shape with printed fabric with a variety of food prints or bug prints or...
And it crossed my mind why don't I do that and sew real buttons onto the jar shape...
Does it need more buttons or not?
I can't seem to get a straight answer from the Quilt Inspector, Walter...
8 comments:
lots of lovely buttons!
Much better use of your time than cleaning! LOL! You have some fun buttons there, but I'm not sure what you should do with all of them either!
I have a ton of old buttons that an elderly lady gave me eons ago. I love them and often wonder what to do with them too:) I also collect button projects on Pinterest...so may interesting ideas out there.
Button, button, who's got...?
Cute projects...and you probably could add a few more buttons to that fabric jar...and mount it with buttoned-down tabs! ;-)
P.S. did you see Cathy's post about buttons?
http://cathytomm.blogspot.ca/2013/02/wip-wednesday.html
I really think your button jar needs to fill up about 3/4s. Then hang it on your wall. Love it!
Cleaning is definitely over rated. Have you ever heard anyone, late in life, saying "I wish I had spent more time cleaning"?
Perhaps this can be an ongoing WIP, and you can sew a button on whenever you have the urge.
How incredible that you sacrificed cleaning for crafting! ;-)
That button jar is much cuter than the printed-fabric variety.
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