Buttons, Buttons, So Many Buttons! (+ a Giveaway)
Welcome to Wednesday! Wednesday will be our Behind The Scenes day on the Mosh Posh blog. Today I want to talk about buttons. I have a lot of buttons. A lot is probably an understatement. As you can see I have buttons in a fish bowl, a cigar box and a ridiculous amount of bowls. There is a method to my madness, I promise.
The buttons that I use the most frequently (plus use for math lessons for Breuklyn, ha!) are in the Ziploc plastic container. It has a lid that I can twist on so my buttons can be portable, if necessary. The buttons in the bowls are from recent projects. Before I start working on a project, I pull out the colors that I am going to be working with. Once I am done I will organize them back into the smaller jars.
A lot of my buttons are from my grandmother. I love to pull out a pile of faded, scuffed ivory buttons. It reminds me of being a child sitting in the floor while Nan ironed my grandfather's dress shirts. She would ask me to find a specific button so that she could sew the extra onto his shirt. He was forever losing buttons it seemed.
How do you store your buttons? I would love to hear some new ideas! Leave a comment here with your ideas and I will choose one winner who will receive 100 of my favorite buttons! You have until Wednesday, September 9 to leave a comment. Have a great Wednesday!
24 comments:
Hi..
Well I Love buttons Also.. but i am really new in all this, so i danot have too many yet.. :D
But when i buy new clothes the extra buttons are put in my scrap Button Jar..
Love your kits!
Mia
Well, let's see...it appears from your photos that we have very similar button storage strategies. I keep mine in little jars, separated into color families. I keep my "vintage" buttons in a separate jar as they are super special to me. Giant buttons have thier own giant jar~
I absolutely love buttons too! A layout is just not finished unless it sports a few :-) I store my buttons in mason jars. I love the vintage feel of that type of storage. By the way, Love that September kit!
Buttons are one of my favorite embellishments. I have buttons in a mason jar, a shaker box, and a ziploc baggy. Unfortunately there is no rhyme or reason to my madness...my plan is to get a rhyme or reason soon :-)
LOVED looking at your buttons! Me? I don't have so many. But I store them in wide mouth Mason jars. I bought a dozen for about $7.00 at Walmart. What a deal, hun? I put one color in each jar. Currently, the blue jar is winning. The red jar is just about empty. Anyway, they're all lined up on my shelf.....sooooo pretty. Looks like a lot of us love this method. LOL
I store most of my buttons in three-level fishing tackle boxes (stackable, extendable!). Those that I paw through more frequently go into my former bead boxes (single-level, translucent top) by whatever criterion is deemed important (size, color, rarity).
But my FAVORITE buttons get pinned to things and displayed in some way: I have a teddy bear COVERED in buttons (it started with her smock but quickly absorbed the whole bear!) and a couple of felt wall hangings on which the girls have rearranged the buttons to make pictures.
Also: many buttons have made their "storage" homes in old board games (in lieu of lost playing pieces).
I have my grandmother's(she will be 101 yrs in October) antique Wooden Bread mixing bowl. I too am addicted to buttons and I feel you can NEVER have too many!
Estee, I don't have NEAR the button supply you do!! I have one set of those little MM jars you have. I have ALL of my buttons in those little jars. I pulled all the extra buttons I have collected over the years off of our clothes and added those as well. It really is a pathetic button supply!! LOL
I don't have enough buttons to have a system...think I need to win some. :D
oh I adore buttons, especially, vintage ones! Because, I like to look at them I store mine in clear containers and I put my newly aquired treasures in little bowl on my desk until they get replaced by newer finds!
Definitely love buttons! I bought those white stackable storage cubes from Michaels and one of the drawers has dividers and I keep mine in there by color. I just sorted them by color w/in the month because I dropped the drawer! My husband helped thank the lord because it took us over an hour! LOL
I store my buttons in little containers sorted by color (most of the time!) I love my buttons!
oh I love buttons!!! I store mine in an old spice rack.. =) the little jars are perfect for my buttons.. =)
I love buttons, too. Just last night I altered an empty folgers instant coffee jar for my buttons. I turned out really cute!
Ok, I don't store them YET because I don't have enough in my collection =( I literally have an active post on craigslist looking for old buttons lol. I have small collection that I keep in one pretty jar, but I WANT MORE!! LOL =)
I keep mine in Mason jars because that is the way my grandma always stored hers. I sort mine buttons by colors.
I store my buttons in empty Prima bottles, they make me happy to look at =)
I adore buttons. I have a clear plastic shoe box that I bought. I've been using so many of them that it's only about 1/5 full right now which is low for me. I love the idea of using glass bottles with them sorted by color, but I have to wait until the kiddos are a little bit older. They would break them! I loved viewing your button collection!
i store them seperated by color in baby food jars.
Hi, Buttons are great, some are nearly a work of art in their own right... I sort them by colour into many small resealable bags. This way I can find them quickly and they don't take take up too much space.
Hi! Currently I store my buttons in stacking screw top containers. They work well for me because they are clear and they screw into one another. Eventually I would like to get a magnetic board and use the magnetic containers to store my buttons(to free up some table space) Wishful thinking :)
my buttons are in a box separate by color !
i love your jar !
Caroline (kyopuce)
I store mine in old mason jars!
I have some vintage buttons in an old vintage medicine bottle..other buttons are stored in a glass food canister; jumbo ones sit on my desk in a little decorative flower tray.
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