Buttons

I promised yesterday that I’d show you my recent button splurge, so here it is. As I photographed them, I loved them even more! Which is a good thing, considering how much I spent on them.

this is all of them

Most of them were 5 for $2.00, which makes it sound like I hardly spent anything really.

gorgeous square buttons with a hint of fire

Except, I of course wanted six of each, not five. you have to have enough spare buttons too, right? I mean, what if you lost one!

I’m a sucker for “embroidered” metal

Which is how this whole thing started in the first place.

more interesting metal buttons

See, one of my buttons had come off my coat. I’d put it in a really good safe place, so I’d be sure to have it when I got round to sewing it on.

three random single buttons that literally just jumped into my bag!

Of course, you know how that goes. I simply couldn’t remember where that safe spot was, and after weeks of searching, I gave up.

lovely smooth granite-looking buttons

I went back to the shop where I’d bought the coat, just on the off-chance they’d have spare ones floating around.

I adore these! I just love holding them, and running my thumb over their smooth flat tummies (wish I could say the same about mine!)

Lo and behold, not only did they have some of the buttons I needed, they had shelves lined with jars full of buttons!

unusual toggle buttons and those darling little silver things for the ends of twisted cords

I’ve been collecting buttons since, oh… well, decades now. My box is rather full with all kinds of buttons.

more gorgeous metal

I do use them, they don’t just sit there all dressed up with nowhere to go, like other collections I have.

yep. had to get these too.

I didn’t take close-ups of the little red buttons, or the lacy clear buttons, but they’re equally as gorgeous as the rest of them. I left the shop and drove off with a smile on my face the whole way home.