Sitting on the floor surrounded by buttons! ;-)

When I was very young, I had a fascination with my grandma's button box.
It intrigued me and I would sit for hours playing with the buttons, wondering about their adventures in life...they were all old buttons with a history!

From that day, I have always loved buttons! I started my own button box years ago . I never throw away any buttons.

The funny thing is that my grandma's surname actually was ... Mrs Button!

Last year, I bought two of those CK boxes with compartments and sorted all my buttons into colours. It took me an age but I was very satisfied when the job was done!

Last week, I was having a bit of a tidy up... and knocked over both boxes on to the floor.
Great!

So there I was sitting on the floor surrounded by buttons (picture the scene and do laugh out loud!), calling myself all the names under the sun, until I started to paw over the buttons and the memories of my grandma's button box came flooding back.

My crafting, on Friday afternoon, was spent making some little button bags with a touch of vintage....my lovely feedsack fabric.

I'm going to sell these with some buttons included...but...

As it's my birthday at the end of the week, I'm also making a surprise one for a birthday giveaway...with some buttons included!

I'll announce the winner on Friday ;-)

It'll include a touch of vintage feedsack fabric and some lovely calico cotton fabric.

All you need to do is make a comment on this post, mentioning buttons in some way!

And if you fancy learning a bit more about the history of buttons...here's a link...

p://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A23623616