long lost buttons

 It's amazing what can happen when you clean up.  Emily gave me this giant bag of buttons, and it lay forgotten in a box until last week!  Um, how could I forget about these?  Oodles and oodles of vintage wood buttons. 

Yay! And thanks, Em!

vintage eye candy

 I scored some new old buttons at my sisters' Fritzi's sale a few weeks ago.  I need more buttons like I need a hole in my head, but that is a different story entirely.

Speaking of vintage lovelies, they still have lots of great items for sale - look here!

Email fritzis-seattle@hotmail.com if interested in any of these!

button inventory

Do you know about my button obsession? This post was intended for a few weeks ago, when buttons were on sale at JoAnn's. Maybe this isn't the sort of thing that makes your heart go pitter-patter, but it makes me plan a weekend to hit all the different JoAnn stores in the entire area to buy tons and tons of buttons. Don't judge; buttons are crazy expensive, ok?? I feel like a hoarder when I sidle up to the check-out stand and plop my basket down. The clerk's raised eyebrow. The inevitable question: "What are you going to do with all of these?" The yard-long receipt. The things I do for buttons.... Look at these really cute ones!

Button Box

Things have been super super SUPER busy. I did manage to have a bit of fun with organization though. Check out my new button box!

Yeah - I know - I need more buttons. I aspire to this, my Auntie Chris's button collection:

If a little bit of color sorting can't make a girl feel better, what will?

A Button Story

Once upon a time, there was a girl who loved buttons. She liked to talk to her co-workers about how much she loved collecting buttons, especially those of the vintage variety. One day a spectacular present was delivered to her! Sweet, huh?! Apparently our school secretary found this at some antique shop and got it for me. Awesome! If you think it looks nice and old, you're right, and it smelled nice and old too. :) So I took them home and washed them up...check out my new treasures!

These are my favorites:

There was even one just for Jamie!

And I can't end the post without a shot of my existing button collection. Sometimes I like to just open up the box and look at them. It doesn't take much to entertain some people!