I have a bit of a thing for buttons. I have collected them for as long as I can remember. If a clothing item comes with a spare or a button falls off something, I absolutely CANNOT throw it away. It immediately goes into my huge button jar. When Aaron's grandmother passed away this past summer I inherited her big box of buttons. Seems she too was a button collector! She took it a couple steps further however, hers were sorted by color and she would even cut the buttons off of clothing before tossing old clothes. How genius!
Recently I saw an idea to make a button tree as a Christmas decoration. The majority of the buttons used were Great Lee's, but in my collection I also have buttons of my Nana and Aaron's Grandma Erickson. I thought it was the perfect item to make with Grandma's buttons. We will think of them always.
4 comments:
Lisa, that turned out BEAUTIFUL! It's even prettier when you add the sentimental value!
What a lovely thing to do, and a great "family love" lesson for your children.
Beautiful!
Oh Lisa, that's beautiful! What a great, great, idea! I save all my buttons, too, but mine are stuffed into a bag...now you've inspired me to organize them...duh...never thought of that! ;.)
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