We love buttons. We sort buttons. We sew buttons. We make buttons. So we were really happy when we found out about the Texas State Button Society Show and Sale, March 23 to 24 of this year, near Dallas! It’s only about a three-hour drive for us! We’re going!
Could anything be more thrilling than that? Yes! The National Button Society Show will be in Dallas, in August! Eva and I are already planning a trip.
And speaking of buttons, we had a polymer clay session a few weeks ago. Ella made a fashion girl. Eva made earrings. I made buttons. Eva used school colors for her earrings, and she wanted to decorate them with shamrocks, which are the logo of our small town. “But Mom,” she said, “we don’t have a shamrock-shaped cutter.”
“No,” I said, “but we have a heart-shaped cutter.” She got the idea right away. I love it when the solutions are simple.
We have a bagful of scraps from previous projects, and I’ve been using those to make buttons during these sessions. The nice thing about using scraps is that if the button turns out badly, you just squish it back into the scrap pile. There are uses for the muddiest of scraps, so none is wasted.
But sometimes scrap buttons turn out wonderfully! This one was my favorite of the bunch:
