November 30th, 2010
This is a fab tutorial I’ve been wanting to try out for ages. I’ve got a huge box of magnets that came with the badgemaker I bought a few years ago, but they are the wrong size for the badge component and so not suitable for making badge like magnets. But instead of throwing them away, I’ve squirreled them away for a rainy day or should I say snowy…
November 2nd, 2010
I’ve just listed another 12 unique pairs of button earrings in my shop. There are some lovely colours here too. Bright yellow, turquoise, red, purple as well as paler shades of pink, salmon and green.
November 1st, 2010
I’ve just listed a few button earrings in my online shop. Lots of different styles and colours, they’re all small and delicate and made from interesting vintage buttons.
September 30th, 2010
I got round to photographing my lovely new button chokers today. I still haven’t finished them off and decided how I’m going to do that yet, but thank you all for your suggestions and advice. I think I’m going to make them all a standard length and attach a extension chain to each of them so people can adjust the length to suit them.
September 30th, 2010
I’ve been lots of button brooches for my up and coming craft fairs and just got round to taking photo’s of the first batch. I used to make flowers of all different sizes and colours, but I’ve decided to stick to the simple daisy design this time around as I love making them so much.
September 29th, 2010
Whilst recouperating last week I made myself a button choker to cheer myself up. I bought some really lovely 2mm leather thonging a while back and have never used it and when I was in London I managed to get hold of some really lovely buttons at the Spittalfields market – I lay there bored out of my brains and the idea of chokers came to mind.
September 18th, 2010
Vintage button pendants are back! Developed through my love of finding beauty in everyday items and a desire to reduce, reuse and recycle, I have created a unique range of vintage button pendants from my collection of interesting, elaborate and decorative buttons. I’ve just added some new vintage button pendants to my shop and will be adding a few more tomorrow.
September 18th, 2010
I’ve been busy coming up with new button notecards recently and only just got round to photographing the new designs today. Here is a sneak peek at all the new designs and I will be adding these to my shop tonight.
August 31st, 2010
I’ve finally got round to using the 100% card stock I purchased a while ago and made some lovely new button notecards in three different styles. There will be more styles on the way as I have plenty of ideas and designs going round my head, but three for now gives you plenty to choose from.
August 13th, 2010
I’d never heard of the artist Ran Hwang until today – I was using the new Google image search facility – which I absolutely love as it’s just so organic now – and just happened upon an image of some of her work. I clicked through to her website and was amazed. She uses buttons and pins and large expanses of wall and creates the most amazing images. I guess it could be a modern day take on pointillism in that when you see the work up close, it just looks like a load of dots, but when you stand back and your eyes adjust, the dots merge to form birds and cherry blossom etc.
August 9th, 2010
Just before I get stuck into a project that I’m going to be immersed in for the next three days I thought I would have a few minutes online of vintage button therapy and here are a few images I want to share with you…
July 7th, 2010
The lovely folk at Makers-Online have just opened their doors to entries for their Trash to Treasure competition. There’s a £200 cash prize and Rachelle Strauss from www.myzerowaste.com has agreed to do the judging! So get your thinking caps on and get creative with your waste and come up with something amazing and enter the competition.
June 18th, 2010
I’ve been really busy with my pieces for the Creative Exchange of late – so much so that I’ve forgotten to post up my progress. I’ve got so much to do this month that time is very limited, but I want to post up a few more piccies to show you how I’m getting on.
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