Showing posts with label Buttons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Buttons. Show all posts

20 April 2011

Boys will be boys...

Sorry for the lack of posts, I have been busy with my two boys and not had much of a chance to post anything...

Yesterday was one of those eventful days that will be imprinted on my brain for life! It was a beautiful warm day and we spent a lot of the time outside.  I decided I couldn't just sit outside and watch the boys, you know relax in the sun like you should when your'e on leave, so I decanted the ever growing button stash onto a blanket and sat in the sun to sort through them.

Great I thought, until my lovely boys decided it would be great fun to bash each other with brooms!!! Let's just say one ended up crying his eyes out and the other throwing a strop because I told him off for making his brother cry.  Then the little one decides to help me sort the buttons out, putting them into all the wrong pots!

I decided an indoor break was in order and Jack wanted to play upstairs, so we all went up (that way I could keep an eye on them) and I decided I would catch up with my emails so left Harry to play in his bedroom.

Five minutes later and an 8 year old screaming "Oh my God Mum look what Harry has done!" as you can imagine I have never moved so fast in my life. Harry is standing there, butt naked covered in orange pen...yes orange pen...he looked like an Oompa Loompa!!! Unfortunately I didn't take a photo because I was worried about getting it off him, but he looked something like this.....


Okay he didn't look quite like this but oh dear, left any longer he might have!!

We're off out today, not sure where yet maybe to the coast for walk on the beach (a scavenger hunt for me, for my beach themed bathroom?!?) Anyhow, off to do breakfast for my boys...the treasures! TTFN ~x~

4 April 2011

Buttons here and buttons there...

Did I tell you about my button collection?  I love buttons and I like making canvas pictures from them, so imagine my glee when a colleague of my Mum said that her Mum who had recently passed away collected buttons and she wanted to give them away to someone who would appreciate them.

Light bulb goes off in my Mum's head, and she suggest me! So I go to my Mum's work and collect boxes (and I mean boxes) of buttons.  I was so excited that when I got home I immediately started sorting them into colours;


See I wasn't joking about the amount of buttons I received (this isn't all of them).  I had saved some Douwe Egberts coffee jars and thought what better was to store my new stash, that way I can see what I have instantly.

Today I get a phone call from my Mum saying a man would be delivering three storage boxes of buttons....O.M.G....more buttons! I am in my nirvana; I love, adore, covet buttons....so they arrive and I use the good weather outside and the fact that Harry needs some fresh air and we're out there!  Sorting buttons once more;


Do you have a crazy, mad collection?...TTFN ~x~

25 March 2011

Folksy Finds on Friday...

This week those crafty guys at Folksy have done some great work.

This weeks theme.....Button Art.

  1. Floral button picture ~ £30.00 @ Blooming Buttons
  2. Blue Button Fish Canvas ~ £15.75 @ Doodle Dandy
  3. Owl Wall Art Framed  ~ £30.00 @ Emmelina
  4. Personalised Button Heart Picture ~ £40.00 @ Charlotte Ranford Designs
  5. Bright Flowers Framed Collage ~ £25.00 @ 100 Percent Delicate
  6. SMothers Day Canvas ~ £14.00  @ Pretty Petal Handmade
I am a huge fan of buttons, I adore them and have mine stashed in beautiful glass jars, so I can see all the wonderful coloured buttons I have. I love using buttons to make art, I have listed my blue fish above from my shop on Folksy, so as you can imagine it's one of my favourites. However I love the simplicity of the Personalised Button Heart by Charlotte Ranford Designs, what do you think??  TTFN ~x~
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