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Uses for old buttons
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rotflmao. gotta do the button defense thing. only problem is i'm running out of buttons. ;D
what does rotflmao mean? ???
Cathy, you seen too many 'Death Wish' movies;D
160, you've got the base - how about sticking buttons onto the shade?
I saw a 'changing rooms' type programme on TV once and they covered a coffee table with buttons (made an interesting design) and then topped it with glass. Saw another where they bought box-frames and stuck buttons into those.
I have some Christmas decorations that are button men - 1 string of large buttons for the body; 2 strings of buttons for legs and 2 for arms, intersperced with small beads for the joints. Use larger ones for the head and feet - but you could use corks.0 -
Forgot to say that they're great for children making birthday and Christmas cards.
Also, you could donate them to school for their bazaar and have a 'how many buttons in the jar' stall ( mind you, someone would have to count them then) and then let them use them in the art department.
I stitched what seemed like thousands onto a skirt for my daughter once. Monsoon were selling similar ones at the time but as she had a plain one, I just decorated it and she got loads of compliments about it.0 -
rotflmao = rolling on the floor laughing my a$$ off.
thanks for the ideas chris, i have a small table with a glass top, with about a half inch gap between the glass and the wood, think that idea is wonderful. will have to find it first, think its still in the garage from moving. ::)0 -
oh ok ;D0
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found the table last night (and bought another big jar of buttons at a jumble sale yesterday) so going to give that a go tonight. i am becomming the button queen.0
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I've found a use for some of mine..............my daughter has to make a venetian style mask for an art project. She's decided to use buttons to form her design.
Oh well, I suppose that will get rid of about 20 - only another million or so to go!! ::)0 -
Don't know why I didn't think of this earlier......... but as I was wading through daughter's bedroom on the hunt for plates, bowls, glasses etc, I stepped onto one of her flip flops that was lurking under a magazine.
Anyway, she bought them from Accessorize in the summer and the plastic V shapes have little jewels and buttons glued onto them.
I know it's a bit late for this year but maybe something for next summer?0 -
I saw a beanie hat in the joe brown's brochure, £13.99. it has a few rows of buttons stitched around the bottom.
https://www.joebrowns.co.uk
very trendy
remember - you saw it here first! Us moneysavers are ahead of the pack ;DMember no.1 of the 'I'm not in a clique' group :rotfl:
I have done reading too!
To avoid all evil, to do good,
to purify the mind- that is the
teaching of the Buddhas.0
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