Petit Pillow Pals/Cute cushion character creations – Who knows?

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Have I lost the plot??? I just can’t stop making things and adding buttons!!!

 

I have more scraps of fabric than I know what to do with, so, I started making little cute fun fabric ‘pillow pals’/’cute character (mini) cushions’. These are what happened after a day of supposedly tidying up!

It gave an new outlet to the many million buttons I need to give a new home to. Oh well, never mind to the new mess I made as well, I suppose 🙂

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Button craft – ”Button Buddy” OWLS and other cute creations in button craft

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”Button Buddy” Owls

 

I really do seem to be feeding my button-fest mood at the moment, every shop I go into which sells buttons has my custom almost guaranteed !!! Along with the thousands of vintage buttons I have in my collection I have been adding many new ones too. I just love to create and what better than with the odd button or two…or three…or four and more… and other bits and pieces (most people would throw away) too! :-).

My ”Button Buddies” range started a few years ago, when I went to a button flower craft workshop, everyone was making button flowers – except me- I wanted to create something much more exciting and individual, so I set about making little characters instead. At the end of the class, people sat with their creations in front of them. Needless to say, mine were not anything to do with the class and entirely unique! Yay!!! Since then I have been incorporating each and every indivdual unique button character creation into many different things, these deep box framed wall plaques are another in my range

Button Craft – Recycling Old Buttons – Trinket Box Button Craft

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Recycling Old Buttons

Having acquired probably thousands of old buttons over the years, my main idea is to give them all, at some point, a second chance. Recycling them, usually not in the way they were designed to be used, as fasteners on clothing, but as decorative and creative pieces of artwork. Also in this section, of Button Craft, you will see my original idea of creating little character “Button Craft – ‘Button Buddy’ Brooches – Recycling Old Buttons ” as Brooches and on Button Craft – My ‘Button Buddy’ Characters. This little wooden box has been covered with what we now consider to be out of fashion old brass and pewter buttons. On their own they seem worthless, not so, now arranged as decorative and beautiful on this little trinket box!

Below are other little trinket boxes covered in Recycled Old Buttons