My button box is very much a work in progress. I feel envy when I see blog photographs of overflowing button boxes. I remember playing with my grandmother's button box as a child and it felt like such precious treasure that I cannot imagine a real pirate's booty giving me a better feeling. From a very young age I spent hours making patterns and pictures, (heck, it was the seventies, choking wasn't such a fear, once you were walking you were pretty much able for anything, I even wore mittens attached through my sleeves on a long piece of string, and guess what? I managed not to hang myself!). My button box is a very poor treasure chest at present, I do save buttons from old clothes and it is growing but I felt it needed boosting.....
These buttons are from Ebay, vintage buttons for a song and I love them, I paid very little and didn't expect much but felt a little flutter of excitement when I opened the envelope (which arrived the very next day). There are so many lovely buttons here, but I do have a few favourites. Apologies for the light, we are grey today, and indeed yesterday, the day before that and so on...
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We still have strings on children mittens here in Germany, very useful for having only pairs insteed of a lot of singles.
I have my Grans button tin, which I must dig out for a little nostalgic look. I do have a button box of my own which I allowed the boys to play with, they too had mittens on strings.
i love your growing collection and find much inspiration from it.