I need buttons

Patsy Warnick · Post by **Patsy Warnick** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 10:43 pm

Doesn't anybody have buttons.?

I have been going to garage sales - estate sales - thrift shops

I've even stopped in at dry cleaners/menders - they looked at me kinda strange...? :wah:

People still collect buttons & throw them into a jar or a tin right..?

Well, I use to be able to find a tin full of buttons - now they don't exist.

Does anyone want to get rid of some Buttons...? come on,,, give 'em up....

Thank You

Patsy

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:04 pm

Dilemma !

Go to Michaels or that other place...uhhh you know that other place.

I bet they have buttons fit for a king.

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:23 pm

Patsy Warnick;1117321 wrote: Doesn't anybody have buttons.?

I have been going to garage sales - estate sales - thrift shops

I've even stopped in at dry cleaners/menders - they looked at me kinda strange...? :wah:

People still collect buttons & throw them into a jar or a tin right..?

Well, I use to be able to find a tin full of buttons - now they don't exist.

Does anyone want to get rid of some Buttons...? come on,,, give 'em up....

Thank You

Patsy

Where did the expression "Button button, whose got the button"? come from? Have you heard that?

Patsy Warnick · Post by **Patsy Warnick** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:24 pm

I have to tell ya - I was shocked at the $$$ price of buttons..!!!

I looked while in Hawaii - nothing, no scaps

While looking - the price, you kidding me. I have a fortune in these jars....:wah:

I don't want to own a button Co.. they're expensive, I had no idea..

this is a craft project from scaps FUNK ART, from Maricopa Martha...:yh_rotfl

Patsy

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 2:34 am

Patsy Warnick;1117331 wrote: I have to tell ya - I was shocked at the $$$ price of buttons..!!!

I looked while in Hawaii - nothing, no scaps

While looking - the price, you kidding me. I have a fortune in these jars....:wah:

I don't want to own a button Co.. they're expensive, I had no idea..

this is a craft project from scaps FUNK ART, from Maricopa Martha...:yh_rotfl

Patsy

PM me your address or a P/O addy Patsy and I will gather up all my buttons and post them to you.

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 3:08 am

I have some buttons that I'll send on Patsy. Pm me you addy again, and I'll send on the small packet that I have. If I find any in the $1 store, I'll send them on also.

I'm going to the post office this morning and will post them on...

How are you...well I hope...

kazalala · Post by **kazalala** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 3:10 am

when my son and daughter were little and had to trail around after me in clothes shops:rolleyes: they used to nick the spare buttons from the insides of jackets blouses etc.

:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl i found out one day when my daughter was happily looking at her collection kept in a shoe box,, :-5:yh_rotfl

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 3:39 am

I bet this woman's got a few spare.

Pearly Queen.

Kindle · Post by **Kindle** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 3:50 am

Two points:

Where'd the expression "Cute as a botton" come from?

In collecting buttons, what is the collector looking for in deciding which to keep and which to pass on? It's not just quanity, is it?

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 3:57 am

abbey;1117370 wrote: I bet this woman's got a few spare.

Pearly Queen.

Oh, my nerves Abbey...what's up wit da hair now:yh_rotfl

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 4:05 am

I was in my favorite pub, Klees, last night. Your woman walks in with this fabulous jacket full of safety pins....hundreds of them....All I could do was stare at her jacket.

She finally came over and gave me a better look. She just loves safety pins, collects them and creates art work....

weeder · Post by **weeder** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 4:16 am

Have you ever seen the earrings made out of antique buttons? There are some places here that have very beautiful buttons. Same for me... send me your address, tell me what you want, and when I come across some, I will send them to you.

I am alwys on the look out for floral tissue paper. I haunt all of the craft stores

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 4:30 am

weeder;1117389 wrote: Have you ever seen the earrings made out of antique buttons? There are some places here that have very beautiful buttons. Same for me... send me your address, tell me what you want, and when I come across some, I will send them to you.

I am alwys on the look out for floral tissue paper. I haunt all of the craft stores

Floral tissue paper Weeder...is that tissue paper with all sorts of flowers....if so, I'll keep an eye out...

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 5:14 am

At the local flea market, I do see the occasional jar of buttons. So people still do collect them in this way. You just have to go on a quest if and when you go to a flea market.

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Peg · Post by **Peg** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 5:31 am

I'm pretty sure I have some buttons around here some where. I'll look and if I do, they're yours. If I have a button down shirt that is ruined, I take the buttons off before throwing it out or using it as a cleaning rag. I know how hard buttons are to find these days.

scholle-kid · Post by **scholle-kid** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 11:13 am

Lon;1117330 wrote: Where did the expression "Button button, whose got the button"? come from? Have you heard that?

It is a childrens game. I remember playing it in sunday school .

Patsy Warnick · Post by **Patsy Warnick** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 6:01 pm

I need color buttons, all colors, especially Green.

Along for the Ride

I go to alot of sales to look and ask - this one lady went into her house and came out with her buttons stored in Presc. Med. Bottles, I bought them. :wah:

Kindle

Collecting Buttons - on a serious collection you'll want the old glass buttons.

Rhinestone Buttons - Military Buttons - info thru internet or there are books.

I collect Vintage Clothing, the buttons are beautiful - elaborate - gotty

I love 'em.

Anyone wanting to get rid of the Buttons your Hording - I'll take them..:wah:

I'll keep looking

Thanks

Patsy

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 6:12 pm

Patsy...did you see my post #6

Quote by Kathy Ellen

I have some buttons that I'll send on Patsy. Pm me you addy again, and I'll send on the small packet that I have. If I find any in the $1 store, I'll send them on also.

I'm going to the post office this morning and will post them on...

How are you...well I hope...

Patsy Warnick · Post by **Patsy Warnick** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 7:07 pm

Yeh, Kathy E, I'm working on it now Thank You..

I should say ALL BUTTONS are appreciated, white, color, strange, I'll take'em..

That pic Abbey posted is beautiful, I really like that.

This coat/outfit would be very heavy, you don't realize the weight of several Buttons and the weight would then pull/stretch the fabric.

OK - anyone else willing to give up their Jar of Buttons...?

Thanks

Patsy

scholle-kid · Post by **scholle-kid** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 7:27 pm

I have a couple of handfuls of hand made buttons I have picked up over the years while hunting arrow heads. they look to be made of ivory .

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 7:37 pm

scholle-kid;1117942 wrote: I have a couple of handfuls of hand made buttons I have picked up over the years while hunting arrow heads. they look to be made of ivory .

How cool is that SchoolKid....Are these old buttons...

I found an arrow head while I was digging a garden in my childhood home. It was made by a Pamrapo Native American...I had it evaluated in the Newark Museum of History in NJ.

How are you ScholleKid...don't see you enough in the FG...hope all is well:-4

Patsy Warnick · Post by **Patsy Warnick** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 7:47 pm

Scholle

Your buttons could very well be Ivory / Bone.

I have some too - some with detail etchings of a Whale.

Buttons have a history & depending on STYLE, would dictate the needed Button -they are actually Art to me.

Patsy

scholle-kid · Post by **scholle-kid** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:11 pm

Kathy Ellen;1117943 wrote: How cool is that SchoolKid....Are these old buttons...

I found an arrow head while I was digging a garden in my childhood home. It was made by a Pamrapo Native American...I had it evaluated in the Newark Museum of History in NJ.

How are you ScholleKid...don't see you enough in the FG...hope all is well:-4

Here where I live and have lived 43 of my 48 years of life is surrounded by old Native American ruins, the spanards came here over 6 hundred years ago and 'modernized' the natives.(just a little history) so yes i belive my buttons are very old . i think I have at least one maybe more photos in my album of some of the petrogelphs we have all over the hills around here, i'll go look and if not i will upload some.

i have been having some back problems that come from to many years in the saddle :yh_cowboylooking between a horses ears up a cows *** :yh_cow:yh_blush and sometimes not sticking like glue in same saddle when a dummy horse forgot who was boss:rolleyes: but it's nothing seriouse and probally has more to do with getting older than anything else,,,:)

thank you for asking.

scholle-kid · Post by **scholle-kid** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 9:17 pm

I have up loaded 3 pics of the rock art or petrogelphs on the ranch.

Patsy Warnick · Post by **Patsy Warnick** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 9:24 pm

ScholleK

that's a treasure hunt.

I have a few Arrowheads

want to trade??

My back hurts too:(

Patsy

scholle-kid · Post by **scholle-kid** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:04 pm

Patsy Warnick;1117966 wrote: ScholleK

that's a treasure hunt.

I have a few Arrowheads

want to trade??

My back hurts too:(

Patsy

It actully isn't much of a hunt really. After a good rain if you get out just as the sun is comming up all the arrow head pieces and parts and some real nice whole ones sometimes just are sitting on top right there shining like jewels . what we use to call ' the milk cow pasture' because when my grandparents were still running the ranch we always had milk cows, anyways just bringing n the cows a kid could come home with 2 pockets overloaded with pottery shards and grandma would act like it was gold anf silver she always had a fruitcake tin just begging to be filled ,, when I got older and had kids big enough to go after the cows and watched her do the same with my kids ,,, it turns out as a tin would fill up grandpa would take the shards out on the ranch while fixinf fence or feeding and wa la grandma always made the kid feel extra special cuz she always had a tin just begging to be filled , she had about a dozen different tins and at least half was always there, during long boring winter evenings kids were kept occupied sorting thur trying to puzzle togather a pot

I miss my grandma she had a way with kids

Patsy Warnick · Post by **Patsy Warnick** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:14 pm

Cool memory

Did your Grandma have Buttons..?

Come on - I need Buttons

Enjoyed your treasure hunt

Patsy

scholle-kid · Post by **scholle-kid** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 12:03 am

yes my grandma had buttons .

but my aunt got them.

I have an old 1/2 gallon hard candy tin of buttons in one of my sheds that came with a 1940's model singer sewing machine my son bought me for mothers day several years ago. I will dig them out and share some of them with you.

Patsy Warnick · Post by **Patsy Warnick** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 12:14 am

Scholle

I read pasture & grandma, I knew there were Buttons in this memory story..

You ever come across a handful of Buttons, send them my way, I'd appreciate it.

Again

Nice Memories

Patsy

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 4:05 am

There sure are some beautiful buttons to be had.

pinkchick · Post by **pinkchick** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 7:19 am

Big bag of buttons going free to a good home

Patsy they have your name on them if you'd like them :-6:-4

Patsy Warnick · Post by **Patsy Warnick** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 6:17 pm

I received a bag of Buttons - Thank You KathyEllen

They're perfect & appreciated

Patsy

qsducks · Post by **qsducks** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 6:59 pm

Patsy Warnick;1117321 wrote: Doesn't anybody have buttons.?

I have been going to garage sales - estate sales - thrift shops

I've even stopped in at dry cleaners/menders - they looked at me kinda strange...? :wah:

People still collect buttons & throw them into a jar or a tin right..?

Well, I use to be able to find a tin full of buttons - now they don't exist.

Does anyone want to get rid of some Buttons...? come on,,, give 'em up....

Thank You

Patsy

Wish I had known you awhile ago and that you were into buttons. Had a whole big bag of them that I picked up form freecycle.org Saved some for projects & crafts and gave the rest away to a friend who teaches pre-school.

Patsy Warnick · Post by **Patsy Warnick** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:06 pm

Pinkchick

OMG, the buttons are tiny and the collection is so bright with color & size....

The buttons arrived today - they're wonderful...

You save me from stealing the neighbors clothes from the clothes line..:wah:

Thank you so much - just exactly what I needed

very nice of you & KathyEllen

Thank You

Patsy

pinkchick · Post by **pinkchick** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:10 pm

Patsy Warnick;1131233 wrote: Pinkchick

OMG, the buttons are tiny and the collection is so bright with color & size....

The buttons arrived today - they're wonderful...

You save me from stealing the neighbors clothes from the clothes line..:wah:

Thank you so much - just exactly what I needed

very nice of you & KathyEllen

Thank You

Patsy

You're more than welcome :-4