Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Buttons : Goofies


What are goofies ? or novelties ? or moderns ? or realistics ?
All different words for the same type of buttons, i.e. buttons in the shape of realistic items, such as hearts, cars, animals, etc. They are sometimes quite stunning and, therefore, popular collecting items !
Some of my own goofies; heart, turtle, fish, "E", bird, cat, horse, dog, car, leaf, hats, cars, leaf, heart.


Here some great goofies on Etsy:
1. Bear from KathieWeise
2. Robot from kittyrobot
3. Flowers from Lilley
4. Leaf from sarabeedesigns
5. Stones from StonehouseSupply
6. Stars from buttonzone
7. Owl from siennaorlando
8. Sheep from TinyArk
9. Sunflowers from forsythecompanystore
10. Black birds from buttonsbyrobin
11. House from BranchDesigns
12. Ninjas from MakeMesses

11 comments:

dulceamapola said...

the black birds are cool!

Kreativlink said...

Great collection! :)

StaroftheEast said...

Love the owl and house of your Etsy findings, fun buttons!

Heli said...

Fun collection! Thanks for sharing :)

Mitsy / ArtMind said...

Ohhh, goofies are superfun! I love 'em! :)

Chichiboulie said...

I didn't realise they had a name other than buttons. I love goofies!

ingermaaike said...

Learned a new thing again, thanks!

Anonymous said...

Really nice! Love them!

Anonymous said...

Wow! I think i have found someone who loves buttons even more than i do! I didn't think it was possible! :)

You have some really interesting ones there. I'm going to take a look at my 'goofies' and take some pics to show you!

Sigmosaics said...

wow, so cool!! what a fun collection :D

retrovertigovintage.com said...

Great collection! Love those robots!!!