Button Wednesday : Even More Lamps

It is Wednesday again, so it's BUTTON DAY on my blog. It would be great if you could do the same; make your Wednesday a button day too. Have you seen a lovely, beautiful, stunning, crazy button or button-related thingy, or did you make something with a button / buttons, or did you even make buttons yourself, blog about it on your blog on Wednesday, and give the link here via Mister Linky at the end of this post.


I made already two Button Wednesdays about lamps (here and here), and this will be the third one :) But this time it's more about lampshades, and even some links for you to try it yourself. First (picture above) I want to show you a button lampshade from Tracey Kendall for Habitat (2006); this is the same Tracey Kendall I blogged about earlier to show you her amazing wallpaper. Her lampshade has small pearl buttons all over it, attached by kimble tags.

These three gorgeous lamps are from greca; they are called planet, sunset and tube. The sunset is my own favourite. Argentinian based Greca makes lots of other funky button creations too.

The next three lamps are from Israelian based design studio Mesila; they are all made from Sara Bookshpan's inheritance (sounds very much like my own inheritance....).

And here a list of DIY button lampshades:
Trash to Treasure: Button Details from
HGTV Start at home
HOW TO: Button-bling lampshade makeover from CraftCrafty
Easy Button Lampshade from Better Homes and Gardens
Button Lamps Shade by Katy Boothe
Button Crafts and Collectibles: How to Make a Button Lampshade from Home Improvement




!!!!!!!!!! If you have something for The Button Wednesday, give Mister Linky your name and the link to your button post !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Buttons : "De Knopenwinkel"

Because I will be in hospital next week for another OP, I blog already about a fantastic button shop I visited in Amsterdam (in stead of my Button Wednesday Post). Pieter and I hired bikes in the hotel and biked along the canals in Amsterdam like real tourists. Then I saw this incredible large button hanging above a door and read something about "knopen" (dutch for buttons). So we stopped, and I had to look in.

I saw beautiful lamp shades totally encovered with mother of pearl buttons. I met Thea, the owner of "De Knopenwinkel" (translated: The Button Shop) who made the lamp shades, and it clicked instantly. I showed her my card and told her about the market the day after, and she was excited and promised to visit me at the market. I loved it when I saw her coming on the market and she loved my button creations. This will be the beginning of a very nice contact; I will make some stunning mother of pearl creations for her shop !