Button Wednesday : Cork Buttons

It is Wednesday again, so it's BUTTON DAY on my blog !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I saw these cork buttons of oritdotan on Etsy and I like them very much. I have always liked cork; it's warm, soft and natural. Why did I not think about cork buttons before ?


So, I searched a bit further, and found that a firm called Pink Paislee makes cork buttons, of which Danielle Flanders made a lovely button bracelet.


Amy Kate gives a terrific tutorial on her blog "casa in the country" to make your own cork buttons from wine corks. I am certainly going to try that !!


These ones are from thedailymarker on Flickr and she distressed them to a get a dark color; lovely !


You can also paint them like Tracy did (alias ccyytt on Flickr).


And this last photo shows some ingenious cork buttons by The Knitting Physicist; it's a great tutorial ! Will try that soon 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 in the comments so that everybody can enjoy it !!

Button Wednesday : Button Calendars

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.

Because this first month of the New Year is still going strong, I thought I could still come with this awesome tutorial for a perpetual button calendar, which I saw on tumblr the other day. It is on craftzine and made by Diane Gilleland, who also has a lovely blog. I am certainly going to make this !

And what about this lovely perpetual button calendar where the buttons are attached with velcro ? It's in Rashida Coleman-Hale's I love Patchwork book. She tells about it in an interview on Zakka Life.


And a similar one from I heart linen.


This one from thejoysofjess is lovely too.

And something else from thejoysofjess, but cute too !


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

Buttons : Button Necklace Tutorial

A few weeks ago I placed a nice old card with Estonian costumes on Etsy, but had no idea from which areas the costumes were. Traditional costumes being my hobby, I searched the internet and tried to find information about it, but found nothing useful. So, I decided to ask my Estonian EST friends. I got lots of lovely reactions and one of them, Leina from XbyLeinaNeima, offered to buy me a book at the National Museum about traditional Estonian costumes in exchange for a tutorial from one of my button creations. I could not say no !!

The tutorial is part of an Estonian project by Leina and Marianne (from byMarianneS) about crafting with a recycling / upcycling character. It was my first ever tutorial and I loved doing it. Since today it's up on the Estonian Craft Blog; the text is in Estonian (such a beautiful language with all those vowels), but the pictures are clear and can be followed without the text. This weekend, Leina will also add an English version of the tutorial.