The Creative Process - Looking At Old Buttons For Miniature Inspiration!
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- This week we took a look through a jar of old buttons we were kindly given. We thought we would try to make as many miniature projects as we can with them. This is us going through the first creative process of looking through them and searching for inspiration. Hope you enjoy x
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@theminitureworldofkitcabo1633 , there's a stunning deep blue one, sitting beside the ziploc bag with a collection of them in; that's absolutely staring at me, practically saying 'pick me for something'!
With all the pies, you should make a miniature bakery.
I’m seeing some very pretty belt buckles that might be repurposed into PICTURE FRAMES!
It will require a steady hand, but if you could cut out the center bar, file down any rough spots, then paint over the area, you now have some nice little picture frames!
As a little girl I used to love to play with my Mom’s old tin canister of buttons. I used to do button weddings. The pretty pearl button was always the bride and she had lots of colorful button bridesmaids. Your video brings back happy memories Thanks. 🙏
Oh this is such a sweet memory! Thanks for sharing! Kathleen
I've never heard of a button wedding. Is that a game you invented or was it something you knew about from others?
Yes I think lots of us over a certain age can relate to this. My children loved going to their grandmothers as she had buttons galore and all sort of other stuff mixed in, I played with them and they too never got tired of looking through the button boxes, I am the same as my mum now, I have loads too lol
This has to be the sweetest story I’ve ever read. ❤️
I can't believe I'm sitting here watching two lovely people going through a button box and enjoying every second of it!
One of my earliest memories, is of my father's girlfriends' big metal drum full of buttons of all kinds. Me and my brother went for a visit at my father's bungalow and during a summers rain I spied this big Metal drum sitting in a corner and my curiosity got the better of me so I snuck over and tried to pry the lid off but it was stuck, Mary , my dad's girlfriend came up besides me and said oohh you found my favorite things! she smiled at me and opened the lid, I must of been about 4 or 5 years old and the site of all those shiny buttons was like finding a pile of gold! She ran her finger through them and told me I could too, I had never seen so many colors and designs so sparkly some big, some small all shapes and sizes, we sat for hours looking at them all as the rain poured down and the rain sounded on the roof, and the thunder and lightning, it was fun! I am 54 and remember it like yesterday. I love since then , thank you both for bringing that beautiful memory back to me. :) I love your collection! I laughed out loud I never realized some buttons do look like breads and pies and cookies! Awesome ideas!
I made Christmas ornaments out of my grandma's button collection. Trees and snowmen and bells. I shared them with family as momentos if our childhood.❤ ❤🇺🇸
that was like watching "the Borrowers" going through their finds and working out how they could be used! Love it..nothing better than a box of buttons.
Bought back such memories of my mums button box. I still have one special button that as a child seemed really big. After mum passed away I found the button box and the special button was still there but it had shrunk😂
Who would think the sound of buttons could bring back childhood memories. My grandmother had a telephone table and the top drawer was filled with buttons which I always found time to sort through. Looks like the next video will be fun 😄.
Theres nothing better than an old button box to rummage through. When my mum passed away, i claimed her button box.
It was full of beautiful buttons and odds and ends of strange things. Took me right back in time to when my dusters and i used to play with them. Buttons make great toy money. 😊
I look forward to seeinng you make things from these buttons. 😊xx
I can remember going through old mayonnaise jars and coffee cans full of buttons that my grandmother had bought from antique shops and estate sales. No old piece of clothing ever left her house without having the buttons removed. She must have had thousands of buttons!
So excited to see your creations with those buttons ❤❤❤
I love old button boxes! Whenever I see them at estate sales I pick them up. I used to love sorting my grandmother's button box as a child. ❤❤
You need to make a turtle out of one of those leather-covered buttons!
I never realised time could go so quickly watching people sort through buttons. Really caught me by surprise when it said to be continued……really looking forward to seeing what you make.
The memories, our button biscuit tin has been handed down through three generations now💛🧡🤎
Love watching you lovely ladies go through your treasures ❤❤❤ 😊 😅 I hear oooh the “squirrel “ on two something else 😂😂😂❤❤
I love buttons too, car boots used to throw up genuine button boxes which held a myriad of bits of the owners lifestyle but sadly they are now rare to find. My houses have all of those things you suggested and in my clock house larger buttons make wonderful chairs. One of them back and bottom covered in velvet which is adorable. Also cat bowl from deep sided one with added fish, pictures and all of those suggestions you’ve made it’s the best use of imagination and creates surges of excitement. My Mums button box gave me hours of pleasure and who’d have thought I still like you get such please from buttons. Haven’t made a clock yet but ideas twirling around my head for my French Farmhouse bookshelf diorama. Keep jumping from one project to another but that’s the fun of dollhouses isn’t it. Just love watching you and getting more inspired than I already am.
I love buttons!! When I was quite young I would play in my great grandmother's button drawer on her sewing table. I sorted by size, then color then button wholes. I was like 3-4. Very find memories and have my 8wn button collection. Thank you so much for sharing your collection with us. ❤❤
You have no idea how obsessed with buttons I am 😁. I do a lot of sewing, altering clothes, making lampshades, dolls clothing, making fabric junk journals, assemblage art and I love adding buttons to nearly everything. It may be my ND brain but watching you go through the buttons was very satisfying for me. Thankyou ☺️
I'm such a button hoarder at one point I couldn't stop collecting and buying antique sewing boxes. I was good though as I donated quite a lot too....maybe so I could fit more in🤭.
I love the way you both throw ideas around your such a lovely Mum and daughter team and definitely my favourite ❤❤
Love the tactile aspect of buttons so running one’s fingers through such a large pile adds to the pleasure of searching for the buttons you need. Nice to see you both back and looking rested.
Hello ladies! I literally went through a gallon-size plastic bag full of buttons yesterday!! I’m happy to see what you find!! 💝💝
Martin’s you are so precious to Rich and John Boy. Beautiful work and heart
I love old buttons! In the 80's I used to go around to antique shops that had jars of buttons, no more than 5.00, and I would buy them. I have used them for everything! I am looking forward to seeing what you make! Thanks for sharing!
I love buttons im sure you will make amazing things .😊😊😊😊
Makes me miss time with my grandma. She had a big button box and we would string them and make jewelry and talk about where they may have come from or what type of clothes we could put them on.
what fun. I have a cookie tin of old buttons I bought @ a garage sale & a big jar my mom gave me from an estate sale. i've pulled out some to use in jewelry making & plan to make a picture frame with the others. BUT!! now I have to go back & see what I can make for my doll's house. thanx for the inspiration - u 2 are the best. looking forward to seeing your button makes.
I saw some metal round buttons with patterns that could look like decorative plates on a wall in a doll’s house or room…can’t wait to check out my own antique buttons! I’ve heard the words “cake” and “pie” many times! 😂❤
I have twice as many of my Mother’s buttons with ranging I age from the early 1900s to the 1970s. When I am gone no one will cherish them as I do. There are buckles, glass buttons and Bakelite buttons. Some of them were from her Mother who was born in 1893. Both Grandma and Mom were great seamstresses. I didn’t inherit that talent. I recognize many of those buttons and other items as being in my Mother’s. There were also a few military buttons as well.
Our family button tin had some really pretty old buttons from my great grandparents draper's shop in Limavady, Co Derry, I still have some of them and some vintage wooden thread spools of silk. Such fun to rummage.
This reminded me so much of my mum's and my nana's button boxes - both Quality Street tins! and all the non-button items that were to be found in them. Kirby grips, old plastic pin for a hair roller, curtain hooks from different eras, an old fuse and probably some fuse wire still on the card, and so much more. So much stuff that you wouldn't think there would be room for the buttons!!
You just described an exact replica of the tins in my nan's kitchen (one roses, one Quality Street) well, one of them contained exactly these items at least... the other was sewing stuff... fairly disappointing if you were on a mini raid, actually looking for some chocolate!
My grandmother had us sort them for hours by shapes, sizes, colors, ect like we were "helping" her and then when we went home, she mixed them all back up again until our next visit! 😮lol Great video ladies!
Fabulous! I used to love to play with my grandmas button jar of buttons. I now have some of her buttons as well as many of my own. I still love them! My favorite miniature item to make with buttons are little dollhouse cakes and then cake stands to hold them (I use a pushpin and a button to make the cake stands)! Thanks much! Kathleen
The small buckles could be great picture frames. The large buckles could be plate racks. Also, the brass, pictorial buttons look just like miniature, vintage, embossed wall plates. They're perfect already, just clip off the shank.
I have such happy memories of going through my mom' s and both grandma's button tins. They were resources for many projects. One Easter Grandma's tin provided the perfect green gem buttons for the eyes of the soft bunny I had made.
So many beautiful buttons ❤❤❤
There is something so satisfying about going through old buttons. My mother used to have an old button box -- I could spend hours playing in them. Yes, I have my own button box with antique vegetable ivory buttons. I also have assorted jars of buttons from thrift stores. Will enjoy seeing what you make from all of these. xx
Darn it now I’m going to have to go through my buttons for inspiration to craft with lol. Thank you for sharing, take care and see you on the next one 👏🙏❤️
I love sorting through buttons! Always look for them in charity shops 🙂 Look forward to seeing what you make with them.
I loved this little sorting video! It reminded me of the most beautiful black woolen skirts traditionally decorated with small white buttons in some Native American tribes. I imagine their dresses once had hand-made shell beads as decoration, but that sort of ornament was quite labor-intensive work to make a shell bead or button and they probably found the mass-produced white buttons time-saving. So, your video is inspiring me to investigate my own button jar and see what I can use for a miniature item or two!
HELLO!!! I am starting with a large HELLO in hopes to grab your attention. I wanted to tell you that I just saw you examining some tiny flowers and wondering what they were made from. I have a guess. I think they were made from white school glue and a fresh slice, dredged(no brown around the square), food coloring our paint after dry. You pour about a tablespoon of glue into center of bread and squish and roll until you have a porcelain type consistency or moldable clay. Add drops of color, incorporate. Pinch off a small tiny center and add to a tiny stem. Then mold flowers as your wish. Dry in bottle like tiny vanilla extract bottles. I have some I made for my dad over 40 years ago. They are still so beautiful. Try Them. Your Will Like Them. Love everything Y'ALL! AS IN YOU 2! Love from Barb in Oklahoma.
🙋♀️❤️. I love buttons. I have buttons from coats I wore in the 1970s. Button box is as important as photo albums! I'll have to go do something with them!
Great and cosy video as always 🥰 I love watching you 2 craft while I’m crafting too.
Thought you’d like this idea, I use old buckles as settee or bed frames or even benches. Do with this info as you will 🥰😄 ♥️
Can’t wait for your next vid
My mom always had a tin of buttons that I love to play with growing up
What great ideas. Can't wait for the next video to see you bring them to life.
My mum had a handmade cardigan that she knitted with the leather brown round buttons on it. Core memory of cuddles with that cardigan!!!
Also would you guys ever do a home tour? I ADORE the treasures you have and it would be so lovely to see how you decorate!
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Maybe one day (when I do a really good tidy haha)
These were all good ideas that I never thought of . Thank you
I've rarely been jealous in my life of anything (always seemed a waste of time and energy!). But when I saw your bottle absolutely full of treasures the green-eyed god rose in me!!!😮
A wonderful idea. I can hardly wait to watch your creativity.
Just magical ❤️
So magical! I make doll’s houses for my Calico Critters. I usually make jewelry with my buttons but now I’m going to raid my stash for making miniatures! Thanks for all the inspiration you two provide! I’m a new subscriber so I’m getting to look back at and enjoy your previous videos. 😊❤️
Welcome :)
Native indigenous women of Canada used to decorate blankets with buttons back in the day.
I look forward to the next segment. What a great idea to use a mosh-mash of buttons. ♥️
We had a wonderful large button tin when I was little. All the buttons were special - no plain buttons in the tin. Unfortunately it was… lost (sad story, no reason to tell details), but my sisters and I really loved each and every button. We still think about how much fun we had, sorting them, arranging them in pictures, etc. We never turned them into things, because then they couldn’t be something else next time.
You'll have to make a bakery or sweet shop with all those cakes and pies!🎂🍰🎂🥧
We had a Quality Street (assorted chocolates,fondants and toffees for those of you who aren’t familiar with the name) tin full of buttons.My mother collected them from the late 40’s to the 70’s.
What a great fun to see you searching for your miniature footage…I’m waiting for the next video to🙏🫶🏻 see what Juwels you’ve made
I, ve got lots of buttons, listening carefully,, from Galicia, 😘😘
Oh and mine are in a big quality street tin, 😂
Cloth covered buttons can be throw pillows. Also if you have the metal buttons with a duvet in the middle possibly soup bowls.
Can’t wait for part two!
The turquoise, lineated thing staring at me right now, that looks a lot more like what you thread a belt through; is in my mind crying out to be a grate on a fire
They would also make great necklaces and earrings and bracelets
I’m hoping you zoom in so we can really see the buttons!
Great box! I got an old shrine filled with old buttons...my children loved to play with them. Now you gave me new ideas what to do with them..thanks!
Greetings from Sweden🇸🇪
Hello ladies.... I was wondering if you ever have tried to make a button doll? You have such wonderful buttons and can create more projects with them. ❤❤❤
No perhaps we should :)
We just had a how many buttons in the jar contest at our community fair.took me two hours to count them 3333 .a gal guessed 3320 and won
You could also use the buttons to make button dolls. They have tutorials for that. And also, I love your bracelets. Did you make them and can you maybe tell us about them? I love watching the both of you.
Made me think of my mom’s button jar…I wish I had it.
The ones with the edge border make excellent round mirror and picture frames!
You'll need to make a bakery with all the pies on display that you'll make!
The buckles would make great backs for chairs or bed heads.
I have a full box of buttons, I look forward to seeing what you make with yours!
🎉as a child id have hours of fun ìn my mums button box . Ive started to make my own button box if i ever get a grandchild im not greedy 1 or 2 will do . Its not asking for much lol 🎉
I was thinking that there must be something in there that would make a good base for a ceiling light!
Will you be doing a video showing us what you make from those buttons? That would be a good one. You could make a 50''s/60's toaster out of that green button with the rectangular holes in it.
What a fun video ladies, I used to use my mum’s buttons as money lol, those buckles could be used as chair backs and headboards, interested to see the results, tfs x Julie
Some of the bigger buttons could be made into a hat for the dolls, nice collection nonetheless...❤
❤️buttons. Thx
I found teddy bear eyes in my Mother’s. You should make a pie and cake shop.
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You should definitely make a miniature bakery.
So many pie buttons? Make a pie shoppe!!
Mmm bowl of ... goo. Just like mum used to make xD
I wonder if one could print a miniature clock face to fit inside an art deco button for a kitchen clock.
Ended very suddenly!
🎉who ate all the pies 🥧 erm not me lol 🎉😊
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De edged...pull outer edges of bread. You want just fresh part of a slice.
. Etal ones with a figure in the middle could be some a wall hanging
i was thinking the same thing.
i wish you hadnt thrned it off i love to watch you create
The next part is tonight :)
Fleur look in your side of the pile.
Omg my younger sister HATES buttons!!. I only have a small collection and she gringes ever time I bring them out....
🎉oh my last comment went onto your 1930 introduction video with ideas you can use buttons for hope you find it let me know thankyou🎉
Is Katie wearing a Hospital bracelet? Is she OK? It looks exactly like a hospital bracelet. I don’t understand what happened? 😢
Actually on closer inspection it says “little”… Is it in remembrance to something like a hospital bracelet for a dearly loved departed one? Actually that’s pretty clever. I never would’ve thought of something like that. ❤😊
We both made bracelets that we embroidered. Kate`s says the little things :)
Is there any way to send you a gift by mail per postal service? I have something I think you both would enjoy….
The jar including the top are very. Dirty.
Your camera is blurry
Much a shame. Out of focus the whole time
Weird. It was clear on my screen.
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