Tea on Tuesday- Sewing Box Safari

Disclaimer-

I wrote this post on Monday to post very early on Tuesday morning,

but forgot that there was no "2-29" this year so Blogger took my wrong input and defaulted to "2-28". I have been caught with my slip showing. How embarrassing!

So many eager readers have already left their kind comments so I can't very well remove this post!

So Happy Tea Tuesday on Monday!

Thank you, everyone for your kind words of sympathy and prayers.

The first day without Scooter was the hardest, but it has gotten progressively easier.

Our St. Bernard, Lucy has stepped up her role as house dog and been very attentive to us all.

But also for me, creating, making something, is powerful therapy.

All of you creative types are nodding your heads. Yes?

So I invite you today to join me on a journey into the deepest darkest part of my sewing/ button box.

Go ahead and get yours out- I'll wait a minute.

:)

I have my Earl Grey in a utilitarian mug. No room for fussy china on this trip.

I have no time for mopping up tea spills in the middle of exciting discoveries!

I normally push pass the first layer quickly, but with my recent success at transforming button cards into angels, I am giving these cards a second look. The ones with missing buttons have possibilities...

Is your tin or box (jar), a mess like mine? I don't clean much "out" because everything is interesting in context. Single buttons attached to clipped off card bits, or the buttons hurriedly cut off shirts so the fabric still clings to them. Other buttons are strung together in groups in case a matched set is ever needed. And sometimes I find a piece of soap or wax (to lubricate needles or thread or maybe to mark fabric?) or tags from some forgotten purchase or old safety pins, or etc., etc.
Today everything has possibilties.

And this is how I've come to make a mostly empty button card into a base for a collection of notions. The pearly plastic button was hanging by a thread on this card so I shored it up with snippets of lace and gave it some company in the 3 remaining spaces. I didn't cut anything down. The other buttons and hook and eye were found on their respective card scraps, "as-is". I used artistic license by adding the scrap of sheet music, but otherwise everything else I found in the bottom of my button tin.

Really!

I added the bit of blue thread for interest. I clipped a tangled length from a spool and wrapped it around the button until the arrangement looked right to me. Looks pretty natural, doesn't it?




Then I made "le chic" to read "eclectic".
Too peRfecT!

Here's another card I started. There was only one snap left on the card, so I gathered a diverse group of buttons to keep the snap company, following the pattern of holes left by the other snaps. I still haven't figured out a clever title to make out of "Sew-On-Snaps", but something will come to me.

What have you gleaned from your button safari?

For more Tea Tuesday posts, see Kimmies blog.