Wow! Ya’ll have really great button stories. I knew you would. I really enjoyed reading all the comments. My favorite button story was this one by Christina:
“When my grandmother passed away, we spent weeks cleaning out her house (one reason I’m not a pack rat). We sold her house and as we were doing the final walk through with the new owner to be, I found a huge jar of old buttons. I snatched it up and the new owner grabbed it from saying it was hers now. Luckily since escrow hadn’t closed, I won. I still have the jar and use the buttons on my items, but only for really special people : )”
Can you imagine? What kind of lunatic would pry your dead grandmother’s button jar from your hands and claim it for their own?!? I am so happy that it ended with the buttons in the right hands.
And the winner (chosen at random) of the Who’d Got the Button Vintage Mini-Stash is… another Christina!
Christina, shoot us an email with your mailing address on it and Vintage Button Mini-Stash in the re: line to prizes@fiberfarm.com. We’ll pass the info along to Lisa at Who’s Got the Button?
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Serious, what a lunatic, that story turns my stomach, I’m so glad it had a happy ending! I have some buttons that were my great aunts’ and I’ve been parsing them out carefully too!
Ha! All those winning Christina’s and not one of them was me
That is an absolutely APPALLING story. I don’t even have a word for a person like that (and I know lots of nasty names!).
At the time, there were things I was willing to let go, but there was NO WAY she was getting the buttons. : )
I noticed from the posts that a lot of grandmothers kept there buttons in a mason jar as did my mine. Even just seeing an old jar like that brings back good memories of Nana.
You know Christina, I see those Mason jars full of buttons at estate sales from time to time and it breaks my heart. That and the family pictures. I just can’t believe anyone could part with those things. It never occurred to me to buy those precious jars of buttons but I will from now on, you can be sure!
I also have all of my grandmothers costume jewelry, which I kept for years, but never knew what to do with. Now I use the clip on earrings as buttons for scarves and accents for hats : ) The clip on’s are great because they slide right through stitches so I can swap them around.