The button hairclip video is already up from this morning’s episode of AM Northwest — just click “crafting with buttons” on their front page and you can check it out if you’d like. Wow, that was fast! They showed off a few of my book projects and then I made three hairclips — a solo…
Hope you are having a good Monday! Mine has been pretty dang busy. I usually don’t do this but I’m going to cross-post word for word from my book site today, I wanted to mention a few things and all of them fit in both places (and they’re all about buttons). Tomorrow I’ll be back…
I had such a great time at Bolt on Saturday afternoon! Thank you so much to everyone who came by to hang out and talk buttons, make magnets, and eat lavender shortbread cookies. This one is blurry but happy — it was so nice to get to talk about buttons with people who love them…
Hey, I’m in the middle of a massive round of button-cookie production but wanted to quickly pass on a Maker Faire update — applications are due this coming Tuesday (3/31) and if you’re interested, you should definitely jump on it! I’m applying to teach some button and bead projects — I had the best time…
Hope to see you at Bolt on Saturday afternoon! I just made a sample batch of magnets, and a sample batch of button shortbread cookies, and I’m really looking forward to the party! Please come say hi if you can make it over. Button It Up at Bolt! 4:00 this Saturday, March 28th Bolt Fabric…
I’ve had a chance to make some button-y treats to get ready for the Bolt party on Saturday, which has been super fun. I made up some sample magnets in some of my favorite colors… …and did some shortbread-cookie experiments to see what worked the best in terms of button alchemy. I loved the beautiful…
Thanks for the terrarium love! I had so much fun making those little things. I made a pizza yesterday and used about 1/10 of a glass jar of tomato sauce, and before I could help myself I had emptied the rest of it into a plastic container, just to instantly liberate the jar for terrarium-ing…
I just published a tutorial over at the CRAFT: blog on how to mend broken jewelry, from re-attaching clasps to linking a snapped chain back together with a bead or charm! tools + materials photo from Button It Up by Burcu Avsar + Zach DeSart I hope it’s helpful if you’re wrestling with a jewelry…
Pearl and I headed to an estate sale on Saturday morning, just ten blocks up the street. I was pretty tired from button-ing and on day three of solo-sick-baby-wrangling, and I almost just stayed home with her. But I’m so glad I didn’t. I’ll post some more pictures of my other finds tomorrow, but for…
On Sunday, Chelsea Cain wrote a lovely feature for the Oregonian about her family button collection, and how it connects her with her mother and now with her own daughter — something that is especially meaningful to me now that I have my own pearl button to share my treasures with. She was kind enough…
Thanks so much to everyone who came out to Powell’s on Friday night to hang out and talk buttons with me! I wrote it up over here, and so did Diane, Sarah, and Caitlin. photo by Lee A huge thank-you to my friends who helped so much with setting up, snapping photos, and keeping me…
Thanks so much to everyone who came to Powell’s Friday night! It was so much fun to see all the cool clips people made (not to mention getting to hear about the fantastical poker-chip buttons Ryan is planning for his upcoming trip to Vegas). I read from the book and chatted about a few of…