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(I elbowed him in my sleep. It woke us both up and I had the presence of (sleepy) mind to say that an elbow to the face was still a more pleasant way to wake up than his usually incredibly jarring alarm. He agreed. The bruise came up a few hours later.)
(Second button related post in a row, heh.)
I bought a new-to-me cord jacket at a charity shop in Portobello while visiting Edinburgh recently* and it had big feature buttons on it.
I very much liked the idea of feature buttons but unfortunately I didn’t like the actual buttons used. A trip to my usual haberdashery in Leeds revealed it would cost about £18 to replace them with my favourite big buttons from there – because it’s double breasted and so needs a billion of the buggers – so I thought I’d try making some myself.
A Fimo purchase off eBay later, I made myself some gloriously green buttons last night.
I played with a few different shapes/styles but I went with big, flat and simple in the end. I got seven big buttons (the six I need plus a spare) and two little ones out of a 56g block of Fimo. I divided the clay up and rolled it into a ball in my hands to loosen it up then squished it using a coffee can lid, with a layer of cling film inbetween so the clay wouldn’t stick. Then when it was the desired diameter and thickness, I placed a brass curtain ring on the clay, squished with the can lid again, then poked the holes with a cocktail stick. Twenty minutes in the oven later, my buttons were ready to rock and roll.
They’re not perfect but they’ll neither am I, so they’ll do :)
(Click for bigger pictures.)
* as I raved about on Things To Do Today, the Beach House Cafe there is AWESOME. Go! Go! Go!
Following a query from a reader yesterday, I’m doing a post on buttons on Recycle This next week and wanted to post a(n admittedly not great) picture of my most favourite earrings in the whole wide world ;)
I wear the dangly ones all the freakin’ time and they constantly get caught in my scarves but I love them. I should probably remake them so they’re a little less snaggy…
Before I trained my ears to accept dangly earrings though, I loved the studs – the buttons just glued onto stud findings. I like that the black ones were subtly buttony. ;)
After 23 lessons, I’ve reached the stage with driving that I reached with horse riding: I can get it to move, do basic steering and make it go faster.
The more advanced procedures still allude me however.
And also I can’t get the car to eat carrots.
John and I, as lojoco, have launched a new website: Things To Do Today.
To be neat, we launched it on 1st January and I added it my projects page but forgot to blog about it over here. To steal the blurb from there though:
Updated daily, Monday to Friday, Things To Do Today is intended to be the lefty, crafty equivalent of all those “buy this gadget! look at this guy getting hit in the balls!” sites: every day, we feature four interesting things for people to do or make. These could be links to yummy recipes, fun things to make, excellent articles to read or beautiful videos to watch – or just ideas, tips or reminders for things you could or should do. If you ever need a bit of inspiration for tea or for your next craft project, you might well find the answer on Things To Do Today.
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