A B C ... A Button Craft

I was searching on the Internet for some odds and ends to use in a piece of jewelry I'm creating for a show at the gallery that carries some of my bracelets. It has a cat theme, so I have already found some relevant charms and buttons. Wanting some other bits to use, I thought about looking for buttons or charms with initials or letters to spell out a specific word that would be intermingled with the other stuff. Suddenly I came to this site and was fascinated by the idea of sewing initials onto nine hole buttons. 

Why, I could do that, I thought, and went over to my stash...

...only to find, yes, you guessed it, they are all either one, two, three or four hole. not a 9-hole in site. Duh!

I won't bore you with the rest of this tale, as you either have to make them with sculpey clay or purchase them from the German site. I do want to share the website, Style-Files, where I found this cute idea.

 

They actually found it via the designers on a German website ABC Button .

                 

On the spur of the moment, because I was so taken with them, I pinned the picture to my Brilliant Buttons board on Pinterest. Several minutes later, over fifty people had either re-pinned it or 'liked' it! There is definitely some buttonmania going on out there!

Peter Pauper Series...ABC

Here is the ABC series of the Peter Pauper Cookbooks. 

 Since there are so many, I am only showing the covers.

 I am so tickled by the little drawings on the covers and how they relate to what is inside.

The colors are so vivid, although that doesn't necessarily come through in my photos, I'm afraid.

Everything from drinks to desserts is represented here.

The same recipes, but different colored graphics. This is always a dilemma to me, since each is unique, yet the same.

The book on the right is the only one with a soft cover in my collection and has been taped on the spine. Perhaps I should look for one with a hard cover (any excuse to spend money!)

 

All by itself, since there are uneven number.

Another duo with the same recipes, yet different color graphics.