Here’s another set of buttons.
Trying to come up with some new designs for the buttons. The ladybug button was a totally disaster. Poor thing got squished. No one wants to see a smashed ladybug. It’s not pretty.
Three more pin cushions. The button on the left one if a new one too. I didn’t want to make a bunch and find out they look terrible. It has a big ball of glass on the top. I’ll be making more of these in different colors.
I’ve been bouncing around finishing up a lot of things this weekend. I’m still working on more beads and buttons for my cousin’s quilt show. Here are a few more.
Shank style buttons with a cherry design on them. They kind of look old-fashion to me.
Kitties!! That one on the end has a flat head. He kind of looks like Iggy with the fat cheeks.
My mom’s quilting teacher gave her a little pin cushion. It’s really cute. She got the pattern and is going to make me some to sell at the craft show. Here’s the first few.
Aren’t they cute? I’m going to make the buttons that go on them and try to match them to the fabric.
I dug through the fishing tackle in the garage to find some hooks that I could use. I didn’t find that many silver colored ones and most were too small to use. I cut off the barb and end of the hook and filed it down so it’s not sharp. Using the hooks, I can assemble these without using glue but it’s not that easy. The feathers seem to get all over the place.
Probably won’t be making very many more of these. They take too long to assemble and I’m running out of hooks.
I wanted to try to make some “real” fishing lures but I’m still trying to figure out how to attach hooks. In the meantime, these are just decorative.
The top one ended up with a short tail. It was the first one I made and I was trying to figure out the best way to attached the feathers.
I asked one of the guys at work to get me some bullet casings. He brought me a big bag of them. He was wondering if I could put a piece of glass in one of them to make a glass bullet. I never thought of doing this but thought I’d give it a try. This is what I came up with.
I added the brass loops on the tops because I’m thinking they aren’t of any use unless they can hang from something. I also cut the last one down to make it look like a cabochon is stuck in there. These are still in the experimental stages. Still trying to figure out the best way to do them.
Okay so this isn’t a very good Christmas picture but it’s the only thing I finished today.
I also took this with a brand new camera. I was really testing it when I took this picture. The camera is one of those cheap point and shoot ones and I didn’t have any hopes that it would take a good close up but it did alright.
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas!!
My cousin’s quilt club wants some buttons to sell at their quilt show. These are a few samples I’m going to give her to show the coordinator. Hopefully they will want to buy some.
They will get to see them in person which is better than this picture taken with my broken camera. Can you tell I’m miffed because I broke my camera?
A whole army of ninja turtles!! A gal that stopped by my booth at the craft show saw my push pins and asked if I could make a few turtles in different colors and to make them into lapel pins. She wanted 8 to be exact. I asked her what colors she wanted and was all set to make them. Got them almost all done when I got a voicemail from her, now she wants 30 of them in different colors and I have until next August to get them done. What could I say? Course, I don’t want to drag an order out several weeks so I got them all done, ready for delivery. There are more than 30, just wanted her to have more to pick out of. I’m sure I can use the rest as the turtle push pins seemed to be the most popular.
I have the backs in another package. I didn’t know how to display them so she could see them all at once with the backs on them.
It seems like forever since I posted anything. I got done with my last craft show but still have some custom orders to finish up. These are a few things I made to sell at the craft show, just getting a chance to put them up now.
More bottle cap key chains. These are really fun.
Since I sold all the kokeshi doll pendants at my first craft show, I had to make more. These are the ones I used brass chains and findings.
Here’s the plain sterling silver ones. I think I like them with dangles better.
I’m trying to get the last stuff made for the craft show this weekend. I needed to make some cheaper items so I did some zipper pulls and key chains.
Decided to use some of the bottle cap beads for key chains. I’m planning on making a few more of these.
Couple of skulls on a round bead. Not sure how popular these will be with my customers.
Rice ball zipper pulls. The last one is the backside of them. They are all the same except for the face. I can never get the mouth on evenly.
More zipper pulls. Mochi trees seem to be popular. Not sure why.
