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lamarguerite farm
True Blue Farmgirl
649 Posts
missy
Battle Ground
Wa
USA
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 Posted - Aug 01 2005 : 7:43:14 PM
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I so agree with Clare's post regarding the history of the buttons. I just picked up a great big jar at a garage sale a week ago and the kids and I had more fun sorting through the jar and finding non-button treasures and talking about the unusual ones and what they must have went to and how old it was or what kind of person wore them.
I never pass up a jar or tin of buttons and use them in projects all the time including altered canvas art and other vintage looking collage art.
Blessings,
Missy
"Show me you're garden and I shall tell you what you are."
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thehouseminder
True Blue Farmgirl
361 Posts
USA
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Posted - Aug 02 2005 : 05:53:03 AM
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Hi, I got my list and my buttons are going out today. I hope more farm girls will join in soon! I have more to share....
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvest reaps. ---Bronson Alcott
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showmemom
True Blue Farmgirl
166 Posts
karen
carthage
mo
USA
166 Posts |
Posted - Aug 06 2005 : 3:59:57 PM
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hey lucinda-
got my first package for our button exchange today. THANKS! love the green glass one; love all of them-you were generous.
found a clear glass container that they're going in right here by my desk.
you're the best.
talk to you soon.
karen
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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thehouseminder
True Blue Farmgirl
361 Posts
USA
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Posted - Aug 06 2005 : 4:59:22 PM
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Hi Karen!
So glad you like your buttons. I tried to pick a variety. I have a surprise planned for the next round...
Now, I need to get around to my mail art.
Phew!
Lucinda
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvest reaps. ---Bronson Alcott
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Deb H
Farmgirl in Training
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Deb
Glendale
Missouri
USA
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Posted - Aug 06 2005 : 7:13:55 PM
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WOW! I'm new to this site/forum stuff, as I have just signed up and I honestly couldn't decide where I wanted to type first - there's so much here that I'm interested in! I love old buttons and just today returned from vacation, where I bought a jar full at a flea market. I also have a "not so old" collection of my own. My Mom and Grandmother were both sewers, as am I, when I can, so I love the textiles and have just this past year gotten interested in quilting also. So, I've been buying up fabric like it's going out of style, and am trying to decide what to start with! Is there a place on this forum where we are "sorted" so to speak by location? I'm in St. Louis, Missouri, and don't know of a Farmgirl Chapter here, but don't really know how I would find out.
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showmemom
True Blue Farmgirl
166 Posts
karen
carthage
mo
USA
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Posted - Aug 07 2005 : 09:05:02 AM
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hey deb-
i'm from missouri too but way down in the sw corner-so we're pretty far apart.
i asked about chapters in mo but haven't gotten any responses yet. i know we're not the only 2 "show-me's" on the board.
don't you love buttons? if you're interested in being part of the exchange, just e-mail me your info and you'll be included.
great to have someone else in the state.
talk to you soon.
karen
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Aug 08 2005 : 1:10:31 PM
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Got wonderful buttons from Lucinda and Karen today..thanks so much gals! My son was watching me open mail and was so excited to see the buttons for some reason. He says he wants to help pick out which ones I send out..I was surprized he was interested!!
We will be sending some out in the next couple days..I love this!!!
Jenny in Utah
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sleepless reader
True Blue Farmgirl
1022 Posts
CA
USA
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Posted - Aug 08 2005 : 6:20:31 PM
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Thanks Karen! I just recieved my buttons today. Just sent to you all on the list too! Better late than never, right?
Sharon |
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therusticcottage
True Blue Farmgirl
4439 Posts
Kay
Vancouver
WA
USA
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Posted - Aug 08 2005 : 10:58:39 PM
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I got buttons too -- I was so excited!!! Thanks so much!! I've got ones picked out for all of you and will get them sent off this week.
Kay - Living in Beautiful Washington State
"If you are lucky enough to have a garden, you are lucky enough!" |
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showmemom
True Blue Farmgirl
166 Posts
karen
carthage
mo
USA
166 Posts |
Posted - Aug 09 2005 : 04:23:44 AM
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i'm so glad you guys liked them! i have more picked out and we've added a new person to the list-did we decide how often we were going to do this?
can i say it again-I LOVE THIS!! i love buttons, i love mail and i love new friends!
talk to you soon.
karen
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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thehouseminder
True Blue Farmgirl
361 Posts
USA
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Posted - Aug 15 2005 : 7:53:36 PM
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I have received some LOVELY buttons this week and will be thanking each of you personally but I wanted to say it here too.
I have placed them all in a vintage coffe jar (during WWII coffee came in clear glass jars because all the metal was needed for the war effort) from the 40's to that I can look at them whenever I need to rest my eyes from sewing.
Thanks again
Lucinda
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvest reaps. ---Bronson Alcott
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Aug 15 2005 : 9:13:39 PM
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Love the ones I got from Sharon in the mail yesterday too..and it was so sweet that you included a buton for each of my two daughters to start their own collections..they were thrilled and already picked a jar to keep theirs in. I sent more out today..finally got stamps!!!
Jenny in Utah
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sleepless reader
True Blue Farmgirl
1022 Posts
CA
USA
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Posted - Aug 15 2005 : 9:21:13 PM
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Jenny, you and the girls are welcome.Glad they liked them!
Sharon |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Aug 15 2005 : 9:27:23 PM
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yours went out today Sharon...sorry I am behind!!
Jenny in Utah
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sleepless reader
True Blue Farmgirl
1022 Posts
CA
USA
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Posted - Aug 16 2005 : 4:43:30 PM
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What's that saying about the hurrier I go, the behinder I get? That's my life right now...don't give it a second thought, but I will be looking for it in the mail!
Sharon |
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showmemom
True Blue Farmgirl
166 Posts
karen
carthage
mo
USA
166 Posts |
Posted - Aug 17 2005 : 07:44:11 AM
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good morning fellow button gluttons!
just a housekeeping note-make sure you write "hand cancel" on your envelopes when sending buttons or ask your postal person to do so-when they put buttons through the sorting machine, it tends to crunch them. i got a wonderful note with an antique button in many pieces this week-so sad!
we're adding new people just about every day. will send a new list later today.
talk to you all soon.
karen
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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showmemom
True Blue Farmgirl
166 Posts
karen
carthage
mo
USA
166 Posts |
Posted - Aug 17 2005 : 5:06:55 PM
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dear button friends and gluttons-
new members added today-so you should all get new lists tonight.
we are having a lot of fun with this list-if anyone out there wants to come join us, just send me your info and you'll be added in the next day or 2. come on-you know you love buttons!!!
talk to you soon.
karen
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo |
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showmemom
True Blue Farmgirl
166 Posts
karen
carthage
mo
USA
166 Posts |
Posted - Aug 19 2005 : 06:35:32 AM
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finally got to sit down with my mail last pm-we've been gone to the MO state fair (mountains of laundry)-and found i had 2 letters from my button sisters and 2 pieces of mail art.
thank you, thank you for the wonderful buttons from Jenny and Sharon.
have put them in a small glass bowl just for buttons from my new friends.
and thank you for the lovely mail art from Sharon and Susan-love the soap Susan and love the illustrations Sharon!
this is so much fun!
talk to you soon.
karen |
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thehouseminder
True Blue Farmgirl
361 Posts
USA
361 Posts |
Posted - Aug 24 2005 : 7:07:25 PM
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I bought a twelve pack of "bubblopes" today.
You know what that means.....
LEAVE YOUR MAILBOXES OPEN LADIES
Lucinda
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvest reaps. ---Bronson Alcott
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showmemom
True Blue Farmgirl
166 Posts
karen
carthage
mo
USA
166 Posts |
Posted - Aug 27 2005 : 09:48:02 AM
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the button gluttons have gone intergenerational!!
i'm pleased as punch to announce our first 3 members who are quite a bit younger than the rest of us.
Gracie Madsen
Summer Pipes
Erin Pipes
Three big cheers for the next generation that loves quilts and buttons and farm life!! welcome, welcome!!
talk to you soon.
karen
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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shepherdess
True Blue Farmgirl
359 Posts
Robin
Eatonville
Washington
USA
359 Posts |
Posted - Aug 28 2005 : 12:00:49 AM
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Hi
Would like to get in on the button exchange. I also have many buttons. My mother had a button basket and I loved going through it. Besides having buttons there were Cracker Jack toys ( when they were neat toys ) in the cracker Jacks and pretty rocks and marbles and other unusal items. And guess what , I got the basket when my mom past away.
Farm Girl from Western Washington
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Photobugs
True Blue Farmgirl
363 Posts
Pamela
Post Falls
Idaho
USA
363 Posts |
Posted - Aug 29 2005 : 8:08:39 PM
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I have my buttons all organized in glass jars. A jar for each color. They look very neat all lined up on glass shelving in my studio. No matter how many I have I still buy more when I find them at yard sales.
I went to a meeting on antique buttons a year or so ago. The one thing I learned was that if you have metal buttons and they have any rust it will spread to the rest of the buttons stored in the same container. They need to be cleaned with semichrome. My Dh says you can get it at the car parts store. I keep forgetting to go by there and get some, so I have yet to clean my buttons. Silly me.
They had a long btton string there that was very old. It was fun to look at and I hope to put one together some day, although not for the same reason that one was made. It was a marriage string. Back in the old days people would give a young woman a button for many occasions and she would string them...I think the 100th one was to be from her future husband..if I remember right. Then they could get married...or so the story goes. Sounds like a fun tradition to me.
Pamela
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Bridge
True Blue Farmgirl
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Bridgette
Southern
Indiana
USA
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verbina
True Blue Farmgirl
231 Posts
randi
n.j
USA
231 Posts |
Posted - Aug 30 2005 : 5:35:29 PM
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phillytoo
Farmgirl in Training
18 Posts
Phyllis
Canton
MI
USA
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Posted - Aug 30 2005 : 6:54:48 PM
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I too have boxes, tins, and canning jars full of buttons. I got most of them from my mother and my husband's grandmother.
I'm always glad I have an assortment to choose from when I make the "refrigerator towels" with the crocheted tops. I've given several of these towels away as gifts to a lot of my friends and relatives. They always seem to be a welcomed gift.
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Stitching & Crafting Room: does anyone collect buttons? |
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does anyone collect buttons?
