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Decorating with buttons Embellish a blouse, make jewelry or dress up your pet by Kit Davey

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here’s something about buttons. I can’t get enough of them. When I see a jar of them at a garage sale I am compelled to buy the whole jar. This is not really a problem, because someday I will use all of them. In my quest to use every last one, I have found many ways to use buttons in projects around my home. Why not fish out your old jar and try one of these ideas? Fill a bowl. This is an easy one. A bowl or box of buttons on your coffee table can entertain your guests and be a fun conversation piece. Use a bowl or box that harmonizes with the color or texture of your buttons. For example, fill a black-and-white patterned dish with your black-andwhite buttons or collect all your yellow, red and blue buttons and arrange them in a green bowl. Mound your tortoise shell-like buttons in an earth-toned dish, or dump all your wood and leather buttons into a small wooden box. Dress up your pet. Your fashionforward feline will look très chic 322 University Ave. Cranston Trust, faĂ ade remodel and tenant improvement, $90,000 2768 Waverley St. G. Anwyl & Y. Chan, single-story residential addition, $135,000

with pearl, glass and gold buttons adorning her collar. A roughand-tumble pup might appreciate having his red collar punctuated with flat black buttons. (Caution: Keep your pet’s collar loose! If your pet’s collar gets snagged on something it should be able to slip over its head). Adorn your jar o’ buttons. A treasure-filled jar can make a useful bookend or paperweight for button pack rats. Use a large mayonnaise or peanut-butter jar and spray paint the lid gold or silver. Glue on a length of ribbon or lace around the lid and apply a handful of buttons to the top. Include in a mosaic project. Broken tile isn’t the only ingredient you might use in your next pique assiette (mosaic) project. Include old chess pieces, bubble-gum charms, broken mugs or figurines, and of course, your best buttons. Create a Victorian heart orna-

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ment. Cut out a 2- to 3-inch-tall heart shape from thick mat board and poke a hole at the top. Layer and glue on your buttons, completely covering the front of the heart. Use gold twine or satin ribbon to hang from a dresser knob or lay on a stack of antique books. Make an arithmetic aide for your child. If your child is still learning addition and subtraction basics, have him/her use buttons to count out the problems. Let your child pick out his/her favorite buttons from your collection and decorate a counting jar to store them in while doing homework. Embellish a blouse. Do you have a boring white shirt that needs a little pizzazz? Snip off the original buttons and replace them with an assortment of brass, black or pearl buttons. Keep your spouse from snoring. I have heard that if you sew several sturdy buttons with large shanks onto the back of your partner’s pajamas that it will keep him/her from sleeping on his/her back, thus stopping the sawing of logs. Decorate your hat. Sew buttons onto a baseball cap or a straw hat. The hat will look less cluttered if you use buttons of one color. Make jewelry. Pins are a snap to make. Snip or saw off the shank of

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a large, ornate button. Use a glue gun to attach the button to a pin backing. You can make earrings the same way. Simply glue the buttons to posts (jewelry-making supplies are available at Michael’s and other craft stores). Make a bracelet by threading thin elastic through the buttonholes and stacking the buttons together until you have enough to go around your wrist. Create a pattern by repeating colors and shapes. Embellish a quilt. Stitch tiny buttons into the corners of each square, edge an image or cover an entire shape. (This is probably not a good thing to do to an inherited or antique quilt!) Use as game markers. Buttons work well as substitute markers in backgammon and checkers. Adorn a gift card. Cut a heartshape from ivory-colored paper, write the recipient’s name in calligraphy and sew a dainty little button onto the card. Punch a hole in the card and attach to the gift with satin ribbon. N Kit Davey, Allied Member, ASID, specializes in re-design, staging, design consulting and professional organizing. E-mail her at KitDavey@aol.com, call her at 650-3677370, or visit her website at www. AFreshLook.net.

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