Saturday, December 13, 2008

Button Flowers

Day 13 - Button Flowers

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Simple, easy, button-y.

NEED

Buttons
Wire

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Buttons remind me of grandmas house. Not necessarily my grandma, as I don't remember her being a big button fan, but a big box full of musty buttons strikes me as a grandma thing. I love buttons.

Anyhow, start with a couple buttons that could possibly be flowers. String them on a thin wire through the button holes, up through one set of holes, and down through another.

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Then seperate them into layers, should they seem to be layered flowers, and twist the wire to keep the buttons in place, and give the wire some stability and twistyness.

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Twist all the way to the bottom of the wire, finish it off at a suitable height. What's suitable? It's best to have a vase in mind, I suppose. That should make it easy to know how tall the buttony flowers should be.

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Once one is finished, make it some friends. When they look nice in a tiny glass or jar, they're done.

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I made some bigger ones, but I think the small black and white ones are my favorites.

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