Crafting isn’t always about making nice things from the ground up. Sometimes it’s simply about finding already-nice things and putting them to nice, new use.
Take buttons. They’re cute (as a button, of course), lightweight, colourful and come with tidy little holes for attaching them to stuff. They’re also small, which means you can have several hundred of them without realizing that you have several hundred of them, until one day you open up your button box and go, “Oh my gosh, how did I acquire several hundred buttons?” Science hasn’t proved it (yet), but I’m pretty certain that crafting supplies, especially buttons, procreate. I know I never bought this many.
Given that most of my clothing contains between 0 and 6 buttons, maximum, it will require some creativity to ever start using these up. So we’re going to make some jewelry. Button jewelry. Or jewellery, apparently. Despite being a citizen of the British Empire and even watching the Royal Wedding online, I only just learned that “jewellery” is in fact the British spelling of the word. Who knew? Read more on nheilke.com