Saturday, January 23, 2010

What to do with your grandmother's button collection!

I love to use antique buttons to make beautiful and versatile molds. These pendants are examples of such a use. After I make a mold, I can make flat pendants, lentil beads, bracelet parts or pendants like these. When my clay is dry I can go in and enhance the design and add stones before I put the backs on. This way my work is unique and "all mine"!

2 comments:

  1. I have LOTS of antique buttons from my mother's and my grandmother's collections...We need to talk!

    Elizabeth

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  2. Wouldn't it be fun to make a custom piece with their buttons? !!

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