1920's Buttons

 I completed another block with a few special items.

The blue butterfly was from Mom.  She never went anywhere without buying me something.  I'm sure this came from Hobby Lobby or Michaels.  It was probably in the bead section for jewelry making.  The only hole in it is where the gold bead is on the wing.  I had to glue two small pre-threaded buttons to the back to anchor it to the block.  I used E-6000 jewelry glue.

The 3 dark blue buttons are from the 1920's.  After mom passed away, Dad gave me his grandmother's button collection so that's where they came from.  They are glass and the silver at the top of each is slightly worn so I'm assuming they were on a dress or something that my great grandmother wore.

Her button collection is really cool with lots of metal picture buttons so you'll see some of those on upcoming blocks.

This spider is done with crystal beads so it's very sparkly.

I'm almost done with another block and will share when it's complete.  I also pulled out a cross stitch project that I started last Summer and have been working on that as well.  I was making counting errors so I had to put it down but so far so good.  I'll need to sew up some more CQ blocks soon.  Until I can get those done, I'll work on my cross stitch project.