National Button Society 2014 Annual Convention, August 11-16, 2014

The National Button Society 2014 Annual Convention is just

11 days from today!

For more information visit

http://nationalbuttonsociety.org/

Will I see you there?  

Buttons On Note Cards

I have been creating collage and mixed media cards for sale in a few art venues. They have been well received. 

I enjoy making these small works of art.

 This is one that I sold recently.

 It is created with acrylic paint, collage papers, hand-painted papers, 

and my beloved...BUTTONS!

Title: Vision and Dreams

SOLD

Artist: Sue Marrazzo, ISAP, NCS

www.suemarrazzo.blogspot

A Colorful Button Flash!!

Not too long ago, I popped on Button Floozies to write about Flash Fiction, Button Style.  This is an interactive feature on my website where readers email me a picture of a button and I write that button's story. In keeping with the Flash Fiction genre, I limit the story to 250 words.  To prevent me from spending way too much time on it, I also limit myself to one hour.

It's fun to see what emerges from these limitations.

Today I'm excited to share my latest Button Flash.  It features a determinedly colorful button set in an even more colorful background.  This picture immediately reminded me of a carnival and I decided the button belonged to a seamstress for a troupe of aerialists.

Here's a picture of the button, which was sent in by Buttons By McAnaraks.  If you'd like to read the story please click here!

Button detail on a vintage outfit

 I snapped photos of this wonderful vintage costume at a friend's sale last month.

(It is covered in plastic because it was sprinkling that day!)

 Kathy always finds the best stuff.  This costume is, she thought, was used by a Masonic group and was a reproduction of a colonial era man's suit...

complete with hat -- and powdered wig!

I wanted to show you the detail, with lace, gimp and buttons!

Fancy pants!

French boutons

Look at the buttons I bought in Kansas last month.

This time, it was the box -- not the buttons themselves -- that made my heart go pitter-patter!