Treasure Trove!

No...not the kind you have to declare to the government after spending 10hrs in a muddy field with a metal detector!!

But the kind you find in your nan's back room!

After I finished proudly showing off my Button Me Up, Buttercup bracelet to my Dad the other day, he wandered off in a bit of a dream muttering something to himself about 'The Old Girl's sewing box'. The next day, when I got in from work, he looked rather pleased with himself and presented me with a pretty knackered looking, beat up old tin.



A little intrigued, I turned the box upside down, to find out it was a very old biscuit tin! After assuring myself this couldn't be a tin of the most stale and mouldy biscuits in London I opened her up...



Treasure trove!! The tin was chocked-full of allllll kinds of beautiful buttons! I quickly called my nan to say thank you and she let me know that she stopped collecting buttons some time in the 80's and that most of them were actually taken off of clothes she used to wear before and during the war!!! Some of these buttons are more than 70 years old!!

I've had a good root through them now and I definitely have some favourites! My nan told me to use them for my jewellery as she doesn't sew any more and would like them to go to god use. But I don't know if I can part with them! I'll have to have a play and see what I come up with! I can definitely see some huge button rings coming out of it though!

Here are a couple of my favourites!



And check out my nan's cool way of keeping buttons of the same type together...she ties them with cotton! I always knew she was clever!

Off to play with some buttons now!!