One of the things that has kept me motivated to stay on Etsy through some really slow months of sales over the years is the people. I have had the privilege of meeting some of the most amazing talented ladies during the past 5 years, many of whom I am honored to call my friends.
One of these ladies, Edi of
memoriesforlifesb, surprised me with a birthday package last week. She sent me a photo album with the Milwaukee skyline laser engraved on the front and a couple sets of laser cut wooden buttons. Does she know me well or what?
Most people check out my photography online, but we all know that sometimes it's nice to have a way to show off our work in person, too. This new album is a perfect place to store my
clothespin display photos when I'm ready to swap them out for new prints.
Edi knows that I love to use large buttons as clasps for many of my bracelet designs. You can see an example of that
here. How awesome to have some buttons with my shop address on them! It's also so neat to have wooden buttons in my collection. Typically I work with plastic buttons because they're readily available. I love mixing up the routine sometimes.
I also use tiny buttons for a number of jewelry designs, such as my
button embellished right angle weave designs. I've been working to collect enough metal buttons to make more of
this design for quite some time. I still don't have enough to make an all metal piece, but I have enough that I could make a mixed metal and wooden design now. I'm pretty excited about that possibility.
