Thrift store finds

My oldest daughter and I spent the day thrift store shopping. We found some great bargains on clothes but I also found some mini items. The bottle on the left is used to transfer prints to white fabric. I'm anxious to try it out. The large cherub planters will go in the Victorian rooftop garden. I'm going to antique the treasure chest and fill it with "plunder" for the castle armory. The silver buttons look like little picture frames and the other buttons look like cakes. We had a great day but I am tired. :-)

Playing with buttons

While surfing the internet yesterday I found a tutorial for a mini vase of flowers using stacked buttons for the vase. I apologize for the poor quality of these photos but you get the general idea. I used a variety of sizes of red buttons glued together with Loctite super glue to make a bowl shaped planter on a pedestal.
The ivy was made with punched paper stars and covered wire. I used an ink pad on one side of the paper to make the top and bottom sides of the leaves a slightly different color.

The rose leaves are hearts punched from two shades of green paper and the rose buds were made from tiny bits of a pink envelope, rolled and glued. I dragged the tips of the flowers over a burgundy stamp pad.

Then I just glued everything in place on top of the button. The vines are glued into the button holes to keep them stable. I filled in all the blank spots with roses and leaves.