Button Craft Tutorials
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The National Button Society's Creating with Buttons Program Committee has released its fifth Button Craft Tutorial this week. It features a button- decorated lampshade and is designed to inspire you to add buttons to your decor. To view it on YouTube, click on image or go to https://youtu.be/7hgo78MnteA
The series of button craft tutorials in response to its members’ increased interest in using their uncollectible buttons in artistic ways. This series of “No-Harm” button crafts and the other button craft ideas on the NBS website support its mission to preserve all that is beautiful and historic in buttons. The National Button Society offers quarterly bulletins and online button education resources to its members. You can see more about what membership offers you online at NationalButtonSociety.org. For more, including craft worksheets, go to  “Resources” at NationalButtonSociety.org.
Haiku for Button Lovers
Poetry Book
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I LOVE BUTTONS!
For me, buttons are miniature works of art. Examining their designs, colors and materials gives me great pleasure.
Haiku for Button Lovers is full of “insider information” -- the details about buttons. The more you know about buttons, the more you will enjoy the poetry. It's short and sweet and is written with a clever turn of phrase.

The 76 Haiku poems are under these categories:
  • About Buttons, Ceramic, Fabric, Glass, Metal, Plastic, 
    Rubber, Shell, Vegetable Ivory/Ivory, Wood
The last  is a longer poem, which describes the physical feelings a button collector experiences when getting a new jar of buttons.

I hope reading my Haiku for Button Lovers will delight button collectors and intrigue others to learn more about buttons and button collecting.

"Haiku for Button Lovers" can be found in Kindle form on Amazon: www.amazon.com/-/e/B07GDNQJF5  You can also read it on your smartphone, tablet or computer by using one of the apps Amazon offers.

NBS Steams Ahead
with Online Show
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The National Button Society officers and committee members are busy planning the virtual “2021 Unconventional Convention” for this summer.
It's shaping up to be a fun opportunity for social distance watch parties! Be sure to get your COVID vaccine in time to get together!  If you are not a NBS member...join now so you'll be ready. Check out the proposed schedule to see what will be offered at
https://www.nationalbuttonsociety.org/national-convention.html
​Come with me on a visit to the
Frieda Warther Button House
in Dover, OH! 
(Click image to go to Youtube.)

​You can contact Sylvia Liszka Durell via this website contact page or at holeybuttons@gmail.com.
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