Florida State Button Society
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The Florida Bay Area Button Club is already busy planning the 2025 FSBS Annual Meeting, Show and Sale.
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Button Craft Tutorials
The National Button Society YouTube channel features button craft tutorials as well as, the button craft videos that were part of the NBS virtual meeting in August 2021. The 14 button craft videos have been viewed more than 3,500 times. We invite you to become a subscriber so you don’t miss any of the new tutorials! Go to the National Button Society Button Creativity channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/NationalButtonSocietyButtonCreativity.
The NBS series of button craft tutorials were created in response to its members’ increased interest in using their non-collectible buttons in artistic ways. This series of 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. You can see more about what membership offers you online at NationalButtonSociety.org. For more, including craft worksheets, go to “Resources” at NationalButtonSociety.org.
The NBS series of button craft tutorials were created in response to its members’ increased interest in using their non-collectible buttons in artistic ways. This series of 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. You can see more about what membership offers you online at NationalButtonSociety.org. For more, including craft worksheets, go to “Resources” at NationalButtonSociety.org.
Come with me on a visit to the Frieda Warther Button House in Dover, OH!
(Click image to go to YouTube.)
(Click image to go to YouTube.)
Sylvia Liszka Durell
Artist of the Month
I recently won "Artist of the Month" at the Nature Coast Art League in Spring Hill FL for my "Innersoul" creation. This Art League "Challenge" exercise started with a randomly shared brown paper bag stuffed with household discards. I focused on the bottom side of the dozen or so shoe innersoles that dominated the junk. The hard, but still pliable foam material that was molded with lines and curves made me think of the craggy beauty of gargoyles. I cut and arranged the pieces to shape the facial features and hair, and then I painted shadows and contours on the foam to give the face depth. I also used fabric and wallpaper border paper from the bag to finish the piece.
New video! My visit to the Button King Museum
Check out a short video of my trip on YouTube. youtu.be/ka-Fmn513vc
Button Table at
Local Gallery
My Button Table is currently on display at a local gallery in their "Precious Things' show.
Only $5.99 on Amazon. Link: a.co/d/bgFsPKW
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 poem is longer. It 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 format on Amazon: www.amazon.com/-/e/B07GDNQJF5You can also read it on your smartphone, tablet or computer by using one of the apps Amazon offers.
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 poem is longer. It 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 format on Amazon: www.amazon.com/-/e/B07GDNQJF5You can also read it on your smartphone, tablet or computer by using one of the apps Amazon offers.
You can contact Sylvia Liszka Durell
via this website contact page or at holeybuttons@gmail.com.