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.

​You can contact Sylvia Liszka Durell via this website contact page or at holeybuttons@gmail.com.
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The National Button Society announces successful
“2021 Unconventional
Convention.”

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The NBS Team sends a BIG THANKS to everyone who attend-ed the Unconventional Convention, made donations, bid on auction items, and donated their time as presenters and volunteers.

The NBS Zoom train stopped for 561 PASSENGERS in SEVEN COUNTRIES.
In the U.S. the train made stops in 46 STATES and the District of Columbia.
The Auction Car was busy with 430 registered bidders and 225 lots resulting in a record auction sales: $27,199. Donations topped $7,000 – another record!

We are very pleased that you enthusiastically supported and participated in the virtual show. Your participation and support truly honored the team that brought you this convention. Thank you!
The convention may have ended on Saturday night, but the Convention crew is still working to review your feedback and make recommendations to the NBS Board.

Be sure to complete the survey the NBS Team has sent you. Your feedback will help us plan future virtual events.

History of Buttons: Why We Collect the Little Works of Art

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Click the photo to be taken to the ordering page for your copy of this program.
​Come with me on a visit to the Frieda Warther Button House in Dover, OH! 
(Click image to go to Youtube.)