Hot Buttons!
New TV Show about buttons coming this fall!
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What an exciting time for button collectors! The "coming-soon" Hot Buttons TV series will feature button collecting, buttons in fashion and button museum displays from all over the world. Hot Buttons is expected to begin airing in the winter on PBS TV. The National Button Society expects the show will create excitement about the hobby of button collecting. To see more go to: https://www.wpbstv.org/hot-buttons-to-heat-up-pbs-stations/

Button Craft Tutorials

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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.
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Button & Zipper Bracelet Tutorial
 youtu.be/kb6jllvWijg

By Sylvia Liszka Durell
​Come with me on a visit to the Frieda Warther Button House in Dover, OH! 
(Click image to go to YouTube.)

Sylvia Liszka Durell
Artist of the Month

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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 Creation

Buttoning Up Matisse!

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My new piece is called, “Buttoning Up Matisse’s Purple Robe and Anemones.”
​I used buttons, fabric, acrylic paint, markers and threads and yarn to recreate his masterpiece. 23-1/2” square. It is currently hanging at the Brooksville City Hall Gallery in Florida. The theme of the gallery’s show is “Meeting of the Minds.” Artists were encouraged to submit pieces that were inspired by other artists or done in collaboration with others.
Sylvia Liszka Durell


Haiku for Button Lovers
Poetry Book
By Sylvia Liszka Durell
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.

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