Show & Tell Friday ( Vintage Tins & Buttons )

welcome to this weeks Show & Tell hosted by the lovely Kelli from

Theres No Place Like Home

For this weeks Show & Tell I am sharing a few of my old tin collection along with my great vintage button find !!!

I just adore these old vintage tins for their color and designs. I have only a few really old ones, then a few newer, still vintage tins. The three in the top picture is my favorites thus far.


Each is filled with buttons and notions.


The birds and flowers are so pleasing to the eye plus they go really well in my little studio. he he he.



The top left hand corner shows another really old tin as the other three are a bit newer. All my tins are from England except one from Denmark.



Did I say buttons ? Oh yes!!! Score!!! I got all these lovely yummies thrifting today !!! All so different and all vintage !!! I am also participating in a Blog-a-Thon called I Remember Laura hosted by Quill Cottage. We just shared a snippet about buttons... here is my post for this week here.




Stop by ... You can too participate in the fun.. who doesn't love Little House On The Prairie??? Thank You for stopping by this week. I look forward to visiting you... let me know that you stopped in by leaving a comment. Have a delightful weekend!!!

I remember Laura BlogAThon Week Two (Buttons)

Please click on the top picture button to take you to more stories people are sharing about their buttons at Quill Cottage !!!

This week we will be sharing button collections, button identification and care, as well as button stories. Did you have a favorite dress with special buttons? Did you play in your grandmothers button box?

There are many descriptions of the buttons used on clothing in the Little House books, from the plain and serviceable ones for the work shirts Laura made button holes for, the bright and beautiful like the ones that looked like berries on Ma's dress that she wore to the sugaring off party, to the fabric covered ones for Laura's best brown dress. Tell us about your button tales!

I keep a large jar and some tins filled with buttons, in which I use quite often in my work. As a doll artist ... I add buttons to just about everything. I especially love old bone buttons and many of the funky vintage buttons seem to catch my eye as well.

Buttons to me, is ART in itself, each one different in shape, color, texture.. some bright , some dull, some very intricate. The tiniest buttons to the biggest buttons I have seen in my line of work. I love 'em all!!!

I love putting my hands through button bins in antique shoppes as well as search for the perfect button treasure... just sifting through each button is a treasure hunt for sure.

What would we ever do without buttons ? Now to teach my little girl how to sew on a button with a button hole just like Laura did....

Thanks for stopping in this week... hope to see you again soon !!!

I Remember Laura Blog-A-Thon ( Quilted Memories)

Quill Cottage is hosting an " I Remember Laura Blog-A Thon"

"On Sundays Mary and Laura must not run or shout or be noisy in their play. Mary could not sew on her nine-patch quilt, and Laura could not knit on the tiny mittens she was making for Baby Carrie. They might look quietly at their paper dolls, but they must not make anything new for them. They were not allowed to sew on doll clothes, even with pins."

~Little House in the Big Woods, Chapter 5, Sundays~
~Laura Ingalls Wilder~

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Welcome to week one of the "I Remember Laura" Blog-a-thon! This weeks theme is Quilted Memories. Laura and her sister, Mary, were started in the needle arts at a very young age. They learned to sew, quilt, knit, and stitch samplers. A simple quilt pattern they first learned to make was a pattern called the nine patch. This week we will share our own quilted memories by telling our stories and sharing pictures of our special quilts or quilt related items.

I remember as a young girl my Sister and I having Little House books. I would look at all the little drawings in them... With that fond memory and having a daughter of my own, we have been reading through all the Little House books which Laura Ingalls wrote. My daughter has grown quite a fondness to Laura, where she herself pretends she is a pioneer girl. She loves her quilt that covers her bed as it reminds her of how Laura and Mary were tucked in for their nights slumber beneath their quilt.


My daughters most prized quilt was not from our family tree.. we adopted it from junking. I am unsure of the age but know it is pretty old or it was surely well used and loved much. Each little hand stitch and fabric woven together makes me wonder who stitched this fine piece... who cuddled it on those cold Winter nights?

The quilt is so delicate with some tears from aging thin fabric yet, we love it all the more. My daughter likes to cuddle with it as she reads sometimes. For the most part is lays folded on her trunk where she can use it at a whim.