Fleaology

Flea.o.logy is one of my favorite things to go to.  Really, even over the MALL!  They have some of the greatest finds there.  Most of it even has really great price tags to go with it too.  

They have an event coming up MAY 5th, and I can't wait!  Even though my project will be over by then, I still  will be a flea.o.logy regular.  Check out their blog HERE for more info and dates. Plus some of the great finds, and merchandise they have. They are so great!  Can't wait for MAY 5th!!!!
 

Here is what some friends and I got at the last flea.o.logy event.  Ash got this amazing orange chair to shoot photos with, Liz got this cute tin bucket to plant flowers in, and I got the jewelry box for a graduation gift.  Paid $5 for it!  Can you believe it?  L.O.V.E!

Button Heaven

Is there such a place?  I'm pretty sure there is and I'm pretty sure I was there last Saturday.  After posting about my 'Vintage Button' obsession (haven't read it? Read it HERE) I received a message on Facebook from a certain someone (MARCIE I LOVE YOU!) who reads my blog. She said she'd been cleaning out a ladies house who had passed away and that there were bottles, and bottles of buttons that she didn't know what to do with -- until she read my blog.  She said I was welcome to have them ALL!  Can you believe how AWESOME that is?!  That was Friday, and all that night I was thinking and talking about those buttons while on a couples date with the HH and some friends.  They pretty much all (minus one who loves buttons as much as I do) thought I was nuts-o and I pretty much am. ;)  I mean really, is a button suppose to bring this much happiness to a person?  Saturday I (of course) was up bright and early out at  yard sales when I got a call from my "button angel" saying I could meet her to pick them up. Which I did.  And "Oh", the pure joy of all those buttons! There were SIX bottles plus 3 small bags full of wonderful, magnificent, gorgeous, one-of-a-kind, story BUTTONS!!!!  I was TRULY in button heaven while digging through them, carefully examining each and everyone.  When I found an especially great one I would scream and giggle with joy and run to show the HH, he humored me but was CLEARLY not as enthusiastic about it as I was. (RUDE!;)) Thankfully I had called in two of my fellow button lovers to come share in the BLISS with me (It's always more fun to share!).  Oh the fun we had when they arrived...hours of fun!  We ooed and awed at all of them, and laughed at how many times we were saying the word "LOVE", it was AWESOME!   While digging through them we felt sad that we didn't  know the sweet little lady's name who owned them.  I have since found out that her name was Nadine and that she was a sweetheart.   I really hope that Nadine knows how much I  CHERISH her buttons.  Now my jar is 3/4 full and I have some really, really great buttons in it.  Thank you Marcie and Nadine you are truly my BUTTON ANGELS!   

3 Crazy button ladies swimming in button love!

Sorting of the buttons...

Some of my very favorites from the bottles.  The picture does NOT do them justice though!

My new pile mound of buttons.

My jar in all it's glory! 3/4 full and loving it.  Almost time to find me a new vintage bottle. :)

*This is going to be a great weekend for Yard Sales!  The weather is FINALLY going to be warm. There are dozens of them in practically ever city throughout Utah.  So get out there and make me PROUD. :)  Send me pic.s of any great finds you get.  I'd love to share it here on the blog!

Button, button, whos' got the button?

v I found this jar a couple weeks ago at a Yard Sale for...$1.  Isn't it cute?  It's so vintage, and so GREAT!  So what do I do with such a great jar?  Use it for my newly found obsession...Button collecting.  Vintage Button collecting to be exact. The Handy Husband's Cousin and Cousin-in-law got me hooked and now I can't stop!

Won't this be the PERFECT little jar to hold them all?

This was the very first button in my jar.  It is from the HH's Grandma.  Isn't it cute?

These are some that HH's Mom (BEST mother-in-law on the planet!) gave me.  She has quite the collection herself.  It felt like Christmas digging through all of her many buttons.  Some are even from her Grandma's.  That is so cool!

While we were digging through her boxes and bags of buttons she sat and told me the back stories of some of them.  This cute little blue, round one was used on a dress that her and her mother made after she saw it in a magazine and begged her Mom to help her make it.  She was in the 9th grade.  How fun for her to remember that story and share it with me.  I was eating it up!  Loved hearing the back stories of the buttons and wish that I could hear all the stories that go along with each and every button.  Because you know EVERY button has a STORY. :)

So this is my collection thus far.  Pretty good start.

But I still have a long way to go to fill my jar with those amazing, little, vintage, story buttons. :)

Miss J and Mister C have gotten into my BUTTON LOVE as well.  They carried around their jars of buttons for two days and even had to sleep with them.  LOL.  Miss J loved sitting and threading her buttons for hours.  It was so incredibly precious!

Mister C said the only thing he wanted from the Easter Bunny was a little bit of candy and BUTTONS.  How cute is that?  Here are the 'special' buttons the Easter Bunny brought to Miss J and Mister C.