Buttons

Here are some more buttons that were up for sale at the Holiday Art Faire. I use this rainbow fabric to make buttons a lot, because it's soft and fuzzy. There were a couple little kids totally entranced by these buttons.

Button

Another button out of recycled fabric and buttons and things. I made this one towards the end of the Holiday Art Fair last November; I had produced a bunch more but unfortunately did not get to photograph them before I (fortunately) sold them. This one I probably set out in the last hour of the fair, and that's probably why it's still around. I will be making many more of these guys and selling them at Pantheacon next month.

Buttons

I have a button maker that makes buttons about 1" in diameter. I use it to make buttons out of materials generally not intended for the machine, like fabric and beads and such. The two above were made of extra linoleum prints I made into cards last year, and are some of the only buttons I've made as intended, with paper and a plastic cover. Here are some examples of the other kinds:



And for fun, below is the first button I ever made, before I even had a button maker. There was a booth at the Oregon Country Fair that let you make buttons. I used a contact print of the first sheet of B&W photos I'd ever taken. That girl in the middle is my best friend Zella.


I'll be making a lot more buttons in the next week in preparation to sell at the Holiday Art Fair. Wish me luck!

Pantheacon, Insignificance

This was me last weekend, running Anne's booth three days in a row. Pantheacon is a Pagan convention that my family has been attending since its inception. Naturally I felt it was important to support mainstream music (The Strokes) while selling music no one ever listens to (most of what's in front of me).


I was also attempting to sell cards, buttons, envelopes, and portraits which, through being so utterly brilliant, blindsided most potential customers into utterly ignoring them.




I handmade all cards buttons envelopes etc myself and was continuing to make buttons all weekend. Most of them were made of cloth from old t-shirts. The cheap ones I stamped with potato stamps I cut, and the sewn ones I embroidered and embelleshed before turning into buttons. For the cards I cut a linoleum print of a witch smoking and drinking (in honor of all my lovely role models in the Pagan community) and then tore cards of my own design (when you tear - as opposed to cut - the edges of paper forms it gives them a nice fine quality). I made the envelopes out of old calendars.

I also made all the signs. They're also torn paper, held together with armature wire. The letters are stamped on from two kits I purchased last winter at Paxton Gate. I used the same stamps on my Christmas presents this year, as seen below.


And, because I know you don't care, here are some pictures of my dorm room walls and what is on them.




My dorm room contains a kitchenette which I don't actually stand on all that often. All paintings in this picture are mine.


Here is one last closeup of some of the buttons I made at Pantheacon, being worn by their owners, my father and sister.