Buttons!!!

I love buttons.

I mean it. I love buttons. 

I can't get enough of them. Buttons on clothes, buttons on jewelry, buttons on purses, buttons on shoes, buttons as eyes on my sock dolls... I seriously love buttons. I'm always oohing and ahhing over button crafts, but I complete surprisingly few of my own. One problem is the price of fancy buttons. Like everything up here, it's a bit high. And I'm cheap. Plain buttons are more than acceptable to me, but there just isn't a huge selection in the craft stores here. I've seen a place on TV (in Canada, of course) where there are rows upon rows, shelves upon shelves, aisles upon aisles of buttons. Thousands of buttons of all shapes and sizes, all sorted by color. Why can't there be a button cache like that here?!

But I'm not going to complain (much). I do have a large collection of random buttons to pick from, and it serves me well enough until I can find my treasure trove of color-coded button glory.

And believe me, I will find it.

Last night as I battled Audrey to sleep for the fourth time, I went to my Zen place - the place where I create craft projects in my head, where it's impossible to mess up and everything turns out amazing. I spend a lot of time in that place. Anyway, I found myself thinking of all the possibilities in a handful of buttons, and decided I need to have buttons in my hair. I almost got out of bed right then to craft for fear of forgetting this idea. But, as Audrey had finally given in and gone to sleep again, I decided to wait until morning.

Thankfully, I didn't forget. And here it is:

I love it. A lot. I know, there's a lot of love in this post. Deal with it.

Simple, but so fun!

The original headband, all boring and blah.

I didn't take step by step pictures, because, well, come on. I sewed buttons to an elastic headband. I think that's pretty easy to figure out. To be sure the knots in the thread on the back don't come out, I super-glued them. I think I'm about to make about a billion more, and maybe I'll add some fabric flowers and such. I'm already itching to go make more, so...