Woman’s button tin fantasy turns to hell on earth
So there I am, sorting through my fantabulous button tin and what happens? My kid wakes up. Goodbye buttons! But then we are peacefully playing upstairs and I think, “Surely I could just open this one and sort out the little boring ones”. So I do.
And then I turn around for ONE SECOND.
And all hell breaks loose as Jack grabs the tin and not only turns it upside down but done so in such a ‘flingy’ way that buttons go into every single crevice possible for button kind. Then the rampaging starts. As I am frozen to the spot in utter horror he takes the opportunity to bend over and spaz his hands in the buttons while shrieking with joy. Then he starts running around and little buttons are stuck to the bottoms of his feet and make little clicking noises. Its hilarious but is such a disaster than I am almost in tears.
I’m racing around trying to gather buttons back up and he is flinging them everywhere making lunges for the tin I am trying to refill and doing a tiny godzilla tap dance of joy every time he moves.
Things will never be the same. Buttons are lost for sure and I see three still over by the dresser right now.
This was on Wednesday I think. So then, yesterday, he and I are in the baby killer craft room and I am sorting through my fabric stash and I come across one of those bags of pom poms that you can buy at Michael’s. You know when you need like 5 pom poms but can only find the HUGE BAG of 1000. So I think, “hahaha, it would funny to give him this bag”. HAHA. Indeed. Now it looks like a clown threw up in my craft room.
Yesterday I was struggling with my addiction. My mind was on buttons as you know and I was itching to try making my own fabric covered ones. So my sponsor happened to call and I confessed my thought crimes. “How can I justify buying one more craft tool? “. I whined. And instead of the voice of reason she’s all, “oh that sounds awesome you should totally go get that!!” Thanks Mom.
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August 30, 2008 at 3:56 am
custom fabric-covered buttons are cool
August 31, 2008 at 8:12 pm
“Spaz his hands in the buttons”—ha ha ha!
Those buttons are so awesome. My favorite is the one with the curve of striped colors, but it was hard to decide.
September 3, 2008 at 2:42 am
I feel your pain.
The fabric-covered ones are cool, though, but that doesn’t make up for the loss, I guess.
I recently found a tin that was almost identical to the one my mum used to keep her buttons in and had to buy it, just for nostalgia value
September 3, 2008 at 7:53 am
You’re welcome! I love the way you did those buttons. Okay, where’s the picture of baby with the pompoms????
September 15, 2008 at 8:10 am
THIS COULD HAVE BEEN COPIED AND PASTED FROM MY LIFE!!! Well, the part about the button-flinging anyway. I so feel your pain! I have a three year old and a seven month old, and crafting is a bitch with them. What I say: “Mommy’s using that right now – here, do you want to cut up these scraps? No Xander it’s not for eating … ” What I think: “GET YOUR GRUBBY LITTLE HANDS OFF MY GOOD SCISSORS! Um – darling.”
On another note, I used your pattern for spats! Thank you so much for posting it! When I’m finished I will send you a picture!