Retro Dishes

I bought these dishes from Savers. 

They were about $2.00 each set, for a grand total of $8.58.

I love them!

Jeff says they're Grandma dishes...

I say they're retro.

Button Display

 Love the buttons!!

While visiting my sister, her new baby and my mom in Hawaii, my mom let me look through her buttons.  My mom, Hannah and I spent hours looking through her extensive collection, and then she let Hannah and I pick out our favorites!  I knew I didn't want to use the buttons on an outfit, but instead I wanted to display them somehow.  These buttons are from my grandma and my mom, and all have special meanings.  My mom told me how she remembers her mom wearing the coat or dress that these buttons came from. I even added a few buttons from some of Hannah's clothes, a button from an outfit I wore when I was a teenager, and one of the buttons from my Dad's Aloha shirts.  What could be better than that?

I couldn't find any shadow boxes that I wanted to use, so I ended up getting an "8 Opening Collage Frame" from Wal-Mart.

 I put up paper so I could make sure of the placement before nailing holes into the wall.

The smaller papers were for my Thread Storage

I then laid out the buttons on the frame to get an idea of how I wanted it to look.

I cut out black card stock into 4x6 sizes and fit them into each of the frames.  

Since this frame wasn't a shadowbox, I had to remove the glass because of the depth of the buttons.

I used different size and thickness of Glue Dots to stick the buttons onto the card stock.

I also put this quote from President Uchtdorf, that I found in his talk "Happiness, Your Heritage"

*font is Santa's Sleigh

My favorite are the reds and oranges

 I just love that there is thread still on some of them!!

Here is my sewing wall!!  I'm VERY happy with the finished product!

Thread Storage

photo by Crazy Mom Quilts

I saw the above idea by Crazy Mom Quilts and LOVED it!!  I didn't think I would be lucky enough to find something similar in a thrift store, so I started searching the craft stores.  I found a "Collector's Treasure Frame" at Joanns that would be PERFECT for my thread!!  I originally bought one, but realized that if I bought any more thread, I would need a second one.  

Here's the insert that was in the frame/shadowbox.  Sorry, I didn't remember to take a picture before I set it all up.

I taped pieces of paper together and then taped them to the wall to make sure of the placement before nailing holes in the walls.

I love the way it looks!! *

The frames/shadowboxes had glass covering the fronts, but obviously I had to remove those completely.

I also put some sticky tack on the back of each frame to hold it to the wall securely.  I don't want the entire display falling down when I thread out of the frame!

*You'll have to wait until Sunday to find out what the last paper is for ;)