Rings

Peacock felt rings

I’ve had lots of ring blanks around for months now. Unfortunately the demand for gender reveal party favors is so high I haven’t been able to make rings or update this website.

I’ve decided to to do a few giveaways on my Facebook page from October to December and I think these rings will be the first two.

Transparencies & Bottle Openers

Creating buttons and button related products doesn’t mean always having fancy complicated designs. Sometimes, the answer is much more simple.

ECHB Bottle Opener

This past weekend I picked up my first batch of bottle opener supplies and wanted to play. My husband and some friends recently started their own homebrew club, Emerald City Homebrewers and with the monthly meeting coming up it was the perfect time to practice.

They already had the logo designed for them so it was just up to me to put it in a button template and print…but black on white paper is boring for a bottle opener and I was out of all colored paper except an odd gold and silver pack I found at Goodwill. All the colors I put behind the logo seemed to cheapen it until I remembered that instead of printing colored graphics and protecting them with a sheet of mylar you can print directly onto transparencies and press them as both artwork and coating.

ECHB Bottle Opener

By printing on the transparency you let all the metal of button shell show through giving the buttons an industrial look and some high shine. Thanks to my husband’s quick thinking we printed with the logo mirrored so the ink is inside the plastic and not on top of it. Not shown are the keychain rings that can be attached through the holes on the back. My fingernails had already broken today so he added them later before taking them to his meeting.

ECHB Bottle Opener

If you’d like your own Emerald City Homebrewers bottle opener, well, you’ll just have to join the club.

New products: Magnet Sets

There’s a new category of product now up, magnet sets. A set of 6, these 1 inch magnets all come from large sheets of chiyogami or various maps and ephemera I’m rescuing around Seattle. I’ve only got chiyogami and marble paper up so far, but soon I hope to have a variety of stamp, dictionary [...]

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A New Year

There’s a lot to be said for Christmas shopping. It apparently happens everywhere as I’ve made nearly half of my shop’s total forever sales since November 30th. I was having to hit the post office quite a bit, a practice I’m going to be ending for shipping from a scale with postage at home soon. [...]

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New Items for Early November

I added a couple new mirrors to the store for November 1st: The Red, White and Blue flower mirror is something I’m happy to finally post. It’s my current favorite fabric for it’s vintage 1930s feel. I picked it up from the Pacific Fabrics flat fold table and only got a quarter yard without an [...]

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New Chiyogami

New Chiyogami for magnets that I picked up last weekend. I love love love the koi print. I’m also currently anxiously awaiting a shipment of paper from Paper Mojo. I’ve never purchase chiyogami online, but they had a teal version of my favorite paper, a yellow cherry blossom print. I also picked up a couple [...]

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