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. Another cute thing, the closer it got to Christmas the more male names I saw purchasing items. It was a first time for that one.

Of the 27 items I’ve kept in stock this year I really only sold 3 this past month, and only 2 were for Christmas.
Deer mirror
I’ve sold a lot of deer mirrors. I have two styles one with a bird and one with a butterfly.


Dragonfly mirror
This dragonfly mirror has been a relative new addition but has seen some sales recently.


Gender reveal buttons


Even though it’s Christmas baby showers and gender reveal parties still need to happen so I found myself churning out a couple hundred of these 1″ pins this last month. I’m pretty sure all the orders went to gender reveal parties, and I hope everyone had fun with my little game of wearing the pin of your guess.

Soon I’m going to have some all new It’s a Boy, It’s a Girl, It’s a ??? buttons available, and instead of making people buy them in awkward 15 packs of only one type per pack they’ll also come in a mixed bag of 30 for easy buying. I’ve also had requests for custom buttons using the two possible names picked out by the couple so custom listings will be available too.

Just one of many new things I’ve got coming up in January. I’ve been collecting a variety of supplies all year and now it’s time to settle in and use them all up for hundreds of different cute objects.

New Items for Early November

I added a couple new mirrors to the store for November 1st:
Red, White, Blue Flowers

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 edge so I don’t know who designed the fabric. Even though it has a light off-white base I’ve chosen to not use a mylar coating to keep the charm of the pattern (unless requested of course!).

Here’s a view of the actual fabric and whole pattern, in a more yellow light:
Fabric piece

I also added a blue version of my best seller:
Blue Flowers
The marigold version of this print has been popular, but I like the blue better, especially because the flipside of the print looks like a nice watercolor painting of flowers. It’s a thin quilting material so it will always come with a mylar coating.

I’ve also acquired three 1950s world atlases so I’ve been busy breaking the books down and making small buttons out of them. Working from back to front means I always get to deal with the Washington State maps first. Hopefully these will be up in a week or two.

WA buttons

I’m still trying to decide how to sell them, individually or in groups. I’m thinking one listing per state per size with a grid of available buttons. I’d have to update the grid frequently (fingers crossed) and account for how to charge for an upgrade to a magnet. Maybe they should just all be made as magnets.

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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Pardon me, I’m trying to put this site together at the moment. My name is Courtney and I sell buttons, magnets and mirrors that I smash in my Tecre 1 inch and 2.25 inch button makers. I like to recycle maps and comic books for the magnets, and to use Japanese chiyogami and neat quilt [...]

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