Tag: lifesytles

BUTTONS AS A CHANGE OF OUTFIT…

 

You can change an outfit in a second with vintage buttons. They can have just the same effect as a lovely scarf and for half the price.

I’ve changed buttons on jackets, blouses and cardigans for years and have a number of different styles of black cardigans that come out each winter with different buttons on them.

You can purchasee vintage buttons on ebay or my favourite shop is Duttons for Buttons in Harrogate, which has a stock of over 12,000 buttons, they also do a mail order service.

I have also bought a cardigan in a charity shop for the buttons and put some others on it then given it back to the charity shop.

My jackets buttons change every year. This year the skin look was big and I got a number of different styles in it from a company on EBay and Amazon.

Plain coloured blouses, in particular white or black, can look so different with a lovely button on it even if you only change the top button and the sleeve buttons.

I’ve even changed a few buttons on my husbands shirts to give them a new look.

Source: Duttons EBay

UPCYCLE YOUR WAY TO A GREAT WARDROBE…

Cloth Magazine‘Cloth’ Magazine have an article about Boat People Boutique,which I thought I’d share with you. The Boat People Boutique have a brilliant blog that is packed full of fashionable tutorials and quick fix videos to help you upcycle your new wardrobe.

Check out their style diary for lots of ‘how to’s’, like DIY embellished sun glasses. There are so many ideas I’ve made a long list of ones I want to try.

Their blog is full of inspiring pictures and you can also buy from their boutique.

MORE PLACES TO SELL YOUR CRAFTS…

buttons_largeThe Crafters’ Barn is a brand new website offering you the opportunity to browse and buy a wide range of UK handmade items, by bringing together a unique collection of individual artisan sellers. It was started in October 2011 by Noo’s Knits as a way of offering a retail site for craft sellers at a minimum price. The idea being to build a community, not take your profits!

They don’t charge their sellers a commission (unlike almost every other site!) so you can be sure that the price you pay goes direct to the maker. Their fee structure is simple they charge £2.30 per month (which comes out at £2 to us after paypal fees) for unlimited listings. There are no further charges other than those taken by Paypal on your sales. There is no obligation to list every month and no minimum contract or anything like that. Just £2.30 for every month that you do decide to list.

Its a new site so you should keep popping back to see what’s new but I’m going to give it a go with my hand made cards.