Guess who's got Mom's buttons.
I DO!! I spent this last week visiting my parents. While there, I told Mom my buttons woes. I did not realize that previously as I finished a projects that required buttons, I would check my box first. If no suitable buttons were found, I would check Mom's box next. If the correct buttons were not located, which rarely happened, I would grin and bear it, and buy buttons. (I am cheap. I hate to pay more for the buttons on a shirt than it cost for the fabric for the shirt.) Now that checking Mom's box regularly is not an option, I have had to buy buttons more often. Mom was so sympathetic to my woes, that she allowed me to raid her button box. I felt extreme guilty for taking my mom's buttons, but as you can see guilt did not stop me.
Pictured here is just a sampling of the buttons I took. I had a great time sorting buttons. Many memories were brought back as I found buttons from things Mom had made over the years. Mom has so many fun and unique buttons. I even got to check out my grandmother button box. So, I believe my box is now set to handle most button situations thanks to Mom. Note - take a look at the price tags on some of the card buttons, $0.09, $0.19, $0.15, and even $0.20 from Sprouse Reitz.
Several months ago, while visiting my parents, I ran across this corn print fabric in Mom's stash. My rusty creative wheel turned when I saw the piece, so I told Mom to make her a shirt out of it and bring it when she came to see me. She looked at me like I was crazy, but trusted the rusty wheel. She had only purchased enough of the material for a front apron so had to do some creative piecing to get a shirt from the corn piece. While my parents were here visiting, we embroidered the Snoopy on the shirt. My rusty wheel thinks it turned out pretty cute, if it says so itself. 
