THE GREAT BUTTON HUNT!

Do you have a stash of buttons?  On a recent visit to Mom's, I had my latest issue of Threads Magazine with me and she saw the cover with all the buttons and brought up a favorite family quest we had when I was a child.  The Great Button Hunt.  She had an old tin can (the kind you get 2lbs of cookies in) filled with an assortment of buttons old and new.  When she needed buttons for something she was making, she would get out the can and pick one button and my sister and I would have to hunt through the can to find the rest for her project.  She later told me she got her love of buttons from her mother.  They would visit thrift stores and grandmom would buy old blouses take them home and remove the buttons and put them in her stash.  What a great idea!  Although my button can is not nearly as large as Mom's, I think I might make a few visits to the local thrifts to see what button treasures I can find.