Button Making 101

Back in April al of us ladies had a meeting at road less traveled and had a special button making tutorial as well! Tracy Gayer, Associate Director of GCAC stopped by to show us a few tips and tricks on button making. We snapped a few photos to show you how we made our super cool buttons for the shop/patchwork/craftcation. Its alot easier than it looks, especially if you have the right tools for the job. Thank you Tracy for showing us how to make buttons!

Stop by the store to pick up a button and show some love! 

* I will be adding a video soon of this DIY tutorial stay tuned for updates*

My DIY To Do List

The following things are on my DIY radar! Im making a chandelier for the shop I work at and it's gonna be AMAZING. Im also collecting a few paper tubes for a window display and thinking about making my own block print.... see below. 

Work with my dad on making a Mason Jar Chandelier...this is just one of the 6 mason jars lit up! 

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Create Spring Window Display For Road Less Traveled using...

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Make my own block print...

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Alright, lets see how many I can done before school starts again...

PS: Check out CRAFTCATION the Indie Business & DIY Conference happening in March in Venture CA. 

The Craftcation Conference is super organized and has a great line up of speakers and workshops from Social Media Networking, Book keeping, Selling your work in stores, garment construction boot camp, textile design, How to start a food craft business, how to photograph for a website, getting published, and more. 

The Craftcation Conference is a 3 day event March 22-25th , 2012. 

Just a few of the speakers & Instructors for Craftcation include: 

Aida Mollenkamp, Christine Haynes, Cathy Callahan, Delilah Snell, Evan Kleiman, Gustavo Arrellano, Jenny Hart, Caryn Cantor, Nicole Stevenson, Megan Anderson, Steph Calvert and The Urban Craft Center.

So PLEASE check out the website and see what CRAFTCATION has to offer you and your DIY craftiness!