Found these in New York the first time i went, over a year ago. Florals and a bad prints my favourite, except they have holes, they not like the normal shanks i love so much, but they are maybe even a bit better. Awesome addition to my badly printed shank collection. im in love with the hearts. Have a good weekend see you monday.

So i haven’t been to the Oriental plaza in a long long time. It’s like they have done a bit of a clean up or something but i found so much stuff there this weekend, or it was just my lucky day. The purchase i am most excited about are these badly printed shanks, as you already know my favourite type of button. I thought i had exhausted all the shops of these at the plaza. Apparently not since i found these…. gasp….. and then i found these fabrics, vintage, some are 100%cotton and really good prices ….. i am almost as obsessed with rose patterned fabric as i am with buttons so it must have been my lucky day.

oooh these are so naaaaaaiis, love the pattern.

okay If you have been following my blog for a while you will know my ultimate button to collect is what i call the ‘Badly printed shank collection’. These are my favourite type to collect because they are so unusual and most of the time have really bad prints on a white shank (that’s how i got to the name, obvs)  Over the next few days im going to share my favourites with you, most of them i bought in a shop in New york. BTW did i mention im going back there in May (YAY!)

I would swim 500 nautical miles for these babies, ‘holy whale’ they are amazingly amazing.

Hello dear faces, found these in a scratch patch they are glass shanks with apples very delicately painted on them. They are very small about half the size of your fingernail. They look quite old not sure how old though.

Just so you know i won’t be around for a few days as im getting married this weekend, so ill be busy busy. Buttons for once will be the second thing on my mind. So cross your fingers and hope that it doesn’t rain.

SO! i found these at a Len’smill store, holymoley two of my favourite things in one little package; roses and buttons. My sister actually bought one card for me and i told her to take me to the shop immediately incase i’d find similar kinds. I did, as you can see below. ill never take these off the card, unless someone pays me 1 million bucks to do it. Can’t wait to pass them on to my children one day. Have a happy weekend.