Buttons, Buttons...Winner, Winner!!

I said I would pick a winner of the button give away today, but I thought I would be 2!!!.
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The first number in the Random Number Generator is 10... and that is Mary Grace from Hooked On Needles!!
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The second winner of the button give away is number 6... Growing Up A Country Girl!!!
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Just need your snail mail addresses ladies and I'll get them out this week!
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Thank you everyone for your thoughtful comments on the button frame and this give away.
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I love give aways and I think I might have a little one every Sunday. Just small things I find or would like to share with all of you. I'm going to call it Sharing Sunday...so keep an eye out next Sunday!
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See you soon,
~Karen~

Button, Button...Who's Giving Away The Button

I am that's who. I should say buttons...thanks to my blogging friend Carol who gave me a ton of buttons that were given to her from a friend. I have a little give away at the end of this post, but first I've made something else with my collection. In the past, I've made button thumb tacks and button magnets for the refrigerator or the magnetic board and now I've made a button frame!!
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I just took any one of the frames that I know we all have tucked away in a box. I painted this wooden frame black so the wood wouldn't show through all the black buttons.
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Keep going until it looks like this.
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Here are a couple close ups...
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I have a hot glue tip for you too. I use a silicone pot holder or hot pad to rest my glue gun on when I'm using it. You don't have to worry about your work surface burning and...

all those glue blobs just slide right off. See that mess off to the right? Now the pad is clean as a whistle.

This is a great project to use up all those button in the button box. It would also look cute with multi colored buttons too or all shades of pink and white or blue and white for a frame in a little boy or girl's room. The caption under the picture could say "I'm cute as a button"

GIVE AWAY IS CLOSED...Now it's time for a little give away. Carol was gracious enough to give me so many buttons, I would like to share some with you. Just leave a comment here and I'll pick a winner next Sunday. I'll try and squeeze in enough buttons to fill a small flat rate box or envelope. Sorry for the flat rate, but those little buttons are heavy when you put them all together.
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Have a great day,

~Karen~

A Winner and Quilt Show Pics...

And the winner of the quilt magazine is...Jo from West Side of Straight. Just need your snail mail address and I'll get it right out to you. Go visit her blog, she makes the cutest tea cup pin cushions!!
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Here are the pictures I took at the MQX, Machine Quilters Expo, last week when I went with Tina and Sarah. There were so many beautiful quilts from so many talented people, I couldn't take pictures of all of them. The catalog said we could take pictures for our own person use, so I hope this is ok to post on my blog. I'm just sharing the inspiration for all to see and not taking credit for any of these!! The one picture with someone in it is Tina. She entered her quilt and did an awesome job. Woo Hoo for Tina!! I'll let the rest of the pictures speak for themselves. I was speechless looking at these quilts. I don't think I'll ever be at this level in quilting. If you can believe it, some of these were quilted on a regular sewing machine!
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I hope you enjoyed the show...I'm still drooling, especially over the last one. I think that one is my favorite!!
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Have a great night,
~Karen~