Does anyone keep a button box anymore? My daughter called yesterday from college and asked me to send her my button box. She found a button box in a thrift shop in Vermont, where the college is, and has decided to do a project for her Mixed Media Class in which she constructs trees made out of buttons. Each tree will be composed of buttons from a single button box and will be labeled with the geographical area where the box was found. She wants me to drive around to thrift stores looking for button boxes and noting down where they were found.Needless to say, my daughter doesn't want to go to a store and buy new buttons, because that will not be as colorful as the mixture of styles and fashions that a true button box contains. I am not at all sure that I will find button boxes in thrift shops here in New Jersey. In fact, I find myself wondering if people keep button boxes anymore. I have an excellent box containing buttons going back to my mother's button box, probably cut off clothing in the 1950's and 1960's. But, the premise that one will go to the button box and find a suitable button to replace a missing one has never panned out. Usually, after a futile search of the button box, I go to the sewing store and buy new buttons. Of course the extras are added to the box, expanding the wealth of buttons from every era. But I don't think my button box is really serving any practical purpose. It is sort of a sentimental thing. Any suggestions about how I could find genuine button boxes easily and in a short time frame would be appreciated. Also, anyone who has a selection of buttons they would like to contribute to art, please contact me. Devon
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