Here in Paris one of my favourite hobbies is to spend my spare time "mining" little treasures in haberdasheries disseminated in this town. Indeed, there's such as magnificent shops of this kind where to spent whole afternoons discovering amazing little stuffs! These magical places are simply extraordinary... sometimes, I feel like an archaeologist in a scavenger hunt: while I'm pushing my way through colourful ribbons and vintage fabrics, it is always a surprise and a great pleasure to discover coffers completely fulfilled with precious buttons...
And this love that I feel for buttons and haberdasheries inspired me to carve special hand carved rubber stamps the shape of buttons: they are for sale on my etsy, in 4 different sets... check them out, I hope you like'em all!
Last but not least, in this post I propose also a special giveaway of a set of 8 authentic "buttons in buttons" in fabric, made with my buttons stamps (pic below there): for winning this set, you have to write a comment, explaining where do you like to spent your spare time before Sunday the 6th November. To each comment I will assign a progressive number... then, randomiser will chose the fortunate number!!
Last but not least, in this post I propose also a special giveaway of a set of 8 authentic "buttons in buttons" in fabric, made with my buttons stamps (pic below there): for winning this set, you have to write a comment, explaining where do you like to spent your spare time before Sunday the 6th November. To each comment I will assign a progressive number... then, randomiser will chose the fortunate number!!
NOTE: this is the set to win! write a comment on this post to participate to the giveaway!!
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Your buttons look fantastic! Absolutely adorable. I'm going to look for new buttons to smarten up my winter coat so I think I need to find some nice haberdasheries in London. Where do I like to spend my spare time? At home usually, spending time with my boyfriend, knitting and reading.
Oh I am so in, the buttons are too darn cute! I really enjoy reading other blogs on my spare time, or then walking around in our garden and enjoying the fresh air. Thanks for this awesome giveaway!
They are so cute!! I like all your stamps!!
I'm in! are so cute!!
My favourite thing to do in my spare time is visit thriftstores & fleamarkets with my best friend! We love searching for old things, just like you love to! I've got this Paumes book with al cute shops in Paris... they're all on my to visit list!!
And if i'm at home i love to create stuff at my desk that's filled with things i like...
Love your buttons!! Would love to take a chance :-)
Lo que más me gusta en mi tiempo libre es caminar en una libreria o papeleria con mis hijos. Y si voy sola me gusta mirar en una mercería llena de lazos, hilos, cremalleras, telas, ....... Los colores y la delicadeza me relajan.
Love your bottons.
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Núria
Ohh how adorable are these stamped buttons! My favorite place to spend time on a nice sunny day is outdoors! I love walking around with my camera, or riding my bicycle out to a new part of town. If the weather isn't looking too good, I also enjoy staying home, listening to music, and cooking for people I love.
You are just purely an inspiration! :D
I love book stores and art shops. I think most of my time outside of the house were spent there, other than creative markets and art exhibitions. I love colors and variety of stuffs that were self-made. Even though I make one myself, I can't really stop myself from buying items from other people too :D
Cute ones!! my spare time would be divided between my hubby and dearest son and my craft projects..
I love all of them!!!
What i like to do is go shopping, speacilly..to craft stores :)
I love your work! These little buttons are adorable! My favourite place to spend my spare time is at home..together with my husband, 5month old son and dog. I love to read, write letters and make little critters for my etsy-shop
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Happy creating! And I'm looking forward to your future blog posts!
They are really cute! I would love to spend that sunday with a friend, cupcakes and a nice movie!
Floor
These are too cute and would be great for crafting with
Wooow!! I want it!! The photo is in "Entreé des Fornisseurs"?? ^_^
Wow, great gift! Count me in please!
Do you have the adresses of the stores where you can find al those beautiful buttons in Paris?
Iris
This is truly brilliant. Your stamps are witty and attractive. I wish I was in Paris too!
aileenbell@cox.net
I would like to spend my free time alone in a peaceful area with my crochet or embroidery work. It could be my lovely home.
thanks for the lovely giveaway.
These are absolutely gorgeous I would totally go buy them if I lived in Paris. I can already think of so many fun things to do with them! :)
Che bei bottoni!
Il tempo libero lo passo praticamente tutto davanti alla macchina da cucire, ma ogni tanto concedo un po' di tempo al mio adorato cane e ce ne andiamo a spasso per i boschi.
Grazie per il giveaway!
I love buttons - and your buttons in buttons are amazing! Thanks for the chance to win.
To answer your question, I'm pretty much a home-body and spend most of my time hanging out with my husband and little girl.
The buttons are just beautiful! Thank you so much for giving us the chance to participate in this give-away!
I'm a bit like the rest: I love to spend my spare time at home, watching a DVD-series with my boyfriend, or cuddling up on the couch with a piece of crochet. But mostly, I love to spend my time visiting my 4-month old nephew, or taking care of my nieces (they're 5 and 10 years old).
I like to spend my time crafting, sewing, baking or reading.
These buttons are super cute!
The buttons are so amazing and different. They give a such of Chic touch to any craft. I will love to win this fantastic part of your designs. Thanks
wow, very cool! I tend to spend what free time with my hubby and fur baby down at the river camp. We spend most weekends there and i can knit by the fire, or river while hubby salmon fishes. I love cooking/baking over the fire pit! :)
Spend time w family, and do crafting def!
I love spending my spare time making arts and crafts with my kids, and helping them expand their creativity.
I am in love with your buttons and stamps!!
LOVE love you buttons and stamps! Thanks for a chance to win them :)
they are very cute buttons !
Love the buttons! I just started making my own covered buttons and they are so much fun! Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
These are lovely!!
These are sooooo great!
Love the buttons thanks for the chance to win..ciao4now64@yahoo.com
I love finding new blogs to read! And you etsy shop and buttons are adorable too!
After working all week, I truly like to spend time at home: baking in the kitchen and relaxing in a comfortable chair, crocheting.
Very pretty! Blessings!
great buttons lot to dream with
LOVE the button design printed on the fabric and I love your work!!! Can't wait to see more...
Sweet! Would love to win them, thx for the chance:)
I love your buttons!
I love to spend my spare time hunting for "treasures" at the second hand store - old lace, costume jewelry, silks and velvets I can reuse, and, of course, buttons!
I love browsing craft stores and bookshops!
I love your stamps and the buttons in buttons are amazing. There is just something so soothing about running your hand through a bin of buttons
kelly@siblingstew.com
In what spare time I have (I'm a mom to a 2.5 yr old and a newborn any day now), I love to sew and knit. I was just lamenting the difficulty of finding the "perfect" buttons for the things I knit. One spends so much time crafting a garment, it seems an awful shame to put "just any old button" on it. I practically drooled at your haberdashery photo. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
In my spare time I sew for my girls or research good gluten free food recipes as my 7 year old daughter was recently diagnosed with Celiacs disease.
What sweet buttons. Thanks for the chance to win.
But what a great, unique idea! Awesome buttons!
These are extra cute!! I'd love to add some on my favorite cardigan:)
About my spare time, I love going to flea markets and finding miniature forgotten treasures, or spending hours in creative discount stores, crocheting and sewing.
In my spare time, I love going to fabric markets and dreaming about my next sewing project!For me it's good to spend my time with friends, of course.
Bye!!
I like to spend my spare time sewing and reading, but mostly it's reading about sewing on blogs or books.
Your button stamps are so cute.
I just discovered your blog and I am fascinated! I will take my tami to explore it. Congratulations and thank you for the giveaway! Ana
Those buttons are SO cute!
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l o v e l y ! <3
Heard about your giveaway on the Madcap Team Discussion List.
Your buttons are so sweet! I enjoyed looking at the picture of your Studio - and of you shopping for vintage items.
I also love to hunt around in shabby little antique shops looking for small treasures to use in my collage pieces.
Thank you for offering this lovely giveaway.
your buttons are so wonderful I am always looking for certain buttons and can never find what I'm looking for there all plastic would love to win these THANKS
I love to spend my spare time in my sewing room playing with fabric, buttons and trim and hopefully producing something really neat!!
OMG...these are the cutest buttons...what a great idea!
I love to spend the weekends in the art studio with my husband and fat cat.
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Spare time is really a luxory for me! I work every other Sunday in an Emergancy room! So often times my husband and I sleep in before we go eat a late breakfast thenn head to church! If I am lucky I get to knit Sunday afternoons!
LOVE these! (and winning a set would take me to Paris in my head).
Oh wow! the buttons are beautiful!
thanks for the chance! I love to spend my weekends in fabric shops.Nabiha
nabihaismailw@yahoo.com
Since my daughter and my little baby grandson are coming to visit for a week on the 11th, I want to spend my time before then working in my sewing studio making little outfits for Luc.
Thank you for the chance to win your wonderful giveaway. I love buttons.
Oh my goodness - these buttons are amazing! Such a clever idea that has major impact :)
I love your carving skills.
Marilize
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I like spending my spare time at home crocheting or sewing! Nice web site.
In my spare time I love to make cards with rubber stamps! I love your buttons and your carving... thanks for the chance to win :)
Those are so adorable, thx for the chance to win! I will be on vacation in French Lick, Indiana. My hubby will be playing golf, I will bring my sewing machine....just relaxing!
They are so cute! I'd love to use them for my clothing and crafts! They'd be so useful! I just love them! Hope to win!
Those are adorable! I like to spend my time in nature, or gathering inspiration in antique and thrift shops and bookstores.
Your buttons are so sweet and original! I have been collecting buttons for some time now. I would make these buttons into a magnet collection for my magnetic board in my sewing room.
Thanks!
Nettie
nettiecrain@live.com
Your buttons are original and very cute. Thank you for this giveaway!
Fantastic! So creative and original.
Please include my name into your drawing - thx
always, Lelia
Hmmm - spare time!! It seems that I don't have much of that because I keep seeing beautiful and creative things like your buttons to trigger my creative juices and make me want to make something. I like being creative and don't consider the time I spend being creative my "spare" time. So what I do with what I consider spare time is read - love books almost as much as I love creating. Thanks for this drawing and sharing your creativity.
I would love too spend time in one or all of those shops...heaven. Your buttons are adorable!
Cute buttons would love to use them on clothing. In my spare time I crochet, crochet, and crochet, at least right now I do. Thanks.
I'd love to enter for the pretty buttons and I spend my spare time stitching, as in cross-stitching, knitting, crocheting and sewing.
Thanks for the great giveaway!!
kimberlybreid@hotmail.com
I love your buttons, and I could really use them because in my spare time I knit and crochet, and I'm always on the look out for some unique buttons!
jwitt33 at live dot com
In my spare time I play with my buttons!!! These are wonderful.
I am disabled, so I spend most of my time at home. I watch t.v., and read but most of all I craft. My main craft is designing and making jewelry. I would love to win your wonderful buttons to use in my jewelry making. Thanks- Tonya
There really is something about buttons that makes them irresistible. And when adding them to anything, they can really finish off the item. I love finding cute buttons to put on the clothes I make or on pouches and stuff.
Love these buttons!
I've long admired your hand carved stamps. I love the buttons just at much. Generally I like to spend my spare time creating miniature stuffed things in my studio.
You are so talented. Your buttons are just beautiful. I would love to win them.
Your fabric stamped buttons are beautiful! My spare time is used for cross-stitching and/or designing charts to cross stitch.
Mary
Your buttons are gorgeous! Please count me in, thanks!
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Sorry for my incomplete previous comment. In my spare time I enjoy reading, sewing and knitting. Currently I'm making ornaments for the Christmas tree :)
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I love buttons, buttons are very important they are what finish off an item to wether it looks ok or fabulous. I know I take so long to pick mine, and I think that I do make the right choice. I have been known to buy the buttons first and then try to find the right pattern to show them off properly. I hope I win, thanks for this chance.
I love your buttons!!! My favorite place to lose myself is in the Salvation Army shop about half an hour from where I live. They always have the weirdest things and I always find treasures there! :D
So nice! So generous with this giveway! I love the buttons! Lucky form me, pleaseeeeeeeeeee!!
Mª Antonia (from Portugal)
I love to cook up laborious meals, thrift shop, knit, watch netflix, scroll through my never ending google reader full of crafty crafts.
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I love your work, you're so talented! They make me want to have them :) On weekend I'd like to take care of my little garden or working on a project. I've been learning to quilt-small project. I also have a plan to collect some decoration button :)
How utterly ADORABLE your buttons are! Wish I could go treasure hunting with you in Paris! But my favorite thing to do on a Saturday is going to estate sales and doing some hunting of my own!
I really enjoy looking for inspiration on the Internet in my spare time. Your buttons are darling, but the way.
My spare time is few & far inbetween! When I do have any, I like to just be outside, sit on my porch, go for a bike ride or something relaxing. LOVE the buttons!!! Thanks for the chance!
Lovely! So simple yet so effective.
I love these buttons! I like to spare my rare moments of free time cuddled up on the couch with my husband and my dog, crafting while we watch TV.
What a cute button idea!!!
I like to spend my spare time either out running on my local trails or visiting various thrift stores for vintage goodies.
:) debyeo at hotmail dot com
What a great idea, your buttons are beautiful!
I like going to thrift stores and flea markets, where you can sometimes find little tins or even big boxes full of mixed buttons that all seem to tell their own story.
I love these button stamps... too cute!
I love your buttons and I love the stamps. Thank you for a wonderful giveaway.
Beautiful buttons - a wonderfully whimsical idea. Your story reminded me of a trip to Paris. There was a bead shop on the same block as our rented apartment in the Marais. I thought I'd pop in for a few minutes to have a look around, much to my husband and son's chagrin. I was totally absorbed and could barely pull myself away. Naturally, I had to bring home some souvenirs, but it was a very tough decision which ones.
I would love these buttonss and button fabric and can already picture in my mind putting it to good use. I spend my spare time at home with my family - rolling around on the floor with the grandkids or working on my WIP pieces.
What a wonderful idea!! They are so cute!
I like to spend my free time lost through the streets of Barcelona discovering very special shops and if they are wool stores, even more!
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