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Another one of my finds when I was in Vietnam was the wholesale embellishment district. It was basically a huge marketplace of back alleys, tiny stalls, and aisles and aisles of really cool things - you could barely walk through them. It was small, stuffy, and hot, but totally worth it! I found bags and bags of thousands of cute buttons, small bow embellishments, shiny satin ribbons, organza rosettes, etc.
Anyways, last night I intended to make my table numbers with the little swarovski crystals I bought a while back, but since I couldn’t find them, I decided to experiment with buttons. Here are my results:
They look a little “special” 
but overall, I think not a bad first attempt! I am planning to hang these off of my votive trees in the center of the table.
oh~ interesting buttons idea! love the brown bow ^_~
How about trying to do the table numbers with the buttons laying flat (so you can see the button holes), slightly over lapping each other on the edges (super glue? hot glue gun?)?
~ and maybe buttons of slightly different sizes within the same color scheme?
good luck with your project ^^
i agree with chichaiko; you lose the detail of the button by stacking them. how about glueing them facing out on the ribbon, and then mounting the button-ribbon on white cardboard?
Agree with 2 comments above. It looked like a pipe cleaner or a plastic coil cord.
What about cutting a background out of heavy cardstock (you could cut any interesting shape) and then using embroidery floss to stitch the buttons onto the card, with the holes and floss showing? You could use a contrasting color floss, and even make 2 cards and glue them back-to-back so if it flips over it still looks good.
i agree with trying something different with the buttons. at first i couldnt even tell what they were until i re-read the top. the stacking does make it look like coils. i wouldnt have know they were buttons. i do like the idea of stitching the buttons onto cardstock.
Love the ideas of sewing or gluing the buttons to some kind of backing.
I agree with the above posters. I couldn’t tell that they were buttons (I thought it was pipe cleaners, too), and I was wondering why you called them button numbers. I took me a while to see that they were stacked buttons. 
I can see how they’d be gorgeous with swarovski beads like you originally planned.
hey miss plum -
i know you must have worked hard on the project above, but i also thought it was made out of plastic coils instead of buttons. i love the color of your buttons!…i agree, maybe you can stitch the buttons onto a brown background so that it can be more easily visible (and so you can see the button holes) and hang it w/ the ribbon?
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