Come and Join Button Fanatics!

Not another Facebook group!
Oh yes indeed. This one is for fans of buttons or otherwise known as "Button Fanatics". Check out our group and share your photos of buttons, your projects with buttons, and especially any projects you've completed with LadeeBee Supplies buttons!

Currently LadeeBee Supplies is undergoing a little bit of a transformation and the site is being updated daily with new listings. LadeeBee's buttons are also available at Wise Daughters Craft Market in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Take a look at what I've just sent to Wise Daughters:

 multi-packs are great for many crafting projects

who said all of your buttons need to match?

 Delicious buttons in blue!

 I adore these buttons pictured above. They are made out of nice quality vintage plastic. Chunky and bold!

 These clear buttons pictured above are so cool with the green gems set right inside the plastic. 

Here they are all together, the button family. Available this week at Wise Daughters. This just barely scratches the surface of my ever growing vintage button collection.

Creatography- Creativity and Photography: What Can I Do With All Those Pictures?

A while back I posted "Photography 101" on my blog discussing my excitement over the class I was enrolled in on photography through the Toronto Board of Education. I tried to stick it out for the full 10 weeks, but unfortunately after only 3 or 4 classes I stopped going. I was not happy with the instruction I was getting (or lack thereof) and decided I'd be much happier discovering photography through practice and informal learning-like checking out cool blogs and looking at the photos of others. 

Since then I have opened a Flickr account. You can see my widget in the right hand side of this page. Mostly my photos are shots of my buttons and crafts and from time to time I try to take some interesting shots around my city (like the one above taken near a local high school). 

I thought I would share with my readers what I have discovered so far since taking up more of an interest in photography and craft.

Taken near Dundas West Subway Station, Toronto, Ontario

1. Photojojo-kick ass tips on what you can do with all those photos you've accumulated and of course how to take more interesting ones in the future. I have subscribed to their newsletter and about every week or so they give you a free idea on a project, craft, product, or tip to keep you interested in the fun that is photography. Oh yes, and I highly recommend their new book!
2. Flickr-okay, so  most people on "discovered" this site before me, but for those of you who still don't know what they are missing, please head on over and visit. I grabbed a free account and once I am full up I am seriously considering getting a pro account for a mere $25/year. I enjoy looking at pics of things I am interested in. There are groups you can join and submit your own photos to for sharing. It is fun to comment and to favorite and to have others comment and favorite your photos too. Best of all I find the site inspiring. You'll discover what is the most weird as well as the most wonderful elements of our planet. 
3. MOO-a site that uses your own photos to create show stopping business cards or cards to save and trade...I just purchased a set of 50 cards (I only paid shipping on this offer) and I am so looking forward to receiving them. I suggest poking around the site to see it for yourself. 
4. Cre8tive Gang-an amazing blog for down to earth tips and inspiration for your photo craft endeavours. There is so much to discover on this site and it is clear that for the Cre8tive gang, photography is truly a passion. They stress that anyone can take great shots!

Photo taken at a shop in my community called Smash.

Share your creatography with me by posting comments below.

LadeeBee Revives the Vintage Baby

  

I have been longing to knit up some sweet little baby things for the last little while. So, I dug up some of the old patterns that my grandmother gave me, searched through some of the vintage patterns I bought second hand, and perused my large assortment of vintage crafting encyclopedias to find a project that inspired me. I have all this wonderful cotton yarn sitting on my shelf so the first place I started was with a hoodie. I personally love to wear hoodies and seeing a little baby in one just makes me want to drool. I have so many ideas for this new line of infant clothing I am developing that my hands can't keep up with all of them. 

On top of all the other crafting projects I have on the go, I decided to get into carving stamps. I picked up a little starter kit at an art shop downtown. I decided to start with a mushroom and an owl. I drew little sketches on the tracing paper, rubbed them onto the surface of the stamp-to-be and began carving away all the space that I didn't want to be a part of the final image. I had to look in my books for inspiration for my third design and I found the little birdie out of a 1974 encyclopedia. I found some fabric ink at a local stamp shop and VOILA the little onesies were born. 

I am currently working on producing baby booties, hats and mitts out of reclaimed wool sweaters that have been felted. So keep an eye out for my new designs in my new shop on etsy called "Vintage Baby Revival". So please visit my new shop and I hope you enjoy drooling over these as much as I do.

--Ladeebee