http://button-museum.livejournal.com/ The Bear River Nova Scotia Button Museum - LiveJournal.com Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:28:59 GMT LiveJournal / LiveJournal.com button_museum 13997096 personal http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/66963127/13997096 http://button-museum.livejournal.com/ 94 100 http://button-museum.livejournal.com/798.html Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:28:59 GMT http://button-museum.livejournal.com/798.html <font size="2" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><font size="4"><font color="#ffffcc"><b>We wandered into an antique shop in Great Village last week and ended up spending what seemed like a lot of money for two large plastic grocery bags full of vintage buttons.....from a collection of a local button-loving senior. Oh baby! It took me eight hours to sort them into categories; mostly tighttops, celluloids, vegetable ivories and bakelites. <i>Sigh</i>. The incredible thing was that of the five thousand or so buttons in the bags, only three were duplicates of ones I already owned....and I own a lot. Amazing. Would be sorting still, but I got called away to a Bear River Board of Trade meeting; looks like we might be getting water in the village; well, one can hope. </b></font></font></font> http://button-museum.livejournal.com/798.html bear river board of trade bear river button museum bear river nova scotia cats meowing cats meowing rushed public 0 http://button-museum.livejournal.com/702.html Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:20:41 GMT http://button-museum.livejournal.com/702.html <p><b> It's true! Buttons are the second most collected item in the world. Why? Because they are art! And because holding a button is holding history! I never intended to become a button collector. It sounds pretty geeky actually, but the best parts of our lives are the things that we never intended, but just happened.</p> <p>Like living in Bear River, Nova Scotia, renovating a 10,000 square foot Marine warehouse, being a fabric artist, marrying an American, or painting Bob Dylan lyrics all over a building on Main St. </p> <p> Besides, everyone needs a hobby. And anyone who doesn't collect something is without passion. So, I confess...I do collect a lot of different things, but buttons are first and foremost. More on that later. </p> <p> So, my name is Zoë. I am a fabric-artist in Bear River, Nova Scotia, married to Jeff, from Michigan. My shop is called Oddacity Designs and together we run the Innocent Rose, a vintage and antique shop, and Inn out of the Fog, a guest suite (recommended by Lonely Planet). As well as running businesses and fixing up century-old buildings, we volunteer in the community; the Bear River Board of Trade, The Bear River Historical Society, and other community organizations. So with all the free-time I have, I thought it would be fun to start the Bear River Button Museum. What else to do with all these tens of thousands of buttons taking over my life?!! </p></b> http://button-museum.livejournal.com/702.html bear river board of trade inn out of the fog oddacity bear river nova scotia Bob Dylan Bob Dylan exhausted public 0