Projects & Ideas : Recycle Reuse Buttons into Magnetic Fridge Buttons

If you are like me who keeps all the buttons I can find, then am pretty sure one of the weeks in your creativity year will have to be about buttons. This is my jar filled with buttons. Used to be so full that I can hardly close it until I decided to start using them for my next creative project.

I wanted to make pendants out of it so I started doing a mix and match and layering them. And then I realized I did not have any bails to use for a necklace. Eventually I will have to buy some bails so I can make them into pendants. I remembered I had a pack of small round magnets so went to look for it and my buttons ended up as magnetic. I have made some fridge magnets. Here they are and they dont look that bad either as fridge magnets. See how some of the smaller buttons fitted perfectly well inside the larger buttons. I used glue gun to hold them together.

I hope to sell some of them when I have decided on how to do the packaging. Some of them may end up as pendants when I have bought some bails.