tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64376613296893826972024-02-19T01:17:52.232-08:00Alison's arts: vintage button necklaces and spirit dollsAlison Frankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364283547930815243noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437661329689382697.post-45462738785564344932019-11-22T10:41:00.000-08:002019-11-22T10:41:47.973-08:00They Say Three's the Charm, but Maybe It Can Be Two ...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Necklace #225. Vintage Japanese kimono silk with little metal fish charms added (and small metal ball buttons), on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape.<br />
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Necklace #226. Buttons covered in vintage Japanese kimono cotton, little fabric ball buttons from Paris, and plastic fruit charms, on satin bias tape.<br />
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The Salon des Artistes is coming right up this Sunday! If you're in town, please come by!<br />
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For the current album of necklace photos, please click <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/uJFB3VUDePMFPEbk9">https://goo.gl/photos/uJFB3VUDePMFPEbk9</a><br />
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<span id="goog_155418317"></span><span id="goog_155418318"></span><br />Alison Frankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364283547930815243noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437661329689382697.post-82538839478313097322019-10-30T10:47:00.001-07:002019-10-30T10:47:27.957-07:00Almost Time for the annual Salon des Artistes ...and a few more necklaces have been added to the stash.<br />
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Necklace #219. Sweet vintage ceramic button in the center with some Bakelite (or fine celluloid?) buttons and fabric-covered buttons with an apple print - on satin bias tape.<br />
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Necklace #220, a classic vintage rhinestone design on satin bias tape.<br />
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Necklace #221, a lovely Czech glass and rhinestone buckle from my Aunt Emma's collection, with vintage plastic and rhinestone button in its center. Vintage glass buttons, likely also Czech, complete the necklace, on satin bias tape.<br />
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. A vintage carved mother of pearl button in the center, with sparkly vintage plastic and rhinestone buttons and vintage glass buttons, on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape.<br />
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Necklace #222. Rattan buttons and buttons covered in silk handkerchief fabric, on satin bias tape.<br />
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Necklace #223. Beach pebble buttons made by Nancy Arnold of the Button Bird, with little flags of vintage Japanese kimono silk decked with bone and horn buttons. Satin bias tape base.<br />
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For the rogue's gallery of recent necklaces do click on <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/uJFB3VUDePMFPEbk9">https://goo.gl/photos/uJFB3VUDePMFPEbk9</a><br />
<br />Alison Frankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364283547930815243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437661329689382697.post-29355736111512356992019-10-07T15:04:00.000-07:002019-10-30T10:29:57.955-07:00Vintage plastics, polka dots, and again one more vintage buckle necklace. A few birthday-gift buttons combined with the stash here, in delicious reds - metal and celluloid and maybe indeed Bakelite:<br />
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Necklace #216. Metal and vintage plastic, on cotton polka dot bias tape.</div>
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I guess scotties and sailors wound up on the same necklace because of their vintage appeal and associations with events of the Roosevelt (FDR) era:</div>
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Necklace #217. Celluloid scotties and Bakelite sailors on the polka dot cotton bias tape.</div>
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It took awhile to plan for this antique buckle from the collection of my late Aunt Emma. Somehow it has survived use as a buckle (I think it must be Victorian) with only the loss of a few little jet bits. This left a nice space for a sparkly glass button. I reinforced with recommended glue all the contact points for the little jet elements. It seems the right centerpiece for a handful of vintage glass buttons.</div>
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Necklace #218. Antique jet and brass buckle with vintage glass buttons, on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape.</div>
Alison Frankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364283547930815243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437661329689382697.post-91344771426860233592019-09-26T09:20:00.001-07:002019-09-26T09:22:54.143-07:00Mostly Bakelite and Polka Dots (and one more buckle necklace)My aunt's collection included little mother of pearl buckles in several shapes, just crying out to be combined with little mother of pearl buttons of various shapes:<br />
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Necklace #211, mother of pearl buckles and buttons on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape. </div>
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But then, time to play with the black-on-white polka dot bias tape and the bakelite and celluoid button stash:</div>
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Necklace #212. Bakelite buttons on cotton bias tape.</div>
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Necklace #213, Sheet Bakelite scotties with Bakelite balls. </div>
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Necklace #214. Bakelite rod buttons (and two little tablet-shapes) on cotton bias tape.</div>
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Necklace #215. Back and white various buttons - Bakelite, celluloid and likely other vintage plastics - on cotton bias tape.</div>
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Alison Frankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364283547930815243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437661329689382697.post-26001282751306800232019-06-25T15:59:00.000-07:002019-09-25T15:28:25.982-07:00Back to Work. Celebrating a Buckle BonanzaMy favorite aunt died on Valentine's Day this year, and my cousin generously shared some of Aunt Emma's trove of buttons but also sent two cigar-box-sized treasure chests of astounding vintage buckles. Time to get to work (just scratching the surface)!<br />
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Necklace #208. Rhinestone buttons with a central rhinestone buckle piece (augmented with a button).</div>
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Necklace #209. All buckles! The sticks on the three large ones are interesting in themselves.</div>
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Necklace #210. Cut-steel shoe buckle in center, with vintage glass and metal buttons. </div>
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The album of more recent and yet-available necklaces is at <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/uJFB3VUDePMFPEbk9">https://goo.gl/photos/uJFB3VUDePMFPEbk9</a>, The ever-exanding archive of neclaces - almost from the beginning - is at <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/GpN6kRMTVzpzjiQAA">https://goo.gl/photos/GpN6kRMTVzpzjiQAA</a></div>
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Alison Frankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364283547930815243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437661329689382697.post-35837125892153005562018-11-12T15:58:00.002-08:002018-11-12T15:58:58.857-08:00The Annual Salon des Artistes is coming right upThis year we are doing something a little different and joining forces with more artists at the Bazaar Lizard, in a landmark house, The Lizard House, in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque in Albuquerque's North Valley. The house has a sculptural relief of a very large lizard on its front wall. We're excited about getting to go inside! So, it's December 8, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at 8671 Rio Grande Boulevard NE, official invitation by artist Bea Lombard below:<br />
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Some inside-the-gate parking available; more along Rio Grande Blvd. Please bring cash or checks for shopping, and come and see us and the Lizard House!</div>
Alison Frankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364283547930815243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437661329689382697.post-54009013028066582522018-11-12T11:50:00.000-08:002019-06-07T15:00:30.179-07:00Moving slightly away from the Bakelite stashCelluloid is as luscious as Bakelite. It's hard not to rub these buttons like talismans.<br />
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Necklace #196. Vintage celluloid and metal buttons on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape. Little Bakelite ball buttons at the ends.</div>
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Extruded celluloid is pretty weird stuff and maybe not for everyone, but I think it has a wacky charm.<br />
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Necklace #201. Vintage extruded celluloid buttons on satin bias tape.</div>
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But leaving plastics behind, these intricate mother of pearl buttons are likely Victorian.<br />
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Necklace #198. Antique mother of pearl buttons on Japanese cotton bias tape.</div>
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Necklace #197. Stone buttons on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape.</div>
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But on to something softer, buttons covered with vintage Japanese kimono fabric.<br />
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Necklace #200. Buttons covered in vintage Japanese bias tape, with Bakelite accent buttons, on satin bias tape. </div>
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Check out the most recent necklace collection at <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/uJFB3VUDePMFPEbk9">https://goo.gl/photos/uJFB3VUDePMFPEbk9</a><br />
<br />Alison Frankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364283547930815243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437661329689382697.post-77500495523019232932018-10-12T13:43:00.002-07:002019-06-07T15:19:43.955-07:00And Still More Bakelite (and some other vintage plastic)More show-and-tell from the work table:<br />
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Necklace #190, Very very tactile Bakelite cylinders from the 1930s on polka dot cotton tape.<br />
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Necklace #191. A little break from Bakelite. Vintage plastic roses with mother of pearl leaves and vintage glass twinkling in between (satin bias tape).<br />
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Necklace #193. Two-tone 1930s Bakelite tapdancing away on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape.<br />
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Necklace #192. Another break from Bakelite. Vintage plastic and mother of pearl with rhinestone centers (satin bias tape.<br />
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Necklace #194. Vintage celluloid and metal center button surrounded by spinach-green Bakelite round buttons (on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape).<br />
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For more photos from the stash and the archive, check out <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/uJFB3VUDePMFPEbk9">https://goo.gl/photos/uJFB3VUDePMFPEbk9</a>Alison Frankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364283547930815243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437661329689382697.post-88676933478655772452018-08-09T09:45:00.000-07:002019-06-07T15:00:54.602-07:001930s Bakelite (and a little metal)Slowly having fun with the hoard of buttons from a dear friend. 1930s buttons, mostly Bakelite, have been calling:<br />
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Necklace #187 features these almost-op metal buttons with little Bakelite accents in between.</div>
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Necklace #188 is various seductively-shaped Bakelite buttons</div>
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Necklace #189 features large two-tone Bakelite buttons that are very pleasing to the touch, with little Bakelite accents in between.</div>
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Click <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/uJFB3VUDePMFPEbk9">https://goo.gl/photos/uJFB3VUDePMFPEbk9</a> for the albums of more current work and <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/GpN6kRMTVzpzjiQAA">https://goo.gl/photos/GpN6kRMTVzpzjiQAA </a>for the earlier archive. </div>
Alison Frankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364283547930815243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437661329689382697.post-17615077115182335542018-06-11T19:21:00.000-07:002019-06-07T15:07:13.415-07:00Having fun with a wonderful button-box giftA dear friend gave me a treasure-trove of buttons, and so I am off and running!<br />
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Necklace #184. Vintage celluloid and metal buttons on a black satin bias tape.</div>
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Necklace #185. Bakelite buttons with mother-of-pearl insets, on Japanese chirimen bias tape.</div>
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Necklace #186. Bakelite buttons on satin bias tape.</div>
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These 1920s butterflies are one of the great treasures in the gift box, and the little Bakelite buttons give them a little dimension. </div>
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So yes, off and running, with more designs lined up on the work table.</div>
Alison Frankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364283547930815243noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437661329689382697.post-47627366858636379912017-11-24T10:55:00.000-08:002019-06-07T15:01:11.990-07:00I've Been Wanting to Play with These Little Guys...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Necklace #182. Gelato spoons with vintage glass and plastic buttons on Japanese chirimen bias tape.</div>
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More photos at <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/hdHCqLU4WxExMnYD2">https://photos.app.goo.gl/hdHCqLU4WxExMnYD2</a>.</div>
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The annual Salon des Artistes is a week from Sunday!</div>
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Necklace #177 . Vintage metal buttons with a central bit off the street, on bamboo bias tape.</div>
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Necklace #178. A metal bit with great patina that I found on the street in Houston last year. The contemporary plastic buttons have a similar patina and the little vintage plastic ones add a poke of color. It's on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape.</div>
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Necklace #180. This one incorporates a rusty washer that I have long admired. The buttons are celluloid and other vintage plastic on cotton bias tape.</div>
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Necklace #179. Vintage celluloid buttons on cotton bias tape.</div>
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Necklace #181. Buttons covered in vintage Japanese kimono silk with vintage plastic accent buttons (maybe Bakelite - not sure), on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape.</div>
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<span style="color: red;">And it is time again for the annual Salon des Artistes! Here is the beautiful invitation created by Bea Lombard, whose work will be available at the event.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">In addition to me and Bea, there will be work by Carleen Lopez (bags and pillows with exquisite fabric and photo-transfer embellishment), Phoenix Forrester (vintage clothing and tiny scenes under glass domes), Diane Glenn (necklaces and various bits of exotica), and Marie Baron (pottery and elegant beaded jewelry). If you are near, please come see us!</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Back to black ink - my more current work is in an album at <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/uJFB3VUDePMFPEbk9">https://goo.gl/photos/uJFB3VUDePMFPEbk9.</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">I am about to work on this album - some images have been in there too long! I need to fix past posts of this blog as I move some of the pictures to another album and I'll try to be thorough, but if you see holes in a post where there should be pictures, I would be thrilled if you would let me know! The link to the big album of past work is <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/GpN6kRMTVzpzjiQAA">https://goo.gl/photos/GpN6kRMTVzpzjiQAA </a></span></span></div>
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Alison Frankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364283547930815243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437661329689382697.post-16036874017719216522017-10-09T15:44:00.000-07:002019-06-07T15:01:39.884-07:00Oh, There Are Finally More.Life does sometimes slow down production! But there is a little fresh stock. For instance:<br />
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Necklace #173, Bakelite and celluloid buttons on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape. It's hard not to keep rubbing these smooth buttons with your fingers.<br />
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Necklace #174. Delicious amber-like Bakelite buttons with little hand-painted buttons. On Japanese cotton bias tape.<br />
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Necklace #175. The classic vintage rhinestone gathering on Japanese chirimen polyster bias tape.<br />
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Necklace #176. Plastic buttons on Japanese chirimen bias tape. I've long loved these copper-colored buttons with their Deco-like design. When my friend and I went to Oakland, CA's Creative Reuse Depot and approached the tub of buttons, she started pulling out these graphic ones in wonderful colors with the black cruciform centers. They seem to have made friends with my copper-colored ones.<br />
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Although I've been a bad editor and failed to weed out so many no longer available necklaces, photos of the fairly current work are, as usual, displayed in my Google album at <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/uJFB3VUDePMFPEbk9">https://goo.gl/photos/uJFB3VUDePMFPEbk9</a>.<br />
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The annual Salon des Artistes is coming up December 3rd. We're hosting!Alison Frankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364283547930815243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437661329689382697.post-16779279926428440852017-04-05T11:26:00.001-07:002019-06-07T15:01:49.553-07:00Button Tin Joy!At a party I recently talked with a long-time colleague of my husband's whom I hadn't seen for quite awhile. When she heard about the necklaces she told me that her uncle had worked in a button factory back in the day in New York City, that he'd given her a tin of buttons and that she'd like to give it to me. Indeed, she passed it on to me that very week. It was the best - not only items that must have come from her uncle's factory but also the grand potpourri of things that turn up in an old button tin.<br />
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The tin itself was first-rate: it once held Passover treats and bore the marks of tape that had once secured it with all those loose buttons inside.<br />
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a mix of the highly utilitarian with the more whimsical or elegant (note those lizard-skin leather coat buttons), colorful celluoid, a little Bakelite, glass. Rhinestones!<br />
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Necklace #171, Vintage plastic buckle with Bakelite buttons on polka-dot cotton bias tape.</div>
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On necklace #172 the forms are covered with fabric - rayon, I think - from a Japanese furoshiki. The print depicts some sort of game with sticks. puck-like circular objects, and these little mustachioed guys with the fierce brows (the background is a cotton Japanese bias tape).</div>
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For all the recent necklace photos, click <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/uJFB3VUDePMFPEbk9">https://goo.gl/photos/uJFB3VUDePMFPEbk9</a>.</div>
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Buttons covered with vintage kimono silk on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape.</div>
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This is actually a little re-style, with the big daisy-fabric button put into its center. Always nice to get yellow and purples (and reds) together.</div>
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Contemporary bone buttons from Indonesia with vintage bone buttons and vintage bone bodkins, on Japanese cotton bias tape.</div>
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Necklace is not numbered because I made it for myself. Vintage mother of pearl buttons and a Japanese wooden slider, on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape.</div>
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I was so delighted to find this slider at a yard sale - look at those little teeth! I finally decided to do something with it and was actually surprised that what I liked best with it were the little mother of pearl sweater buttons of decades past.</div>
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Necklace #170. Vintage celluloid buttons with yoyos of Japanese kimono cotton, on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape.</div>
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Sometimes a little yoyo play is a fun thing. The elaborate extruded yellow celluloid flowers were actually old earrings found in a baggie at Savers thrift store and turned into buttons. </div>
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As always, the big photo album of relatively recent necklaces is at <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/uJFB3VUDePMFPEbk9">https://goo.gl/photos/uJFB3VUDePMFPEbk9</a>.</div>
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Here is our official invitation for the Salon this Sunday, by artist Bea Lombard, who will have a table full of lovely wares, much of it elegant paper goods. Also there will be Carleen Lopez (fabric bags, pillows, baby dresses from vintage fabric), Diane Glenn (her famous surprise balls plus altered vintage necklaces and other small treasures), Marie Baron (intricate beaded jewelry plus a new line of clothes based on 19th C finery) and Phoenix Forrester with vintage clothing and accessories. If you are in Albuquerque, do come by. If you're returning guests to the airport, we're essentially on the way!</div>
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Necklace #165, playing with some printed cotton knot buttons and loops, adding vintage metal buttons (that center one was a gift from a friend visiting Morocco) and then accenting with some dyed coral beads. It's on the woven Japanese bias tape. Long ago a friend made some lovely stoneware blue and white bowls that she dubbed the "fake folk art bowls." This is sort of a "fake folk art necklace," with a vague ethnic look. </div>
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Necklace #166. At a quilt shop in Taos I couldn't resist the little glass stuffed-animal eyes, here mixed with some vintage glass and brass buttons and put on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape.</div>
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Necklace #167. Celluloid pearl buttons with little rhinestone accents on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape. The necklace reminds me of something I might have had as a little girl in the 1950s.</div>
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Necklace #163 is vintage celluloid buttons on Japanese cotton bias tape.<br />
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and Necklace #164 is mostly shiny Bakelite, with a buckle in the center doubled up with a button with a deep central groove. I like the way the dots on the bias tape show through the applejuice-style Bakelite button up to the right there. Not sure if the triangles and the two-color four-hole cream and black button are Bakelite or another old plastic.<br />
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Necklace #160, on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape.Alison Frankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364283547930815243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437661329689382697.post-15937998374664708302016-10-27T15:09:00.001-07:002019-06-07T15:08:15.688-07:00Sparkly and/or Sleek.These muti-colored flecked sparkly buttons were in the box given me by a friend for my birthday, and she suggested they'd be good with smaller buttons overlaid on their centers. I decided on the see-through but blurry and reflective quality of little vintage Lucite plastic or glass buttons.<br />
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Necklace #157, plastic buttons with Lucite or glass vintage buttons overlaid, on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape.</div>
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Still with sparkly, the center button on this next one is by glass artist Robin Pascal, whose studio is in the mountains east of Albuquerque, but all the little companion buttons are sleek - covered in vintage Japanese kimono silk.<br />
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Necklace #158. Art glass button with buttons covered in vintage Japanese kimono silk, on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape.</div>
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But then back to sparkly with some patina of past life - vintage rhinestone and metal buttons:<br />
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<br />Alison Frankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364283547930815243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437661329689382697.post-23044995547528672742016-10-05T13:45:00.001-07:002019-06-07T15:08:31.479-07:00Birthday Buttons and a Great Living Estate Sale Can Get One Going.Moving along into Fall (Balloon Fiesta week here in Albuquerque), a few more specimens join the collection:<br />
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Necklace #154 has an antique carved jet central button flanked by two sweet handpainted wooden ones, bracketed by two vintage plastic flowerpots, all on the chirimen-weave Japanese polyester bias tape.<br />
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Necklace #155. A good friend gave me a birthday box filled with vintage buttons, including these wonderfully-aged pearl ones. The central button is a modern acrylic flower with an antique glass and metal button added; the other flowers are vintage Lucite with vintage faceted red glass buttons added to them. Pink cotton Japanese bias tape. Love the pink shadow from that central button.<br />
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The central button on Necklace #156 came from an amazing living estate sale. A nice woman whom I've yardsaled alongside for a number of years decided to downsize. The whole enclosed back porch of a sweet Mission-revival house was filled with a button collection for sale - boxes, drawers, shelves! The celluloid and rhinestone central button is from there. The vintage plastic (feels like Bakelite...) and metal buttons were in my birthday box from my friend, and little old plastic and rhinestone drops tend pop up (although less often than they once did) in old sewing boxes. These are on a chirimen polyester base.<br />
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Scroll down to the last post for a link to the current button-necklace photo album.Alison Frankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364283547930815243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437661329689382697.post-2220216665890766492016-07-21T10:40:00.000-07:002019-06-07T15:18:39.760-07:00Slow still at the work table, but a little action.....Sometimes a re-style is in order, and for this one I replaced a lovely but subtle old button <br />
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So, the necklace now known as #151 pops a little more on the neck (the little buttons are covered with Japanese kimono silk), and I look forward to using the sweet old button on a garment.<br />
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I have been looking at lots of vintage French casein plastic necklaces from the 1930s from designer Bonaz, and my favorite one is half-black and half-red - very sleek. In the shop of the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art I saw this luscious glass necklace (from its patina I at first thought it was vinyl), also half-black and half-red, and so it was time to make a half- and half- backing for a button necklace. I wanted rhythm but not straightforward bilateral symmetry with the buttons:<br />
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Necklace #152. Vintage Lucite and rhinestone button, other vintage lucite and vintage plastic buttons, on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape.</div>
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Alison Frankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364283547930815243noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437661329689382697.post-87205765296635600602016-05-10T12:41:00.000-07:002019-06-07T15:19:19.237-07:00A Few New Ones for May.Rhinestones always seem to hit the spot, and here is one made not just from buttons but with a little square vintage buckle - topped with a deconstructed vintage earring - as the centerpiece. Buttons and a couple more deconstructed earrings fill in more of the strand: <br />
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A friend attended a conference at Brown University, and around the corner there in Providence R.I. she found a little junk store with some buttons as well as a big baggie of curious cabechons that may or may not be rootbeer bakelite. Providence was long the costume jewelry capital of the U.S. - who knows just for what these beauties were intended. They were a thoughtful gift. Not long after, Albuquerque's venerable and beloved Morningside Antiques store closed, and in the tray of remaining buttons was a delicate old celluloid buckle, which plays well with the mysterious cabechons. The buckle may be too delicate for any but the most respectful wearer, even though I have coated all the edges with lacquer (also known as clear nail polish). We'll see how it plays out.</div>
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Necklace #150. Celluoid buckle, bakelite buttons, and buttons covered with vintage Japanese kimono silk, on Japanese cotton bias tape.<br />
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A Google + album of the most recent necklaces can be found at <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/uJFB3VUDePMFPEbk9">https://goo.gl/photos/uJFB3VUDePMFPEbk9</a>. Click on a picture to find the caption (and if it doesn't appear up at the right, click the little circled "i" for information and it should get that started). </div>
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Alison Frankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364283547930815243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437661329689382697.post-54702196300524916772016-04-06T15:47:00.000-07:002019-06-07T13:40:06.420-07:00It Has Been a Spell without New Work or Postings....But time to start again.<br />
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These interestingly-faceted old plastic buttons in rich peacock were still on their card at a local collectibles shop: <br />
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Necklace #146. Vintage plastic and brass buttons on Japanese cotton bias tape.</div>
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Necklace #147. Contemporary plastic buttons on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape.</div>
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This is our official invitation, by creator of exquisite paperie, Bea Lombard. We are so lucky to have her in our coterie!</div>
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like necklace #139, vintage rhinestones and vintage glass on the Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape. (This one is at Mariposa Gallery in Albuquerque);<br />
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and necklace #138, a Deco vintage buckle fragment with pewter-tone vintage rhinestone buttons and vintage pallettes.<br />
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necklace 142 has a contemporary metal and enamel button in the center and vintage metal buttons - including those stylized Art Nouveau roses, around it (on chirimen polyester bias tape);</div>
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and necklace #143 is vintage green Bakelite (on chirimen polyester bias tape).</div>
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My photo album of recent work is a Google+ album at <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/uJFB3VUDePMFPEbk9">https://goo.gl/photos/uJFB3VUDePMFPEbk9. </a><br />
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Necklace #133. Vintage rhinestone and metal buttons on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape.</div>
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The generosity of friends makes the necklaces possible! A dance/exercise friend from the Y brought me a bag of buttons that included this metal and rhinestone set, which I combined with an atomic-burst rhinestone button from my long-time stash.</div>
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Necklace #134. Vintage Bakelite buckle and Bakelite buttons on Japanese chirimen polyester bias tape.</div>
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Necklace #135. Vintage Lucite buttons on Japanese woven cotton bias tape.<br />
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Those chunky little amber buttons, a gift from yet another friend, made friends with some favorite pieces in my existing collection.<br />
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If you'll be near Albuquerque on December 6th, save the date for the annual Salon des Artistes sale, which will be in a lovely home not far from me (more posting, with address, before that time) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. And again, the link to the album of my current work is <a href="https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipNCcBZ7r_-XGHj1LK8QAEr4t_mLtuikEPy_rWix">https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipNCcBZ7r_-XGHj1LK8QAEr4t_mLtuikEPy_rWix</a>. Click on a picture and then click on the little "i" in a white circle, to the upper right of the image, to get the caption.</div>
Alison Frankshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10364283547930815243noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437661329689382697.post-13957332917234560272015-09-04T11:42:00.000-07:002019-06-07T15:20:30.228-07:00It's Been a Long Time Since a Post. Here is a Bit That's New.A family emergency has kept me from posting and slowed my production, but here are a few necklaces for catch-up:<br />
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Necklace #129. A broken buckle from a yard sale mixes with vintage brass buttons on purple chirimen bias tape.</div>
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And then a couple celebrating the colors and patinas of plastic buttons from decades past:</div>
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Necklace #130. The three big buttons all have rough and smooth areas, all in luscious color. The little shiny black buttons close things off. All on purple chirimen bias tape.</div>
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Necklace #131. Shiny patinas and great colors on Japanese woven cotton bias tape.</div>
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Again, Google+ has changed the album formats a little. The link to my current work is <a href="https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipNCcBZ7r_-XGHj1LK8QAEr4t_mLtuikEPy_rWix">https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipNCcBZ7r_-XGHj1LK8QAEr4t_mLtuikEPy_rWix.</a><br />
In order to get the caption with the necklace number and the description, click on the individual picture and then click on the little encircled "i", and the information will come up to the top right.</div>
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