Welcome lovely readers to another edition of Friday Friends. The VAC Mothers Day Market is over for another year and Mothers Day is nearly here. Wishing all the mums out there the happiest of Mothers Days. Maddabling has been away from home again for work this week and is happy to be home again. They say home is where the heart is. The vege patch has been replanted with carrots, broccolini, spinach, rainbow chard, spring and red onions, snow peas and dwarf beans for the cooler months, and I noticed that there is a lemon almost ready to pick from the lemon tree.
This week I have a new Friday Friend and DUSTy Diva ( who is also a fellow West Aussie) for you to meet - say hello to Casey from Pop Goes the Weasel !
Casey makes the most darling of button earrings, rings and bookmarks, I have chosen four pairs of my fave earrings to share with you today - aren't they just too cute ?
Time now readers, to put your feet up and find a little bit of time to have a read and a cup of tea, indulge in the Pop Goes the Weasel Fairytale. Have a lovely weekend everyone xo
The Pop Goes the Weasel Fairytale
Pop Goes the Weasel consists of one
person..me! Who am I? Casey Buttons! People often ask me if that is my real last
name. Sadly, it is not. I was given the nickname by my friends because I make
button accessories. I love crafting, horse riding, playing with my parrots and
foster greyhound, playing video games and spending time with my lovely
boyfriend. Apart from making goodies for Pop Goes the Weasel, I work part time
and I am also studying to become a horse riding instructor.
Right from a little girl, I have loved to
be crafty. My mum worked at a child care centre and had this awesome resource
folder filled with art activities for kids. One day mum brought them home
because the centre was just going to throw them out! I didn't understand all the
grown up notes, but I understood the crafty examples! I remember sitting outside
in the sunshine 'teaching' my dolls how to finger paint or how to make a
masterpiece by blowing bubbles in dishwashing liquid and food dye and putting a
piece of paper on top of it!
Pop Goes the Weasel is a relatively new name that I adopted when I
moved from Brisbane to Perth 2 years ago. Fresh start, fresh name! I started
making button accessories around that time after I saw yoyo makers and button
components at an art and craft fair. Back in Brisbane I sold a few paintings
under a different name and also started making felt brooches.
My inspiration is drawn from cute fabric,
childhood memories (so cliche I know!) and animals. Oh and buttons! I absolutely
love the old leather buttons that you see sewn on vintage coats! If I find a
cute button, I will buy it even if I don't know what to do with it! I also
really love the whole traditional housewife thing - sewing, knitting,
crocheting, home cooked meals - even though I am FAR from a traditional housewife! I swear I should have been alive
in the 50's! I love
working with fabric, especially from Japan. The prints are small enough for my
earrings and brooches and they are always super cute! I am quite picky with what
fabric/prints I use; I have to really love it to use it.
At the moment, I make button earrings,
rings and bookmarks, and button and felt brooches. I have just completed a few
pairs of yoyo earrings and I have a few other ideas I want to make prototypes
for that steer away from accessories all together (very
exciting!).
My favourite designs
would have to be my felt brooches (I created the patterns for them completely
from scratch) and the cute button brooches with rabbits and deer. I also
love my good old plain black button earrings, I wear my pair pretty much every
day! They just go with everything!
Very soon I will be
launching the vintage side of Pop Goes the Weasel so that will be exciting! My
dream would be to quit my day job and make craft a career, but there is a lot of
work to be done before that happens. I hope to launch new handmade lines in the
next 6 months and am DETERMINED to make regular posts on my blog! I always find
that so difficult!
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