[/caption]Silver, red, green, and gold. The colors of Christmas. At Grandmother's Buttons this year, though, we're focusing on silver, sterling silver. We're celebrating our 25th anniversary (that's the silver one, you know) with a new line of antique buttons set in sterling - one-of-a-kind treasures created with our rarest and loveliest antique buttons.For most of the past 25 years, Susan and Grandmother's Buttons have fashioned eclectic and vintage-feeling jewelry using materials similar to those found in the antique buttons themselves--stamped brass findings, jeweled glass cabochons, mother-of-pearl--as well as an assortment of lustrous beads and antique-styled chain.
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[/caption]The result has been an accessible and unique line: higher-end costume jewelry with an antique element. The company has sold thousands of such pieces of jewelry, using tens of thousands of buttons, through retail stores and boutiques as close as New Orleans and as far away as New Zealand. The Grandmother’s Buttons retail store, set as it is in rural Louisiana, has drawn celebrities such as Hilary Swank, Jennifer Love Hewitt and John Malkovich to shop there[caption id="attachment_103" align="alignleft" width="174" caption="Sterling Rings and Pendants. Susan says, “We’ve had a customer for a higher-end, well-crafted sterling line for some time. These rarer buttons—French enamels, large Victorian picture buttons, facetted steel—deserve to be hand-set in precious metal, but we only recently discovered a workshop overseas that we felt confident could do the type of work we wanted.”"]
[/caption]If you're looking for the perfect gift to put under the tree for someone you love, think silver. Grandmother's Buttons sterling silver. Ordering the exact button you love the most is easy on our website, www.grandmothersbuttons.com, because we have photographed several dozen individual pieces for both our retail and wholesale sites.
You will receive the exact button you choose, along with a button description card and Certificate of Authenticity. In many cases, we have duplicates of the buttons listed displayed in our Button Museum.
By the way, we had a Champagne Open House at Grandmother's Buttons earlier this month to celebrate our anniversary. See tomorrow's blog post for photos of our staff and friends in the midst of the revelry!
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Beautiful collection! I now have three pieces of jewelry from Grandmother's Buttons and love each one. Learning about the history of the company and the family behind it who keeps it going is such a treat.
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