Beautiful Buttons
I know that many of us crafters don't just see buttons as a thing to be used, but more as some to be collected, drooled over and adored. You definitely cannot have enough buttons, so here's some more to tempt you...
Lush Lampwork
Lush Lampwork is our first stop when it comes to gorgeous buttons. They produce
a range of hand made glass buttons, form the quirky animal buttons (pigs, monkeys, cows, hippos and horses) to large feature buttons and many sizes and designs inbetween.
It was very hard to choose which buttons to picture here, but ended up going for these colourful blue heart cookie buttons.
You can view their full range of buttons, and beads, on their site: www.lushlampwork.co.uk.
Felt Folk 
Felt Folk have a selection of fabric covered buttons with cute designs including frogs, cupcakes, Russian dolls, owls and cats. They also have some East of India buttons and some spotty buttons.
This cute fabric covered owl button is priced at just 80p. You can view their full range of buttons, along with their range of felt, ribbons, threads, books and beads on their site: www.feltfolk.com/.
Sewbox
Sewbox have several different types of buttons from silver buttons to ceramic from plastic to coconut! They also offer brass and plastic self cover buttons in case you fancy making your own.
The buttons pictured are red flower buttons made from coconut which cost £3.50 for 2. Sewbox also sell haberdashery supplies, patterns, kits and fabrics. Please visit www.sewbox.co.uk to view their full range.
Raystitch
Another website which has a great range of buttons is Raystitch. Raystich have pretty much every type of button you could think of: satin polyester buttons, fish eye buttons, wooden buttons, shell buttons, self covered buttons, Injabulo ceramic buttons and aran buttons. Phew, try saying all that in 1 breath!
As much as I love the more exotic buttons on the site this wonder display of the colourful fish eye buttons is just too good not to be used here. Priced at £1.20 for a pack of 10.
Their website is: www.raystitch.co.uk
The Button Company
Of course we couldn't mention buttons without mentioning The Button Company. The Button Company are both wholesalers and retailers and their business description on our site says it all: ''Big buttons, little buttons, giant buttons, teeny tiny buttons, fancy buttons, boring buttons, shell buttons, coconut buttons, plastic buttons, colourful buttons, wooden buttons, and more!''
What I love about their buttons is you can buy themed bags of buttons so they aren't all the same colour but a range of co-ordinating colours such as the one pictured here - autumn leaves.
Visit The Button Company here: www.buttoncompany.co.uk.
Blooming Felt
Blooming Felt is another site that has a great range of colourful buttons from handpainted creamic buttons to spotty and stripey plastic buttons. Like The Button Company they they also sell mixed bags of buttons by colour/shape/design.
They also sell designer buttons such as the pictured water collection by Button Sensations. Visit their website: www.bloomingfelt.co.uk to see their full range of buttons as well as the felt, ribbons and craft kits they supply.
Gone To Earth
Most of you will know Gone to Earth as a fabric site, but they also have selection of buttons from companies including Button Sensations and Shellez Buttons and they offer different shaped buttons including flower shaped buttons and star buttons.
I love these gorgeous red shell buttons as pictured to the right. A pack of 5 costs just £1.35.
To visit their site go to: www.gonetoearth.co.uk.
Abakhan Fabrics, Hobby & Home
Last and by no means least are our lovely site sponsors Abakhan Fabrics. As many of you will remember from our recent competition Abakhan offer a great range of handmade ceramic buttons and jars of assorted buttons. They also sell carded buttons, dill buttons, wooden buttons, blazer buttons, aran buttons and many others.
My son would adore the fire engine button pictured to the left. You can view all the buttons Abakhan stock by following this link: http://www.abakhan.co.uk/acatalog/Buttons.html
