Button Storage

I was looking for buttons for my crazy quilt block and was sort of wishing I had something else I could store them in.  I had them in spice jars that were on a turntable.  That didn't work too bad as they were sorted by color but I had to dump them out if I was trying to find a nice mix.  It dawned on me I had bought this nice photo storage box at Hobby Lobby awhile back.  It consisted of smaller acid free boxes made to hold a group of standard sized photos.  Those 16 boxes fit neatly into a larger box that latched and had a handle for carrying.

I started dumping the buttons into the boxes according to color, including a box for clear buttons, silver and gold.  I had a lot of black buttons so did one box for large black buttons and another for small black buttons.

They fit!

The only ones that didn't fit were my white buttons.  I ended up putting them in another plastic box I had.  I think it was for pencils or school supplies or something.

This was my old button storage.  These spice jar turntables were at the dollar store and I sort of went crazy buying all I could find since a few years ago they were only about $5 as I recall.

Other uses I found for them were for jewelry findings, some pearls and chip beads...

Now to get back to stitching on my January block and avoid getting distracted, but I keep thinking of things I can put into the spice jars I just emptied.