<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">What a memory jog you've given me, Alana and Barbara-via-Alana. Same for me with the "button box" or "button jar" collections. Mother would sometimes let us string buttons to wear as necklaces -- she had her mother's collection and was adding to it of course. We would rummage for the larger, brighter or shinier ones 😊, and sometimes could remember or would be told their origins. Buttons seemed endless and eternal. I now find I save those "special" ones that come in small envelopes with a special piece of clothing. And just last week was explaining to youngest granddaughter (7) why her blouse had two extra buttons sewn on the inside, bottom, of the placket. She was thinking they were irritating or messy and was going to snip them off -- well, ok, but don't snip the blouse, please. And we can put them in the button box!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">love to all of us and all the generations.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> Judy P.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 3:19 PM HARALD BORDEWIECK via oxford63 <<a href="mailto:oxford63@mailman.cyber-community.com">oxford63@mailman.cyber-community.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="gmail-m_2860604013875710452ydp97b59e94yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:"bookman old style","new york",times,serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr">Barbara!</div><div dir="ltr"> We just came back from the exhibit at the Mandell JCC. It was wonderful so varied in design, color, origin and information. I noticed in several pieces, including yours, the use of buttons. In helping to clean out many of my family's homes, I always found a jar of buttons--what stories they might tell from the waste not want not generation.</div><div dir="ltr">Thank you for sharing your art with us!<br><div>Alana </div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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