This copper button featuring a Celtic dragon design is one of my all-time favorites. I absolutely love the graceful flowing lines of this one. They made it in brass and silver as well, but the copper one just has something special - that "it" factor. And the copper plays so well with the khaki cord and beads, don't you think? Of course, since I love every single thing about this button, it's no longer being manufactured.
When I found out they were no longer making them, I bought up everything I could find so I have a little stash of them. Every once in a while I get them out and make up a few special pieces with them. Mostly I'd rather hold onto them and fondle them, but I know that's probably not the most healthy relationship to have with a button so I force myself to let go of a few. Especially since I recently went through my entire bead stash and organized everything and realized just how many cool buttons I have:
Hi, my name is Sherri and I'm a button hoarder. I have glass buttons (Czech glass mostly - heck out that peacock beauty!) and handmade ceramic buttons and vintage buttons and colorful sugar skull buttons and painted buttons and antiqued buttons...
And a tiny little stash of copper Celtic dragon buttons. I've listed a few bracelets featuring them in my Etsy shop and now I'll put away the remainder for a while and focus on something else.
And I'll keep searching for more of these. I'll bet there's a shop out there somewhere with some of them in a dusty back corner just waiting to be rediscovered. The idea of that haunts me. Or taunts me, I guess. I told you it wasn't a healthy relationship!
