Are you new to collecting buttons? Has your brain turned to mush yet? Being a new collector can be daunting ... what is it made of, is it old, yada yada.
I cannot stress enough that if you want to be a true collector of buttons and plan on dishing out big $$ .... spend some of those dollars on learning what you are collecting. One of my biggest pet peeves is sellers on ebay that make their buttons sound so good (with false information) .. that the new collector pays an outrageous price because they do not know any better.
I guess I should feel that if they do not take the time to learn what they are spending money on .. then it's their own fault.. but that is not the case with me. I receive hundreds of e-mails every month from new collectors who say " well in the auction ad it said this" but when I took it to my button club they said "it is not what I purchased".
I could write another book on the subject but here are a few helpful links:
- Join the National Button Society
- Join a State and/or Local Society
- If your going to be serious about collecting buttons BUY MY BOOKS or you can get other button books from Amazon
- Join the BBytes Chat group
- Study competition trays from State and National Shows
- Paul has a great learning site here
- Carol has another helpful site here
- Here's an article by Shiela Strick on Fabric buttons
- will be adding more as I think of them.
