Upcycle-Turn a branch into handmade buttons
June 29, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under easy projects & fast projects, how to, tutorial
When my daughter and her husband moved into their new house, they trimmed a branch that was hanging over the sidewalk.
I brought the branch home and let it dry out for a few months.
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I trimmed the small stickie outie bits off….
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And carefully sliced pieces off the branch. The pine wood smelled wonderful!
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Then drilled holes
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Voila! Handmade wooden buttons- they need to be waxed or varnished…
perhaps embellished with a little woodburning or paint first?
Hmmmm….. my son trimmed the apple trees…. perhaps I should make some apple wood buttons…..
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