| |
LindaBabe54
PeaAddict
PeaNut 120,429
December 2003
Posts: 1,011
Layouts: 2
 |  Posted: 2/15/2013 5:40:59 AM
We're always complaining about having too much stuff. Here is a place to reduce your button stash, I found posted on Split Coast.
Our local Jewish community is looking for button donations. They are collecting 6 milion buttons for their Holocaust memorial. They plan on displaying the buttons at their synagogue in clear cylinders, so visitors can visualize the magnitude of a number like 6 million. If you would like to help out, you can mail donations to:
Congregation Beit Shalom
115 E. Paseo Ave.
Visalia, CA 93277
Thanks so much!!
__________________
It seems like a good idea to me - I have a huge cake tin full. | |
|
MerryMom937
PeaFixture
PeaNut 472,567
June 2010
Posts: 3,085
Layouts: 0
 | Posted: 2/15/2013 7:00:21 AM
Please verify that information as their website is silent about collecting buttons.
| |
|
LindaBabe54
PeaAddict
PeaNut 120,429
December 2003
Posts: 1,011
Layouts: 2
| Posted: 2/15/2013 11:05:24 AM
I have a call in to the Rabbi and will post when she gets back to me. | |
|
ckettel
PeaFixture
PeaNut 181,125
December 2004
Posts: 3,673
Layouts: 33
Loc: Chicago, IL
 | Posted: 2/15/2013 12:01:56 PM
|
|
|
*melrose*
PeaFixture
PeaNut 263,952
June 2006
Posts: 3,493
Layouts: 60
Loc: in the land of fruit, nuts, flakes & quakes!
 | Posted: 2/15/2013 12:26:24 PM
There was a news article in January: Congregation-Beit-Shalom-Visalia-needs-buttons-Holocaust-memorial
There is a contact number in the article linked. |
|
|
LindaBabe54
PeaAddict
PeaNut 120,429
December 2003
Posts: 1,011
Layouts: 2
| Posted: 2/15/2013 3:25:30 PM
I talked to Rabbi Cynthia - Sweet Lady! their website is outdated because they are a small congregation and the ladies have been collecting buttons for years for their project - they have about 100,000 out of the 6 million they need. The youth group counts them. She says they would LOVE to be deluged with buttons!
So Peas, let's get out in force and make it happen for them! I KNOW we all have buttons in our stash! Who's with me on this? Please post to help keep this on top and visible.  | |
|
crimsoncat05
PeaFixture
PeaNut 273,602
August 2006
Posts: 3,298
Layouts: 99
Loc: Phoenix, AZ area
| |
purpledaisy
Calm
PeaNut 116,261
November 2003
Posts: 25,157
Layouts: 102
| Posted: 2/15/2013 3:34:37 PM
Marking my place here. |
Becca
May we be consumed with the Creator of all things rather than with things created.
6 rings - no cheating! Go STEELERS!
Holding a grudge is letting someone live rent-free in your head. | |
|
|
Paisleys Garden
StuckOnPeas
PeaNut 464,263
April 2010
Posts: 2,848
Layouts: 8
Loc: MinneSNOWta
 | Posted: 2/15/2013 3:38:30 PM
No kidding! I have a few jars that I would just as soon get rid of. | |
|
MeMovieGal
PeaNut
PeaNut 408,786
January 2009
Posts: 472
Layouts: 57
 | Posted: 2/15/2013 3:40:26 PM
I'm in, I don't have alot, but hopefully every little bit counts.
Maribeth
| |
|
stwa
BucketHead
PeaNut 426,757
June 2009
Posts: 614
Layouts: 46
Loc: Geelong, Victoria, Australia
| Posted: 2/15/2013 4:22:13 PM
What a great idea, I hope they can collect enough |
|
|
LindaBabe54
PeaAddict
PeaNut 120,429
December 2003
Posts: 1,011
Layouts: 2
| Posted: 2/15/2013 5:52:36 PM
So, You have to understand, I'm not Jewish. But this turned into a kind of spiritual experience for me.
First of all, I had my mother's button box, an elderly metal cake tin with a ship under full sail on the lid, and rust inside, about half full. She's been gone for 30+ years, but still, although I rarely sew and even more rarely use buttons on a layout, still, I lugged them around. Through 28 moves.
Then, when we lived in Germany, there were so many exotic foreign buttons, I bought more. (NOT having yet discovered a paper obsession)Anyway, I digress. OF course, in recent years, i've also bought scrapbooking buttons and stamping buttons and oh my goodness that's CUTE buttons.
So, I started going through them to put in a ziplock bag (or 3)
Not only are buttons round, and all colors of the rainbow, and shapes and sizes, I found flowers and music notes and train engines and dinosaurs. I found steel buttons, wood buttons,, bone buttons, carved buttons and the woven leather buttons off my dad's 1940s Sheepswool lined coat. There were sunbonnets and flowers and jeweled evening buttons and crystals.
As I sorted, I got the insight that our buttons are as diverse as we all are - and as diverse as the Jewish Holocaust victims that these buttons will come to represent. What richness the world has lost!
(All those wonderful buttons? Only 1.5 pounds.) | |
|
Jjmikrut143
BucketHead
PeaNut 567,699
September 2012
Posts: 896
Layouts: 3
Loc: NJ
| Posted: 2/15/2013 7:06:09 PM
Thank you for posting this.. I think this is great! I would be glad to donate the buttons I have.. Although I don't have that many.. But im sure they would appreciate them much more then me having them collect dust! Sending my buttons out tommarow |
|
|
CroppingKate
Peas-okay; Queues-not so much
PeaNut 56,451
November 2002
Posts: 6,170
Layouts: 4
Loc: Happy in California
 | Posted: 2/15/2013 7:46:16 PM
That's really a wonderful thing you are doing...
but I think you should make a layout using a bunch of those very unique buttons and maybe find a photo or two from an era of some of them to add to it. Toss some of the memories, descriptions or words about them on top and that would be really awesome!
|
Kate
*You can never have too many scrapbook supplies, kitchen tools or computer stuff...At least until you move*
| |
|
|
poohgirl198024
PeaNut
PeaNut 218,848
August 2005
Posts: 160
Layouts: 2
Loc: Charleston, SC
 | Posted: 2/15/2013 8:52:51 PM
I have bunch of buttons I will never use up. I will send some next week. |
|
|
mamashosh
Sugar Snap Pea
PeaNut 257,999
April 2006
Posts: 13,365
Layouts: 3
| Posted: 2/15/2013 10:02:21 PM
What a wonderful idea to donate to an important project. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. I'm in! |
| "Some people should exercise their compassion a little more and their mouth a little less."-- Burning Feather | |
|
|
kethry70
BucketHead
PeaNut 361,915
February 2008
Posts: 737
Layouts: 53
Loc: ATL, GA
 | Posted: 2/15/2013 10:05:43 PM
This is cool! I have been busy destashing and I think buttons will be next to go!
|
|
|
2boysandwill
My turn to hit the PEAnata!!!
PeaNut 121,208
December 2003
Posts: 13,119
Layouts: 71
Loc: SCV, CA
| Posted: 2/15/2013 10:06:28 PM
how cool is this!!!! | |
|
wrightaud
PeaNut
PeaNut 475,510
July 2010
Posts: 235
Layouts: 15
Loc: Cali
| Posted: 2/15/2013 10:29:06 PM
Such an awesome idea! | |
|
Robbin
PeaFixture
PeaNut 11,958
March 2001
Posts: 3,384
Layouts: 30
 | Posted: 2/15/2013 10:59:08 PM
Thank you for posting this!!! |
|
|
gmcwife1
SamFan
PeaNut 33,625
March 2002
Posts: 7,990
Layouts: 0
Loc: Washington State
 | Posted: 2/15/2013 11:44:14 PM
What a wonderful idea. Thank you for sharing this with us!
~ Dori ~
| |
|
scrapbookinglife
PeaNut
PeaNut 202,956
April 2005
Posts: 473
Layouts: 1
Loc: Washington State
| Posted: 2/16/2013 1:23:17 AM
Wow they need the peas help! Off to round up some buttons! |
| Diana http://[/image]i131.photobucket.com/albums/p282/scrapinboyz/Animation31.gif[/image] | |
|
|
blossomed
PeaNut
PeaNut 580,255
February 2013
Posts: 188
Layouts: 2
| Posted: 2/16/2013 2:48:15 AM
Count me in for a few. Thanks for posting! | |
|
LindaBabe54
PeaAddict
PeaNut 120,429
December 2003
Posts: 1,011
Layouts: 2
| Posted: 2/16/2013 6:46:44 AM
...
but I think you should make a layout using a bunch of those very unique buttons and maybe find a photo or two from an era of some of them to add to it. Toss some of the memories, descriptions or words about them on top and that would be really awesome!
Brilliant! I'll do it - as soon as I find the time - we are downsizing and preparing to move, so you can imagine not much scrapping is getting done! | |
|
MonkeysInk
See no evil, hear no evil, sPEAk no evil.
PeaNut 87,591
May 2003
Posts: 6,609
Layouts: 87
Loc: Underwater, breathing air from a tank.
| Posted: 2/16/2013 1:28:33 PM
Love this! I will send some along next week. |
|
|
doesitmatter?
AncestralPea
PeaNut 509,811
May 2011
Posts: 4,855
Layouts: 21
 | Posted: 2/16/2013 1:31:52 PM
Count me in! Happy to send some buttons for a great cause! |
| Child of God, follower of Jesus, and so thankful for His presence in my life <>< | |
|
|
mamagidget
PeaNut
PeaNut 565,904
September 2012
Posts: 341
Layouts: 16
| Posted: 2/16/2013 1:57:30 PM
I'm in. And I may see if the local sewing store will post a flyer too. What an awesome project, and I bet we can collectively bring their button count waaaaaaaaay up. | |
|
scrapcatz
BucketHead
PeaNut 1,038
July 1999
Posts: 757
Layouts: 0
Loc: In the middle of Mississippi, in the middle of the Deep South
 | Posted: 2/16/2013 1:58:10 PM
This is such a great option for unused buttons. THANKS so much for sharing. | |
|
scrapcatz
BucketHead
PeaNut 1,038
July 1999
Posts: 757
Layouts: 0
Loc: In the middle of Mississippi, in the middle of the Deep South
|  Posted: 2/16/2013 8:13:20 PM
Just btt in case anyone missed this. Wouldn't it be a great feeling if they reached their goal 'cause of the Peas??? | |
|
