Use What You Have

A pile of buttons, but none the color blue that I need.   So, I got to work making lemonade out of lemons and:

• threw them into a glass bowl,
• covered them with blue food coloring and a splash of water,
• cleaned up the blue that landed all over my counter,
• covered it tightly with plastic wrap*
• put it in the microwave for 2 minutes.
• Rinsed and wala!  Blue buttons. 

I think the saturation and scratches that show up are probably due to age, I have no idea how long these buttons have been in the bag or what they’re made of (picked them up from a grandma at a yard sale).  But the variegation adds some interest to these and I think they’ll come in handy in future projects.  Turns out they’re not the color I’m looking to work with the birds I’m making, so will set them aside for now.

*which I would never do with food, but plastic buttons are “okay”.

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