Every Handmade Business Begins with a Story.
There is a button box in many homes. Perhaps it's tucked away in a drawer, inherited from a grandparent, or balanced on a shelf in a sewing room. It holds dozens of buttons that no longer belong to the clothes they once fastened. To anyone else, they’re simply odd buttons collected over the years. But look a little closer. One might have come from a favourite cardigan worn on a crisp autumn walk. Another from a child’s school shirt that has long since been outgrown. A pearl button could have belonged to a wedding dress, carefully snipped off before the fabric was packed away. Each button is small, ordinary even, but each carries a story. That is why I called this blog The Button Box blog . Not because it's about buttons, but because it's about the stories we keep, often without realising it. The handmade world is full of them. Every maker, artist and creative business has a story that deserves to be told. Yet it’s often the very thing that gets overlooked. We become so bu...