I was born and nurture in the State of New Jersey however; I now reside permanently in the State of Delaware. I am retired an as such can honestly bestow a lot of my time to my love of writing. I suppose that by being retired it affords me an abundance of raw source material to which I can tap into for my diverse writings. I have a website at http://www.wordwriter.info where I normally work from. I can from time to time be found listed on GAF seeking those odd writing assignments to keep busy in the early morning hours. I hope to meet many of you soon and look forward to knowing you on a first name basis in the near future.

Joe

Style & Beauty > Jewelry Collecting vintage glass beads, buttons and baubles

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Collecting Old Buttons

I can remember when was just a small child, my mother would have a glass, gallon jar loaded with a variety of buttons. There were glass buttons, several different designed plastic buttons, porcelain buttons, ivory buttons, wooden ones, those made from bone and those of stone. She had quite a collection of buttons. These plus countless additional materials have traditional been created into not just buttons but actual works of art.

Painting, needlework, engraving, and an assortment of other forms of artwork have gone into centuries of button decorating making ma...

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