Our Monthly Tip: The Button Bouquet

Tips for a Button Bouquet

Credit: inspiredbythis

You adored your loved one. Just not his or her fashion sense (i.e. anything triangle-collared circa 1970). At the same time, it’s hard to let go of someone’s things as your grieve; they helped define their individuality.

How can you preserve the items of a loved one for a celebration of life while staying true to yourself? Here are three tips to make the button bouquet, which takes the most versatile part of that famous retro shirt to create something completely new:

1) Button Up : Gather the buttons! You can’t hold on to everything your loved one used to own, and the process of plucking (the button) and then chucking (the shirt), will be difficult but cathartic.

2) Supply Yourself:
Find yourself some jewelry pliers, scissors and wire (preferably green).

3) Decorate:: Place the bouquet in a vase, and then place it on the main table at the celebration of life.