Buttons and beads

I had a major reshuffle of my sewing box the other day as it was basically overflowing with all sorts of pins, beads, ribbons, thread, buttons and random bits of material . . . and as organised as I like to keep things, this did not please me.

Luckily, Jim's mum recently gave me a lovely old school Moet & Chandon tin, which was the perfect new home for my increasing ribbon collection. And then a visit to my Granny's this weekend just past was even more fruitful in the tin arena, in the form of these little tea leaf tins, which I happily filled with all my buttons and beads. Colourised of course. A great stress-relieving job!