A Day of Buttons and Paper

Today my boyfriend and I went downtown specifically for the purpose of going to a store called the Paper Place. We were waiting for a street car to come, but it was taking forever. It was so hot and we were both holding a hot coffee because I was cravings soy chai latte from Starbucks. We did not want to just stand there and bake in the sun, so we decided to walk since it was only about a 20 minute walk- but felt like forever in the heat. We were walking along Queen street and passed by a store called Buttons and Fabric and I was immediately intrigued. I remember I had stumbled across a 'do it yourself' YouTube video about turning cute vintage looking buttons into earrings and I just had to go in.  We walked into this cute little store and it was buttons galore. They had buttons from cute little pineapples to vintage looking ones( just what I was hoping they had). I was just so excited to be in there looking at the thousands of buttons. Surprisingly my boyfriend enjoyed himself too. He would say," hey honey, these look really cool", actually a majority of the buttons I got were picked out by him. All of the buttons were so cute and cheap, I got 8 pairs of earrings and two sailor anchor thingys for $5.52, $5.52! the prices of the buttons were about 40 to 50 cents each. I am currently enjoying anything that is related to the sailor theme, so I got two pairs sailorish buttons. I feel like such a nerd saying that I had a lot of fun in that store lol and I plan on going again, I felt like buying the whole store! I also managed to find a store which had the earring backings that I needed to make the buttons into earrings, I got 50 backings for $2.20.

 Im really excited to make the earrings, I still have to buy the glue to glue the backings to the buttons. After, we  finally got to The Paper Store and everything in there was so cute and pretty, I’ve never seen so much pretty paper! I went there because I wanted to make my own personalized cards and envelopes with pretty designs, as weird as that sounds lol. I got a pack of 10 cards and envelopes for $9.95 and I also got paper with designs on it, each was $1.50 each but when you buy 5 you get the 6^th one free.

By the time we were done at The Paper Store it was around 4 and I was starving! I hadn't really eaten much before we left because I woke up super late and I had to shower and get ready. By the time I was done my boyfriend called and said he was on his way to my house... We ate at a restaurant called the Golden Elephant? (I think) it was a cozy little Thai restaurant.  By the end of the day our feet were killing and we were so full, we did so much walking and it did not help that it was soooo hot out. Regardless of my feet that felt like they wanted to fall off, I had a really enjoyable day. I really can’t wait to get started on making the earrings and the envelopes. Until next time…