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Vintage buttons

July 6, 2010

vintage-buttons

This past weekend Jo and I went button hunting and boy did we come with the mother load of vintage buttons! We had so many vintage buttons to choose from that I thought Jo was go into cardiac arrest.

How we got to come into contact with said button stash: One of our regulars at Wolves came in the other day and told Jo about a factory store in town called Hammond. She knew how much Jo loved buttons and said that she had to go to this place. All I’m saying is that I have never seen Jo so excited and confused at the same time, I had to literally stop her from physically diving into the boxes. She was like a great white shark in a blow-up pool full of small fat children eating viennas. She couldn’t believe what she was seeing and neither could I. There were boxes and boxes and boxes of beautiful vintage buttons, glass vintage buttons, plastic vintage buttons, awesome vintage buttons. We were there for about 3 hours and we just kept finding stuff and we didn’t even make it through ALL the boxes. We came out of there dirty, but flipping happy and completely over the moon about our finds. So look our for new Hello Fox vintage button designs.

*The lady below works there. She was so sweet, look at the Ghana flag in her hair. Man I cried like a baby after and during that game. Sad. Sad. Sad.

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  • Cupcake Couture July 6, 2010 at 11:21 am

    WHAT ABOUT MEEEE! How lucky are you guys…rather jealous of this whole situation! All I can say is WOOOOW***
    x

  • Karen July 6, 2010 at 11:51 am

    OMFFFFFFFFMMMMMMMMMFFFFFFFGGGGGGG! My tummy just did flick flacks – please hurry up with new Hello Fox stuff guys. I’m so excited. Do it. Do it now.

  • Karen July 6, 2010 at 11:52 am

    Jeez – I’m surprised Jo didn’t have a heart attack! Did she think she’d died and gone to button heaven?

  • Nix July 6, 2010 at 1:53 pm

    lil Jo’s gone crazy! yayaya for buttons!

  • marietjie July 6, 2010 at 4:46 pm

    im jealous.

  • Danka July 6, 2010 at 9:46 pm

    Wow oh wow! That looks like heaven!!!!

  • admin July 7, 2010 at 8:45 am

    it was the best shop ever!
    it was liking being a chocolate river in the willy wonker factory.

  • Thando July 7, 2010 at 3:52 pm

    I would have gone CRAZY…that button heaven over there…you guys probably suffered adrenalin exhaustion afterwards…lol

  • Louise July 7, 2010 at 9:16 pm

    Holy flippin christ I have wet myself.

  • Lucy July 13, 2010 at 3:44 pm

    Hey lady:)
    Totally love the super Blog!
    I was wonderin where the hammond factory store please
    Thanx for all the radness!

  • Lucy July 13, 2010 at 3:45 pm

    Hey lady:)
    Totally love the super Blog!
    I was wonderin what the address for hammond factory store is please.
    Thanx for all the radness!

  • Lorien August 31, 2010 at 11:42 am

    Oh my word. I just …. I just died. Was looking through my largely depleted button collection yesterday and got rather sad about the lack of variety.
    This is INSANE!

    Im in Cape Town and am aching for some lovelies.

    Ugh. Have a ball!

    x