Remember how excited I was to get my buttons of the month?
These are not clothing buttons.
These are pin-back badge-type buttons.
This was pointed out to me in my own living room by my knitting circle during show-and-tell.
I felt extremely stupid and disappointed for about 10 seconds when I realised that this is even better! I have been wanting to start getting a bunch of fun pins--rhinestones, little badges/buttons, etc--for a while now, since bracelets and necklaces are out for me. Bracelets, because I have a Medic Alert bracelet on the left wrist and I wear a watch my mom gave me--the first one I've ever been able to stand wearing--on my right wrist. Necklaces because I have my engraved heart lock that John gave me that I never take off, and I hate the competing necklaces look on a woman my age.
So that leaves brooches/pins and earrings.
I've gotten a few things on etsy, notably three pairs of earrings that are now favorites: A pair made with really old manual typewriter keys; a pair of gold acorns; and a "birds and bees" pair that I'm wearing right now, little gold hummingbirds with bees dangling from chains beneath them. But I've only gotten one pin, a really sweet felted and embroidered one from needle book, who's no longer selling on etsy whose store is here.
So finding out that I can wear my little robot pins as brooches instead of sewing them onto things--well, actually it was a happy discovery!
I still feel incredibly thick, though.
TNH's edition of "The American Frugal Housewife" from 1832 is 
