A bit of the "old stuff" from our playlist, which we played at the Welcome Spring Fair in Hranice, Czech Republic. This jig was collected by James Goodman in the 1860s.🎶// Ukázka ze „starých kousků“, které jsme zahráli na Vítání jara v Hranicích. Tento jig zapsal sběratel James Goodman v 60. letech 19. století.🎶 #liveirishmusic #irishmusic #irishjig #live #hranice #czechrepublic #fiddle #irishfiddle #buttonbox #dropdguitar #oldtune #jig #barfastthedoor

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Cheap DIY Button Pad Uses Neat Punchcard Trick https://hackaday.com/2024/08/13/cheap-diy-button-pad-uses-neat-punchcard-trick/ #streamdeck #MiscHacks #buttonbox #diy

@Phil Lots of tunes work as with a polka or a slide (a single or a double if you are in Newfoundland). Never tried swapping to schottische, bourrée, or rondeau, though!

In that spirit, here’s Emile Benoit playing his composition Jim Hodder's (crooked) reel with Figgy Duff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C8hMsx_8o0 (Also Rufus Guinchard!)

And here's Graham Wells playing it as a jig: https://www.facebook.com/graham.wells.716/posts/pfbid02GwkVMUA5f5zijNUvxYJcEF17iXKZyr9BwXuJkF8T3AJiMPPuT2maC8BfwBMaq9fLl

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I have been collecting buttons all my life. It is a habit I picked up from my mother who had a lot more uses for buttons than I do. She made, mended, and darned the family’s clothes all the time, and I remember fondly her sewing box that was once a biscuit tin. She also had a button box, but I am struggling to picture it. Perhaps one of my siblings will remind me.

In the days when I sewed and mended more, my buttons had more obvious value but for decades now I have rarely needed a button from the button box. We don’t keep our clothes for as long as we used to, and I mend only rarely. If I button comes off, I just sew it back on. They don’t seem to get lost, so there is no need for another.

Many new clothes now come with spare buttons, which strikes me as ironic since they would have been of more use forty years ago.The buttons come in little plastic bags or stapled to a card. Dutifully, I have always kept those spare buttons, just in case.

This evening it occurred to me that perhaps I could turn those decades of saved buttons into something crafty. I don’t yet know what, but just in case a creative moment strikes, I got out my button box and started sorting. I thought that if they were going to be made into an image or pattern, I would need them sorted by colour, so that is what I did.

In the process, I had to open all the little plastic bags, cut off all the wound threads, and unfasten all the staples. It took over two hours. Now they are all sorted into a muffin tray, ready for inspiration to strike. Any suggestions will be much appreciated. In the mean time, I won’t be making any muffins.

https://snowbirdofparadise.com/2023/10/19/the-button-box/

#buttonBox #crafts #mending #sortingByColour #waitingForInspiration

Weird Marketplace Find of the Day. These seemingly different finds appear to have nothing in common but as my family might remember, both could be found in grandma's button box. 1945 Pep Cereal pin and WWII meat ration tokens. #WeirdMarketplace #ButtonBox #button #pin #MeatRationToken #WWII #rationing #grandma #PepCereal #HaroldTeen