Today I took a long lunch (it has been a long week) and drove to El Cerrito to Exclusive Buttons. I am not not sure why I have never been there before. Mike has even been into the store. But there I was greeted by Mary Sortile who gave me the history lesson of the store, and a good tour. And then she pulled out the box from the back room of single buttons and let me sort through, giving me a very good deal and stuffing more buttons into my purchase. She even brought out the stool for me to sit on. Her husband was a button salesman in the dime store days, and they ended up with a rather large stock of carded buttons when the dimes stores all closed. So this store has been in operation for 28 years. I felt like a small child playing in my mother's button box again.
Then I moved on to the drawers and the walls. Guess I'd better get knitting. Or come up with some other button projects.
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