Sunday, July 25, 2010

Button, Button

The old buttons
When I was a little girl visiting my grandparents, my grandmother would get out an old mayonnaise jar filled with buttons for me to play with.  My mother hated the jar and all of the little choking hazards but I loved it. 

When my grandmother passed away I took the jar and kept it to myself, remembering the times I would sit on the floor of her house trying to find the matches from the many coats, dresses and shirts they were pulled from over the years. This photo is grandma when she was a little girl and in the jar, some of the buttons from those memories.

The inner photo is pretty much the way it was shot but for a few color tweaks here and there.  A soft darker edge was put on the outside before dropping onto the background texture.  A drop shadow was placed on the inner photo.  Real simple.

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