Buttons buttons buttons

The last few days I have been having a good sort out of all my buttons... they have been living in pots, bags, boxes and rattling around the bottoms of drawers in my house for at least 5 years but many have been absorbed from much older hoarders, collected from aunts, grandparents and charity shops.

Most of them have been snipped from a garment at the end of its useful life, put to one side and then only ever adorned the inside of a tin...

I could spend hours grouping them into colours, types, sizes and back again.