button flowers

I find it so inspiring to watch other people create beautiful things. 

Such endeavors strike me as almost spiritual, like perceiving something beyond what can be seen and bringing it into being for others to appreciate. 

How wonderful that, in this life, we always have the options to create and to learn. 

My friend, Lydia, makes flowers out of old buttons, giving new life to these castoffs in magical pairings of perfect bits joined together to make art that I could look at all day. 

She was nice enough to let me borrow her stash to photograph. Love these.