Crafting with Busy Beaver
Busy Beaver enjoyed the Memorial Day Holiday at Constructor Fair in Berwyn, Illinois. Craftaholics of all ages visited the Busy Beaver Button Bar and made custom 2.25-inch buttons, bottle openers, and mirrors. Thanks everyone!
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BusyBeaver.net in Northwestern University Journal
Busy Beaver Buttons is proud to be featured by Northwestern University’s Medill Journal. Click here to read the article about Busy Beaver. There is also a multimedia piece and you can click here to read it.
Thank you to journalist Jacobo Chiu, who thought the ButtonOmatic button vending machine at Lula Cafe was so cool he contacted Busy Beaver and wrote this great piece.
As always, www.busybeaver.net
Wedding Buttons by Busybeaver.net
Jen & Geoff Semler designed custom 1-inch buttons for their invitation, shower, and wedding with four designs through Busy Beaver. Jen shared these fabulous photos of their September wedding along with why she ordered custom buttons:
We put them in 2 little cube vases on the 2 bars at our venue and put a little sign up letting people know that they should take one as a memento of our wedding. They were a hit!
Thanks so much Jen & Geoff, and best wishes to you both.
Greg Kot is the music critic for the Chicago Tribune and co-host of everyone’s favorite rock’n'roll talk radio show, Sound Opinions on NPR. His new book, Ripped, debuts this week and explores how the digital revolution impacts music consumption. As a custom button company for so many bands and record labels, this is definitely a topic of interest. Go meet Greg and get an autograph at Borders at 2817 N. Clark in Chicago on May 20th, and tell him Busy Beaver sent you.
Busy Beaver ButtonOmatic at Strange Cargo
Where else can you get a custom Mark Twain t-shirt, Chicago Cubs onesie, and salt & pepper shakers that look like boobies? Strange Cargo in Chicago, of course!
Busy Beaver Buttons is super excited to announce Strange Cargo is a new member of the ButtonOmatic family. Busy Beaver created the fleet of button vending machines in 2002, and celebrates its 30th location at our favorite custom t-shirt shop across from Chicago’s Wrigley Field.
You have one month to collect GLOW buttons, because the new ButtonOmatic series drops on June 26. Next up is CURRENCY, curated by Dustin Hostetler from Threadless Select. Busy Beaver is super excited to have Dustin and Strange Cargo on board!
Strange Cargo order custom t-shirts online!
Dustin Hostetler from UPSO check out cool art!
Busy Beaver ButtonOmatic peruse art buttons!
HPT Buttons by BusyBeaver.net
St. Augustine’s Original Pub Tour combines Busy Beaver’s three favorite Bs: Booze, Banshees, and Buttons.
When you visit St. Augustine in Florida, you can tour the city’s most haunted bars in a hearse. The tour departs nightly at 8:30 from 162 St. George Street, and cruises four pubs in two and a half hours. Jolly drinkers wear HPT 1.5-inch custom buttons from Busy Beaver.
Yet another cool use for custom buttons: identifying yourself whilst drinking in the company of ghosts.
Click here to check out the St. Augustine’s Original Pub Tour.
Do you recognize Echo Chernick’s art-nouveau inspired illustrations? Check out her amazing portfolio featuring “strategically placed nipples.”
Echo wants to know what illustrations you want to see on buttons through her Facebook. Click here to vote!
Pope Pin-backs from 1979
There’s a collection of nine vintage Pope buttons for sale on Craigs List Illinois! According to the post, the commemorative pin-backs range in size from 2.5-inches to 5-inches in diameter. Since the Pope visited Chicago in 1979, it’s possible these were produced by Parisian Novelty on the south-side. There’s a ton of papal buttons on eBay too.
The buttons must be pope-ular.
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Kegan Sims, "A true-blooded Beaver Believer"
What better way is there to start a Busy Beaver work week than with this photo in your inbox?
Thank you to Amy Charron from Oregon State University for submitting this picture of Kegan Sims rocking 1.25-inch buttons featuring Powered By Orange, a network of alumni, students, faculty, staff, friends and fans who make a positive impact in Oregon and beyond. Amy writes,
To build awareness around the campaign, Powered By Orange buttons are given to the students and staff across the OSU community that participate in campaign videos, banners and other materials. The buttons have become so popular that many academic departments are requesting them, too!
Powered By Orange includes buttons made just for kids that say, “I Wanna be a Beaver.” Now that’s something we can stand behind.
Check out Powered By Orange
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P.S. Check out that awesome Beaver hat…
