Can you guess how many Busy Beaver Buttons are pictured in this photo?
Move over, Where’s Waldo. Can you guess how many 1-inch Busy Beaver Buttons are pictured in this photo?
Win a gold-plated button with whatever you want on it! So special.
1. E-mail your guess by Friday, July 3 at noon CST to buttongal -at- busybeaver -dot- net
2. Winner is announced on the Busy Beaver Button Blog on Monday, June 6 at noon!
How many 1-inch buttons are in the Busy Beaver Button-O-matic?
Can you guess how many one-inch buttons are in this Busy Beaver Button-O-matic at the new Domy Books in Austin?
Win a limited edition, 24-kt gold plated Michael Jackson pin back button by BusyBeaver.net and an extremely fancy award!
1. E-mail your guess by Monday, June 29 at noon CST to buttongal -at- busybeaver -dot- net
2. Winner is announced on the Busy Beaver Button Blog on Tuesday, June 30 at noon!
Click here to buy your own Michael Jackson button on the Busy Beaver Etsy!
Hint: Bubbles measure 1.1-inches.
For sale on the Busy Beaver Etsy Shop
Chicago Tribune photo of Logan Square by Bonnie Trafelet April 29, 2008
What do you love about Logan Square? Now you can add “live music” to the list of scenic boulevards, awesome bars, and cheap food!
Busy Beaver Buttons is a proud sponsor of Summer Sessions on the Square, a cool organization that features live performances by Chicago bands the last Saturday of June, July, August, and September.
Check out Baby Alright this Saturday, June 27 5:30PM at the Illinois Centennial Monument, a 27-foot-tall stone obelisk that marks the heart of Logan Square at the intersection of Logan Boulevard, Wrightwood Avenue, Kedzie Boulevard/Avenue and Milwaukee Avenue.
Click here to for the Summer Sessions on the Square show schedule
Click here for information about the Logan Square neighborhood
Button Mural at Lula Cafe by Anders Nilsen and BusyBeaver.net
Did you read the Busy Beaver Blog post about the Anders Nilsen one-inch button mural at Lula Cafe?
Time Out Chicago acknowledges the installation in a Wall Coverings article by Kevin Aeh and Jessica Herman in the June 11-17, 2009 issue. The DIY instructions from the article:
Create your own version using premade buttons you’ve collected or homemade ones…or using Busy Beaver’s services (a minimum order of 50 buttons costs less than $50).
You’re close— it’s only $25 for 100 1-inch buttons, with free shipping. Click here to order your own buttons and make a DIY mosaic.
"Button Pushers." Newsweek, 1967
What better place for historic button info than the Chicago Public Library? Check out this Newsweek article, “The Button Pushers,” about outrageous buttons in a Life and Leisure column from 1967.
These buttons totally resonate today. Does “Save Water, Shower with a Friend” sound like a familiar eco-friendly message? It’s the opposite of the “How Dry I Am” button from 1934 Johnson Smith catalog in a previous post.
That’s why it’s important to design and make high quality buttons that stand the test of time.
Alex White & Mayor Richard Daley BusyBeaver.net
What’s more exciting than City of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley sporting Busy Beaver Buttons with Alex White?
Alex met da mayor for life at the new Whole Foods store opening in Lincoln Park on May 20, 2009. He received custom, gold-plated 1-inch buttons to support the Olympic 2016 bid in Chicago. Mayor Daley immediately pinned the button on his lapel like an expert!
Buttons from Prarie Rose Clayton
Do you have a big message you want to share through buttons? Prairie Rose Clayton explains:
You might know that tonight, over at Soldier Field, the US men’s national soccer team has a World Cup qualifying match. What you might not know is that a lot of the US fans in attendance will be sporting Busy Beaver Buttons!
Read about her design process in her her blog. Thanks for sharing your story, Prairie!
Anders Nilsen 1-inch Button Installation
What’s your favorite at Lula Cafe? The Monday Night Farm Dinner, tineka sandwich, or Lula Maki?
Busy Beaver loves everything at the Logan Square restaurant, especially the Anders Nilsen 1-inch button installation. Anders collected designs for this mosaic, and Busy Beaver made the buttons that span an entire wall. Read more in this Apartment Therapy feature.
Lula hosts the Button-O-matic machine that turned on writer Jacobo Chiu to write about Busy Beaver in Northwestern University Medill Journal. Next time you visit Lula, nab a cute 1-inch button from their counter and represent!
Jerry Mathers, the Beaver himself
Happy Birthday to Leave it to Beaver star, Jerry Mathers! Flashback on Wikipedia:
In a commercial, at age 2, he walked into a barroom wearing diapers, six guns, cowboy boots and a big cowboy hat.
Jerry Mathers’ urban legend:
It was falsely reported that he died in Vietnam, a rumor unknowingly spread by actress Shelley Winters during an appearance she made on The Tonight Show in the late 1960s. While Mathers did serve in the Air National Guard during the Vietnam War, he remained in the United States. The rumor was so widespread and believable that Tony Dow sent flowers to the Mathers family upon hearing the news.
Leave it to Busy Beaver! Click here to visit www.busybeaver.net
Britton Walters, Nerfect.com
Busy Beaver attained button nirvana at Constructor Fair. Check out Britton Walters and his awesome Nerfect.com button display, Girls Rock! Camp buttons in a vinyl record bowl, and Ashely Alexander’s I’m Smitten 1-inch buttons.
Thanks to Norah Utley of Sheriff Peanut, who started the Constructor Craft Fair last year with Flybird, an Oak Park store and Button-O-matic host. You put on a great party!
