Busy Beaver is closed on Friday, December 31 and reopens at 9AM on Monday, January 3. You can still place an order online at any time though.
Be sure to pick up one of these commemorative buttons made by the Busy Beaver Design Service that says, “On the last night of 2010 I Saw Nobunny at the Empty Bottle in Chicago, Il.”
Happy New Year, everyone!
Speaking of twentieth century women and buttons, the LA Times reports the woman who inspired Rosie the Riveter passed away. What’s that round, metal object pinned on her shirt collar?
This iconic poster includes a button.
Yesterday, a metamorphic button from the 1920s was featured with Christen’s McSweeney’s interview. Here’s another button from the same era that flappers actually wore! She writes,
After WW1, young women enjoyed new freedoms. They could work, cut their hair and their skirts short, booze it up, dance, use birth control, drive a car.
They often wore flirty buttons attached to their garters.
Pretty cute, eh? Go ahead and search “flapper buttons” and you’ll see a variety of satin-covered badges.
Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys released these cool buttons for the holiday season.
They play a New Year’s Eve event called First Night Boston 2011 where you buy a button for $18 that grants entry to an entire festival. Check out the schedule here.
Listen to, and watch Army of Broken Toys here!
The votes are in! Venus Zine received a ton of great button designs from artists across the country. Readers voted on line and after tallying the votes, the four winners are…click here!
Holidays buttons are a classic promotion. This Gilmore Brothers pin dates back to 1950, represents a genre of Santa collectibles, and you can check it out further on Hake’s Collectibles website here.
Busy Beaver is closed on Friday, December 24 and reopens at 9AM on Monday, December 27. You can still place an order online at any time!
Fondly,
Busy Beaver Button Co.
Ladies and gentlemen, there is a new movie with Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster coming out called The Beaver. It features a hand puppet with familiar buck teeth and paddle tail. Click here for the trailer.
Can you imagine the buttons you order today as valuable to future generations?
This pin-back depicts Father Time and a beautiful woman turning a book page inscribed “1912″ with a ribbon announcing its celebration.
All Busy Beaver Buttons are made archival quality with a layer of mylar protecting your prints. So when father time flips to “2111″ in a hundred years, your message still exists.
Check out the historic New Year button here on Hake’s website.
