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Malice Domestic Convention button contest Winner shows off her collection

Where do mystery book fans and authors go to have fun?

“I took my Busy Beaver Buttons to Malice Domestic, a conference for fans of traditional mystery books, and they were gone within the hour. To see folks wearing my button was like having miniature walking advertisements all over the D.C area! I was thrilled!” -Ellery Adams, Mystery Author

Click here to check out the featured mystery authors and their books.

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Various custom buttons created by the Busy Beaver Button Co. Design Service

In honor of Earth Day, a tree was donated to the Arbor Foundation for every button order placed with Busy Beaver Button Co. in April.  Thank you for helping plant 500 trees, everyone!

The 100% Recycled Paper option is a success, and now available when you enter “Eco-Buttons and Recycle Sign” in the Additional Comments of your order.  Click here for more info.

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April Special uses 100% Post Consumer Recycled Paper for custom Buttons

Buttons are now available with a 100% Recycled Paper option for the April Special!   So what are they like?

•  High Quality

Choose to print your message on the brightest, whitest 100% post-consumer recycled paper on the market.  The texture is consistent and smooth, as pictured in the buttons above!  Every order receives a complimentary 100% Recycled Paper Button gift this month, too.

•  Affordable Innovation

Make a positive impact with your message with these friendly custom buttons at the same standard button price for the month of April.  It’s still just $25 for 100 one-inch black print buttons, with free shipping!

• Certified & Endorsed

Post-consumer recycled paper saves trees from landfills.  Choose the April Special so your custom buttons use 100% Recycled Paper that is FSC Certified and endorsed by the Rainforest Alliance. In fact, a tree will be planted for every single button order this month.

Now you can make custom buttons, at the same price, with a positive impact.

When you order, just say, “April Special and Recycle Sign” in the Additional Comments of your order.  Click here for more information about the April Special, and let us know how you like it!

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What’s cool, round, and a cheap way to promote records?  CUSTOM BUTTONS! Chicago Independent Radio Project offers streaming music online, and their annual Record Fair is this weekend in Chicago.

Get FREE Rush Service and Delivery at CHIRP Record Fair on Friday, April 9 when you order from Busy Beaver Button Co.  Here’s how to do it:

Click here to order by Thursday April 8 at 12PM CST

• Type “I Heart Records” in the Additional Comments Box

• Pickup your buttons from the CHIRP welcome table on Friday

It’s fast and easy!  Check out Record Fair details here, including live performances, exclusive vinyl, and DJ sets.  It’s a good way to warm up for Record Store Day on April 17 that is celebrated nationwide.

Coudal Partners is a advertising, design, and interactive firm located in Chicago that makes buttons for innovative projects like Pinsetters and Field Notes.

It was awesome sharing the Busy Beaver Button-making process that results in one-inch buttons and the video above.  You see Pinsetters in action between scenes!

Learn more about Coudal Partners here.

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Busy Beaver Button Co. in action on WCIU Channel 26. Click the image to watch.

Making collectible Svengoolie buttons is fun, and being featured by native TV station WCIU Channel 26 in Chicago is awesome!  Hostess-with-the-mostest Aly Bockler taped a Busy Beaver Button Co. segment for “On the Block.”  Watch it here.

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Button-O-matic in action on WCIU Channel 26. Click the image to watch!

Metropolis Coffee Co. is an important part of the Chicago community and beyond

Metropolis Coffee Co. is the micro-roaster of the year, a gem on the north side of Chicago, and a totally awesome Busy Beaver Button-O-matic host.  Chances are you’ve tried their beans at a number of hot spots, including fellow Button-O-matic hosts New Wave Cafe.

Metropolis co-owner Tony Dreyfuss writes,

We really like small, affordable art that is as cute as a button. It is hard to wear a latte, so when our customers want to sport some extra flared beauty, they make a beaverline to the magical button machine.

Check them out at 1039 W. Granville or online, and tell ‘em Busy Beaver sent you!

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TyK button by BusyBeaver.net in action at an opening party

Thought You Knew addresses modern day stereotypes, and uses buttons to promote the cause.   The TyK PinUp Calendar features women bicyclists and 100% benefits the Chicago Women’s Health Center.  This year, they found success in selling one-inch buttons at their opening party!  Click here to learn more about Thought You Knew.

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Buttons made by Busy Beaver in Chicago at work in China

Pinsetter, a collection of alphabet buttons by Coudal Partners, has a ripple effect around the world.  And Busy Beaver Button Co. is proud to make them right here in Chicago!  Teacher Sam Potts uses buttons as an educational tool for first graders at the Nanshan Bilingual School in China, and shared these photos of students.  Click here to learn more and see photos of Hopeful Enterprise project.

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First grader is cute as a button, and wearing an alphabet pin!

From the heart of Busy Beaver Button Co. For the Person Who Has Everything

There’s a lot of cheer to share here, and Busy Beaver celebrates the holidays with gift sets available under five dollars on the Button Etsy

Click here to buy the “I Have Everything” button gift “For the Person Who Has Everything.” (And ship it to them too!)

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