September 16, 2010

Buttons, Buttons, Buttons!!

So since I have been knitting some fun baby booties with buttons for my Etsy store, I tried to look for a place in Toronto that sold wholesale buttons. I found going to yarn stores and buying buttons was getting waaaay too expensive. I figure I could definitely get a better deal buying wholesale.

I did a quick Google search on wholesale button stores in Toronto and stumbled upon Capitol Buttons. They're located on Steeles between Dufferin and Keele, but they're moving to a location closer to Yorkdale mall.

The first time I went, it was definitely overwhelming! It was just wall-to-wall shelves with what seemed like a gazillion boxes with various buttons in them. I guess they're in the process of moving because they had button boxes everywhere! I ended up taking Ed there last week because she was in need of some buttons. I'm not sure if we came on a good day or not, but they had this big box of mixed buttons and we were told that we could take a ziplock bag full of buttons out of that box for $5!! Normally you're just supposed to scoop buttons from the box, but Ed and I tried to sort out the really crappy ones. Man it was a lot of buttons! My photo below as just half of the buttons that we got (we went halvsies). We're set for buttons for a long time! :D

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