The Golden Button is offering Open Ornament Making days for children or adults on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2 pm to 5 pm in December. For $10 you can pick out three clay ornaments in various shapes…. Paint them with acrylic paint anyway you like. You can leave them overnight and The golden Button with varnish them hang them from a ribbon. There is no age limitations, but please either dress your child in old clothing or bring them a smock. These make wonderful gifts for family members and teachers!

I would like to announce that Bradleigh Huizinga will be  teaching a Kid’s Card Making Workshop on December 14th at The Golden Button . The workshop will begin at 4 pm. It costs $30 per person. There will be a kit available for $6 including everything you will need to make a card, a gift tag and an ornament. Your child will also receive a rubber stamp to keep! Hot chocolate will be served!

Space is limited… call Kate to hold a space. (203) 910-9948

We will also be having Open Ornament making days! Dates will be announced soon!!!

The Golden Button is now offering workshops!!!!

Saturday, December 10th beginning at 3:00 pm

Patti Clark of Maple View Farm in Orange, Connecticut is teaching a workshop on making a Felted Christmas Stocking. You need to know how to knit and Purl.

Friday December 16th from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Eileen Gorham of Southbury is teaching a Granny Square Workshop. Some knowledge of crocheting is helpful.

Both classes cost $30. Please contact me for more information. Space is limited so let me know if you would like to take the course.

The Golden Button will be closed tomorrow for Thanksgiving. Well will be open again on Friday and

don’t forget our Small Business Saturday Event on November 26th!!!!

Photo by Greg Lewis Photography

 

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

 

 

 

Come Shop at The Golden Button at our Small Business Saturday Event on November 26th!!!! Great locally made gift items for the holidays. Come have a treat and pick up some gifts while supporting small businesses and local artists!!! What’s better than that?

                           Due to popular demand we will be having another Knitting Bee this coming

                    Thursday (November 17th) from 5pm to 7pm at The Golden Button….

Tea, hot cocoa and treats will be served.

We are going to host a knitting bee on Thursday evening from 5 pm to 7 pm. Come sit relax, meet some friends, learn to knit. See the store, check out our local yarns. We will be serving tea and hot chocolate.

This weekend is our Grand Opening!

Saturday October 29th from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm

and Sunday October 30th from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm

 

Come see all our beautiful items made by local artists. Have a snack, do a little craft and have a bunch of fun. Hair feathers and colored extensions will be available for purchase. There will be a raffle with wonderful prizes and each person who makes a purchase of $15 or more will receive a mini alpaca or button pinata.

 

We were in the Woodbury Voices and the Shopping News yesterday and we will be in the Litchfield County Times tomorrow. Come by the Golden Button and say hello!!!

 

There is a new reason to come to South Britain, Connecticut.  Kate Gorham, a long time resident of Southbury is opening a new store, the Golden Button.  The Golden Button will be a retail shop designed to show-case hand-made articles for local artists and artisans.

Kate, an award-winning artist, is an illustrator, muralist and portrait painter.  She  has taught art at the Creative Arts Studio in Woodbury for three years. Her students’ parents and her co-workers have encouraged her to find an outlet for her talent and creativity.

Kate has always supported local craftsmen.  Last year, Kate signed “The Hand-Made Pledge” that states that you try to buy items that are hand-made or made in the United States whenever possible.”

When Kate’s husband Pauly was laid off from his job as a Tool & Dye Maker because of overseas outsourcing, it became even more important for Kate to be able to buy items made in U.S.A. and support local craftsmen due to all of the people she and Pauly knew who had lost jobs due to the economy.

Kate often purchased items made by fellow crafts people from Etsy, an on-line forum for hand-made crafts that she used to market her hair accessories and barrettes.

Kate has involved her family in her new venture.  Pauly has spent time helping to pick out and put together displays for her many items.  Kate asked her father to use some of his artistic talents to create counters for her new store.  Her brother Steve, a local blacksmith has metal sculptures on display.  She has even gotten her mother to dust off her craft ideas and make a number of hand-made holiday cards.  Her sister Chrissy will be on hand to decorate customers’ hairstyles with feather arrangements at the store’s openings.

Kate also has a rack of vintage clothing and will be selling other vintage items.

Kate is attempting to focus on finding inventory that are environmentally friendly, and use recycled materials. She plans on expanding her inventory to include native yarn, knitting needles, thread and different supplies for crafting and creating your favorite projects. Some of the activities Kate plans to have at the Golden Button are, weekly Knitting Bees, Craft Nights, and Ornament Painting parties.