When I was a teenager, I loved buttons. I use to decorate my blue jean jacket with as many as I could possibly fit onto it. I had buttons representing my favorite bands, favorite sayings–even promo buttons. Now as an adult I often wonder if I had a button machine what buttons would I be interested in making or wearing today.

There is a popular game especially among convention goers called Button Men. Basically it’s a button representing a character. This is your fighter, and you look for someone wearing another button to dice it out with. It’s a Cheap Ass game, which looks fairly simple. The buttons feature really nice art work. If I had my own button maker I would love to make my own button men. I could make buttons representing all my geek friends and give them as Christmas gifts. I bet they would go over well. (no, really I think it would!)


Buttons are just cool. I can think of several other projects if I had a button maker. Some sayings or inside jokes become very popular in our circle of friends. How fun it would be to take these sayings, make a button, and pass them out. Also, I would make buttons for each character in our D & D game. We have a huge party of 12 people. Sometimes it’s easy to forget character names. Ah, the possiblities seem endless.