In case you haven't noticed yet, we have the button bug here at the magazine. We've been to the National Button Society convention and now we're ready to celebrate Count Your Buttons Day on October 21. In honor of button day, we are creating a piece of button jewelry made in round-robin fashion by editorial staff members. Editorial Assistant Lora Groszkiewicz is starting us off, with "step one" of our shared project. The project will make its way through the staff and end up as something completely original after everyone has had a chance to contribute her handiwork to it. To read a blog about Count Your Buttons Day, see Stacy's August 4 blog on the same topic.

There's more . . . we're also calling on all jewelry makers to submit jewelry designs made with buttons! Please share your design with us using our Submission Guidelines.  And watch for a story on submitting to the magazine in the new Beader's Handbook.