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Button Bytes Light Profiles:   LOIS ANN SCHEIDT, of LaPorte and Elizabethtown, IN

     We’ve all got a lot of buttons, but rather than admitting she’s got hundreds or thousands, Lois says she has "about 60 lbs unsorted and 7 - 60 drawer units all full." Why not just estimate the number of buttons? "Who can count that high?" And since she’s still buying buttons, "I'm sure the numbers will keep going up. I also have about 60 drawer units full of beads. It's a very full room."

     She doesn’t really consider herself a collector, she said, because she never really planned to get into buttons. "I started buying because I've always thought that buttons can be beautiful but I couldn't stand to see them glued to wood and destroyed." Lois has been been buying them up for about six years now, with a special eye out for large -- over two inches in diameter -- buttons. She’s got a special fondness for glass, or buttons with intricate designs.

     And she claims she’s really collecting with the rest of us in mind... "I think my best button collecting story will occur when I'm dead and gone. All of the button and bead people will descend on the sale and I hope I can watch so I can finally find out what some of this stuff is worth," she said, with a big laugh!

     Until then, she’s getting help from her husband, a camera retail and repair store owner in Columbus IN. "He gives me great photo advice and puts up with me going to auctions and dragging home lots of stuff," she said.

Button Bytes Light Profiles:   QUANAH WILLIAMS of Toronto, Ontario

     Quanah is a fairly young fellow who started collecting buttons two years ago when he realized they would fit in his mouth when mum wasn’t watching. That was his best find, he said, and admitted the best part was when he realized how easily they zoom across the floor!

"They taste good and are fun to play with," he said. So far, he only has managed to get two buttons, but he’s alway on the prowl for more. But he’s got to compete with five siblings who try to steal them, and a loving mum and dad who try to take them back.

Quanah is one of the few BBLight readers I have had the pleasure of meeting, as he is a very well travelled guy. Here’s HIS picture: