handmade🧶

grateful that I still have the budget to eat avocados abundantly; here are some buttons I am making from the seeds! after a couple of weeks of drying I will sand, oil, and seal with wax.

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Is there a tutorial for this somewhere... This is genius!

This one is pretty close to what I did. The key thing is cutting it along the natural seed split so that the buttons don’t have a break line in them. I just used a screwdriver for the hole because the seed is soft enough and I didn’t want to deal with a drill. I bought a carving knife specifically for this but a regular kitchen knife would work - the seed isn’t hard when it’s fresh.

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This one is pretty close to what I did. The key thing is cutting it along the natural seed split so that the buttons don’t have a break line in them. I just used a screwdriver for the hole because the seed is soft enough and I didn’t want to deal with a drill. I bought a carving knife specifically for this but a regular kitchen knife would work - the seed isn’t hard when it’s fresh. 

https://yarn-enchantment.com/2025/03/11/diy-avocado-pit-buttons-how-to-make-unique-handmade-buttons-1971/