Buttons

I have to opposite situation: I have a big box of thousands of buttons. When I was little, I loved playing with my Mum's or my Granny's button collections. I inherited my Mum's boxful, added my own, and collected others from elsewhere. I used to sew quite a bit, but now I only raid the button box for the occasional replacement for a lost one.
I have used a few to make little necklace/pendants, but don't really know what to do with all the rest.
So Tanith, if you tell me what you're looking for, I might have just the thing!

Try charity shops

Thanks everyone thats really helpful, all our wool/craft type shops seem to of gone.. I was wondering about Dunelm but I will look at all your suggestions too.

If you search ebay under 'buttons on card', there are over 1,000 pages of results. Hop you will find what you need.
I am lucky to have Mason's for fabric and haberdashery in Abingdon only a few miles from me. They won't be on line though. They still do their adding up of purchases on a paper bag!
www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2060353.m570.l1313.TR1.TRC0.A0.H0.Xbuttons+on+card.TRS0&_nkw=buttons+on+card&_sacat=0

Or Google 'buy individual buttons'. I did and found smartasabutton where they start at 20p.

Locally we have 2 craft shops which display loose buttons in tubes and sell them individually.
Don't you have any craft/knitting shops other than Hobbycraft?
I suggest that if you post a description here, someone might just find them for you.
I'd be willing to try.

Hi Tanith. Try shawsdirect.com. They sell buttons on cards and are reasonably priced.