Vintage button thumbtacks for my Pottery Barn-inspired burlap cork board

Thank you all for the cork board love! I'm so happy with how it turned out. Once I got it hanging on the wall, I realized I only had boring old primary-colored thumbtacks, which just wouldn't work with my new neutral-colored board.To make my own cute tacks, I gathered a few supplies:
vintage buttons from my stash, a pair of wire cutters, E6000 glue and flat-backed thumbtacks.
I chose primarily plastic buttons that have shanks (that's that little piece sticking off the back that you use to sew the button on) so that the holes wouldn't show on the front. I used the wire cutters to clip off the plastic shank and leave a flat back (some I rubbed on a piece of coarse sandpaper just to flatten the nubs out a bit). Then it was just a matter of gluing the tacks to the backs of the buttons with the E6000 glue and waiting for the glue to dry.

I have zillions of black buttons, so I can easily make more as needed. Other ways to transform your tacks are to use bits of costume jewelery (old clip earrings are perfect) or even flat-backed glass marbles with a bit of patterned paper underneath. Who says we have to settle for boring office supplies?