Around this time last year, my girlfriend used glass buttons and made them into cufflinks for my birthday --
http://www.styleforum.net/showpost.p...&postcount=647 
Kent had emailed me about them, but unfortunately, those glass buttons aren't exactly the sturdiest. So unless you're quite careful, they will break. The trumpet flower buttons were available at Michael's for about 50c/each or something. Anyway, if you can get hold of buttons like those, you could make yourself a pair quite similar to the one pictured by Kent.