I love sharing ideas. A couple things I do, use "rubberized", no slip shelf liner to put on the bottom of the foot pedal, so it doesn't slide around. Also, if you have a newer machine, which is lighter in weight from older machines, a piece cut the size of the bottom of the machine will help it to stay in place on a table top.

Another tip, I put a small piece of double sided adhesive tape on an open spot on my machine. For short pieces of thread that are statically charged, the tape grabs them and prevents them from getting tangled in your line of sewing.

My Avatar pic is of a blouse I made for my daughter who lives across the country. (I live in MA and she in CA)

This book would help me greatly as I volunteer to teach children to sew. I've been sewing for over 50 years.

This would be great as I bought out a crafts store ribbon and button supply some time ago.

It made me think of the Doris Day song, "Buttons and Bows"