Badge A-Peel is a fun and quick way to personalize your uniforms or scrubs on a daily basis! Our badge reel system is interchangeable; and with over 2000 designs it is easy to pick a button to match every outfit! Our goal is to provide exciting and unique products that will brighten your day!

As a Registered Nurse for the past 12 years, I always kept my eyes out for accessories to brighten my uniform. One day, I noticed a colleague wearing a cute, monogrammed badge reel. It was, however, permanently glued on. So my friend would wear the same badge reel every day, whether it matched her scrubs or not. And her reel had material that was exposed to whatever. Over time, I noticed the reel got dingy and appeared unsanitary. I couldn’t have this for my friend or me, and that is what lead me to come up with the concept of Badge A-Peel. Our buttons are covered with clear Mylar,which keeps the buttons sanitary. Our Velcro quick-change option also makes them interchangeable, so you can make your ensemble sassy in seconds. What started out as a venture selling Badge A-Peel buttons out of a tackle box to my friends on the OB unit is now a growing business that sells to retail stores across the country.

Now that we are offering more products at Badge A-Peel, we have decided to change our name to Outside the Box. Our goal is to provide exciting and unique products that will brighten your day! We offer initial styles in letters A-Z. We also offer over 30 medical titles. Since variety is the spice of life, we are excited about already having more than 2,000 button styles to choose from. At Outside the Box we are committed to developing unique and exciting products to help you get through your day with a smile!

Our buttons are proudly hand-made in North Carolina. We strive to purchase materials made in the USA. We hope that you enjoy our products as much as we enjoy making them. Please visit our website often since we keep our line fresh, constantly updating our inventory of fabrics, designs, and prints. We hope that you join our customers in wearing the best badge reels in the business!


Donna Bowden, RN