Anchor Button

What do you do when your dress actually (gasp!) turns out to be pretty?!
You buy your new dress a fancy, smashing new button!
I don't often purchase buttons.  I have collected quite a few vintage buttons but I often use a zipper.

I'm thrilled with my new (soon to be revealed) dress for Sew Weekly,  although the halter-neck itself isn't long enough to tie around a fruit fly (silly Butterick) which is why I needed a button to begin with.

Since the dress has an accidentally-on-purpose nautical theme (it's summer, I live in the middle of the Erie Canal, and suddenly, there it was: crazy fabric in the discount pile!) I wanted a nautically-themed button, but didn't have any high hopes of finding one.

I was wrong!

Hooray!

At the Antique Doll Show

Today over coffee I found an ad for an antique doll show that started in about 3 hours.

Hey, Ho, Let's Go!!!

Wait!  That never happens!  Time enough to shower and dress and I wasn't scheduled to work - all at the same time!
So, husband and I went.  We had a great time.
Antique dolls run the gamut from gorgeous to downright scary.  (One was a life-sized toddler with a twisted head and huge grin like it was going to eat small children in the dead of night.)  But the best thing there was a small basket marked "Lingerie".

Doll lingerie?!!  Yes! I picked through the basket twice settling on this 50's-era Bra & Girdle Set:

I did actually pass up a basket of antique lace due to expense and sudden overwhelm at too many pretty things.
I believe the event was sponsored by the United Federation of Doll Collectors, Inc.  Visit the site to get a free, printable paper doll!  There's also a printable pattern for a Jumeau Bebe I found by exploring the site a little.
 
Go make something pretty!