Button, Button. Who's got the Button? (Part VI)

With this one, we say "good bye" to my wonderful bag of vintage buttons.

I wanted to highlight one more set of awesome designs.

I just love that heart at the bottom!

Also a few crests.

Lots of metal buttons have crests on them.

Hope you all enjoyed looking at a few cool buttons.  I've had more fun with these buttons than I have with any other recent find.  I hope you all did too.

Let's see what wonders the junk gods have to throw my way now.

Button, Button. Who's got the Button? (Part V)

Hearken ye...

to the conclusion of the tale from the Button Pile!

(You can review the beginning and the middle if need be.)

After the play, everyone went outside to look at the sky.

This is turning into a fairy tale!

 A carriage...

pulled by a ram...

Insert moose noise here.

and a moose came up the driveway.

A cowboy...

Howdy!

and an Indian chief got out.

They sang...

Fa la la

King Tut!

Egyptian folk songs....

Twinkle twinkle little star...

told horoscopes...

Yeee-haw!

and did rodeo tricks for everyone.

Afterwards, they all went bowling....

Strike!

Net!

and played tennis...

Here comes Suzy Snowflake!

until it started to snow.

Shooosh!

Then they went skiing!

Everyone had so much fun that they decided to stay on the moon.  If you look really closely on a clear night you can see them all, laughing and having fun.

And everyone lived happily ever after!

THE END!

Button, Button. Who's got the Button? (Part IV)

Hearken ye... 

to the middle of the tale from the Button Pile!

(You can find the first bit here, if you need to catch up.)

Alas!

Woe!

 The Romans languished!

So, everyone stopped fighting and decided to have a luau!

All aboard!

They jumped on a boat....

Splish! Splash!

and sailed....

Land Ho!

to an island.

They had great fun!

Giddyup!

They rode on sea horses....

CLANK!

played horseshoes...

FORE!

and played golf!

Everybody Hula!

Everyone thought it was Paradise!

Just then,

WHO?

a wise owl flew up.... 

BLAST OFF!

in a space ship!

Everyone went...

WELCOME!

to visit the Man on the Moon.

He showed them all the sights!

They went to a lunar casino...

 

Deal!

and played Poker...

Round and round she goes!

Roulette...

Check!

Checkmate!

Chess...

Did someone cheat?

and Tic Tac Toe.

Cha-ching!

Everyone won!

Hola!

Balboa came by...

 

Woof!

with his atomic Scottie dog...

Add horrendous sound effect here.

 

to play a bagpipe solo for the group. 

Tick Tock!

He announced that it was time....

There's no business...

to go to the theater....

for his favorite play...

To be or not to be!

Madame Bovary.

TO BE CONTINUED!

 For the record, my favorite buttons of the whole lot are in this part of the story--the roulette wheel, the clock, the space ship and the atomic symbol.

Button, Button. Who's got the button? (Part III)

Hearken ye....

to the start of a tale from the Button Pile!

Once upon a time...

Lean, baby, lean!

in old Pisa...

ARRRRRRR!

the Romans invaded!

But the castle was well-defended...

Bum-bum-bum!

with weapons...

ARRRRRR!

plus Vikings and Knights...

ROWR!

who also had a scary lion.

Uh Oh!  The Romans have reinforcements...

Bon Jour!

led by Napoleon!

Don't worry!

Here comes the cavalry!

Trot! Trot! Trot!

A unicorn...

Errr-uh--err-err!

leading a herd of elk and roosters...

Ch-ch-chu-chug-chug!

riding in an old time car....

Hulloh!

being driven by Queen Elizabeth!

TO BE CONTINUED!

Button, Button. Who's got the Button? (Part II)

I'm still playing around with my big bag of vintage buttons.  So many fun designs.  The metal ones are my favorites.  I just picked this bunch out at random and did not realize until I uploaded the pic into the blog that so many of them were variations on the same design.

What's interesting to me are these little medallion like things I keep finding.  That doesn't seem like a very effective design for a button, but I'm not a sewing person, so what do I know?  I'm thinking these might be more useful as embellishments?  Many of them share the same designs as some of the buttons.

My favorites are Queen Elizabeth (second row, far right) and Napoleon (top row, second from left).  I also like all the crests and heraldry.

Which one is your favorite?