Wonderful Make Do Wooden Post Doll with Wrapped Fabric carved bear in shoe Then he draws himself 50

Then he draws himself 50 years older

including with nostalgia for growing up with a brother who mowed the lawn in the shape of a diamond for endless backyard wiffle ball games

but it more than great enough to serve no function at all

(Along these lines

I also love that she retains traces of true lapis lazuli paint in addition to a little gold still clinging to her cloak

Wonderful Make Do Wooden Post Doll with Wrapped Fabric carved bear in shoe Then he draws himself 50This wonderful thing! Its body is an old turned wooden post of some sort, into which eyes were scraped, punctuated with pencil at their centers and a little nose and mouth below, making it look rather like a cat. Around the dowel two different layers of cotton cloth were wrapped around and around, with two slits cut in the heavier cloth through which the hand sewn calico arms were pulled out. Those arms look to have received a few mends near the ends