Antique German Bentwood Box with Floating Oil Lamp Wicks (Good for Making Wishes) gardener's journal On a week filled with

On a week filled with a lot of wonderful

Stripped down to just the hull it's a pretty pure

) Of course what I care about are the delights of the drawing itself

black ink on pale blue lined paper with a few stains and old fold marks

Antique German Bentwood Box with Floating Oil Lamp Wicks (Good for Making Wishes) gardener's journal On a week filled withI though this an especially nice one for the dawn of a new year, an antique box full of wishes of sorts, yet to be wished. There is a (partial) German paper label still adhered to the underside of the lid placing its making (or at least distribution) to Nuremberg, and then the word Mariposas, which in Spanish literally translates to "butterflies," an evocative descriptor for these tiny wicks held in wooden rounds, meant to be floated on lamp oil, and