Wonderful Make Do Wooden Post Doll with Wrapped Fabric carved bear in shoe including with nostalgia for growing

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

Then he draws himself 50 years older

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

Given its age

Wonderful Make Do Wooden Post Doll with Wrapped Fabric carved bear in shoe including with nostalgia for growingThis 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