Hugely Empathetic Old Painted Make Do Wooden Doll carved folk art folk art carving and whoever made it had

and whoever made it had a really great eye in addition to investing a great deal of labor and care into every inch of it

The end has come loose

and two other whimsy chains

with wavy lines in alternating directions filling every square of the perfectly imperfect grid not already occupied with (increasingly squished) letters

there are notes on the middle disk relative to positions of bow and beam

Hugely Empathetic Old Painted Make Do Wooden Doll carved folk art folk art carving and whoever made it hadThis one oh, how could I to leave her behind? She looks to me to have been fashioned from whatever pieces of scrap wood were lying around many many years ago, and then given this terrific paint job, with big white painted buttons down the front of her blue dress, and a vaguely face like face that perhaps only a mother or motherly sort! could love! (And then excellent bright yellow for the back of her head.) Her carved arms, held on with nails at the