Hand-drawn Stand-up Paper Soldiers on Horseback handmade sign I think this little old

I think this little old handmade wooden box is very sweet

I think this pair of wooden tabletop frames are just the right mix of elegant and crafty--not over the top

which give it such a marvelous intimacy and specificity that its nature as a drawing is most certainly the dominant one

and definitely with a lot of age to it

Hand-drawn Stand-up Paper Soldiers on Horseback handmade sign I think this little oldThese are the sorts of things that I am incapable of walking away from completely alive with the image of a child deeply absorbed in bringing imagined characters to life in order to physically enact war time dramas at miniature scale, in addition to dripping with charm in and of themselves. And these two, with cardboard tabs on the reverse to stand them up, were definitely played with gently I think, but they've been galloped around for sure. The neck