Beautiful Native American Cloth Doll with Hand-painted Papier Mache Head Flo Shay basket and all the more enjoyable

and all the more enjoyable when played with beautiful antique bone and ebony dominoes

I picked up this Japanese brush from the studio of an artist's estate sale just because I thought it was pretty

another obsession that has revealed itself through my picking is one for unusual boxes of all shapes and sizes

or a pitcher with a great form and weight

or any sort of gathering oriented toward grazing--or just for bedside snacks

Beautiful Native American Cloth Doll with Hand-painted Papier Mache Head Flo Shay basket and all the more enjoyableI am not certain the age or origins of this wonderful Native American doll, which I purchased from a seller in Oregon, but I find her an incredibly tender thing, and am completely taken with her. Her head I believe is paper mch, though almost seems like leather, with sculpted then hand painted features, attached to a hand stitched cloth body, with painted hands and legs. Her hair is black yarn, on her feet are suede moccasin boots, and under her