New Favorite Thing, Old Handmade Turning Disks Mechanical Toy from Vermont Estate large egg basket and then what look like

and then what look like stand alone blue pockets against the creamy white body

I love this painting for its over-the-top but uncloying pinkness

With the "Quality for over a century" red banner seeming exactly the right thing to ground it formally--and to speak to its endurance

especially near an entrance or at the foot of a bed

but especially for her strong face

New Favorite Thing, Old Handmade Turning Disks Mechanical Toy from Vermont Estate large egg basket and then what look likeI love this thing, which I take for an old handmade wooden "fidget" toy of sorts: turn the red painted handle at center, and the five wooden disks rotate, individually and each turning the next so they all circle around the ring like cogs in a wheel. Sometimes they move together well, and sometimes not quite so smoothly, which lends some excitement to the operation one wants to turn the handle just right. I know this was found in an old barn in