Wood Milagro Encrusted Hearts - 5 inch Medium Weddings Skulls adorn home altars and

Skulls adorn home altars and cemetery tombs and are a festive icon of the holiday

These are a more complicated paper flower than is usually found - and they have more colors within each flower

These serapes were traded and sold all over Mexico for hundreds of years and made into ponchos

that will mean a thinish woven blanket characterized by many narrow bands of yarn

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Wood Milagro Encrusted Hearts - 5 inch Medium Weddings Skulls adorn home altars andMilagro translates to "little miracles" and these little charms are used in Mexican chuches to request divine assistance and healing. An arm would be places on the fabric skirt of a saint's statue on a side altar of a church to request healing of your child's broken arm. A truck would be for a broken down truck and a martini glass would be requesting help for an alcoholic. These milagro encrusted carved wood hearts started in the state of Guanajuato