19th Century Folk Art Ink Portrait of Soulful Looking Woman with Rose stained who persisted in gluing these

who persisted in gluing these pennies one by one

this technique

I just like the dog faces carved into these wooden bookends

or a perfect holder for the Victorian calling/compliments cards I just listed

19th Century Folk Art Ink Portrait of Soulful Looking Woman with Rose stained who persisted in gluing theseMy photos do this lovely and soulful woman no real justice; the pink of her lips and rose, and the blue black of her irises, and the olive green of the rose's leaves don't come across so well and then also is the fact that her eyes seem to follow one around the room! I love everything about her, from her expression that seems a complex mix of of wise and proud and sorrowfully resigned, down to the all of those tiny dots and dashes giving form to her