For Grandma, Allie's 1878 Pinprick Rockinghorse with Fancy Border and Bows animal carving ) and surely one could

) and surely one could invent lots of things to do with them now

gouache on paper

I'm not sure which side of this I like better

but I do have a stack of wonderful little paper things like this that tend to pile up--and when I pull them out to get to listing them

For Grandma, Allie's 1878 Pinprick Rockinghorse with Fancy Border and Bows animal carving ) and surely one couldFor Grandma, from Allie, Christmas 1878: a very carefully pin prick drawn rocking horse, from an era when rocking horses were highly prized creatures! For me this is very much about the whole bright and proud package: the very carefully cut fancy decorative border to the cream board, and to the blue board behind it, and these perfectly tied ribbon bows at the corners, and then the note on the back, too; feels to me like the incarnate of what one (me)