Very Naive Old Mexican Folk Art Ex Voto Retablo Painting with Wonderful Figures and Geometries carved rosebud These feel to me like

These feel to me like just the right bookends for framing the dozen or so books next on the reading list

and signed on the underside of one foot

) Of course what really won me are the three pages of carefully mounted and labeled feathers

but since discovering the world of winders in bottles--also called "Niddy Noddies"--I'm even more astounded

Very Naive Old Mexican Folk Art Ex Voto Retablo Painting with Wonderful Figures and Geometries carved rosebud These feel to me likeTotal love for this one a super naive antique Mexican folk art ex voto retablo on tin, c. early 20th century, with no text ever added to the white painted strip along the bottom, such that St. Anthony, shown here holding an infant Jesus, was never given his full thanks! What a wonderfully soulful face on him, and a mini adult one on the baby too, and then this fabulous rose cheeked kneeling woman in black with white polka dots, holding up what looks