Remember Me, Marvelous 19th Century Hand-beaded Folk Art Love Token Needle Book antique iron folk art snake and wire egg baskets filled

and wire egg baskets filled with freshly gathered eggs--altogether channeling the spirit of my great grandmother

or for anyone exemplifying diligence and attentiveness

23 houses total

is that he was born in Chicago

Remember Me, Marvelous 19th Century Hand-beaded Folk Art Love Token Needle Book antique iron folk art snake and wire egg baskets filledSo many good things rolled into one little package: a token of love friendship, portrait of place, and hand sewn needle book pin keep all at once, with white house right out of a schoolgirl sampler on front, and monogram and flower (or fruit?) with garland on reverse (to my eye evincing a gravestone, and so seeming something of a momento mori too) all laboriously rendered in tiny glass seed beads, sewn on one by one. I have total love for this very