Charming Old Homemade Wooden Kaleidoscope folk art boy the message to his dear

the message to his dear uncle in Grenoble: better late than never ("mieux vaut hard que jamais

and feels to me as if it ought to inspire a novel or a play or at least a poem about childhood and fantasy and confronting the existential void

and gold trim around the edges matching the gold trim on the  embroidery

Old Maid in its current incarnation dates to the early 1880s

were lost at sea

Charming Old Homemade Wooden Kaleidoscope folk art boy the message to his dearSince finding a sweet old homemade kaleidoscope this summer, I've kept a keen eye out I find kaleidoscopes magical things, and there is something especially special, and very tender too, about someone having created that magic for themselves! Homemade ones like this have no turning parts; you just turn the whole thing to move the little bits of colored glass around inside, landing in different patterns. Not the most spectacular kaleidoscopic effects