Lovely Old Hand-carved Folk Art Blue Bird wooden block and while not all are

and while not all are great

as with on her booties

Even cooler to learn about the fascinating  life of "Professor" Robert Heller  (born William Henry Palmer

I am pretty certain these wonderful hand-painted turned wooden pins or skittles are French and that they date to the 1920s or so

Lovely Old Hand-carved Folk Art Blue Bird wooden block and while not all areI found this one in Massachusetts yesterday and would imagine it originated in these parts, or perhaps Pennsylvania. Very sweetly done, with nice age to it, it looks to have stood on a small wooden post, the tip of which is still stuck in it. Somewhere along the way it lost the tip of its beak, which as I'm sure you know just makes it more endearing to me. 4 3 8" beak to tail x 1 1 4" w x 1 1 2" t and perches perfectly as it is.