Hand-drawn Stand-up Paper Soldiers on Horseback suffrage sign is super sweet

is super sweet

I've found some terrific hand-painted rocks--happy assertions that creative beings will make use of every available material to make something wonderful

The four little pedestal legs upon which the tub rests are pretty great too

These sweet old little wooden stands and ladder were once part of a Schoenut "Humpty Dumpty Circus" set --which is worth looking up as the clowns and articulated animals in the old sets are AMAZING

Hand-drawn Stand-up Paper Soldiers on Horseback suffrage sign is super sweetThese are the sorts of things that I am incapable of walking away from completely alive with the image of a child deeply absorbed in bringing imagined characters to life in order to physically enact war time dramas at miniature scale, in addition to dripping with charm in and of themselves. And these two, with cardboard tabs on the reverse to stand them up, were definitely played with gently I think, but they've been galloped around for sure. The neck