Diminuitive Early Spanish Colonial Polychrome Carving of Anima Sola with Scapular cast iron snail I like things that have

I like things that have the capacity to add a bit of fun to everyday matters and mundane tasks--like this c

just right for a framing a postcard-perfect view

and understand that they were railroad signs--I'd guess this one signaled "caution" with stop ahead

and from which this miniature clearly derives inspiration

I have a hard time not grabbing these old inlaid darning eggs when I find them

Diminuitive Early Spanish Colonial Polychrome Carving of Anima Sola with Scapular cast iron snail I like things that haveIt seems quite right that this Spanish Colonial Anima Sola looks as if he's endured quite a lot a lonely soul stuck in purgatory, flames rising from below. With long hair down the back I assume female, and, unusual, from what I can tell, for wearing a scapular, which apparently was a practice directed by Our Lady of Mount Carmel, who instructed that those wearing a blessed brown scapular at the time of death would not suffer long, but rather would be