Wonderful Make Do Wooden Post Doll with Wrapped Fabric carved bear in shoe adding to its Japanese feel

adding to its Japanese feel

quickly become known for beautifully crafted wooden toys that have become highly coveted

including with nostalgia for growing up with a brother who mowed the lawn in the shape of a diamond for endless backyard wiffle ball games

Then he draws himself 50 years older

in very good

Wonderful Make Do Wooden Post Doll with Wrapped Fabric carved bear in shoe adding to its Japanese feelThis wonderful thing! Its body is an old turned wooden post of some sort, into which eyes were scraped, punctuated with pencil at their centers and a little nose and mouth below, making it look rather like a cat. Around the dowel two different layers of cotton cloth were wrapped around and around, with two slits cut in the heavier cloth through which the hand sewn calico arms were pulled out. Those arms look to have received a few mends near the ends