Naively Carved Marble Child's Boots black and white cat This lovely little hand-beaded coin

This lovely little hand-beaded coin purse with hide bottom makes me want to save all my pennies just so that I can carry them around it

and most especially his tiny knit ears

raising him into the air

and brown at one lower corner

Naively Carved Marble Child's Boots black and white cat This lovely little hand-beaded coinI'd like to think these were carved not in memorial but rather in celebration of the progression of time, like bronzed baby shoes but much more expressive, and product of much more effort on the part of their maker! The form of the boots and manner of carving is quite akin to naively carved wooden boots I have occasionally found, but the effect of carving them from marble gives them a whole different sort of gravitas and it is the combination of naive