Remember Me, Marvelous 19th Century Hand-beaded Folk Art Love Token Needle Book antique iron folk art snake and which I absolutely could

and which I absolutely could not leave behind

and would be easy to add a little hook to the back to hang--I'd say in the kitchen

though perhaps a French teacher

but these charmed me for being cheerful but not at all fussy

is that he was born in Chicago

Remember Me, Marvelous 19th Century Hand-beaded Folk Art Love Token Needle Book antique iron folk art snake and which I absolutely couldSo many good things rolled into one little package: a token of love friendship, portrait of place, and hand sewn needle book pin keep all at once, with white house right out of a schoolgirl sampler on front, and monogram and flower (or fruit?) with garland on reverse (to my eye evincing a gravestone, and so seeming something of a momento mori too) all laboriously rendered in tiny glass seed beads, sewn on one by one. I have total love for this very