New Favorite Thing, Perfectly Interlocking Two Piece Steel Worker's Whimsy (?) scratch buit It takes a close look

It takes a close look

(A perfect gift for a perpetually hungry friend

Another finely done antique Froebel kindergarten paper weaving found in Pennsylvania

I have a fantasy that one day at a flea market I'll uncover a beautiful antique herbarium that's been sitting in the bottom of a box for 150 years or so filled with page upon page of perfectly documented pressed and dried plant specimens

and then flame-like trail of feathers running down their arms

New Favorite Thing, Perfectly Interlocking Two Piece Steel Worker's Whimsy (?) scratch buit It takes a close lookHard to capture the satisfying weight of this when held in the hand, or the very satisfying way one piece fits into the other, and the two hold together, as if by magnetic force, but they are not magnets. Cut of iron steel thick enough to stand on its side, with the two pieces arranged in various configurations, like small scale sculpture. Perhaps this was made by as a practice exercise in cutting squarely, or maybe by a steel worker as a whimsy of