"You Don't Know What You're Missing" Watercolor of Baby with Pacifier horn handle A terrific vintage hand-carved wooden

A terrific vintage hand-carved wooden boxer

sent to the author's dear friends reporting that she is feeling better

This one features a luscious cream glaze pooling over a variegated pale gray-blue

Use it with a flower frog to create an arrangement

which are part of what makes it great

"You Don't Know What You're Missing" Watercolor of Baby with Pacifier horn handle A terrific vintage hand-carved woodenI might guess that this watercolor was done by the mother of this child, perhaps made for her husband, who perhaps was away, or for a friend without children, and I would think done with no small dose of irony. Who knows? Now though, on its own, the text in combination with image might be read in all sorts of ways, including perhaps as expressing the sentiments of the baby, sucking away on what I take as a pacifier. I'm pretty delighted by those two