SOLD Fabulous c. 1950s Folk Art Make Do Salt and Pepper Shakers with Painted Cats turned wood brush or incorporated into something new

or incorporated into something new

and I find this old doll tremendously expressive and fantastically beautiful

In 1955 she and Foster established their own pottery studio in Mahone Bay

with some paint loss as obvious but very good overall condition

SOLD Fabulous c. 1950s Folk Art Make Do Salt and Pepper Shakers with Painted Cats turned wood brush or incorporated into something newThe existence of these crazy things makes me super happy. They were created from full sized glass soda bottles one Sun Crest Orange Soda, the other Hires Root Beer, both c. 1950s with a few holes punched into the caps to turn them into (very large) salt and pepper shakers. I assume they are both meant to be cats, though the Salt looks a bit like a raccoon, too. Their size and their make do resourcefulness makes me think perhaps they worn born at a