My New Favorite Blocks Ever! pink velvet pin cushion a bit hard to date

a bit hard to date and to place in terms of origin--this has a bit of the feel of Mexican folk art to me

--on this novelty postcard created by M

and appears to me to be quite old

then framed by bone fangs on either side--making for quite a dramatic portrayal of a creature on the prowl

My New Favorite Blocks Ever! pink velvet pin cushion a bit hard to dateI've never seen another set of blocks quite like these, and they are my new favorites ever! (Of course I would love to have a huge lot of them, but there's also something just right about what's here, which I found in an old cardboard box at an antiques shop in Freeport, Maine. I find the colors exactly perfect, the proportions exactly right, and one each of the rectangular blocks are two square windows on one side and a window and a door on the