at my go-to antique/consignment shoppe, i spotted this wooden cat, snapped a pic but didn't buy him. after due international consideration, DD and i decided he'd make a good early christmas present for me ~grin~
ANSH scavenger1 handcrafted
ODC eyes (swapping out the blue sun)

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ANSH scavenger2 "a miniature of a real thing"

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cliche saturday-- this is SO me and yet i didn't buy it ~grin~
ODT miniature
ANSH scavenger2 "a miniature of a real thing"
btb, a real netherlands' rowhouse in the first comment box

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ANSH scavenger3 starbursts..
am being very literal (the sun is a star, after all) and cheeky;
but until i figure out how to do a starburst with my little P&S,
this will have to stand in for this item.
ODC eyes

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this artifact will undoubtedly require explanation....... back in the mid 1970s, 2 colleagues and i were taking a summer science seminar, sponsored by the national science foundation, called ESS (elementary science study). we spent 6 weeks doing hands-on science units and then were to go back and teach the teachers in our local school systems. there was a unit about discovering your neighborhood/school environment by studying footprints and to that end we mixed up plaster of paris and went out in search of prints of local fauna. we posited that this was a dog since we were on the campus of boston college, which is more urban than rural
~grin~

for some reason after my DD was here this summer this showed up and wasn't it propitious for:
ANSH scavenger4 footprints

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