Folky Homemade Bookshelf with Carved Squirrels folk art wooden cutout and makes me wish Joyce

and makes me wish Joyce Pensato were still around in order to be gifted it

" And much loved it was

or in the kitchen by the kettle or pots and pans

feeling perhaps like workers' housing

I think perhaps many things at once

Folky Homemade Bookshelf with Carved Squirrels folk art wooden cutout and makes me wish JoyceI found this one at Brimfield in the booth of a delightful seller who always has charming things; it was filled end to end with a bunch of old children's books, but happily she was willing to relocate those into a big pile and let me steal the shelf away, as I'm pretty smitten with these squirrels! Made with lots of love I'd bet by a parent or grandparent as a gift for a young child in the 1940s or 50s, with mellow gold paint on the exterior of the