Delicious Antique Painted Silk Apple Pin Cushion brush with long handle I love early watercolored notebook

I love early watercolored notebook drawings and diagrams just about as much as anything in the world

I'd never seen a tiny gem tintype in a hand-carved frame before

and then how those two bead-like rivets puncture the interior so delicately

easily done I think

and one teeming with love

Delicious Antique Painted Silk Apple Pin Cushion brush with long handle I love early watercolored notebookYum. I've had one of these antique hand painted silk apple pin cushions before, and will continue to scoop them up when I can because I find them such beautiful things, each a little different. There is something about the softness of the silk and luminosity of these colors painted on it that to me feel almost otherworldly. Plus I love an apple as a thing and as a symbol, of desire among other things. This one with a braided stem and satisfying seam