Sweet Scratch Made Crate Wood Little Red House dotted The deep hatbox style lid

The deep hatbox style lid fits snugly over the high-sided container

including perhaps as expressing the sentiments of the baby

executed in crayon on lined paper

and a curious little mushroom top

which I think dates back to a set of Russian nesting dolls I had as a child

Sweet Scratch Made Crate Wood Little Red House dotted The deep hatbox style lidI'll never resist an old folk art house if I can help it, and think this is quite a sweet one, and a cheerful one its red paint with creamy white and green trim. With matching front and back, and matching sides, and with silver foil behind the hand cut cardboard paned windows, and behind the little window in the door too. With what appears to be a tarred pitched roof, with a few bits of glitter here and there (maybe acquired along the way), and some