"You Don't Know What You're Missing" Watercolor of Baby with Pacifier nail loom and all about the great

and all about the great silhouette of this camel

but a lot of expression packed into this wonderful little carved figure

Of a really nice scale at 7 1/2" t x 2 1/4" wide and deep

5ʺw × 8ʺd × 5ʺh

and still threaded with some old twine

"You Don't Know What You're Missing" Watercolor of Baby with Pacifier nail loom and all about the greatI might guess that this watercolor was done by the mother of this child, perhaps made for her husband, who perhaps was away, or for a friend without children, and I would think done with no small dose of irony. Who knows? Now though, on its own, the text in combination with image might be read in all sorts of ways, including perhaps as expressing the sentiments of the baby, sucking away on what I take as a pacifier. I'm pretty delighted by those two