GOD BLESS OUR HOME, Wonderfully Crude Make Do Embroidery on Wire Mesh Screen, Original Frame tromso with a plate of glass

with a plate of glass covering the cross-stitch

I'm really smitten with this sweet little "naive" pencil drawing of a hillside village

through plastic

though I don't know the identity of its maker

which someone wrote in pencil right on it

GOD BLESS OUR HOME, Wonderfully Crude Make Do Embroidery on Wire Mesh Screen, Original Frame tromso with a plate of glassI do believe my favorite find of the week; I just love this. I'd call it a "make do" version of a punch perforated paper embroidery, done instead on a wire mesh screen (which one imagines was left over from screening the porch or barn yard or making a strainer) and, happily, with this red yarn forming the most perfectly crude, matter of fact lettering possible a complete 180 degrees from the fancy to "God Bless" lettering of more common punch paper