Back in the 30's mothers and daughters painted chalk ladies as a craft. They are all different sizes, cast from a mold. I have a vast collection of them. A lot are from the same mold ...just how she has been painted makes them look so very different. Some are beautiful and perfectly painted, with intricate details of painted flowers on the bodices of the molded chalk gown, and garlands are painted in her hair. I have other ones that I love just as much because a little girl has painted her. The lips are smudged with red paint and the eyes are not quite aligned right, and usually the dresses are painted in all the same color. but they are all lovely in their own way. Every once in a great while I will find another one in my wanderings. I always have to get her, and feel happy as I squeeze her into my already crowded china cabinet shelves with the others.
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