I need to replace the hinges and reattach the feet and handle, and then it will be a home for all my jewelry making junk. It came with the original contents - wooden reels, various buttons, rusty tins full of pins and some alarming salmon pink stuff called 'hose darn'. [Seriously, you should see it. Thank God for the 21st century and 120 denier black opaques]
It does look a little like an orthopaedic shoe in this photo but it is a rabbit - look at it from the front.
Apparently it's the law that the rabbit MUST be made in red jelly, giving a result rather horrifyingly like the flayed ones you occasionally see at farmers' markets or posh butchers in Chelsea. {sorry vegetarians}
And yes - I know, all these posts so close together. Why - I'm almost prolific!
Hardly worth asking if you saw my Retro Sweets giveaway - the comments have gone mad. I could write any old crap and you wouldn't flamingo, you're only in it for the pink shrimps!
Lakota x
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