Vintage Pink Kewpie Doll Bag Charm

Vintage Pink Kewpie Doll Bag CharmA bag charm made from a vintage small pink celluloid kewpie doll. Kewpie is a brand of dolls and figurines that were conceived as comic strip characters by American cartoonist Rose O'Neill. She described them as 'a sort of little fairy whose one idea is to teach people to be merry and kind at the same time'. Lovely!

This charming little spirit level was languishing in someone's shed before we got our hands on it

The front of the tin has a picture of the Matterhorn

This small vintage silver and green chest opens to reveal a thimble

The necklace is a mixture of vintage red and black and contemporary black crystal encrusted beads with silver metal spacers

and cream hand-made buttons

The pendant is a vintage wood deity/Goddess’ head

use and then throw them away as they would usually be damaged within one smoke

was depleted of many of its beads and needed a lot of TLC

plastic rat

I purchased a pair of brightly coloured  hairy slippers from  Marrakesh recently which seemed like a perfect place to start

It sits atop of a shiny burgundy leather base surrounded by an edging of our beadwork

We don’t know its history or what it was used for