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Posted 10 months ago
Manikin
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I inherited this 1930's monkey and one day myself and my cousin decided to re enact a photo of us a small girls holding animals . Here we are and holding Mikies Favorite critter a Monkey. The Monkey is most likely a Herman made in Germany . Mohair with straw filling . And he is happy as we have a moment to have a secret laugh between two best friends and cousins . We didn't have any real animals like these cats on our first photo shoot so we used stuffed ones :-) A memory remade .
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Thank you Sean and Michael !
Hi Scandi I am going to email you right now I was coming to PC to do that :-) x
love this very much , what a wonderful picture:) and anytime manikin:)
Thank you trunkman :-)
This is so beautiful!
You are adorable...in both shots!!!
Hope you are staying cool up there.
Naturally you would say "I am always cool"
Thank you Mikie and thank you Amber for sweet comment :-)
what a clever and heartwarming idea Mani. LUV IT!! Im flattered you would mention me (blush,blush) , the evil monkey does'nt even seem to be looking at me either! he is still there, isnt he?
Mikie Yes he is still here and He likes it here :-) My cousin and myself had been separated by distance for 10 years and when we got together we looked at old pics and saw the one of us as little ones so the idea was created to update it :-)
What beautiful photos!
Thank you MiKKo ! :-)
Thank you walksoft ,earthling, and EJW for stopping at my post :-)
Thank you wolcott !!!!!!
Really cute kids and what a beautiful memory, and a great new memory made !~
Thank you Phil ! We spent our childhood together and then moved to different states . When she came to visit we just had to re inact our photo as little girls but there was not a cat in sight so we improvised and happy to have this as it will be last photo we have together . Thank you for nice comment :-)
That is precious Mani !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks so much Hedge ! Your precious too :-)
Thank you Phil ! did you see the temp here today on fb ? Unbelievable . Still waiting on some cool Canada weather .
Beautiful photos Manikin.....as usual ! TG
Thank you Thrifty always happy to see you and thanks for nice comment :-) Hope all is good with you .