Child-made Wooden Barge with String and Nail Rails Plus Cannon! wooden combs graceful ribbon-like tentacles trailing behind

graceful ribbon-like tentacles trailing behind them

with original "Fiori Forno" and "Made in Brazil" stickers still on it

and very structurally sound

and what is either leather or vinyl for the ears

Child-made Wooden Barge with String and Nail Rails Plus Cannon! wooden combs graceful ribbon-like tentacles trailing behindI'm a real sucker for things things like this boat, which I can just see its young maker, Harry, laboring over with great zeal, so eager to transform his vision into tangible form. And I think he did a terrific job! Using nothing more than wood, nails, string and magic marker, he constructed quite a barge, complete with rotating canon at the helm, and these great rails all around the perimeter. My favorite, though, is the underside, where he has