My IT Souvenir from Italy

It just dawned on me as I sit here day after day waiting patiently for my new pasta maker to arrive, I've never followed up on all my talk about the souvenir I bought at the craft market while I was in Montefioralle.  This is the one where after my bold bargaining and getting the price reduced by 10E I ended up basically giving away 5E of that with my insane thought processes.

I took pictures tonight and they pretty much speak for themselves.  But I will explain that I love ceramics and pottery and I especially loved the totally unique work of this artisan.  Very rustic and loose and absolutely delightful.  There is some reason why everything he makes whistles but I couldn't figure that out from what the person translating was telling me.  Nor could I really understand what he told me it said on the back except that it is some kind of poem about home, I think?  Anyway, the little birds sitting on the top both are whistles and all three little heads hanging in the windows are whistles.  I didn't even know that when I bought it.  But it broke in half on its journey to the states and once I got home and worked up my nerve to try and glue it back together, I noticed every thing had little holes and, sure enough, they are all whistles.

I want to find someone who can read Italian (and kind of messy printing) to find out what it says.  I tried an on-line translator, but that was pretty much a bust, partly because I can't decipher some of the letters.

Now the pictures...

Kind of weird, but delightful I think...