Leafdays

Wandering from blog to blog last night, I stumbled upon this pretty lace heart from Joli Paquet and thought I just had to make one.

The tutorial looked rather easy—except for the part that mentioned sewing. I am needle-phobic and utterly sewing challenged. When I say challenged, I mean helplessly incapable—I can’t even fix a skirt’s hem if it comes undone.

But of course any half decent glue can do the same job as a needle (well not quite, but it can for the purpose of this little project). So out came my clear decoupage glue and bits and pieces of lace. I didn’t have half the required materials either, but that has never deterred me—no canvas? No problem. I used drawing paper mounted on cardboard instead. Likewise, I had no china doll, so used a collaged image instead.

Putting the heart together was easy peasy lemon squeezy, as my son would say (he is four and in the rhyming phase). I made the heart first then, for a bit of fun, I gave my demure Victorian lady (straight out of a cabinet card) a dress made in part from a scanned image of the lacy heart. A sweet, simple and satisfying project!