We All Do Fade As a Leaf, Mid 1800s Gold Beaded Punch Paper Embroidery on Silk Ribbon voodoo doll and the sort of thing

and the sort of thing one could really dig into if deciphering is one's thing

was made for practice

cheerful and charming and most definitely one of a kind

which reveals a tiny loss in one spot where the handle meets the middle

They just don't make tools like they used to

We All Do Fade As a Leaf, Mid 1800s Gold Beaded Punch Paper Embroidery on Silk Ribbon voodoo doll and the sort of thingWe all do fade as a leaf, indeed. Something richer and more interesting to the fading of a leaf than a flower, I'd say. This is an extra large one, which lends what feels like quite a bit of gravitas to the pronouncement, too. And embroidered in metallic gold beads, which furthers that sense of weight, and which themselves have surely darkened tarnished a bit over the many years of its life, all to the good. A most frame worthy one either with the