Handcraft a pocketbook worth over 100 dollars
By JOANNE SPAHR
LANCASTER - Vivian
Warfel knows the secret to
life’s happiness. She doesn’t
have to tell you, you can just
see it.
“Part of the joy in life,”
she says with a smile, “is not
what you keep it’s what
you share.”
And, she follows this
philosophy in many ways,
especially with her crafts.
Physically slowed down in
the past few years by serious
health problems, Mrs.
Warfel hasn’t let her spirit
be daunted. Instead, she
takes what could be idle time
and puts it to good use by
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creating lovely, delicate
handmade items.
As a result, her home is
delightfully accented with
dried flower arrangements,
hooked rugs, wall plaques,
pictures, knick knack
holders, and other dainty
ornaments, all of which she
created herself. And, her
friends and family have also
been blessed on many oc
casions with gifts she has
made for them.
“You know,” she men
tions, quoting an old adage,
“they say that you should
always give away only the
things you like.” And, that is
often times what she does.
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However, she has one
collection of eight handmade
pocketbooks that she keeps
and uses for her own
pleasure.
Made of a type of
decoupage called decoupage
with repousse, the handbags
are wooden, not leather or
cloth, and have gorgeous
raised designs and scenes on
them. For instance, one of
her favorites has a nature
setting with two-or three
inch lifelike birds standing
out in a 3-D pattern. Another
has raised flowers, a third
has a raised owl, and still
another has luscious red
strawberries that look real
Mrs. Warfel poses with two of her favorite
purses. The bird designs on the right were cut out
from note cards and the flowers on the left were
from wrapping paper.
Crafts
enough to eat popping off the
top of the purse. These are
only four of her large
collection.
Not only is the collection
pretty, it is also extremely
valuable. Probably one of
the characteristics about the
pocketbooks which attracted
Mrs. Warfel the most besides
their beauty is that m Palm
Beach where one of her
closest friends lives, the
women pay up to $l5O or
more for these purses.
“I could hardly believe it,”
she says incredulously,
“especially with the way our
economy is today. And,
what’s worse, some of those
U.S. dairymen marketed
less milk and cream in 1975
but that didn’t stop them
from grossing a record $9.9
billion in sales.
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down there are mass
produced and really aren’t
done all that nicely.”
It is only natural that she
would notice the last
characteristic, because,
although she claims she’s not
a perfectionist, she does get
“mad” at herself when she
“could have done better.”
Her meticulousness shows in
her work.
To look at the purses, it is
baffling to figure out how the
craft is done. How do the
designs stand out, and what
are they made of?
Actually, the answer to the
puzzle is really very simply.
The designs and scenes on
the purses are decoupaged
onto the box and are cut out
of gift wrapping paper,
cards, wallpaper, and
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notecards. The raised parts
of the designs have been
“stuffed” from underneath
with a type of dough that
hardens when it dries and
painted over with acrylics to
blend in the stuffing and
design, and to make it look
real. It’s relatively easy to
do, but it takes a lot of time
and patience.
“It’s like any hand craft
such as embroidery or
knitting,” says Mrs. Warfel.
“But, you can’t count the
hours on something that
gives you enjoyment.”
For those who wish to try
the challenge, Mrs. Warfel
has set down her process in
15 easy steps which she
assures Lancaster Farming
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