My Great-Grandmother's Vintage Postcards

I recently learnt about a collection of postcards (still in existence) that were sent to my great grandmother in the early 1900's.

My grandmother (who was her daughter) was about to burn them with the rubbish and my aunty saved them from the fire.

She has had them for decades

 and

I had never heard about them until 12 months ago.

I have been trying to scan them so I have them for myself forever.

They have to go back to my aunty as soon as I get this job done

but

I'll admit I like having them close to me.

I have received so much pleasure from reading them and

gaining a little insight into how much my great grandparents

must have loved each other.

Many of them were sent to my Great-Grandmother by her future husband.

They are indeed very lovingly written.

I never knew anyone related to me could be so 'smooth with words'...LOL

I love the way so many of the postcards were addressed...

seemingly so loosely,

as though everyone knew who lived in the district,

which indeed they did.

I'm talking about country folk.

My relatives were not big city people.

Simpler times and simpler lives.

My great-grandmother's name was Anna but this was only discovered when her death certificate was sighted.

All her life she went as Annie.

Annie is also one of my nicknames.

This postcard was from my GG's cousin Rachel in 1911

Rachel was trying to organize meeting up with my GG

and suggested they may meet up at the local country show.

It must have been hard with no phones etc when you lived a good horse ride apart from each other.

Love's Victory...a postcard

from my great grandfather William known as Bill,

 to his future wife, Annie.

I love the address on this postcard

Miss Emma Janke

C/o Mr Janke,

The bootmaker

...love it!...

Don't know how my GG had this one, maybe she never got to post it

or

maybe

she collected her friend's used postcards.

Who could blame her?  

They're so lovely.

To Greet You on Your Birthday

Best wishes for your birthday

Here again not sure why she had this postcard in her collection

maybe she had a friend called Annie, maybe she never posted it

We'll never know now.

Christmas card by Beagle's Postcards

from my GG's friend Mary Jessop

to

Dear Annie

Hope you've enjoyed looking at some of my family history

through

these

beautiful old postcards

that are now mostly just over 100 years old.

I knew my Great grandmother well.

She died when I was 20.

I never knew my Greatgrandfather as he died before I was born.

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and

please leave me

a comment, I'd love to hear from you.

Linked to

&

Tuesday's Treasures at Uncommon Ground

&

Rocking chair and a patchwork quilt birthday card.

I just love these two stamp sets

from

Our Daily Bread Designs

The sets I have used are

Sew Special (rocking chair)

and

Sewn with Love sentiment

I used a 3D Punch and Emboss flower design

and

topped each with a colourful button.

A Fiskars border punch at top of card.

A white seam binding tape double bow

and

a

pretty brown and white checked brad.

I coloured the rocking chair with my trusty Aquarella pencils

and then

painted with my water brush.

I had a lot of fun making this card for my friend's birthday.

I never know quite how they are going to turn out, these cards seem to tell me what to do half the time....tweaking until it's just right.

Such fun.

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On another note and in the spirit of sharing amongst fellow bloggers

I would like to introduce you to a delightful blog

I discovered a few weeks ago.

Sandie at Steadman's Corner has a great blog.

Sandie loves GOD, junking and antiquing.

She is a wife and mother.

I love her opening photo, that's what initially got me interested.

I wanted to see more of her treasures and finds.

Please visit

Steadman's Corner

You won't regret it.

Another card for a dear friend's 50th

I made this in January for a good friend's 50th. She was thrilled to receive it and I was so happy to make it for her. I had some dramas along the way, namely the printer ran out of ink and the flower had to be hand coloured (using Staedtler Aquarell pencils that I then painted over to highlight, using a wet brush). I used linen paper and it gave a lovely texture.
The tree branch sticker was so beautiful and I added my friend's name to the branches in alphabet stickers. The round scalloped sticker behind the 50 was from the same sheet as the tree
Webster's pages, Your Life is Beautiful (Hello Beautiful cardstock diecut stickers).
The music theme played throughout the entire card as we both learnt music together when we were children.
I'm sorry but the paper, alphabet stickers and anything else not credited is out of my scrap bits and pieces and I have forgotten where I got them or their origins.