Summertime and Vintage Loves.....

I love the summer....the flowers, the smell of fresh mown lawns, the fireflies, the shade of a tree and the beach.  The heat....well that I'm not too keen on.  <smile> 

One of my favorite things to collect is vintage postcards.  It began as an obsession to collect Christmas and Halloween postcards and then I fell in love with them all.  Luckily there are many area antique malls and shops that carry a wide variety of them that don't cost too much so I am able to add to my collection frequently. 

How does this tie into Summer?  Well, I've fallen in love with the vintage floral postcards.  I love the colors of them and I love that people actually wrote letters and notes on these and sent them through the mail.  I can imagine the excitement of receiving one of these beauties and it kind of makes me sad that we don't correspond in that way any longer.  A lost art perhaps but does it really  have to be?  I know when I received my mail art from Kecia it truly made me smile and made me feel very special that I was worth the time of not only creating it but also of mailing it.  <smile>

Here are some of the ones in my collection.....

 

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I hope you enjoyed looking at these beautiful vintage images and that you can find some way to use them in your artistic creations.

 

Comments

[gail]

Looks like I'm not the only one who retired my blog and moved on. Your new blog looks absolutely lovely Lesley! These days I seem to be into light, clean looking blogs. I think they make me feel lighter myself. ;-)
hugs
g

[Lynn Stevens]

It truly is a lost art! Beautiful postcards and your new blog is as fresh as summer!

[Cindy]

Very pretty! Love the new look of the blog as well. Seems lots of us are getting lighter and brighter lately! :)

c

[Susan Reaney]

Those are lovely and I will use them. I think I am going to sign up for one of your classes.
Fondly,
Suz