You've Got Mail!

One thing I love to collect are old bunches of letters - I'm old enough to remember when all our communication was done this way and there's a delightful nostalgia about the stamps, postmarks and old envelopes.

I tie them up with ribbon or string...

and keep them in a vintage painted box I

 found at a thrift store in Santa Barbara once.

Some are from far away countries, some different states...

 wonderful logos and typography. 

Each one a bit of history.

Good Mail Day

 Look what I got in the mail the other day!

 A small package from my daughter Bronwyn in Missouri,

 Full of vintage-y goodness!

Does she get me or what?!

Ephemera - Yeah, We Got That!

 Dictionary and arithmetic pages from days gone by

Spent a day digging through boxes and bins

Scoop up vintage game pieces

 of ephemera, old books and rusty bits.

Pick a card, any card

Hunting and gathering for the up-coming

7 Gypsies Bracelet kits 

 Art Girlz in Autumn Show, September 22.

Retro kitchen utensils 

Finding things I'd forgotten I had,

Rusty old tools and hardware

and others that I'm ready to let go to a new home.

Vintage postcards, pamphlets and mags

There will be an entire section of the show devoted to 

45 Easy Pieces Ephemera Paks

wonderful vintage-y ephemeraticly retro

 mixed media art supplies!!

More Esty Fun

Also now available in our Esty shop - 4ARTGIRLZ -

These vintage invoices dating from 

the 1890's through the 1920's.

 I've altered them using rubber stampings, cigar bands 

and vintage fiscal and postage stamps.

Over a dozen available, all different - $10.00 each.

 The perfect gift for the "all things vintage" 

person on your holiday list.

Blanche - 1890

A handful of well loved bits that belonged to my grandmother
when she was a child,living near Warren Indiana in the 1890's,
collecting pictures that came with the coffee and flour.

She painstakingly wrote her name on the back of each one
- and sometimes the date -before storing them
in a shoebox beneath her bed.

I was denied the pleasure of knowing her,
she passed before I was born,
but these small treasures from her childhood
make her feel very close.