"Keep creating. Let the process teach you what it needs to teach you."
Morgan Harper Nichols
Morgan Harper Nichols
The cards from round six of our 4 x 6 exchange are finally getting to their destinations....the mail is a little slow this time of year. For this round I decided to do something with some of the vintage postcards Angie gave me from my grandmother. She was Kate Daniels at the time but I knew her as grandma Miller. She was a storybook grandma who cooked on a wood stove, always had treats and toys to share, and violets on the window sill. She lived in a little house near the Rock River just a bike ride away. My grandfather Miller died the year I was born so I never knew him.
Becky got my first card using a postcard sent in August of 1914 from Rose to Kate. Becky loves roses so this seemed a little fitting. Because I grew up with Becky....I'm pretty certain that she met my grandmother a time or two. I put a few extra postcards in her envelope because I also knows she loves all things vintage.
I tried not to cover too much of the writing....but also wanted the pine branch to be a focal point. I was already thinking it could have been larger at this point.
I used this fabulous stripe fabric to fuse on a border and my soap sliver was the perfect tool to mark a mitered corner. Then all I had to do was iron on the fabric.
Because the pine branch was a little small I added the red stitched stars in a metallic thread...they added a nice shimmer. But it still needed something.
Trying very hard to not overwork it....I used a gold paint pen and added a few dots and called it done.
Merry Vintage Christmas Becky!
We had quite a snowstorm here in New England today...and it's COLD! Paul is in Lexington and I am in Portland....and we're both pretty snowed in.
I'll get out in it tomorrow. I'm guessing 12 - 18 inches in the backyard with the drifting.
By the end of it...the wall and the birdbath were covered.
Paul had a lot of shoveling to do in Lexington.....he guesses about a foot.
Looks like it's going to be a white Christmas both places.
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