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Vintage greeting cards and vintage sentiments

oday we have some fun vintage greeting cards to look at. These few are from my very modest collection, all lovingly saved by my family down the years in old tattered scrapbooks and shoeboxes. I am glad I come from a long and proud line of... um... accumulators. This first one might be my favorite, of a sweet little doll and wardrobe in a starry red trunk. Inside is a quartet of dollies in adorable vintage dresses. You can click any of these images to see them larger.

Here is a cute Birthday card for "Mother" - the wash line is a bit of yellow string.

The red dotty dress and the aqua striped onesie just about do me in! Inside, more wash day cuteness! Note to self: I need to set up a clothes line out back.

And another Birthday card, for "dear" Grandma...

The blue areas are sprinkled with mica glitter... what is it about mica glitter? Inside... this lettering style is so charmingly retro, and the cavorting deer? Adorable.

Well, okay... this next one is my favorite, too. I can have more than one favorite, right? Hello adorable little scotty dog in the snow!

The design is beautifully simple, and it actually looks like it might be letterpress. And the inside is just as wonderful...

I have more cards to share, but my scanner and I were not communicating at all. So this is just what I have scanned so far. I'll be adding more to flickr as I go along.

Looking at these, though, I can't help but think it is a shame that greeting cards are so different today. Something special has been lost somewhere along the line. There is a delicate sweetness and naivete to these vintage cards that nowadays would be considered by many to be too sweet, possibly even cloying. I may have even thought so one time. Maybe I'm changing, or times are changing, but the messages ring truer to me just now.

Cheers, my friends. Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Jenny

Bees? ...no thank you

 few days ago, I happened to look up at one of our upstairs eaves and saw some bees flying around a tiny opening in the shingles. After a listen at the wall inside, it was clear we had a beehive in there! Totally creepy, especially because I am severely allergic to bee stings! We didn't want the bees exterminated, so we found this father-son team who could remove the bees humanely and relocate them to their farm outside of town. The guys were super nice, and very efficient, and the whole operation only took a few hours. We non-bee people enjoyed our perfectly safe vantage point from the bedroom window down below. It was fascinating. The guys taped themselves into their bee-proof hazmat gear, hoisted a bunch of equipment up onto the roof and went to work. After a bit of sawing, the fascia and soffit came off and the hive was revealed in all its glory.

It looked remarkably like rows of oblong eggo waffles. This is a closeup of the hive as taken by the bee guy. You could not pay me enough to get this close.

You don't see many bees because the guys taped the hose of a Shop-Vac next to the opening to the hive (you can sort of see it in the top photo) so most of the bees were sucked into a bag to be released at the bee-guys' farm. Like I said, very efficient! To get the last of the bees out, they set off some sort of smoke bomb, after which the bees came swarming out of there like a scene from a horror flick!

This is what it looked like after a lot of the combs were removed. Not much honey, but lots of future bees that fortunately won't be hatching anywhere near here.

I can't even look at that photo without shivering! Bees and flying stinging things give me the willies. I'm very happy they are heading to a nice farm waaaay out in the country where hopefully they will not be tempted to return to our neighborhood. Thank goodness for that.

See ya! ...wouldn't wanna bee ya!

Cheers,

Jenny

Shipping day

hanks for the response to the little scotties! All but two one have been "adopted", so it's into the boxes and off to the post office. I am having way too much fun packing up the little guys, so I thought I'd share a pic because they are so cute. In case you're interested, I ordered all these supplies from uline - the boxes, clear bags and blue crinkle paper for packing.

I almost feel like I should poke holes in the box!

Cheers,

Jenny

ps - speaking of poking holes... looks like there is a beehive inside one of the eaves of our roof, and it sounds like it could extend down inside the wall. The bee expert is coming tomorrow today(!) to check it out. Knowing those bees are in there is really creeping me out!

Little scotties are in the shop!

The little scotties would like to introduce themselves! Once I upload this post, I'll be adding them to my etsy shop. Come and take a peek!

There are only nine in this litter, so if you would like to adopt one, hop on over quick!

Cheers,

Jenny