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Vintage
September 19th, 2009
The conclusion of the Herbie Party is coming, but this post needed to be published.
There is an old box sitting in the top of my closet surrounded by abandoned hats and scarves. This box has been passed around my family for some time now; every ten years or so it finds a new home. It is in my home now and I am not giving it back. In this old box is a collection of postcards all written or received by one set of my great-grandparents when they were teens and young adults. The oldest was written in 1896 and the newest was 1925. They read like the history of a fifteen year old’s facebook wall. (confession: I do not have facebook, for some reason I am anti-face book and really am unsure if that sentence even made sense.) Card after card of “drop a line soon” or “Fred thinks so! Ha Ha!” If you read them in order, chronologically, you pick out a love story. It is not a story filled with drama and intrigue–just two nice kids, from nice families, who kinda like each other-really dig each other-are head over heels in love-are engaged-are married-have a nice normal marriage. (The Husband and I have the newest in a long line of nice normal marriages. My Grandparents are celebrating their 60th anniversary in October.)
What is written is priceless and will always be cherished by me–the self appointed family antiquarian. The other side is what this post is about however. The images on these cards are so lovely. They really appeal to my aesthetic–simple, pretty, comfortable, and bright. I have for some time been trying to figure out how to have these cards play a bigger role in my life. Some are scattered around– propped up on shelves or tucked in mirrors. I have two with happy little blue birds framed and in my bedroom. I see them every morning and every morning they make me smile. I think my cards are awesome and wanted to see more of them.
That brings me back to the 21st century and The Huckablog. I have been toying with the idea of letting the easy pre-done blog format go and doing my own. I am NOT a graphic designer, but I knew I could do it with the help of everyone’s favorite computer geek, The Husband. The goal is to give The Huckablog a new banner and look every month featuring my antique postcards. They make me happy. They make me feel connected to the past and the future. They are cheaper than hiring a graphic designer. I hope you like them too.
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How pretty! I’ll look forward to seeing them again. Maybe you can sometimes put below the picture the message and date on the back. Didn’t even know you had these, I thought they were in the box in the front hall closet with alot of other family heritage stuff. I think this is a great use for them. Let’s see…400+ postcards, divided by 12 months in the year, equals how many years of mastheads?
I love the postcard idea!!! I wish my family had a decent historian. All we have are oodles of old pictures that nobody knows which family members are in them. There are some really cool old shots, some of which look similar to the ones you have made in Branson…except our photos are authentic.
By the way, facebook isn’t bad, but you can’t keep your anonymity on it. So if you’re bent on nobody knowing where you live, then you can’t really utilize facebook’s services. I’ve found that facebook is a great way for me to keep in touch with old classmates, friends from former workplaces, kids who were in my youth group, family members who live really far away, etc. But facebook isn’t for everyone. Let’s see how long you keep TheSon off of facebook…it’s only a matter of time!
I think it is very cute, and I love the idea of the messages on those old postcards being shown as well. This coming from someone who is VERY resistant to change.