Friday Finds August 14

I'm linking up with Kim for Friday Finds.
On a recent trip east of Dallas I found some great antique buys. The problem was space in the plane. I would have brought home a small chest of drawers that was missing the drawers, but the paint was awesome. Also several metal chairs would have come home with me. The colors were just incredible. But I settled for a spoon, old bread pan, some photos and great post cards and a 1957 Montgomery Ward catalog. Now, I may have paid too much for it but it's too late now.
I thought this photo post card was very interesting. It reads, "They snapped this of me and I was curious to know what I looked like walking down the street." How funny! I wonder if she's still alive and what she might think about selfies and such of today's generation.

(It was tricky to make this show as 2 different post cards.)

Among the other postcards were some from 1910 but a lot from the early 40's. One was even a German postcard. I thought this was pretty cool too. A book of 'photographs' of the World's Fair in Chicago 1933. Can you believe the postage was 1.5c?

What I loved about it was the vintage style and the watercolor type look to the photos. (they did call them photos) I was thinking about framing all of them but if I do I believe I'll scan or photograph them. I just hate to take the book apart, it's in excellent shape.

How could I resist this cover?

Liberated Art 2014

I participated in Kat Sloma's Liberate Your Art postcard swap again this year. Today starts our Blog Hop, so click on the link at the end to visit more 'liberated art'.
This is what I sent into the world. It was taken from a second story window looking out on a street near the River Walk in San Antonio, Texas.

The cards I received:
From Gail, this lovely foggy shot. (I'm partial to fog) The post office scratched a big spot in the center but I used Content Aware in Photoshop and fixed it for this post.

From Shelly: I'm quite partial to paths and trails also. Probably because I could use a little direction now and then.

Next came this amazing shot from Amanda. I think it must be a bubble. It's huge! Taken in Florida.

From Deanie in Arizona, taken on a trip to Paris. The famous love locks. Someday I'd love to see this myself.

And of course Kat's awaited treasure. 

(Oooops, as I get ready to post this, I just realized I was missing one, but it's 5AM and it is the bedroom with my sleeping husband and I still need to photograph it. I'll add it in a few hours. The only one I received that wasn't a photo.)

An InLinkz Link-up

Liberate Your Art 2013

It is Kat Sloma's Liberate Your Art Blog Hop this weekend.
She says...
The world needs more art. The world needs your art.
The Liberate Your Art postcard swap encourages you to create, share and liberate your art into the world, where it can do its greatest good.
Join participants from around the world as we liberate our art through the mail and brighten the day of those near and far. See what good mailing your art can bring!
She has made a beautiful video of all the postcards she received: 1290 pieces of art, 216 artists, 11 countries. What a project! You'll find the video here.
This was the art I sent out into the world.

Here are the cards I received.
Clockwise from top left:
Elissa Dee gallerydee.wordpress.com

Kitty Mitchell

Dawn P. girlunwinding.wordpress.com

Amy Whitehurst. whitehursta.redbubble.com

Madeleine Jones

Kat Sloma kateyestudio.com

Some interesting things I noted.
All the cards I received (except for Kat's) are vertical. This has been such a treat.
Some of the artists have crossed the same paths that I have. We have friends or internet acquaintances that are common. It's been very cool to realize how wide spread my internet sphere has become in just one year.
Today I've finally made myself sit down and try to make connections with these artists. Life has gotten in the way of my play too much lately! Unfortunately I'm having a hard time reading the contact info on a couple of the cards so I hope they will be participating in the blog hop and I can find them.