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My great grandparents, my Nae-Nae and Pap-Pap, Agnes Elizabeth (Nash) Donnelly and James Minus Donnelly. My great grandmother was married 3 or 4 times (she was a wild one!) but still managed to celebrate her 50th wedding anniversary with my great grandfather.  She died a couple of weeks after the celebration in the early ’70’s.  My Pap was kind and loving and I remember him entertaining my sister and me by pulling nickels out of his ear.  They were quite a pair.

Thought this photo of them at their bar would be cute on a St. Patrick’s Day card.  Image is 1800×1205 pixels @800 dpi.

rtist Freebies provides a great list of downloadable, printable old photos and various ephemera. Browse through each site and I promise you your hard drive will soon swell with new treasures.

Another “old things” website is Vintage Paper Works. You can download a few freebies in PDF format but you have to join (it’s free) to access all of the website’s treasures.

Happy Scrappy has images of Antique Maps and Text Overlays from Jane Austen novels. She offers a lovely assortment of print quality graphics…click on the monthly archives on the left sidebar to access each months’ goodies.

Beautiful Word Art can be found at Eressea Design…just keep scrolling.

Mega-Doodle has created a wonderful Photoshop CS3 Action that creates bows and ribbons…works in CS2 too.

Photoshop Brushes at SpyGlass.net and at Seishido.biz where the brushes were created in PS 6 so they will work in PS 6 and up.

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Here is a bit of family ephemera, a Deed of Lot for my great great grandfather, Thomas Ephraim (or Ephraim Thomas–they switched first and middle names around quite a bit back then) Nash buried in St. Mary’s Cemetery. Unfortunately, when we went to find the gravesite, we discovered that many of the tombstones had been vandalized and his was no longer to be found. He is the only family member buried there.  I don’t know where my great great grandmother, Adriana (Addie) Emmart Nash is buried…I’m sure there is a story but it was lost when my grandmother died.

ary Engelbreit has two sets of coloring pages and several cute projects to do on her website.

Free stationery to print out at Susan Branch.com plus new recipes for February/Valentine’s Day.

My friend, Shelley, is offering pretty little graphics for use on your blog.

Present Past Collection has beautiful little business card cases for sale.

A Treasure Pocket…what a cute idea!  I wish she took Paypal though I’m sure Michael’s glad she doesn’t, right sweetheart?  *smile*

I love the name of this website, The Antique Paperie. I’m bookmarking it because I love ephemera and treasures are promised by the first of February.

My Romantic Home showcases some really gorgeous birdhouses.

Somebody likes my artwork…besides you, Jeanne! *smile* Hey, it made my day.

…happy browsing!

Nice things to read…

Old Poetry

Old Time Children’s Poetry

Poet’s Corner:  Subject - Birds

Pretty things to look at…

Flickr searches on “ephemera,”  ”winter,” “hot chocolate,” “frost” and “winter birds.”  Things I’m interested in…you can do your own searches for whatever you like.

I digitally drew the blue jay, shown in the previous posting, in Photoshop, in December of 2002.  Since everything I create is in layers I was able to easily recolor the body, draw a new beak (because cardinal and blue jay beaks are very different in color and shape), black mask and new greenery and my blue jay became a pretty little winter cardinal…I love creating digital art with Photoshop!  *smile*

Whilst searching for a suitable image to use on Jeanne’s blog for her Christmas makeover I found a few really nice links for online ephemera. Ephemera was actually a new word for me and I had to go look it up to see exactly what it meant and how to pronounce it. *smile*

I love the old photos but my favorites are the vintage documents…the typefaces that were used, the handwriting, the information held in the documents, that’s fascinating to me. Ephemera links…if you have any favorites you’d like to share, please email me!

1800’s Ephemera

Flickr: Collage Images

Photo Clipart

Mother Goose Gems

Old Nursery Rhymes

The True Mother Goose Content Page

Leaves of Time

Vintage Resources

Lise’s Garden Victorian Images

Art-E-Zine - Links

Ephemera - Exploring the World of Old Paper

Etsy has quite a bit for sale.