Crafts

Crafts3- Perhaps the girl on this page seems a wee bit pensive, I wonder what her impression is of the girl depicted on the card on bottom left of this page?greeting in gold lettering A Prosperous New Year. The card on bottom right is a New Year Greetings seascape including a little lady sitting on the sand reading a book, this card has a gold edging and the greeting also in gold lettering reads as follows: I wish you a happy NEW YEAR. .

While selecting some old birthday cards for the July/August issue of Senior times I noticed that there were some New Year greeting cards among them (some were still clinging loosely to the pages of the sketch pad) so I put them aside in readiness for the January/February 2023 issue.

Due to the fact that heating our homes this winter will be very costly and it takes me so long to type an introduction on the computer I decided to start working on my article on September 4th while it’s warm enough to work without turning on the heat or lights!!

1-Just 3 feet so I thought it would be an appropriate depiction/caption of the First Footer age old custom on New Year’s day, the card is a stand up one of two little girls in a circular basket, with the greeting A BRIGHT NEW YEAR in gold lettering. Here’s hoping that there will be no power cuts as we ring in 2023.

2 - The lad with the donkey seems to have spent the day selling besoms, during my childhood days (circa 1945) I can clearly remember Travelling people calling to all of the homes in our neighbourhood on a monthly basis selling besoms and mending pots and buckets or anything else that needed to be fixed.

The men and boys who made the besoms that were used to sweep grain and beet pulp into tidy heaps on the floors of lofts and barns were regarded as master crafters and always did well financially as a result in the area before yard brushes became available. Card no1 on this page is a horseshoe shaped good luck card depicting another lad and donkey at a signpost (RTS artistic series) on the back. Card no2 on this page is my favourite- a boat on a river, pink hawthorn blossom, swallows and a bovine. The greeting reads as follows: May the New Year bring you Health, Wealth and Happiness.

3 - Perhaps the girl on this page seems a wee bit pensive, I wonder what her impression is of the girl depicted on the card on bottom left of this page - greeting in gold lettering A Prosperous New Year. The card on bottom right is a seascape including a little lady sitting on the sand reading a book, this card has a gold edging and the greeting also in gold lettering reads as follows: I wish you a happy NEW YEAR.

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