Old Timey Photo - Postcard #4 & Swedish Flag Mosaic - Crafty Crap #1

This postcard is from a big collection of fun postcards I picked up many years ago - I found the first of five packs of these in a bookstore and tracked down the rest of the set online. The back says "A happy family, c. 1900."

Postcard #4 for the New Year Resolution went out to my old friend from college, JD. She lives far away and I haven' seen her in several years, so she'll probably think that's me on the postcard. She's special like that.

An article on old photography and the solemn faces epidemic.
Russian color photographs from the early 1900s. Amazing.

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The January Crafty Crap has been completed! A year or so ago I decided to try my hand at doing mosaics and I make a punch of Swedish Flag window hangings (or trivets) for most of my family. (The glass looks really pretty with the sun shining behind it.)

It took a lot longer to make each one that I thought it would, so I wasn't able to finish the one for Rooster C in time. Probably cheating, but it seemed appropriate to make her Swedish Flag the crafty crap for this month. Nothing like getting a gift more than a year late!

Nagoya Tower of Televi Dining - Postcard #3 (Vintage!)

When I came up with this resolution, I put out a call to my friends on the interwebs to send me their updated addresses if they wanted to receive a postcard. One of my LBC peeps mentioned that she collects odd and interesting postcards, so NN is now the proud recipient of this one!

This postcard came from a collection of four packs of old Japanese postcards that my friend HD gave me several months ago. If I remember the story correctly, they were sent to a homesick Japanese exchange student several decades ago, so none of them are "used."

This particular postcard comes from the collection that is marked "The Nagoya Tower of Televi," and it is obviously showing off the modern dining facilities in the tower.
You can check the hours of operation here for your visit.
The tower was once destroyed in a Godzilla battle.
Tourist info from Happy Jappy. That's a horrible website name.

Spoonbridge and Cherry - Postcard #2

This classic Minneapolis postcard was sent out to UJ in honor of his enthusiastic response to my blog. Rooster B was kind enough to send UJ's comments to me via email:


so i was visiting [UJ] when he read your blog new years resolutions. i would like to make you aware of his replies.
 
1.  "did it.  i just watched 2 football games on sunday and saw some dam with Mike Roe."  (you know, the guy on dirty jobs tv show)
2.  "i already do."  as he raises his beer and takes a swig.
3.  "i already do."  as he raises his beer and takes a swig.
4.  i can't repeat the words he said.  sounded like the swedish chef on the muppets.
5.  "ha ha ha."
6.  "no meal i make is ever the same."    trust me, its true.  some have so much pepper and old spices in them i can't eat whats on my plate.  his reply when i express my distaste is "just trying to get rid of some of those old spices bud."
7.  "i send multiple cards a day to file 13."
8.  "i don't play with my crap, i just flush it."     (this one was my personal favorite.)
9.  "what the hell is that?"
10. "every day i hike to the kitchen and turn on the faucet."
11. "whats that mean."
12. "barley, hops, yeast."  as he raises his beer and takes a swig.
  
 Clearly UJ is my favorite uncle. He would be yours, too. The best part is that he probably won't look at the postcard I sent him until sometime this fall.

Here's some info on the Spoonbridge and Cherry:
Official page from the Walker.
The Wikipedia entry gives more info about the area.
The artists' take on it.

I promised UJ a photo of me at the sculpture so he could get an idea of the size. This photo was obviously not taken recently, everything is green instead of white.

Chadakoin River - Postcard #1

This one went out to my buddy BP. He's a lucky boy for getting the first postcard of 2011 from the Resolute Rooster.

Here are some interesting links if you'd like to learn more about this mighty water way:
Very brief history of the river
River monster?
It'll take you to the Gulf!