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Postcard swapping….

A is for Apricot

One of the reasons I’ve been walkabout so long is that I was part of another Postmark’d Art postcard swap.  I had thought that due to the move and the general chaos that I would be really late, and thankfully the group said that’s OK…just get them eventually done.  Luckily, I was only about a week late.  This time I was in three groups swapping with five other women.  The themes I chose to participate in this time were  Fruit, Bridges and Buttons.  So the one above is obviously Fruit.  I’ll try to take photos in few weeks of the cards I received and share those, too.

My second effort was B is for Button, and I made a “button band” like on the front of a tailored shirt, then sewed the buttons to that.  All the buttons came from my stash, and one postcard (the one I kept…sorry ladies!) had vintage buttons from Mama’s button box.

B is for button

I wanted to continue the  “A is For, B is for” series with my bridges card, but B  was already taken.  And I wanted to do a picture of the stunningly lovely Penobscot Narrows bridge (click on the hotlink to see the Wikipedia article).  It is between Prospect and Verona Island (in the middle of the Penobscot River, with Bucksport on the north side), and is so completely unexpected in this relatively remote stretch of road.  It is Route 1, the old Atlantic Coast Highway, that runs north-south on the East Coast of the US (what folks used before the interstate  highway system), but it is still  pretty far out of the way…maybe  3 1/2 hours north of Portland, Maine, and 4 or so hours south of Canada.  But P for Penobscot or N for the Narrows seemed to be stretching things a bit, so I decided to let that idea go and keep it simple.

The quilting says Penobscot Narrows Bridge, Prospect, Maine.

One Response to “Postcard swapping….”

  1. Lex Says:

    Love the postcards!