Do Gooders! Postcardy, footnoteMaven, Marie Reed, Thomas MacEntee
For information about A Festival of Postcards and links to past issues go to:
A FESTIVAL OF POSTCARDS – Headquarters
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Blogging is about community – talking and listening to each other, learning and teaching, helping where we can. Today, in the middle of organizing my first Festival of Postcards, I’d like to take a moment to thank everyone for their support – whether in the form of encouraging words, publicity or entries. I’d also like to recognize four bloggers who really typify community building.
The first is Lynne at Postcardy. As you can guess from her blog name, she’s a Postcard Blogger. Lynne’s was one of the first Festival entries and if you scroll down to the foot of her post you”ll notice that she’s turned my Festival title into a logo and she says anyone is free to use it. Lynn doesn’t see what she did as a big deal but for me it is a very big deal because I don’t yet know how to make badges – so thank you very much, Lynn!
Well they say that it never rains, that it pours. A few days later footnoteMaven let me know that she had designed an original Festival logo which she’s also graciously offered to share with all of us! footNoteMaven needs no introduction in the Geneablogging community where she’s well known as the host of the carnival Smile for the Camera! but I would like to encourage Postcard Bloggers who are unfamiliar with her work, to visit her site Shades of the Departed where footnoteMaven blogs about the collection and study of photographs and other topics related to Visual Literacy in general.
Marie Reed, on the other hand, needs no introduction to Postcard Bloggers where she has built up a community of postcard lovers around her weekly Postcard Friendship Friday Although her site isn’t about genealogy, I do encourage Geneabloggers to visit Marie’s blog where she combines postcards, videos and other paper ephemera with historical tidbits, to create a fresh and whimsical blogging style. Believe me – you don’t know quirky till you’ve visited Cpahil Vintage Postcards!
I’ve left Thomas MacEntee for last because without him the Festival of Postcards just wouldn’t be happening. Thomas is the driving force behind GeneaBloggers - a sort of virtual agora where both professional and amateur genealogists and family historians can come together and share their experiences. My blog would not have grown so rapidly in just under five months without the different support structures that Thomas has put into place as well as his unsung behind-the-scenes technical help. In conclusion, I think that Thomas is the glue that helps us all stick together (maybe Krazy Glue but that’s a story for another day!)
For information about A Festival of Postcards and links to past issues go to:
A FESTIVAL OF POSTCARDS – Headquarters
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Thanks for the kind words and the shout out Evelyn – I am always up for marketing our member blogs and their events – especially new events to help them get off the ground!
And if you ask a few of your fellow geneabloggers, they will definitely say it is Krazy Glue not just plain old glue!
Thomas MacEntee
Thanks for the mention. I am looking forward to seeing the Festival of Postcards entries.
I’ve sent my entry in now, Evelyn. Looking forward to attending the full festival. Congratulations on such a good start!
Cool blog you have happening here. Followed the link for Post Card Friday, as a collector and now creater of altered art style post cards, am excited to see what everyone is up to.
Great work you are doing here on the genealogy subject too, eastern Canada is a most wonderful part of the world to call ‘home’.
Thank you for the kind comments. I’ve actually visited your site – and those of many other artists doing of what I think of as “postcard inspired art”. I was thinking of having an article on this in future issues – or maybe even have a monthly section devoted to postcard inspired art. What do you think about this idea? And is there a name for what you do – are they generally called art style post cards?
Evelyn:
Thank you for the lovely promo. This is going to be a unique and tremendously successful carnival.
Two stops at antiques stores on my way home looking for more postcards. Can’t wait to see what’s next.
-fM
You’re lucky you can still find them in antique shops. Here in Montreal almost everyone now sells only online so I get mine from ebay or Playles and I miss being able to look through actual cards. On the other hand there’s a great selection online and it’s amazing where I find some of my best Canadian cards – for example recently I found some in Belgium and Brazil!