A Canadian Family

The Janice Brown Puckerbrush Blog Award for Excellence 1.Postcardy Lynne

In a previous post I had mentioned that blogger Linda Hughes Hiser of Flipside had granted me The Janice Puckerbrush Blog Award for Excellence. This award gives bloggers a way to recognize fellow bloggers who have influenced them in some way.

Today I am nominating Postcardy Lynne for the Puckerbrush Blog Award. I’ve been reading Lynne’s blog since last February when I was new to blogging, and it was the first example I’d seen of someone blogging about postcards in such an informative and creative way (though of course I’ve discovered many more since then!).

Lynne is not a genea-blogger – her focus is on postcards, postcards, and more postcards! However, as a geneablogger who’s interested in using postcards to enrich my own family history work, I find I’ve learned a lot by examining her analysis and description of postcards. Here are some samples of her work.

1956 Chevrolet Station Wagon

Postcard Friendship Friday – Smoking Salmon

Presidential Message from Theodore Roosevelt

Something else I appreciate about Postcardy Lynne is that she’s a community builder. In addition to taking part in the Festival of Postcards Blog Carnival, and memes such as Postcard Friendly Friday and Vintage Thursdays, Postcardy has organized her own monthly Postcardy Scavenger Hunt. The collections to date have been: Handicrafts, Fish, Spring, Dogs.

Since the Puckerbrush is a blog award I’ve been focusing on Lynne’s blog, but  actually Postcardy is really a series of sites that you can reach by clicking on links in the blog’s sidebar. I’d like to draw your attention to http://www.postcardy.com/ where she’s written – or republished – an impressive series of articles and posted many absolutely gorgeous postcards. You’ll notice that all these sites look quite professional and that might be because Lynne is actually L F Appel, professional designer. You can find out more about that at her sites Brown Cat Design (web design etc.) and Zazzle which features various products based on vintage postcard designs.

Those of us who want to learn more about postcards, or more about blogging about postcards, are lucky to have Postcardy Lynne as a resource.

July 7, 2009 - Posted by Evelyn Yvonne Theriault | . | Janice Brown Puckerbrush Blog Award for Excellence, postcard, postcards