Down on the Farm Again

 Hi everyone. Happy Friday. 

Here in the US this is the start of the long Labor Day weekend which means we are at the end of the summer "season". I am hoping the actual seasonal summer ends with some dry, sunny and cooler weather this month so I can get back into gardening and regular walking.  I used to love summer heat but in the last few years I have been craving  crisper and cooler temperatures. Perhaps summers weren't so tropical in the past (thanks to the  changing climate), or perhaps now that I am  vintage (like my art today) my tolerance for heat has changed? Smile.

I'm excited my daughter will be here for the long weekend also as her beau is off visiting a friend. It will be good to have her home for a few days. I've no big plans otherwise, but I am sure, as summer is starting to wind down, my husband will want to get a boating day in  as that season starts to wind down also.

I'm back today with another page for Wendy's VINTAGE challenge at Art Journal Journey. I have one more down on the farm/gardening collage to share from a set I made earlier this summer.

 I am starting to love these burlap backgrounds. They do give a vintage background without doing anything to them. On this page I attached some vintage gardening ribbon, an old photo, and some vintage stamps. These stamps aren't for postage but would be given to someone as they bought food and other things at the grocery store. Once they had enough stamps they could cash them in for other items. These types of stamps were all the rage in the 1950's and 1960's. King Korn was one of these stamps, and S&H Green Stamps was another.

I also used a burlap tag on my page that I did some random stitching on. To finish my page I added a bit of cloth ric-rac trim, this paper sunflower sticker, and a few TH word stickers to create my quote.

I hope this lady in the photo has had a great year with her garden.

My veggie garden has been hit and miss this summer. Tomatoes and peppers have flourished, but zucchini not so much. It seems like zucchini grows just about in any weather in everyone's garden, but sadly, not mine.  Yet I must say the flower gardens have been very very happy. 

Since my page today once again has a farm theme, let me take you back one last time to the Sunflower Festival. The farm where the festival was going on  also had a few draft horses to greet guests as they arrived. One of them followed me down the fence a way as I walked towards the entrance. Maybe it wasn't me but he just wanted his photo taken. If my dog Maddie can be a photo-hog,  I guess a horse can be one too.

 My neighbor used to have 3 draft horses that were used to pull lumber out of the woods, and when my daughter was little we could visit them. They always made me feel so small, but they were definitely always receptive to some attention too. 

These guys, well especially the one who liked me talking to him, were so handsome I had show them to you.

Hope the new month is treating you well!