Elegant Easter Cards

such a sweet little card with the chick and flowers

love the little sailor suit, but it does seem a bit odd

believe this is an old card from Germany

I hope you enjoy these lovely old Easter cards. They are quite different from those we see today, but I have to say, I do like them better!
Be sweet

Sweet Funny Old Card and Old Gas Stations

looks almost like the single gas station in the little community I grew up in

old gas station - how many remember running boards on cars?

Don't you love the look on this little boy's face and how funny is the message?!

 The card has nothing in common with the old photos, but I think it is just too sweet and cute, I couldn't save it for a later post!
The days when a gas station attendant not only pumped gas, but washed windshields, checked the oil and water and even put air in the tires if they were a bit low are gone forever.  He then took the money inside and brought back any change we were due!! Those days are memories now, good ones I would say.
When I was a teenager (about 100 years ago, it seems) a couple of girlfriends and I would pool our money, buy fifty cents worth of gas and ride all afternoon!
When gas finally went to $1.00 a gallon, most rural pumps and lots in cities only went as high as 99 cents. With no other resolution, the poor owners of the stations set their pumps at 50 cents, then doubled it when you had to pay. Many customers were not at all pleased and were forced to listen unhappily to the reasoning behind it.
Times have certainly changed, I will say and I'm not sure it has all been for the better!!!!!

Be sweet!

Old Ads

1950's Woolworth's menu

old corset ad, not sure of year

I love these old ads, especially the menu.  Can you believe there was a pressed ham sandwich on a menu not all that long ago?  It is fun to see how times have changed, not always for the better!!
Be sweet, as always and treat others as you would like to be treated.

Pink Roses And St. Pat's Images

Dressed up for St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's girl

victorian roses

Today's images are two sweet little St. Patrick's girls and lovely victorian roses. I hope you can find a use for these and that you enjoy them as much as I do. I love the cute little green dresses!
Be sweet, everyone and have a wonderful day!

Vintage Children

Little girl in green dress

vintage children with doll

little cowgirl with goat

These are three of the cutest little images.  They are too sweet!  I love the old fashioned clothing and the look in the eyes of the children in the old photos. They speak to us of another time and another place, a time when life seemed to be led at a slower and simpler pace.
Be sweet and enjoy!

Code Name Insight: How the Oldtimers Survived the Great Depression and Why We May Not Measure Up

Code Name Insight: How the Oldtimers Survived the Great Depression and Why We May Not Measure Up

My Digital Art

My sweet little great grand son, Christian James Wilcox

I couldn't resist posting this digi art piece I put together of my great grand son, Christian!!!  I love playing with my photos and have started long ago making heritage albums for my children, but I keep getting side tracked with those sweet little great grand children's pictures!  They are just too cute and I want to reach right into the computer and pull them out!!
I tell their moms that I play with them all the time on my computer and it is so true.  Try, hard as I might, when I start on the pictures, those little children tug at my heart strings and I have no resistance whatsoever!
I am soon off in another world playing with their photos and making what I think to be works of art.  It is only because they are my own, but ....  it is pretty with Christian placed in the palm of a hand and being looked after by his very own angel!!
Be sweet, all.  Love, peace and blessings!

1901 Images From "A Flower Book"

Snowdrop

Christmas Rose

Winter Jasmine

The artist who created these sweet images is Nellie Benson.  They were published in "A Flower Book" in 1901.  

I love the sweetness and innocence of the little girls and the beauty of the flowers.  They are the perfect size for a note card or a card front.  They are beautiful just as they are and would be so pretty in nostalgic frames strung in a group, one below the other.  

However you decide to use them, I know they will enhance any craft or art.  I have yet to use them in any way except to look at and enjoy, but, with the holidays fast approaching I just know they will turn up on something.  

Have fun and enjoy them!

Be sweet!!!!

Angels And Snowballs

Snowball Fight Christmas Postcard

Winter Scene Christmas Card

Christmas Angels

Here are three more Christmas images for you.  I hope you like them.  My favorite, as you probably already know, is the bottom card, with the angels.  There is just something about angels that I dearly love and don't have a clue if that is what they really look like, nor does anyone else.  It is nice to imagine they do ... and, who knows, they may appear exactly as we depict them in the images. 

Sometimes, when I close my eyes at night, right before I drift off to sleep I imagine a room full of angels, some of them bending over me so close I can almost feel the wings touch my skin.  Then again, is it really my imagination?  I sometimes wonder, but for whatever reason, there is no desire to open my eyes, perhaps for fear it IS imagination, though in my heart  I know for sure it is not.

Always be sweet!!

Vintage Thanksgiving Cards

beautiful old Thanksgiving card

lovely lady Thanksgiving card

Little girl feeding turkey Thanksgiving card

Here are three sweet old Thanksgiving cards.  Aren't they quite different from those available today?  They have such a charm that I don't often see in the modern Thanksgiving card.  I have said it before and I will say it again ... sometimes I think I was just born in the wrong century!!!

Be sweet, may you always walk with angels ... Happy, happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Palaver from Pellie & Genghis Khat: November Atc swap

Palaver from Pellie & Genghis Khat: November Atc swap

November ATC Swap

Hi dear friends!!!  I am a member of  Blissfull ATC Swap, where we are designated swap partners each month and create cards from a particular theme.  This month was artist's choice.  My swap partner this month was Penny Plum of Palaver From Pellie & Genghis Khat.  This is such a lovely, lovely blog and Penny is more talented that I realized!

Beautiful ATC Penny made for me.  The lacey look around the tiny cameo is quilling.  It is so beautiful!
The title is SO fitting: Fantasy in Purple

I am in awe of the ATC I received from her in the mail today!  She made a special card just for me after looking at my blog, Angels In My Garden!!  It is purple and came encased in its own little box!  It is beyond beautiful and I love it, love it, love it!
I am posting the card for you all to see and posting the one I made for her.  It is such fun creating these tiny pieces or art.  I am very new and not as accomplished as I would like to be.  I have only made a few, but it has been very relaxing, peaceful somehow to get caught up in creating something for another!

The ATC I made for Penny, Title: Angel Eyes

Be sweet and I hope you like both the cards.  Perhaps you would like to join in the swap.  All are welcome.  The more, the merrier!!

When There's Nothing To Laugh About, Laugh Anyway!

Dancing Tree!

These two pictures are quite different from what I usually post, but we all need a good laugh now and then!  Doesn't that tree have the most unusual shape you ever saw?  I think it is hilarious!
Also, the poor deer hunter, oblivious to the big buck standing right next to him reminds me of my husband.  He always loved to hunt and fish, but he was a big sports fan as well.  I remember once he took a battery radio with him to the deer woods, where he sat quietly in his deer stand, radio volume turned ever so low and went fast asleep!!!  It was just too funny when he came home, sheepishly recounting his afternoon of "being one with nature".  He didn't even know who had won the game!
Be sweet and may angels walk by your side!  We are all connected in more ways than we know!!!

Free Angel Images For Your Art Projects

Tiny Christmas angels

Baby angels with doves

Little boy angel with birds

Hi sweet friends!!  Here are 3 more sweet little angel images for you to play with.  I hope you find a good home for these lovely old images.  They are darling and would enhance any art project I can think of!!!  Enjoy.
Be sweet and angels will walk beside you!!!

"Back In The Day" Vintage Ad Freebies

A little different from today's "personal" ads 

Anyone remember these prices?

With Thanksgiving approaching, this old ad is quite appropriate!

I have 3 old ads from "back in the day" for you!  Don't you just love looking at all the old magazine articles, newspapers, etc. and marvel at how different we live today?  True, it is so much more convenient, but gone are the days when mom was at home wiping her hands on an apron waiting for the kiddies to hurry home from  school, hurrying to gobble up the homemade snack they knew would be waiting on them.  I absolutely loved that time in my life.  It was the happiest I ever knew.  I DID wear an apron, make 3 meals a day from scratch.

My children's school had a Halloween Carnival with a supper in the old cafeteria included in the festivities.  Every year I prepared a huge pan of baked beans for the occasion.  I always remarked that I wondered how many beans I would have to bake to get all my kids through school!  Oh, the joy, the pride I felt!!!

As the holidays draw near, be sweet and may you always walk among angels!

TheSouthernJackAss: The Forgotten Days ...

TheSouthernJackAss: The Forgotten Days ...

A Trio Of Adorable Angel Images

Little angels with baby Jesus

Angel guarding children

Christmas Hymns

I have for you today 3 of the sweetest angel images .  They are such a joy to look at, the tiny angels overlooking baby Jesus in His manger, a couple of little lovelies singing hymns and the Guardian Angel with the little boy and girl are absolutely beautiful.  I have seen some gorgeous work on other blogs lately using graphics in various ways and I love what they are doing!!!  I hope you find these useful in your craft and art work.  If you use these please send a picture.  I would love to see it and post it for all to see.  Thanks to those of you who have become followers.  You are the reason I do this, I feel it is a shame to keep such glorious old images under wraps.  They should be shared freely with all.
Be sweet and may you always walk with angels!

Vintage Graphics, Thanksgiving and Christmas



Old Christmas Card



Vintage Winter Card

Thanksgiving Greetings

Here are 3 lovely old cards, two Christmas and the last, a Thanksgiving.  I love the sweet little girl in the first Christmas image.  I hope you enjoy these and can use them in your crafting or art projects.  Enjoy!!!

Be sweet as always and may you walk among angels!!! 

Halloween Cards

Halloween Fairies And Goblins

Jack O'Lantern Fun

Cute Little Pumpkin Boy

It is almost too late to post these cute Halloween cards, but I had honestly forgotten that I had not put them on the blog yet!!!  So I hope you all enjoy them and maybe it won't be too late for me to wish you a happy Halloween and have a grand weekend!!!  Don't eat too much candy!
Be sweet and may you always walk with angels.

Angels For Every Season

perfect for Christmas cards

Victorian Angels

Adorable Christmas Angels

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You just can't go wrong with angels!!  They are so perfect for cards, boxes, they are beautiful in a collage or can be decoupaged on baby furniture or the Christmas angels are lovely on tins, gifts of home made candy and cookies wrapped in colorful paper and with a homemade tag  displaying a sweet image of an angel!!  I never tire of these pictures of angels and have so many I want to share with you.  You are free to use them in any way you please.  They are here to enjoy, not put limits on them and I believe something so beautiful belongs to us all.  

Free Digital Image - Believe In Yourself

This is a digital image I just created and decided it was so pretty I wanted to share it with you as a freebie!  I truly love playing around with pictures and wish I could devote more time to it.  You may use it any way you wish.  All I ask is credit for the image and do not share, but send them here to download.  I hope you like it.
Be sweet!!!

Pink Pretties And A Beauty With Yellow Flowers

Lady with yellow flowers

A Doll For Christmas

Girl With Pink Roses

I believe this is an old Humphrey print

Today I am sharing four of the sweetest images  ... from a lady surrounded by yellow blossoms to a beautiful old Humphrey print.  They are each pretty and unique graphics, free and perfect for craft projects.  I haven't learned to transfer them to fabric yet, but I have seen some adorable little pillows, even coverlets, made using such prints as these.  I am sure it is easy to do.  I saw one decorated with a print that had been transferred to fabric, then pearls surrounded the image and silk flowers (or they may have been fabric) flowers decorated the rest.  It was just beautiful.  I know they are so pretty used in decorating a box or any kind of collaged object as that is mostly what I love to do.  Some of the finished items absolutely look like heirlooms.  They are SO pretty.  I especially love to decorate and craft with angel graphics and those of cute little children.  Whatever you decide to do with them is up to you!  I just hope you are happy with them and like them as much as I do.

Be sweet as always!!!