Welcome back to another blog train!
Lori always seems to find themes that really pique my interest, and this month is no different.
You wouldn't know it to look at me now...all suburbia living in a college town, enjoying pizza delivery and having a grocery store less than five minutes away...but I grew up as a farm girl. I played in the hay loft, gathered eggs from chickens (while dodging the mean rooster), bottle fed calves, swam in a pond in the back yard, ground corn for the cows. I'm the only person my age I know who had water trucked in and dumped into a well, remembers a hand pump at the kitchen sink, had bath water heated on the stove, took baths in a washtub sitting in the middle of the kitchen, and actually used an outhouse on a regular basis. (We finally installed a water heater and running water and built a bathroom in the corner of the basement when I was about 10.) Later, when I was in high school and we lived on a different farm, my dad switched from raising cows to raising turkeys, so I learned all the steps involved in THAT process.
I won't say I loved it, but it was a solid way to be raised and it was good to know how to work.
Now, here's the funny part.
Lori (who organizes this train) paired "farm" with "fair." She didn't realize she had a county fair queen in her group of designers, I'm betting. 🤣🤣🤣
Sadly, all the pictures of me AS queen (with the tiara and sash and all that) were mostly in the newspaper. The few prints I got were black and white (and overexposed) and are buried in a tote full of pictures in my closet. But this was the "contestant portrait" that all of us girls had taken beforehand. And just so you know...it's not all glamourous. Not when you have prize-winning pigs trying to sniff up your skirt or have to wear a fireman's coat when you're sitting on stage in the middle of the muddy demolition derby arena. (But the free elephant ears were definitely a perk!)
So yeah...farms and fairs. You're pretty much talking about my life up to the time I left home for college.
That's why I was so excited to create this word art for "Farm & Fair" month!
Sugarbutt Designs
Songbird Scraps Designs
Rush Ranch
KJDdesigns
Promethean Concepts
AnnieCDigitals
Skinni’s Scraps and Stuff
DigiScrap Angelhaze
Nellie Bell
LEA Art Designs
DigiJen Scraps <-- You Are Here
Moore Blessings Digital Design
Hope you enjoy what we've put together for you this month. See you back soon for the next blog train. (And I have ideas like crazy...one of these days I'll have time to create some non-train bits for you.)
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DigiJen Scraps Word Art
Hugs,
Thank you so much for these beautiful graphics.😍 😍 😍
ReplyDeleteThanks, this is a great theme!
ReplyDeleteLove the story, now I can say I know royalty ;)
ReplyDeleteThat may be stretching it, but thanks for the visual. :D
DeleteJenni, nothing like memories to inspire you!! We just had our 42nd fair together, my hubby and I. These are wonderful, thank you! Fair queens are the best!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the story, it takes me back to my days on the farm. We had indoor plumbing with the old outhouse as back up. With 7 people in a one bathroom house, the outhouse was put in use on many occasions. In summers, we headed down to the river with a bar of ivory soap after a day in the fields or the 2 acre garden. Ah, memories!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your wonderful contribution to the train.i can picture a few layouts with it now!
Thank you for the beautiful Word Art!
ReplyDeleteBe happy that you got to experience that for you were given a fuller life then most and far more interesting tales to tell. Life always gives us difficult lessons to learn and you'll be stronger for it. I wish everyone could have experienced that.. .they would be more grateful for what they have. Thank you for your gift...God bless
ReplyDeleteLove your story! Thank you for these authentic thoughts word arts! Loving this theme!
ReplyDeleteAwesome gift, thanks a lot from one transplanted farm girl to another, appreciate your generous heart!
ReplyDeleteWhat wonderful childhood memories you have to share with your children!! Thank you for sharing the lovely word art!
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