{"id":1269,"date":"2026-04-02T20:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madmother.ca\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2026-04-04T20:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:45:20","slug":"making-vintage-cards-with-real-antique-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madmother.ca\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/making-vintage-cards-with-real-antique-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Making vintage cards (with antique stories)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My artwork, whatever the medium, is inspired by memories, history, and family (and often my sense of humour). I see connections and follow threads, pulling on some when it strikes me. The art is what happens when I begin to tie those threads together. With &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/madmother.ca\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/so-what-the-heck-is-all-this-edith-business-anyway\">Edith Died Laughing<\/a>&#8221; and the vintage cards, I was inspired and took some liberties, believing with all my heart that they&#8217;d be Edith approved. This card from the series features a photo from one of Edith&#8217;s albums &#8211; a road trip gone awry in 1918. (Technically that makes all this antique, not vintage, but I digress).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"background-color:#9d8f77\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"background-color:#9d8f77;flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Fuckballs.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"732\" src=\"https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Fuckballs-1024x732.png\" alt=\"Edith, Jessie, others, on a road trip. Girls not waiting for help...\" class=\"wp-image-1273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Fuckballs-1024x732.png 1024w, https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Fuckballs-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Fuckballs-768x549.png 768w, https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Fuckballs-1536x1098.png 1536w, https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Fuckballs-2048x1464.png 2048w, https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Fuckballs-1x1.png 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"background-color:#9d8f77;flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cardback-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"745\" height=\"659\" src=\"https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cardback-1.png\" alt=\"From the card back: Edith Died Laughing, the paper doll project\" class=\"wp-image-1274\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.1305401441234615;width:223px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cardback-1.png 745w, https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cardback-1-300x265.png 300w, https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cardback-1-1x1.png 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\"><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Edith&#8217;s sister, my Great Aunt Jessie McLachlin, was well known for her abilities, and her attitude. She left a legacy of images and stories; whether travelling the world, out in the bush with a gun, or driving her own car.  She drove an ambulance overseas in WW1 so was fairly confident driving under any circumstances. I grew up hearing stories about her (I was only 2 when she died) and by the time I was 12, I&#8217;d decided to name a child after her (and I did).  This newspaper clipping containing one of those stories is from a Centennial supplement to the Arnprior Guide, July 1967.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center has-background\" style=\"background-color:#9d8f77;grid-template-columns:30% auto\" id=\"Jessie's-Car-Story-1\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"712\" height=\"975\" src=\"https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Jessie-motorist-1.png\" alt=\"newspaper clipping Arnprior Guide June 1967 featuring a story about Jessie McLachlin\" class=\"wp-image-1275 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Jessie-motorist-1.png 712w, https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Jessie-motorist-1-219x300.png 219w, https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Jessie-motorist-1-1x1.png 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-b6d047b267f3d4e6bb06942368368c3b\"><em>&#8230;Jessie was an expert motorist before the war. An Interesting article appeared about her in a magazine:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-14c43c3b4c755787b20d4900bf22b78f\"><em>&#8220;Miss Jessie McLachlin of Ottawa, was an expert motorist before the war inspired women to undertake this particular kind of work. One of her friends, a motorist of some pretensions, tells of taking a drive wih her along the roads surrounding her country home, &#8220;something went wrong,&#8221; said he, &#8220;but before I had time to think what it was, she had hopped out and was lying under the car, tinkering with it as deftly as I could have done. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile has-background\" style=\"background-color:#9d8f77;grid-template-columns:30% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"712\" height=\"975\" src=\"https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Jessie-motorist-2.png\" alt=\"newspaper clipping Arnprior Guide June 1967 featuring a story about Jessie McLachlin\" class=\"wp-image-1276 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Jessie-motorist-2.png 712w, https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Jessie-motorist-2-219x300.png 219w, https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Jessie-motorist-2-1x1.png 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-7b4141726938bc0672cc4cdae9547de1\" id=\"Jessie-car-story-2\"><em>I settled myself back on the seat and took out a cigarette, &#8216;You are the sort of girl to go motoring with, I told her, &#8216;When you get tired, sing out and I&#8217;ll have a try.&#8221;&nbsp; But she fixed the break without assistance from me, and much more quickly than I could have done, That was a jolly ride, all right&#8221;<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>That seems like a lot of thought going into one vintage-look card with a photo and a bad word, I know. (Actually, it&#8217;s been produced with two different bad words. Based on highly scientific and peer reviewed studies, I determined that these two words were the ones most frequently used by the sweary women in my frame shop). There <em>is<\/em> a reason for every element.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything we do, everything we are, begins with all that came before. Memories, history, and family, and some colourful language &#8211; all sewn up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>That newspaper clips are from and article in a supplement &#8211; <strong>Face of Arnprior <\/strong>&#8211;  to a June 1967 issue of the Arnprior Guide. You can see\/download a copy of the complete supplement <a href=\"https:\/\/search.adarchives.org\/en\/permalink\/the-arnprior-guide-1967-06\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> at the Arnprior &amp; McNab\/Braeside Archives).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Jessie-motorist-3.png\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"727\" data-id=\"1277\" src=\"https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Jessie-motorist-3-1024x727.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Jessie-motorist-3-1024x727.png 1024w, https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Jessie-motorist-3-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Jessie-motorist-3-768x546.png 768w, https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Jessie-motorist-3-1x1.png 1w, https:\/\/madmother.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Jessie-motorist-3.png 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My artwork, whatever the medium, is inspired by memories, history, and family (and often my sense of humour). I see connections and follow threads, pulling on some when it strikes me. The art is what happens when I begin to tie those threads together. With &#8220;Edith Died Laughing&#8221; and the vintage cards, I was inspired and took some liberties, believing with all my heart that they&#8217;d be Edith approved. This card from the series features a photo from one of Edith&#8217;s albums &#8211; a road trip gone awry in 1918. (Technically that makes all this antique, not vintage, but I digress). Edith&#8217;s sister, my Great Aunt Jessie McLachlin, was well known for her abilities, and her attitude. She left a legacy of images and stories; whether travelling the world, out in the bush with a gun, or driving her own car. She drove an ambulance overseas in WW1 so was fairly confident driving under any circumstances. I grew up hearing stories about her (I was only 2 when she died) and by the time I was 12, I&#8217;d decided to name a child after her (and I did). This newspaper clipping containing one of those stories is from a Centennial supplement to the Arnprior Guide, July 1967. &#8230;Jessie was an expert motorist before the war. An Interesting article appeared about her in a magazine: &#8220;Miss Jessie McLachlin of Ottawa, was an expert motorist before the war inspired women to undertake this particular kind of work. One of her friends, a motorist of some pretensions, tells of taking a drive wih her along the roads surrounding her country home, &#8220;something went wrong,&#8221; said he, &#8220;but before I had time to think what it was, she had hopped out and was lying under the car, tinkering with it as deftly as I could have done. I settled myself back on the seat and took out a cigarette, &#8216;You are the sort of girl to go motoring with, I told her, &#8216;When you get tired, sing out and I&#8217;ll have a try.&#8221;&nbsp; But she fixed the break without assistance from me, and much more quickly than I could have done, That was a jolly ride, all right&#8221; That seems like a lot of thought going into one vintage-look card with a photo and a bad word, I know. (Actually, it&#8217;s been produced with two different bad words. Based on highly scientific and peer reviewed studies, I determined that these two words were the ones most frequently used by the sweary women in my frame shop). There is a reason for every element. Everything we do, everything we are, begins with all that came before. Memories, history, and family, and some colourful language &#8211; all sewn up. That newspaper clips are from and article in a supplement &#8211; Face of Arnprior &#8211; to a June 1967 issue of the Arnprior Guide. You can see\/download a copy of the complete supplement here at the Arnprior &amp; McNab\/Braeside Archives).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"80","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Wherein the mad mother puts bad words on some old family photos to make some vintage photo cards - an ode to Great Aunt Jessie","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Yep, between drawing gigs, so digging into the Edith works","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,79,46,1],"tags":[37,81,16],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-edith-died-laughing","category-thoughts","category-uncategorized","tag-memory","tag-multimedia","tag-photography"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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