Happy New Year!

"New Years Eve is a special time of year. Remembering the past year and celebrating the beginning of the new year! I love the Great Gatsby paper collection and all the art deco papers. It was perfect for the NEW YEAR!"

The collection is available here:
DIGITAL version:
https://relativelythoughtful.co.uk/products/the-great-gatsby
PAPER Version:
https://relativelythoughtful.co.uk/.../the-great-gatsby-a4

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

MAY 2021 bring new hope!!!

 From my vintage postcard collection!

Happy New Year!

WELCOME 2020!

A few vintage postcards to celebrate the NEW YEAR!

I am sharing this postcard with Postcard Friendship Friday!

Happy New Year with my Black-eyed Pea Recipe

Every New Year's Day I serve black-eyed peas and cornbread.  I load them with ham and my own combination of spices. Below is my recipe for 2018 if you would like to try it. 

Enough Dried black-eye peas to make 4 to 5 cups cooked

1 - large ham steak

2 - strips of bacon

1 - small onion

6-8 - cups of water

1 tsp onion powder

1 tsp garlic powder

1 tsp celery salt

1/2 tsp mustard powder

1/4 tsp of cayenne (optional)

Red onion

Cornbread

Prepare black-eyed peas ahead of time as directed on package. Cook the 2 strips of bacon, then add small onion chopped and a cubed ham steak, cook until the onions are transparent. Add drained cooked black-eyed peas about 4-5 cups. 1 cup of water. Add onion powder, garlic powder, celery salt, mustard powder and cayenne. Simmer 30 minutes... Serve with red onions and cornbread!

ENJOY and may you have Prosperity through the NEW YEAR! 

Happy New Year's Eve!!!

Postmark from Spokane not able to read the date. 

Addressed to an individual staying at the

Navy YMCA in Bremerton, Wash!

 

Postmarked 1909!

From Sophia (town on postmark illegible)

to her sister Margaret living in Illinois Brown County

 

 

I am sharing this postcard with Postcard Friendship Friday!

Note - all postcards shared on Postcard Friendship Friday are from my private collection

Black Eyed Peas for New Years!

Southern Good Luck meal for the New Year.... 

"The traditional meal also includes collard, turnip, or mustard greens, and ham. The peas, since they swell when cooked, symbolize prosperity; the greens symbolize money; the pork, because pigs root forward when foraging, represents positive motion.Cornbread also often accompanies this meal. The cornbread represents gold." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-eyed_pea

Soaking my black eyed peas for tomorrows meal~
 

I know I don't live in the South... Actually I live almost as far away in the US as I can without leaving the 48 contiguous states!  We have had black eyed peas on New Years growing up for as long as I can remember.  I have kept the tradition up over the years in my house!

 

Happy New Year!

May You Have a

 VERY HAPPY & PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 

Mailed to Lacyville, PA - 1909

Mailed Chehalis, WA - 1912