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Heritage page for my grandfather and the farm. He had free range chickens, cattle, pecan grooves...etc. He bartered alot during the depressionand WWII. Grandma kept the chicken-feed sacks after banging them against the trees to remove the remaining feed. They had cute calico prints on the cotton bags. During WWII, rationing everything for the war effort meant that these sacks are what was used to make their clothing. We still have alot of these sweet sacks...they are prized by us and by quilters everywhere.
I distressed the bg wood paper and painted a semiwashed out "EGGS 5 cents" on it. I made my own chicken plaque by printing a retro chicken off the computer and lighly tinting it. I glued it onto the reddish wood (after I had already distressed it). Once the glue dried, I bent the paper over the chicken to continue w/ the wood grain to make it look like it had been painted on the wood many years ago. I backed the plaque w/ chipboard from reams of paper leftover from work. I sanded the brads, added my twine from a hardware store and adhered it to the lo w/ double stick foam tape. I added feathers, distressed/tattered burlap paper, a scrap of paper that has the approximate date of pic on it ( grandpa kept very good records), and an antiquated pic of more chickens(computer). Pure country living...no foo-foo for grandpa's sake.
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