winter solstice is what I am seeing today. Yesterday it was small figurines, snowflakes and a blue background.

Carved with magic!!

Lots of light, the highest magnification you can work with (I have a pair of 7X readers), very sharp tiny tools. My gouge is a miniaturized #1 Staedtler but any gouge that would be considered 0.5 or a 0. Most of my detailed images were carved with a #11 Xacto blade. I only the large gouge for cleanup.

Not really. AQ doesn't know which boxes are available "only" at an event, so it has no way to remove those from the search results.

I'm not sure how you set up your widget, but if you edit it to only show boxes near your location, you can eliminate pretty much all boxes that aren't actually near you. If the event happens to be in your proverbial backyard, those will still show up--but you can also go out and look for them! =)

-- Ryan

They're both winter themes, with two different artists who decorated the banner. AQ just switches between them each day for more variety.

-- Ryan

Happy Cake Day, friend!

Happy Cake Day, LF!!

thanks, I couldn't find this image in the theme pages.

But if they are only available at an event, and the event is in the past, why are they showing up as active? Ok, now I see that I can ignore each of them and they will disappear!

I just posted this question to the FB group, lol! Following all of these answers. I'm only on my 3rd carve and I am in awe of everyone's ability to get the really tiny, fine lines and, what seems to be, microscopic details in exactly the right places. Magnifier, reading glasses, carve, carve, carve...got it!

Happiest of cake days to you, LF! May you have many more!

Happy cake day LF!

It would be nice if I could add a “retire” date to a listing and set that retire date (automatically?) for a few days after the event.

Because whoever planted them for the event only has never taken the time to go back to the listing and retire them. It’s been an ongoing issue for years.

One thing you can do if you want them not included in a search is to do an advanced search and hide boxes with no clues listed. That will get rid of most of them.

love your sigi stamp!

welcome to letterboxing and AQ.

condo

Indeed, Happy Cake Day 🎂 to you Little Foot. Have a great day ;-)

Also, great light and SHARP tools.
Your Medusa is great!!

What?
How?
Where?
I would love to know how y'all emboss your stuff, where to buy and what to do.
Please... HELP. LOL

I work with a contracted courier thru usps and they are supposed to pick up on Saturdays. Ours pick up around 6pm. I believe there is a way to find out if they reported picking up from your PO or not. If they reported they did, they are just being VERY lazy and trying to get off work early. Amazon did that to us last year and it was a big deal ☆

Watch YouTube videos. Guaranteed you’ll go down an embossing rabbit hole!
Don’t get overwhelmed . Start small and simple. Get a wet black ink. I like versifine. And a clear embossing powder. I like Ranger superfine clear embossing powder. Super fine is very helpful because if your stamp has small details, this will work great. You will need an embossing gun (Amazon has good inexpensive ones).

Thank you for the compliment!

Thank you! She gets 2 shades of green ink for the logbooks, looks much better that way.

If you aren't talking about embossing powder, you can manually emboss. This site was helpful!
https://www.lettering-daily.com/dry-embossing-lettering/

I watched a whole lot of videos on YouTube and instead of using a heat gun(I tend to burn a lot of projects) I've been using a Dash Mini Griddle. It heats both top and bottom evenly and never burns. The one I have is square and just big enough to put a regular sized ltc in it. This was a game changer for me.

Are you talking about Dash Mini Waffle Griddle?

I created a tag "not a trail find" for apparent event boxes. Then I run area searches and "hide these tagged boxes." It helps me.

When the owner gets around to making them unavailable or retires them, I have another search that that shows me tagged boxes that I have marked as event-only boxes, that are no longer active. Then I remove the tags.

I hope this makes sense.

You should learn how to sharpen your own tools. That is the best way to keep them sharp.

Not a waffle griddle....it needs to be flat inside. Google Dash Mini Maker Griddle @ Target for $12.00 or Mymini Griddle, pancake, Red at Walmart for $8.98.

Oh! OK. Thanks!

I hope I can explain this adequately--I have noticed the issue before but never was able to recognize it well enough to attempt to describe

When I run a search with the following parameters:
Ohio (15 mi)
Sort by last found date
Active Unknown
Indoor, driveby, walk
Hide my finds, plants, attempts
Hide finds and plants of RavenontheRoad
Run search

I obviously get many pages of results. I then check all on page 1 to add a tag. After I add the tag, the search result then shows me boxes that do not meet my parameters (for example, hikes)

My goal is to add tags to all boxes found within a certain time period. Having to reset the parameters is a bit frustrating

Hmm.... This is a uniquely difficult bug for me to fix. I've been looking at it for a couple of hours, and when I tweak the code to fix it, it ends up breaking other stuff (which is much more important and common!)

I'm going to bookmark this post and think about it some more, but in the meantime, there is a hack that will allow you to avoid resetting all of the parameters. Highlight the URL and hit the Enter key. Don't use the "refresh" button--that will try to re-post the form that you submitted before and it's the posted form that is causing the problem. But clicking directly on the URL and hitting the Enter key, it'll reload that page based purely on the URL (which is correct) and the submitted form items won't cause problems anymore.

It's a total hack and not ideal, but still an improvement over resetting all of the parameters manually every time. At least until I can think of a better solution....

-- Ryan