A wood engraving for relief printing sounds interesting! I can't recommend a specific species of wood, but don't use pine, choose something more stable. Tight grain hardwood perhaps? Be sure to use the best quality weather proof container you can get. Sounds like a fun project :)

The invasion has been cancelled because of lack of interest.

What you are seeing are mostly teasers. These are adolescents who recently got their saucer license who like playing pranks on less-advanced civilizations. They find people in out-of-the-way places, put on a little show, then take off. These shows are mostly harmless.

What you want to avoid are the game wardens who bag, tag and do medical tests; often uncomfortable.

I can’t answer your question, but I love your name and sig stamp!! That’s one of my favorite birds!

Hi! I am new to this! My daughter is in Girl Scouts. She is a junior. She will be teaching the brownie group about letterboxing to earn her junior aide award. Tonight, we are going to Charlie Elliott to look for a few boxes and set out our own letterbox. Wish us luck. I will post the boxes location and clue later this evening.

EDIT: We had fun. We looked for 4 boxes; found 2, 1 was missing (notified hider), and hid our box. It is named Dove Pond located in Mansfield, GA.

We're down here and will be at the event on Saturday at 10 am. I have a small crate with me of the salvaged Stampeaz supplies. We will probably not be at the dinner that night, so reach out that morning.

Welcome to Letterboxing!!! I absolutely love everything about this hobby and, so far, every letterboxer I have met in person at recent events have been really sweet, awesome people.

If you have ANY questions about anything, there are a TON of us on here that will answer you to the best of our abilities. :-)

And congratulations on your first plant! That's so exciting.

Thanks you, those are good thoughts. I hadn't considered that second one.

Something more like cherry, then?
As for containers, I like to use the "baby snake method" when choosing them, and it seems to work well. The trick is to look at the edges of the box and ask yourself "if I were a baby snake, could I fit between the lid and the rim?" if the answer is yes, don't use that box.

Thank you! I also enjoy them.

I love your sig stamp ! :^)

I see online that it’s best to use oil based ink though.

That would be true if this was intended for printmaking. The difference is simply in purpose: oil based ink lasts longer, and is water resistant, so you can re-dampen paper even after it has been printed on. But this is meant as just a letterbox stamp, so the ink shouldn't be a concern.

Speak for yourself. I hear that over in the Andromeda Galaxy they are gearing up!
😉

We too want to hear about it. We are going later this year - let us know about the "must do" spots!

Thank you!

Day 1 took us to Duck's Pool. Day 2 was a lovely "charity walk" (the Dartmoor equivalent to a "series" along a loop, though still with the classic triangulation cluing) near Pew Tor. And tomorrow, I'm heading out with Rat Boy (who some of you may know from his lovely YouTube channel) to visit Fur Tor and hopefully also Cranmere Pool. And then The Meet is on Sunday!

It's been an enjoyable and enlightening experience so far. Lots of trekking through The Bog of Eternal Squelch and trying to figure out which tiny far-off rock formation is which. I'll have many more reflections and tips soon!

For those on Instagram, I'll also be posting regular updates @enigmida.

Thx for the tip, gemini girl. I remember having found some as you've described. I just picked up some magnetic tins - gray - to camouflage with library shelves. . .

So, it's been almost a year since we talked about a little meet-up. Is anyone interested in resurrecting Box ON?

I could host. I was thinking of Gage Park in Hamilton one weekend afternoon in the summer.

I've found some that use velcro too but in super quiet libraries, velcro is "noisy"

I would honestly not worry about it. There are only a few locals and most of us don't box in the winter since, honestly, we don't have to as we are here all year.

99% of your visitors will be folks up here in the summer, so being winter friendly is not important.

SMP is advertising 2 annual passes for 50$ or one for 30$ right now. If it works like last year you can buy them online and bring the papper work to the park anytime in the next 12 months. Normally a day pass is 20 dollars and an anual pass is 40 dollars so this is a pretty good deal if you have a trip planned anytime in the next year.

While the park is famous (or infamous) for ridiculously diffcult photo clues there are lots of traditional boxes and more coming soon.

Always game! Where are you coming to in FL?

Bungalow Boxer
(Clermont, FL)

OMG, Rat Boy?!?! Let him know he has American fans!!

I was wondering if anyone that makes their logbooks has tried the perfect binding method? I really like how the book make in this video looks, but was wondering about functionality on the trails?

It would drive my nuts if I was constantly fighting my book to be open when stamping, or if my book was fighting me to stay open when I want it closed. Currently, I make my logbooks using two cut-down vinyl records and a coptic stich, so I appreciate the flatness of the pages when laying my book on a bench or table to stamp on, as well as the sturdiness of the plastic cover, but I am also getting bored with all my logbooks looking the same over the past few years and want to try something different.

Thoughts?

Yay! Orlando, maybe Miami, St. Augustine, towards the Gulf of Mexico side for distilleries, Keys maybe. What kind of stamp would you like?

Also called The Hierophant, this Card symbolizes tradition, spiritual guidance, and religious beliefs.

Will you seek?

Also called The Hierophant, this Card symbolizes tradition, spiritual guidance, and religious beliefs.

Will you seek?

Thanx for the heads up on those passes, Quarry! Ours expired in November.

Hi there!
Its been a million years since I posted so 👋 One of Colorado's most notorious (infamous? nafarious?) letterboxers - Holly - a.k.a. Preboxed, passed away back in 2009 and I was the lucky recipient of all of her stamp making supplies, tools, and retired stamps.

I would love to connect with someone local to pass this stuff along:
* 5 speedball carving tools
* New and used rubber *even some of the awesome old speedball PINK speedycarve 😲
* and too many to count carved stamps (retired event stamps, retired hitchhikers) all worthy of coming out of retirement in the right box.

Drop me a message if you want this. Winner takes the whole lot. I'm in Boulder/Longmont if that helps. Shipping could be arranged if someone is that excited.

Hate for these wonderful things to gather any more dust.
Kat - a.k.a. AutumnsFolly

I will drive to you to get anything you want to give me. I’m sitting with Gypsy Fiddler. I’m excited!