Nothing on Black Friday

Every year my father and I go shopping on Black Friday. This year I was on the search for some letterboxing supplies that might be on sale. We got up at 5am and we were off to Staples. I was looking for some little blank books that I have gotten there for log books along with some boxes. I did not find any. I did, however, find pink stuff. Well that's what I thought at first. It was really just a clip board.

 

The only thing I ended up getting there was a reciete book for the craft show next weekend.

We then went to Radio Shack and then to Star Bucks. I got a hot chocolate. We were waiting for Micheal's to open at 7am and we had about 30 minuets till so we waited at the coffee shoppe. I waited forever for my hot chocolate to become warm since I don't like hot drinks. I was a bit hungry so I pulled out half of a little loaf of bread from my bag. My dad game me the weirdest look. It was left over from Thanksgiving. I like bread....

At Micheal's I didn;t find anything on sale that I could use for making boxes or anything. I couldn't remember what all I needed for my LTCs but I was looking at a heat gun for embossing. I didn;t find one nor was anything embossing related on sale. Nothing of Tim Holtz was on sale either and I did print out any coupons. Now the Micheal's I normally shop at doesn't have any carving material or any sort of speedball stuff. But... at this Micheal's... they had pink stuff! They had a 6x12 sheet!

I have been going up to Hobby Lobby to get a small sheet of pink stuff. I didn't get any even though I really wanted to. I ended up getting jewelery bags for the craft show.

After that we went to Best Buy and Tractor Supply and went home. Latter that day I went out with my aunt. Our first stop was at Pack Rat Comics. I walked in and started looking around. When the owner came up stares and I turned around he said, "You have a hitchhicker!" "What?" I replied confused. "You have a hitchhicker!" "Oh, yeah! They told me online." He handed me the hitchhiker and I looked at it then put it back explaining that it stayed there. 

The rest of the day was rather unproductive in the letterboxing world. I ended up just getting Christmas and business related stuff.

 

So I mentioned a craft show a few time. Next weekend Tyrus and I are selling hand made duct tape and recycled products. Our little business is called R3 art. If anyone lived in the West Jeff area here in Columbus, Ohio, feel free to stop buy our booth at the West Jeff High School on December 1st, 9-2. If any letterboxer brings their sig stamp to do an exchange they will get 10% off their purchase if they choose to buy!

 

- Catchow 

 



Oh Those Memes....

Ok, yes. I just had to do this :P
After planting a box series about memes I just had to start doing these. They just, like, hit me in the face with the awesome ideas of which appear below. Tell me what you think. Maybe I'll make a new blog just to post these photos. Because that are so stinkin' awesome. :P

 

~Catchow

So. Much. Dog. Hair. at Greenlawn Cemetery

Ok, so after a couple of months of wanting to plant my new boxes we finally did it. I had the stamps done months ago but I had to get the boxes done. I was at Tyrus' house working on the boxes. He has two dog. Now usually, I can avoid getting dog hair on what I'm working on but it just seemed like it was all planning against me to make me frustrated. No matter what I did, there was dog hair on EVERYTHING. It's a hard taping up your boxes when it's just has furry as the dogs. Not only did I have hair in my duct tape but all over the cloth pouches I made to hold the stamps. Ug.
When I did get the boxes all done I learned that a box hidden by Spoiled Rotten needed a new box. Fiinnneeeeee. So I got another box to prepare for it's new inhabitants. I then found out that the box I already made couldn't house my logbook I had ready to go. So that box became the replacement box and the box needing taped up was for my box. This box I call Frankinbox. I began taping it up with the natural camo but I ran out! So it it now partially camo, and partially brown. It was really weird looking.
We stopped at The French Loaf and had some awesome potato soup and some sweets. We were then off to Greenlawn cemetery. We had 2 hours to plant, replace, and find some boxes. We did a quick check up on our Sailor and His Lover letterboxes. We weren't able to check up on our last box since there were some ladies in that area. Since it's Veterans day there was a descent amount of people there. We learned a trick from Jeeves to carry fake flowers with us when going to cemeteries. The only flowers I had were some that we used at my church to make flower pens. So we took those with us. I also brought my camera too.
After our box check up we were off to a box to find. we figured we would find some boxes and look for some places to plant along the way. When we got to the location of the plant we sat down and began to stamp away. Next thing we knew, some noxers pulled up RIGHT NEXT to us. I thought, "Oh no, that's the family of that is coming to visit their passed loved one that we are sitting right next to!" I started freaking out and and got the nervous butterflies. I got out my camera and started messing around with it to make it look like we were just stopping so I could check my equipment. They got out of the car. "Oh no." They walk towards us. "Oh no! Oh no!"
           "Hey! Can we do a stamp exchange!" The women says to us.
          "Oh thank God! You're letterboxers!" I say.
We met Typengrype, Short Pants, and Sur lydrajon. We started our stamp exchange to find I left my stamp at home!! So I had to draw in an awkward sketch of my stamp. We had a nice chat and exchange and I explained how freaked out I was when they stopped. Aparently Sur lydrajon though we were just check my camera equipment but Typengrype knew it was a cover up. We went our separate ways and started on our quest for planting our new series Internet Medley. All was going well until we went to plant the last box. Where we wanted to plant was by a HUGE tree that a ton of birds decided to chill out on. When Tyrus went over to plant the box they a began to poop. Yes, all at once ans it was so funny watching him take off running away from the birds!
We had about 45 minuets left to try to go to the locations of the box that was in need of repair. Than was such a long walk. here's the path we took:

Light Green: Car

Blue: On foot

 



We replaced the box that was all leaky and wet and were on our way. We then passed a lot that had a letterbox. We had about 20 mins so we looked for the boxes. We found one of them but we were pressed on time ans we were running around like chickens with our heads cut off for the last box. With 5 mins left till closing we had to abandon it and come back for it at a different time. The one box we did manage to find we had to to a very quick repair on it because it had some awful holes in it.

We made it out of the cemetery at exactly 5:00 p.m. EST. I was freaking out that we were going to be locked in. Others have while letterboxing and it was freaking me out. Yes, I freak out a lot.
I didn't realize how tiered I was till I was finally able to sit back and relax. That was a really long walk. I don't doubt that we will again take a long walk though Greenlawn but probably not till spring. Starting to get cold and today was such a blessing. I almost had to take my jacket off because I was starting to get a bit over heated!

Untill next time.

~Catchow

Boxing at the Polls

Ok, so I wasn't really letterboxing at the polls nor was it really voting day. Tyrus worked the polls for Election Day and he had a review he needed to go to. It was down town and so we were hoping to plant some new boxes at Green Lawn Cemetery. Sadly, we did not have the time. We may actually plant them this weekend!
Anyways, Mother Hen and I sat in some open chairs waiting for Tyrus to finish is review training thing. Multiple times we were asked if we were ready to start the review. Each time we had to explain that we were waiting for someone. While waiting I finished my school work but I also brought some letterboxing stuff with me. I'm kind of glad we weren't able to plant then because I didn't have any boxes ready to plant, just the stamps. So I worked on camouflaging some boxes and pouches for the series and a girl was watching me do this. Mother Hen had spoken to the girl before and then asked her if she was bored. She nodded her head and so Mother Hen went on to explain what I was doing. I had no idea what to do. I just continued to work and sat there awkwardly. Then the girls mom was like "Wow! That's so cool! I've never herd of something like that!" So I got out my note book and wrote down the websites and gave it to her telling her she could find more information there. "Cool! We'll have to check it out!" She responded.
Who knows, may be we'll have a new letterboxer joining us in the great state of Ohio.

I also got the chance yesterday to talk to my French teacher about letterboxing. Apparently my Psych teacher was talking about my letterboxing paper I wrote and so she herd about it. A couple weeks ago we were have a class discussion (in French) about what we did that weekend. I said "J'ai fait les trading cards pour mon hobby." Translation (if you didn't get it :P): I made trading cards for my hobby. Of course she ask "Pour?" (for) so I said "letterboxing." Then she's mentions my Psych teacher and hearing about it. I just so happened to have my LTC cards with me but I couldn't stay at school. Three weeks later I finally got the chance to introduce her to this awesome hobby! It looks like she will defiantly be joining our community this summer. I'm hoping to get her to come to my letterboxing event that I'm going to try to host this summer.

So, do you have any poll/teacher introduction to letterboxing stories?

~Catchow