Playin Hookie

Last night my oldest son, Lego Clone Trooper, got sick.  This morning his stomach still felt bad so he spent the morning laying around and reading.  When it was time to pick the princess up from preschool he came with me.  We needed to run some errands and I wasn't sure how long I would be gone.

After a little while it stopped raining and we stopped to get some freshly planted boxes.  One was a drive-by and there was a two part series down a muddy trail on the local college campus.  They were both planted by a boxer in the town next to us.  He must have cabin fever because he has planted almost 20 letterboxes this year.

While we were out we checked on one of our own boxes.  I had tried to check on it a few weeks ago but there were just to many people around.  We went back today and the outside was completely covered in mud.  I brought a box to replace it and put it in a different spot.  It was nice to have my son with me to help with the little ones :)

It's Cookie Time

It's Girl Scout Cookie Time! That means my house is full of cookies for my troop booth sales.  We have had two booth sales so far and we still have a lot of cookies to sell.

This summer I am going to help local Brownies earn their Letterboxing badge at Day Camp.  With all the empty cookie boxes around I started making cookie box log books.  We will use them to plant the letterboxes to earn the Brownie badge.

Kids Only

R2-D2 & Lego Clone Trooper working on LTCs

Daddy's Favorite Princess stamping her cards

Back in the fall there were some Kids Only LTC trackers posted.  My boys love to carve stamps and the Princess loves to make cards.  I signed my kids up and my daughter was in one tracker and my boys were in another.  The trackers were hosted by two different boxers.  The one my daughter was in went well and she loved the cards that she got back.  The host for my boys tracker fell off the face of the earth and they never got their cards back.  I have tried contacting the host via AQ and Facebook and I get no response.  I feel bad for my boys because they worked very hard on their cards.  They carved the stamps, stamped the cards, and embossed the images.  The only thing I did was cut the cards to size.  Maybe over the summer we can host a kid swap and this won't happen to us again.       

Finished cards 

Boxing with the Baby

Daddy's Favorite Princess says that she doesn't like letterboxing so I try to go while she is at preschool.  Someone just planted a box in our city so Lil Ewok and I went to get it.  It was planted a few days ago but we were first finders.  The baby likes going out on my back but I take him off to stamp and that really makes him mad.  After finding the box we walked around for a while looking for a good place to plant a box.  I would like to plant a hitchhiker hostel in this park.

While we were out we did some maintenance on 3 of our boxes and replaced someone else's logbook.  I actually replaced everything but the stamp but I wanted to dry out the old logbook and put it back.  It was in bad shape so I gave it back to the owner and put a new one in the box today.

One of the boxes we did maintenance on today we planted last June for Donut Day.  It has a blue diamond but not many people have found it so we stopped to check on it.  We also checked on a 2 part series that I just worked on back in December.  I stopped then and they were both full of water.  So I replaced everything but the stamps and I moved the second one.  I wanted to check on it after a good rain to make sure it didn't wash down the hill.  They were both in good shape.

We are expecting some very nice weather this week so I will probably go out tomorrow and plant a mystery box.  I went today and took a picture to go with the clue.  I hope other boxers find and enjoy it :)

Love Birds

This card is "Love Birds" for the Hearts Galore LTC swap.  My original idea for the background was to lay heart shaped doilies on the paper and spray the blue on top of that.  When you cut it out you could not tell that the shapes left behind were from doilies.  Then I tried laying heart shaped sequins on the paper and spray them.  I liked that much better and that is what you see above.

After I made all the cards and mailed them off I found a technique that I liked even better but it was too late by then.  So, if I had the whole thing to do over again I would use a resist technique.  I would stamp the white card with a heart stamp and emboss with clear powder.  Then spray the card with blue and add my image.  But I didn't want to ask for my cards back and start from square one.