Hoosier Library Day

Trail with a Tale

I have found a few letterboxes in Kentucky labeled "Super Hero Series."  It looks like back in 2008 Kentuckian boxers went out and planted boxes with a super hero theme.  I thought it would be cool if boxers across Indiana would do something like this.

I got on the message boards and we decided on National Library Day, April 11.  I got busy and made 2 boxes.  I carved the stamps, made pouches, logbooks, containers, etc.  They sat on the corner of my desk for a month all ready to go.  I was going to plant one in the library in Mount Vernon, just west of Evansville.  The other would go in a Little Free Library at the northern end of Vanderburgh County.

Bad selfie with letterbox

My boxing buddy, G-MA, doesn't carve and she doesn't like to plant but I suggested that she ask a family friend, Wise Wanderer, to make a box for her.  Wise Wanderer lives in Washington and sends boxes to G-MA from time to time.  But she was not able to this time.  I decided that I would make one.  There is a Little Free Library just a few doors down from one of G-MAs kids.  I got on the LFL website, got the email of the owners, and got their permission to plant the box.

My 1st two Hoosier Library Boxes

While I was on the LFL website I noticed a new LFL in Evansville and I had to make a box for it too.  My boxes doubled in a day.  I planted three of them on April 10th and one on April 11th.  I now have a box in every LFL in Evansville.

After planting all my boxes, I talked with G-MA and she said that she tried to talk to the owners of the LFL near her kids house but no one answered the door.  It would have been funny if we both planted a box there.

My last two Hoosier Library Boxes

I planted 4 boxes and didn't take a picture of a single location!  I must be loosing it.  I did take pics of my stamps.

The boxer who took my spot in BOTM planted a box for Hoosier Library Day and I did get a pic of that.  It is at a new reading path at a local park.  I wanted to get me & the kids with the signs in the background but that didn't work out.

Some people said that they would be late planting their boxes for the event.  So far we have 7 :)

Spring Break

Brownies with their paintings

Last week my kids were on Spring Break.  As a stay at home mom, I am happy that they are back in school XD

We started off the week with Girl Scouts.  My daughter's Brownie Troop is working on the Painting badge and we went to Snickerdoodle Art on Monday.  The girls painted a llama, which is the cookie mascot for this year.  They had a great time painting and hanging out.

Florence Y'all 

Wednesday morning we left early for the Creation Museum.  It is 3.5 hours east of us and this was our 3rd visit.  We got there right at lunch time.  We decided to explore the museum and then have a picnic lunch at the car.  Then we wandered the grounds and looked for a letterbox.  We couldn't find it and went through the museum again.

After all that walking everyone was tired and hungry.  We checked into our hotel and went out for dinner.  While we were out, I talked everyone into getting a letterbox.  It was my only one for the trip :(  I wanted to look for more but the kids wanted to go back to the pool and they won.

Ark Encounter 

Thursday we got up, had breakfast, packed up, and headed toward the Ark Encounter.  I didn't realize this, but the Ark is 45 minutes from the Creation Museum.  Good thing I grabbed a brochure at the hotel or were would have gone to the wrong place!

 The ark is huge and we had a great time checking it out.  We went through the ark, had lunch, checked out the petting zoo, the big kids did a high ropes course, and then we walked thru the ark again.  We got our money's worth.

Rockport, In

On the way home we stopped at a Cracker Barrel in La Grange, Ky.  Just out of curiosity, I looked it up on Atlas Quest to see if they had any boxes close by.  There was supposed to be one IN the parking lot of the Cracker Barrel but the previous finder marked it missing.  We looked and it was missing :(

On Saturday, I went to Rockport to look for 3 boxes.  It is about 45 minutes away.  I got to the first box and found it right away.  I left a hitchhiker.  I could not find the other two boxes.  I was really disappointed that I drove over there for one box.

When I was done looking I explored a city park that I had heard about and I planted a box in a cemetery on my way home.

So, my Spring Break boxing was a bust.  I looked for 6 boxes and found 2 :'(

Mother/Daughter Tea

Yesterday, Daddy's Favorite Princess and went to a Girl Scout Mother/Daughter Asian themed tea party.  This is our second year to participate.

You might recall that last year it has an Alice in Wonderland theme and I carved stamps for the different stations at the event.  I was on the committee again this year so I made some Chinese character stamps for the girls to use while decorating crafts.

I was the decorating committee and made the cherry blossom trees, lanterns, and paper fortune cookies in the picture.  It was a major pain to transport the "trees" but I think the place looked great.

It took a long time to set up and tear down.  It is nice that the event is over but I almost don't know what to do with my free time.

I made some quisps with the stamps for the event and I plan to send them off as Hitchhikers.  You may see them in your neck of the woods some time.

The theme for next year will be a Victorian tea.  I wonder what we will come up with for that...

Google Doodle Postal Ring

I'm participating in the Google Doodle postal ring.  I joined right away and started looking for images to carve.  About 99% of the images were too hard for me to carve.  There were a few that I liked but I thought they would work better for a LTC and not a plain stamp.

My stamp is for the Summer Solstice 2013.  This image appeared mainly in South America and we would not have seen it here in the states.  I love swimming at my parents river camp and that is one reason this image caught my attention.

I have already received one stamp from the ring.  There are 12 ppl participating and if I get one postal each week I will have mine back in time to plant it for the summer solstice.  I'm already looking for a good place to plant it :)

HERE is a link to the Google site and you can see my doodle in action!

Disney Donations

These are my stamp donations for the It's a Small World, after all! the Ultimate Disney event.  I carved the BB8 for an LTC last year.  I am very happy with how Anna & Elsa turned out.  I hope the folks in NC have a great event!!

Let's Go Camping LTC

New Distress Crayons! 

I can't pass up a camping LTC swap.  I wanted to, because it had a short deadline, but I can't.  This is my card for brailleboxer's "Let's go camping" swap.

I carved up a camping image from Life is Good.  I love their simple images and this will probably be my annual Mother's Day plant.  I stamped the stamp on watercolor paper and embossed it with glow in the dark embossing powder :D

Let's go camping: Five Star Restaurant 

I really enjoyed coloring the background.  I found these Tim Holtz distress crayons.  There are many different ways to use them.  I colored the crayons on the paper and then painted them with a water brush.  I also played around with rubbing the crayon on Plexiglas and then painting on the paper.  I liked it but it was too light.  I bought a few different packs of the crayons and you will see more of them in the future :)

I ruffed up the edge of the watercolor paper and glued it to a black background.

Bowling Green, Ky

Hartford, Ky

My boxing buddies and I went down to Bowling Green, Ky on Saturday.  G-MA and Puppy Love picked me up around 8:30 and we headed out of town.

Bowling Green is about 2 hours southeast of us.  A new box had also been planted in Hartford and we stopped to get it on the way.   This box is what prompted our trip.  G-MA saw the new box come up and asked if there were any other boxes there.  I told her that if we were going to Hartford we would have to go to Bowling Green too.

G-MA 

The weather started off a little cool but it was nice.  We looked for 17 boxes and found 16.  A few years ago G-MA and Puppy Love went to Bowling Green without me (what?!) and they got one of the same boxes.  So it was 16 for me and 15 for them.  We left 3 hitchhikers and found 4, wow!

You might recall, that G-MA, Daddy's Favorite Princess, Lil Ewok, and I boxed in Bowling Green last spring.  We got 16 boxes that day too :)  On that day we got a box at an ice cream place and we talked about finding it again to get some more ice cream but couldn't remember where it was.

Once we were on our way back to Evansville, I looked up Atlas Quest on my phone, and the Bowling Green boxers planted 2 new new boxes while we were there!  One was for the Bowling Green Massacre and one at an ice cream place.  I guess we need to make going to Bowling Green an annual trip :)