We take forever to hide our boxes, both our own and thoes we look for.
When we were hiding the first set of our Harry Potter series we each walked
down the path away from the box then turned around to see if we can see it
from the path. We kept adjusting it just right. I wanted to write on the
clues "walk away from the box and look back make sure it's hidden well"
but I was afraid I'd sound to much like the mom that I am.
When we look for boxes we always take the time to hide them right. We have
noticed you can often find a box by looking at the ground, it l sometimes
looks like people have sat there or walked around there.
I think there is a certain amount of risk invoved in letterboxing that you
have to take, when you hide your own. Not all the boxes will survive. we
just hope that enough people will get to enjoy them while they are out
there.
Maybe we need some more clever ways to hind them like Sir B's cool fake
rocks.
Gsd
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Hiding boxes
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Started on 2003-09-23
Hiding boxes
From: Bootsy Collins (box_gsd@hotmail.com) |
Date: 2003-09-23 22:48:22 UTC
Re: Hiding boxes
From: catbead1 (libby@twcny.rr.com) |
Date: 2003-09-24 01:27:57 UTC
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "Bootsy Collins"
wrote:
>>We have noticed you can often find a box by looking at the ground,
This is so true! Sometimes a path is beaten directly to the box. I
plan to get around this by revising clues to bring boxers in from a
different direction for a box that is developing one of these paths.
-----
>> Maybe we need some more clever ways to hind them like Sir B's cool
>>fake rocks.
I'd like to find some glue that would hold up to our winters and then
make my own "fake" rock piles complete with sticks. Something nice &
heavy. He-he-he.
catbead
wrote:
>>We have noticed you can often find a box by looking at the ground,
This is so true! Sometimes a path is beaten directly to the box. I
plan to get around this by revising clues to bring boxers in from a
different direction for a box that is developing one of these paths.
-----
>> Maybe we need some more clever ways to hind them like Sir B's cool
>>fake rocks.
I'd like to find some glue that would hold up to our winters and then
make my own "fake" rock piles complete with sticks. Something nice &
heavy. He-he-he.
catbead
Fake Rocks (Was Re: Hiding boxes)
From: Sir Balthazar (neovolatile@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2003-09-24 15:09:27 UTC
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "catbead1" wrote:
>
> I'd like to find some glue that would hold up to our winters and
then
> make my own "fake" rock piles complete with sticks. Something nice
&
> heavy. He-he-he.
>
> catbead
I think the addition of sticks would be interesting, thanks! Making a
fake pile of rocks is also a novel thought.
Not sure what glue you would need for your climate but surely a
hardware store could help there.
Fake rocks can be made of an oven-hardening clay and then sprayed
with sealant like Krylon.
My plaster/mache' ones have not yet withstood our winter, admittedly
mild but wet. Will let you know of successes and failures after we
get some rain.
Hollowing out real rocks like travertine or pumice is also an option.
Gardening stores might be a good place to look. Make sure you wear
respiratory, hand, and eye protection while doing this with a cement
bit on your drill.
Fiberglas can also be sculpted to look like rock. Anybody doing that?
We should have some examples at our October 4th SLO Stamping in the
Meadow in San Luis Obispo, CA, event.
Please, let us keep up with these ideas.
Drill ye tarriers, drill,
Sir Balthazar
>
> I'd like to find some glue that would hold up to our winters and
then
> make my own "fake" rock piles complete with sticks. Something nice
&
> heavy. He-he-he.
>
> catbead
I think the addition of sticks would be interesting, thanks! Making a
fake pile of rocks is also a novel thought.
Not sure what glue you would need for your climate but surely a
hardware store could help there.
Fake rocks can be made of an oven-hardening clay and then sprayed
with sealant like Krylon.
My plaster/mache' ones have not yet withstood our winter, admittedly
mild but wet. Will let you know of successes and failures after we
get some rain.
Hollowing out real rocks like travertine or pumice is also an option.
Gardening stores might be a good place to look. Make sure you wear
respiratory, hand, and eye protection while doing this with a cement
bit on your drill.
Fiberglas can also be sculpted to look like rock. Anybody doing that?
We should have some examples at our October 4th SLO Stamping in the
Meadow in San Luis Obispo, CA, event.
Please, let us keep up with these ideas.
Drill ye tarriers, drill,
Sir Balthazar
Fake Rocks (Was Re: Hiding boxes)
From: catbead1 (libby@twcny.rr.com) |
Date: 2003-09-24 21:14:33 UTC
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "Sir Balthazar"
wrote:
> > Fake rocks can be made of an oven-hardening clay and then sprayed
> with sealant like Krylon.
> My plaster/mache' ones have not yet withstood our winter, admittedly
> mild but wet. Will let you know of successes and failures after we
> get some rain.
You know there is a trick when painting with gouache (opaque
watercolor) which is notorious for lifting when touched again with the
brush: mix into it, or the water, a little bit of acrylic medium. This
solves the problem, of course you can't go back & take it off the
paper if a mistake is made but you can go over the mistake with more
paint.....maybe something like this would work is S. CA where the
winters are mild but sometimes wet? You would need to fiddle with the
quantity of acrylic in the mix, and it comes in matt finish. You could
even mix sand or other goodies into it.
> Fiberglas can also be sculpted to look like rock. Anybody doing that?
Ooooh stinky!
catbead
> > Fake rocks can be made of an oven-hardening clay and then sprayed
> with sealant like Krylon.
> My plaster/mache' ones have not yet withstood our winter, admittedly
> mild but wet. Will let you know of successes and failures after we
> get some rain.
You know there is a trick when painting with gouache (opaque
watercolor) which is notorious for lifting when touched again with the
brush: mix into it, or the water, a little bit of acrylic medium. This
solves the problem, of course you can't go back & take it off the
paper if a mistake is made but you can go over the mistake with more
paint.....maybe something like this would work is S. CA where the
winters are mild but sometimes wet? You would need to fiddle with the
quantity of acrylic in the mix, and it comes in matt finish. You could
even mix sand or other goodies into it.
> Fiberglas can also be sculpted to look like rock. Anybody doing that?
Ooooh stinky!
catbead