Anyone who has found my first stamp (Raindrop at Stoney Brook in
Norfolk, MA), has seen the result of my first try carving letters.
They came out backwards 'cause I carved them wrong! I kept the stamp
that way because I thought it looked kinda neat AND it was my first
stamp ever...how could I throw that away??
Anyway, I have been getting progressively better at carving. I just
carved two personal stamps for Jay and I to replace the store-bought
box turtle stamp we have been using since we started boxing in August.
And last week I carved MY FAVORITE STAMP EVER! I was so proud of
it! I thought for days before I decided what to call the letterbox I
would place it in. Then I carefully wrote the name at the spot I
left on my stamp. I carved and carved and carved and it looked
beautiful.
Then I stamped...now I am a pretty bright person, I occasionally make
mistakes but I learn from my first mistake - I tend not to repeat
myself. Not in this case...my letters stamped out
backwards!!!!!!!!! I thought I was going to cry! Jay looked at me
in disbelief and asked "Didn't that happen the first time you made a
stamp"? I felt like such an idiot!!
Be on the lookout for this stamp...its gonna be a mystery box in MA
and I am planting it today. If you find it, you'll notice the place
where the words were (luckily, it was a strip at the top, so i just
cut the top of the stamp off, phew!).
Happy Boxing,
Amy
My DUH! Stamp Story!
2 messages in this thread |
Started on 2004-03-15
My DUH! Stamp Story!
From: Jay and Amy (jayandamy76@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2004-03-15 12:03:45 UTC
Re: [LbNA] My DUH! Stamp Story!
From: Pamela Smith Lenox (pamela.lenox@verizon.net) |
Date: 2004-03-15 08:30:20 UTC-05:00
LOL. Me too. My first carved stamp was for an exchange with 3 other
boxers in different parts of the country. I carved away and, upon
finishing, nearly smacked my forehead. Yes, I had carved my name in
backwards....... I decided to embrace it and have carved my name so it
stamps backwards on the rest of the stamps I've carved. However, my
trail name is relatively easy to read backwards and looks kinda neat
(imho) that way. Besides, why shouldn't my stamps be partly normal and
partly quirky, just like me? :-)
pezpam
On Monday, March 15, 2004, at 07:03 AM, Jay and Amy wrote:
> Anyone who has found my first stamp (Raindrop at Stoney Brook in
> Norfolk, MA), has seen the result of my first try carving letters.
> They came out backwards 'cause I carved them wrong! I kept the stamp
> that way because I thought it looked kinda neat AND it was my first
> stamp ever...how could I throw that away??
boxers in different parts of the country. I carved away and, upon
finishing, nearly smacked my forehead. Yes, I had carved my name in
backwards....... I decided to embrace it and have carved my name so it
stamps backwards on the rest of the stamps I've carved. However, my
trail name is relatively easy to read backwards and looks kinda neat
(imho) that way. Besides, why shouldn't my stamps be partly normal and
partly quirky, just like me? :-)
pezpam
On Monday, March 15, 2004, at 07:03 AM, Jay and Amy wrote:
> Anyone who has found my first stamp (Raindrop at Stoney Brook in
> Norfolk, MA), has seen the result of my first try carving letters.
> They came out backwards 'cause I carved them wrong! I kept the stamp
> that way because I thought it looked kinda neat AND it was my first
> stamp ever...how could I throw that away??