Welcome Peaceful! Your life is about to become not so peaceful as
you find yourself obsessively searching for boxes during all your
free time! (: You will love it though! Glad to hear you diving
into carving. That is great fun too and much easier than I thought
it would be!

Best of luck!
Cadenza

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "peaceful_too"
wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> My daughter and I just returned from our first Letterboxing
treasure
> hunt and had a wonderful time. We went to Lake Wheeler in Raleigh,
> NC and found our first boxes. The first having a HitchHiker! What
a
> wonderful surprise!!
>
> All of the boxes at the lake had store-bought stamps except the
> first, but it made no difference to us. Our stamp was store bought
> too....But now that we have the bug we will have to make our own
> signature stamps! But first we are going to plant a box... on the
> ride home we discussed just where it will be. We visited a State
> Park that's closer to home and decided that's where it will go....
We
> want to do it fast (next weekend) so the Hitchhiker has a chance to
> travel soon, so our box will also have a store bought stamp to
begin
> with.
>
> I found the Atlas Quest website and the LBNA website and looked for
> other letterboxes in our area. I didn't really see a lot. Does
> anyone have any suggestions for other places to find area boxes?
>
> Thanks for the fun! Happy hunting!
>
> ~peaceful

Thanks Cadenza!
I don't know about the 'diving into carving'... i don't have an
artistic bone in my body.... if i knew someone whom i could pay to
carve me a stamp i would have picked up the phone already! LOL
~peaceful

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "cadenza74"
wrote:
> Welcome Peaceful! Your life is about to become not so peaceful as
> you find yourself obsessively searching for boxes during all your
> free time! (: You will love it though! Glad to hear you diving
> into carving. That is great fun too and much easier than I thought
> it would be!
>
> Best of luck!
> Cadenza
>

I'd encourage you, and any others feeling the same way, to try it.
Speaking as someone with no artistic talent myself, I'll say that I'm
happy I jumped in and tried it. It's perfectly fine if your stamps are
simple - the handcarved appearance makes them more fun than you might
think. None of my stamps will rival those by really good
carvers/artists, but for me it's much more fun to release a handcarved
stamp than one I bought at a store. And, while I enjoy finding any
stamp, there is an extra dollop of fun in finding a box containing a
stamp someone took the time to carve, even if it's "just" a
line-drawing sort of thing. The fact that the planter took the time to
create something for me to find is really cool.......

Jump in! The carving's fine. :-)

pezpam


On Monday, June 13, 2005, at 10:03 PM, peaceful_too wrote:

> Thanks Cadenza!
> I don't know about the 'diving into carving'... i don't have an
> artistic bone in my body.... if i knew someone whom i could pay to
> carve me a stamp i would have picked up the phone already! LOL
> ~peaceful
>
> --- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "cadenza74"
> wrote:
>> Welcome Peaceful! Your life is about to become not so peaceful as
>> you find yourself obsessively searching for boxes during all your
>> free time! (: You will love it though! Glad to hear you diving
>> into carving. That is great fun too and much easier than I thought
>> it would be!
>>
>> Best of luck!
>> Cadenza

Thinking of carving as being artistic if you don't
think of yourself as "artsy" IS intimidating - so
think of carving as self-expression. It really makes
it much easier to get past the first little "what do I
carve" and "I can't possibly..." thinking.

Lucy

--- peaceful_too wrote:

> Thanks Cadenza!
> I don't know about the 'diving into carving'... i
> don't have an
> artistic bone in my body.... if i knew someone whom
> i could pay to
> carve me a stamp i would have picked up the phone
> already! LOL
> ~peaceful




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I smiled at your self-deprecation. I think most of us feel that way as
we begin. I really am not at all an artist. Stick figures are a
challenge, but I have come to feel I am a pretty decent carver. The
trick is time doing it and finding some good patterns. I love looking
around in various places for fun images that I can copy and turn into
stamps.

Now that I have the carving down, if I could just get the creative
part. I would love to be able to design my own . . . that's more
intimidating. I will have to start giving it some tries.

Best of luck as you begin. It is fun! I promise!

Cadenza