What is Letterboxing?
Letterboxing is an outdoor hobby that combines elements of orienteering, art and puzzle solving. Letterboxers hide small, weatherproof boxes in publicly-accessible places (like parks) and distribute clues to finding the box in printed catalogs, on one of several web sites, or by word of mouth. Individual letterboxes usually contain a logbook and a rubber stamp. Finders make an imprint of the letterbox's stamp on their personal logbook, and leave an impression of their personal stamp on the letterbox's logbook — as proof of having found the box. Many letterboxers keep careful track of their "find count". *Wikipedia*
How to add LB clues to Ipod
I saw this on a thread on atlasquest.com, now I cant seem to find it to check the users name to give him credit. sorry. I finally got this to work on my ipod and now I have 3 clues that are in the same park. Its a great deversion, when you're looking for a box you can stop to read your clue and it looks like you are changing you music on your ipod!!
1. Highlight and copy the clue you want to save.
2. Paste it into textedit, or another word program that can save things in the plain text format(.txt). Save it in the text format. (on a Mac, in textedit, this is under the 'Format' heading, and says, 'make Plain text')
3. Name the file with the town and name of the letterbox.
4. Make sure your iPod is on Manually 'Manage Songs & Playlists' mode. Plug your iPod into your computer. From the 'summary' tab, select "Enable disk use" or "Manually manage songs and playlists"
5. Drag this file into the 'Notes' folder of your iPod.
6. Now it's available on your iPod on the trail! (in the Extras catagory, under Notes)
I NEED a stamp pad, a good one!
so hubs wanted to watch the game and have some down time to himself so K and I went out shopping. I had been wanting to go to Micheals for a while now. I decide I was gonna check it out then go to Joann's for a stamp pad since I had a 40% off coupon. BUT Micheals lets you use competitors coupons so yay didnt have to drive to the other side of town.
It took me for ever to find a pad I liked that wasnt so damn expensive. at the last minute I changed it for another. ANNA GRIFFIN Pigment Ink Pad in Chocolate.
well to say the least it SUCKED! its too inky and sticky and all it did was make a mess!! its smudged the stamp image and stained my beautiful hand carved stamp! I'm ticked! so then I think I can reink my old cheap walmart stamp pad. Nope! just ruined it even more. the new pad is sooo sticky it ripped off the walmart pad out of the pastic base. now I have to get a new tomorrow. gonna check out Blaines since its the the only place that carries any stamp carving supplies. Michaels did have some white Speedy cut but I havent heard any good things about it and it cost more that the pink stuff from Blaines.
I also think its time I get a real log book. I'm thinking I'm gonna buy a sketch book the size that is about $8 is big enough with out being too huge to carry around. I'm gonna cut out my pages and stick them into my new log book.
Hope that tomorrow morning we get Tweeter in the mail. I have to buy some bubble wrap envelopes for the post card ring, the Veggie Tales ring and to send out DB.
1 comment:
i much prefer the pink stuff. the white stuff is pretty crumbly, but will do when desperate. my first attempt with the pink i didn't like it -- a little firmer than I liked, but I think it was just because it was new. i like it pretty well now, though my preference is the staedler -- but my bank account doesn't like it!
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