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)
Tweeter Arrives in Alaska
What a great day! This morning K and I were going to do laundry when I almost tripped on a box on my front door. huh? I pick it up and realize IT'S TWEETER!!!
It was cold and rainy all day so no letterboxing today. Tomorrow we are planning on going to a few letterboxes and we're going to plant one. We did some exchanges and got to know each other better. K really liked Tweeter and I have to hide him from her.
I also got the Travelling Mama postal. Tweeter stamped in to that one and got a stamp from TM. tomorrow morning I'm mailing out TM to Kodiak Ak.
Got some new stamp pads today. 4 for $6 Dew Drop Brilliance: Pearlescent Ivy, Moonlight White, Pearlescent Olive, and Coffee Bean.
I just needed a plain brown stamp pad. The colors are beautiful and sparkley. they're suppose to dry fast but I still feel that I have to blow on them. I'm not totally satisfied. I think I need a plain dye ink pad. I need a little crayon box to carrie them in now. I also think I need a red pad since I have a great green. ooh also need a great black and orange. Christmas and Halloween!!
2 comments:
You might want to try the Marvy markers. You can color stamps multiple colors easily, they dry well and don't take up much room (so you can carry more!). Many of us get our inking supplies from Stampeaze. I have never been disappointed. I think there is a link on the AQ homepage (no, Webfoot didn't pay me).
The pigment inks will always take longer to dry than the dye inks.
Stacy
yes, dye over pigment any day! i'm going to start collecting the colorbox "cat's eye" ink pads. they are in a pointed oval shape and they stack together -- the base of one is the lid to the next -- so they are easier to tote around.
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