August Meeting Report

The meeting was moved to Papa's Pizza Parlor in Beaverton due to sick children.  It was a very very good meeting.  We discussed in more detail what needs to be done for the Zombie event in October.  We looked at all of the amazing carved stamps we already have done, and at the log books.  It was a small group with Kuku, Red Fox, Inkwell and myself The D.A.D. of the Oregon Head Hunters who attended.  Most of our time was filled with making baggies and enjoying each others  company.  We are all so excited for the October event we hope to see you all there.

October is going to be so exciting and here are a few photos of the location to get you in the mood.

                                     This is L.L. "Stub" Stewart State Park!

                      This is one of the many cabins, they are filling up fast.

Here is one of the trails we will be hunting ZOMBIES on.

The Location of Night Boxing With Zombies: A Halloween Event

We have a location it will be at L. L. Stub Stewart State Park in Oregon.

Here is the link to the State Park: http://www.oregonstateparks.org/index.cfm?do=parkPage.dsp_parkPage&parkId=75

And here is the link to the event: http://www.atlasquest.com/showinfo.html?gEventId=2858

  As of last Friday they had 5 cabins available, and they also have R.V. hook ups and tent sights, so reserve your spot now.  It will be loads of fun so don't miss out.

May 2013 Meeting

It has been a very long time since the last time I had posted.  The new news is we are hosting a Halloween event on October 12, 2013.  It will be a night boxing event that is themed around ZOMBIES!  How cool is that.  We are working on a location and we all are very excited.  Some sad new to report, one of our own members of the club is leaving to move to Florida.  Frykitty you will be missed, and maybe she could set up a sister club in Florida for us.  Last month the club was involved with the Lucky Box Event that was a huge success.  It was lots of fun. I will keep you posted on new happenings with the club, and at least post once a month.  Thank you so much for your support and until next time, keep boxing.

December Meeting!

Great fun yesterday at the December meeting.  We laughed, ate, stamped, and got the pleasure to meet Bugli form Vancouver Washington.  We also talked about the badge system and what to do with all of those event patches we are all collecting.  There were also some special stamps that were on our Christmas Tree and I also pulled out The Nightmare Before Christmas HIPS.   The meeting was so much fun and we can't wait until January's meeting, see you all there.

Oregon Head Hunters

The Official Oregon Letterboxing Club Patches Are In!

Yes you heard it the club patches are in.  The Fedex guy woke me up bright and early this morning.  They look amazing!  I couldn't be happier with the patches.  Can't wait until April 22 for the next monthly meeting, see you there.

March Oregon Letterboxing Club Meeting!

 As always it is great to see everyone again, we had a fun meeting.  We carved and got some great pointers on the subject.  We extended the carving contest another month so it will be due in June.  We had some great monthly stamps and a couple of special guest stamps form other Letterboxers from afar.  The Tackle Box is getting larger with 7 new carves since that last meeting in February.  Our Oregon Letterboxing Club Patches will be available at Aprils meeting and we are very excited about them.  Can't wait until Aprils Meeting, see you then.

The Original Goonies on the left happy as a clam, Benjamin Clan working
away on another amazing stamp, and the bald head of Byron one member
of the Oregon Head Hunter also working on a stamp at the March Meeting.

Carving, Carving, and More Carving.

Finally Our First Official Meeting.

We had a great turn out, lots of great food and great people.  Exchanged stamps and letterboxing stories, and announced our letterboxing stamp carving competition.  Details of the completion will be given to newbees at the next meeting.  Just to let you know the prizes for 1st place is $50.00, 2nd  place is $25.00, 3rd place is $15.00, and 4th place is $5.00.

Benjamin Clan and The Original Goonies carved a stamp for the tackle box postal and went fishing and caught some fish, very cool.  The tackle box will be available at every club meeting, and every time you add a stamp you have a chance to catch a fish.

And those who are members of this blog was able to stamp a special stamp.

Come to our next meeting on March 18th to be apart of the fun, we would love to have you. Here is the link to sign up:   http://www.atlasquest.com/showinfo.html?gEventId=2435

The First Official Oregon Letterboxing Meeting Again..

The First Official Oregon Letterboxing Meeting, again, is almost here it's less than a week away and we are so excited.  Lots of cool stuff to talk about, and can't wait to learn from some of you too.  See you all soon.

Oh ya, we just added in the links section our twitter page and facebook page.

The First Official Letterboxing Club Meeting, Cancelled

Because of snow our meeting was cancelled this month, but next month on the 26th at 1:00 p.m. we will try again.  This time it will be at a new location that is more central for people, hopefully.  One of the things I wanted to discuss at this months meeting was how to make a reusable envelope for postals.  Good news everyone I posted step by step instruction on just that.

Holy Cow it's SNOWING!  In Portland?
That white blotch in front of the car is an extreme close up
of a snow flake. 

What you will need is a standard size bubble mailer.

Some packing tape,a pair of scissors,
 and the address of the person you are sending the postal to.

First add your address and your return address to the envelope.

Second start engulfing the entire envelope with see through
packing tape.

Tape all around the front...

and the back until it is all wrapped up.

Then cut out and fold your senders address, this is so you can
send out a quisp if you want to this makes a nice little pocket

Now add tape.

For the upper left corner of the senders address label you want
to make a tab with the tape like this, this is for an easy way for
the person to remove the address label so they can add their own
for the next person.

As you can see the tab in the left corner of the senders address
 label.

Remember the pocket here is a quisp along for the ride.

Now add the letter box.

Do not I repeat Do Not Remove this adhesive strip.

You need to create your own adhesive strip by rolling up a piece  of
packing tape.

And here it is the new adhesive strip you made.

Seal it up.

Add more tape to close it.

It's closed, sealed, and ready to be mailed.

Remember that tab here it is in action.

If your reusable envelope is done right the envelope will not
 tear, but the address label might.  That's okay.

The label is off and the envelope is fine.  That's it.  I would like to
 thank Moose On The  Loose from  Ashburnham Massachusetts
 for introducing me to the wonderful world of postals, 
she took the time to show me how it's done. 

2011 PNW Ornament Exchange Update!

 The 2011 Pacific North West Ornament Exchange was a HUGE Success.  It was amazing, lots of food, friends, and fun.  Tons of stamps to stamp what a great event.  Thank you so much to Morris Five and  Lolounger for hosting the event you did an excellent job this year.  Below are a few photos from the event during the actual exchange.  If you missed it I am so sorry because you truly missed something special.  I can't say enough good things about the time we spent with new and old friends.  We can't wait until the next one.  Until then Letterbox Like Crazy!


-The Oregon Head Hunters-

The Ornament Exchange.

The Benjamin Clan (Rae after her car accident)

The Original Goonies, Transformers, and Phoenix.

Stinkerbell

Morris Five organizing the group.

Rainbow Dash, Bedtime Story, The Oregon Head Hunters, Lolounger, and the Benjamin Clan. 

M.O.M. and Da Sista from The Oregon Head Hunters

2011 PNW Ornament Exchange

Tomorrow is the day it all happens.  What happens?  The 2011 Pacific Northwest Ornament Exchange!!! We are all so excited for this letterboxing event we can hardly wait.  This is the second annual Northwest Ornament Exchange and we all hope this will be an every year event.  We will keep you posted and maybe even post some pics of all of the fun.  Until then Letterbox Like Crazy! 

The First Official Letterboxing Club Meeting

The First Official Letterboxing Club Meeting will be held on Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 2:00 p.m.  It will be a potluck so if you are able to attend bring your favorite dish.  The address for the meeting is: 11160 SE 242nd Ave., Damascus, OR. 97089.  Things that will be discussed at the meeting will be: code of conduct, letterboxing 101, the club's future goals, uniform and awards, and we might even carve a little if time permits. There will also be a question and answer session.  It will be held as a mini event with structure.  There will also be a couple of stamps to collect that otherwise will not be available at any other time.  We encourage all to come especially those veteran letterboxers who could teach us a thing or two.  So come enjoy the fun filled world of letterboxing with us and join a club that is devoted to the growth and education of letterboxing to others in Oregon.  Until next time remember get out there and Letterbox Like Crazy!

Our Second Unofficial Letterboxing Club Meeting

Yesterday we had our second unofficial Oregon Letterboxing Club Meeting.  All who attended last time returned along with two new members with a total of eleven people.  We worked on carving techniques and gave people a chance to carve their own stamps.  It was a rocky start at first because most of the members hadn't carved before; but after a while they began to get the hang of it all and carved some very nice stamps. I brought my Nightmare Before Christmas Letterbox Series that will also be at the 2011 Pacific Northwest Ornament Exchange on December 17th.  I did this to give others who weren't able to attend the exchange on the 17th a chance to get this series.  It was a great meeting that introduced new members to the wonderful world of stamp carving, and that means that in the very near future Oregon will have new letterboxes to find.  

The Oregon Letterboxing Club Patch Update.

I just received a sample of the patch and it looks great, here it is.

The Oregon Letterboxing Club Patch!

Good news everybody!  I just sent off for a quote for our club patches and it looks good.  Hopefully by the beginning of the new year we will have our club patches.  I'll keep you posted and when the patches come in we'll come up with a set price and a way to get the patch.  Until then keep LETTERBOXING LIKE CRAZY! 

Our First Unofficial Letterboxing Club Meeting

On November 20th, 2011 we had an unofficial word of mouth letterboxing club meeting.  We had the meeting to work out some bugs and to get a feel on how the meeting was going to run.  Counting myself we had nine people attend.  Things we talked about were: What is Letterboxing, Letterboxing 101, DO's and Don't of letterboxing, Atlas Quest questions and functions, The Letterboxers companion, What a letterbox, a cootie and a hitchhiker look like, What a clue looks like and their differences, and putting together a letterbox hunters kit.  We treated it as a mini letterboxing event.  We also went out letterboxing, but came back empty handed.  That's the nature of the beast sometimes you win and sometimes you get skunked.  There were 3 stamps that Newbies were able to stamp in their new logbook.  All in all it was a good get together.  We are going to have one more unofficial meeting before the Official meeting on December 4th, 2011 at 1:00 p.m.  At this meeting we will introduce people to the wonderful world of stamp carving. If you would like to attend message me on atlasquest.com under Oregon Head Hunters, and we'll see if we can get you in.  I'm sure there'll be no problem.  We also hit a100 letterbox finds yesterday, we are so excited.  Until next time, Letterbox Like Crazy.
-The Oregon Head Hunters-

Our First Monthly Meeting

To keep people posted we are shooting for some time in January for an official meeting.  We are doing this after the holiday season, because we don't think very many people would show up during the season. We will keep you posted when we find a location and figure out a date, until then go out and Letterbox like crazy.
-The Oregon Head Hunters-

The Oregon Letterboxing Club is here!

This is the first day of the new and official Oregon Letterboxing Club.  In the near future we will meet once a month at a disclosed location that will be posted in the Event section.  Also this will be a place where you can also post your own events that are coming up or post events in Oregon that you have heard about.  All you have to do is email me at brp383@gmail.com or mail me at atlasquest.com under trail name Oregon Head Hunters, and I will be more that happy to post it in the Event section so all can see.  Also if you have any suggestions for the club feel free to email or atlasquest mail me.  We hope this will be a place where all Oregon Letterboxers can come together.
Thank you for your support.
-The Oregon Head Hunters-