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.