http://www.moderngypsy.com/lb . . . . . . . . . searching for hidden treasure Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:42:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I think I'm about to put out a contract on Puxatawny Phil, or whatever that groundhog's name is that damned us all to six more weeks of winter.  Especially since I managed to catch the World's Worst Freakin' Cold (tm) last week, which totally derailed my plans to get the ... http://www.moderngypsy.com/lb/?p=21 I meant to get this up for you folks a little sooner, but we've been having some more Weather, capital-W, out thisaway, and it's making picture-taking a little bit difficult. So some of the photos on this tutorial are a little fuzzy, due to light issues, but I think ... http://www.moderngypsy.com/lb/?p=13 So you've had a couple weeks now to play around with rubber stamp carving, and I'm going to assume that you have created fabulous masterpieces (or at least ones that don't suck, in your own estimation).  And now you have stamps ready to be letterboxes. The next step, once you've picked ... http://www.moderngypsy.com/lb/?p=10 And then I up and forgot to add some books on stamp carving for those of you with...uh...little book-buying problems. (I don't know about y'all, but man, when I get into something, I need to immerse myself. So I have a LOT OF BOOKS. Like, a LOT. ... http://www.moderngypsy.com/lb/?p=9 I've got this list here, see.  This list of topics I want to cover over here while the snows are still flying and there's no possible way I can go out and actually DO what it is that I'm writing about.  (As an interesting matter of fact: it's snowing now.  ... http://www.moderngypsy.com/lb/?p=8 I haven't forgotten you all; I still have major plans for expanding this site to have more than just a few random bloggymusings and a list of the letterboxes I've planted. However, this past week, I was struck with The Major Migraine From Hell(tm), and ended up pretty much flat ... http://www.moderngypsy.com/lb/?p=7 It's about time, I'd say. Winter is upon us here in the midwest.  For purposes of illustration, let me just say that outside right now, it's -14 with wind-chill.  Fourteen BELOW zero farenheit. I'm hardcore, when it comes to letterboxing.  I really am, at least in my own mind.  But I am ... http://www.moderngypsy.com/lb/?p=5 This is a blog about a box. Not just any box. A lock-n-lock tupperware box, in the middle of the wilderness. Only people with the clues know where the treasure is, and when they find it, they leave it there, hidden even better than the way they found it... And ... http://www.moderngypsy.com/lb/?p=3