Well, I've finally got almost all of the stamps soaked (5 hour session). I think that's all of them, anyway, barring the ones on postcards. They'll take the steaming kettle to do. Not something I'm looking forwards to ( Read more... )

My tags had gotten out of control so I've spent the last few hours going back and tagging everything from the very first entry onwards. This allowed me to deal with duplicate tags, which should reduce things somewhat. In the process I came up with the following comments and thoughts relating to things I've previously posted in my journal ( Read more... )

Or space. I have too many hobbies. Watercolour painting, webpage design, cross stitch, calligraphy, illuminated lettering, drawing, stamp collecting, beadwork,etc. I've just added spinning (drop spindle so far, and I'm debating about trying weaving (got to do something with the results from the spinning LOL ( Read more... )

I finally figured out what a watermark is in stamp terminology.

Well, ten years or so ago, I collected stamps. I lost interest for a while, but some people kept giving me stamps. Over the weekend, I got an ice-cream bucket's worth (the 4 litre size). That gave me the kickstart to go back to the collection. Right now, I'm fairly enthusiastic with the project and two rooms of the house have been taken over by it ( Read more... )