Post by mourningdoves on Dec 23, 2018 23:38:43 GMT -5
More cleaning up. My stamp room has a recurring habit of looking like a luggage room in a 300-year-old hotel, so I've spent my spare hours since last weekend trying to put everything in its proper place. Someday I'll have to get used to the idea that I'm an orderly person with a disorderly hobby. I even had a few moments where I thought maybe I have too many stamps, but I chased that ill-famed notion away as soon as I could.
What I did learn is that I have wayyyy too many stamps on paper. I love sorting through mixtures and looking for goodies and postmarks and nitpicking varieties, but all that soaking can be a time sink, so to speak, and time is something I don't always have.
I finally repacked some hideous, gloomy cardboard boxes that have been against the south wall since Sir Rowland Hill got his first haircut, and found a cheerier home for their contents (U.S. on paper). And I even set up a corner where I can make tea without having to go upstairs. It's not that I'm lazy; of course not, no way! It's because Sarah the Shepherdess starts worring when she's left alone in the basement, and so I can't just take off for 8 or 9 minutes and make tea; it wouldn't be right. That, and there's chore lists upstairs.
Tomorrow I'll get back to working on Greece with a clear conscience and a pure heart. And tea.
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They are stored in We R Memory Keeper binders. These binders are substantial with thick nicely finished covers.
Those pages look awesome, but yeah, I gotta believe it's a ton of work. I'm halfway to burnout just making Vario tags, never mind trying to center those blocks and everything else that goes along with designing a quality page.
The idea of binders that stand up without help intrigues me. When I saw the name, I had a musical blast go through my head:
We are mem-o-REEE...
I've got all my plate blocks in MEEEEE!
France has had a boatload of great stamps, but those 1950s ones have a special place in my heart. I can't say exactly what it is, but there's something mysterious about them. It's like they are highly detailed and somehow stark at the same time.
Excellent! Back when I was in Postcrossing, I thought Ukrainian stamps were the most consistently elegant of any stamps that ever arrived on a postcard. For some reason I had the idea that none of them were soakable and I never went out of my way to find mixtures or packets of the post-independence ones. (I don't think I've ever seen any mixtures offered from Ukraine, anyway. I used to comb through several mail-order lists and probably would have noticed.)
What I did learn is that I have wayyyy too many stamps on paper. I love sorting through mixtures and looking for goodies and postmarks and nitpicking varieties, but all that soaking can be a time sink, so to speak, and time is something I don't always have.
I finally repacked some hideous, gloomy cardboard boxes that have been against the south wall since Sir Rowland Hill got his first haircut, and found a cheerier home for their contents (U.S. on paper). And I even set up a corner where I can make tea without having to go upstairs. It's not that I'm lazy; of course not, no way! It's because Sarah the Shepherdess starts worring when she's left alone in the basement, and so I can't just take off for 8 or 9 minutes and make tea; it wouldn't be right. That, and there's chore lists upstairs.
Tomorrow I'll get back to working on Greece with a clear conscience and a pure heart. And tea.
Last year I tried to get creative by creating custom pages but lost interest. The majority are just loose in the sleeves using some colored paper that I never had planned to use.
(...)
They are stored in We R Memory Keeper binders. These binders are substantial with thick nicely finished covers.
Those pages look awesome, but yeah, I gotta believe it's a ton of work. I'm halfway to burnout just making Vario tags, never mind trying to center those blocks and everything else that goes along with designing a quality page.
The idea of binders that stand up without help intrigues me. When I saw the name, I had a musical blast go through my head:
We are mem-o-REEE...
I've got all my plate blocks in MEEEEE!
Now I moved on to France for a while.
France has had a boatload of great stamps, but those 1950s ones have a special place in my heart. I can't say exactly what it is, but there's something mysterious about them. It's like they are highly detailed and somehow stark at the same time.
I am emptying my 2 drying books on Ukraine.
Excellent! Back when I was in Postcrossing, I thought Ukrainian stamps were the most consistently elegant of any stamps that ever arrived on a postcard. For some reason I had the idea that none of them were soakable and I never went out of my way to find mixtures or packets of the post-independence ones. (I don't think I've ever seen any mixtures offered from Ukraine, anyway. I used to comb through several mail-order lists and probably would have noticed.)