Oct 2018 PTEX from CathyO and Marie (4,000th post)

The low contrast on Cathy's makes it hard to see how really pretty the lettering is. It looks like walnut ink and the stamp is gorgeous. The white highlights add just the right amount of sparkle.

Below, Marie said she was inspired by tamarac trees. Tamaracs are conifers that drop their needles the way deciduous trees drop their leaves. It's fun to note that even in the world of trees, there are a few rebels - that just have to do things entirely opposite. Why is that?

Feb 17th was the 9th anniversary of the blog. I forgot to mention that. I also noticed that we were getting really close to 4,000 posts. The blog does not show an all-time tally, just yearly tallies. I can see the all-time tally when I am scheduling new posts to pop up.

Yesterday, according to my calculations, we hit 4,000 posts. I divided 4,000 posts by 9 years and it was a twilight zone moment.

4.444444444

Cool, eh?

Although someone should check my math as well as my calculator battery. I am only 50-50 on my math skills.

Nov 2018 PTEX to Carolyn (Smash's idea) + Exchange History

Yup, I was surfing for ideas and saw one of Smash's that I liked. I might have been surfing through my own blog.

Below is how it looked after I added the address. I think this ida would have been better with a name that allowed for larger boxes. Technically, a shape around a word or letter is called a cartouche.

Getting rid of the vintage stamps has been monumentally helpful to my peace of mind.

One of the exchangers mentioned how long the exchange has been going - which I have researched - but never manage to record my findings - so I re-researched and found a blog post on Nov 22, 2013 that referred to an exchange. They were not monthly in the beginning.   At some point, I will find the first monthly post. Maybe, by labeling this *history* I will find the info next time I have time to re-research.

Whenever I go back and look at old posts, I am A.M.A.Z.E.D at how many ideas there are on the blog. And some of them are decent.