Back when I started this blog, it was almost entirely a knitting blog. The archives here got back to 2004! I haven’t always had my own domain, I transferred over here from Blogger a couple years ago; and I had a LiveJournal before I started with Blogger!

I love my crafty blog. My personal blog, the LJ, died a death, but I love posting my craft projects and projects-in-progress for people to see. It’s great to have other people who know and appreciate the craft and time and effort involved actually see it. My boyfriend tells me my socks are very nice, and gee, you’ve been working on those for a long time, but he’ll never quite ‘get it’ until he knits.

Now that this is a papercraft blog as well as a knitting blog, I’ve been ‘meeting’ some new people. What’s even more exciting is that there’s some overlap! And that brings me to my latest joy.

I received a Ravelry message the other day with the title ‘stamps’. I thought that was interesting, because Ravelry is entirely a fibrecraft site. It was a fellow knitter, and also a dyer of yarn and fibre, who had  “oh, about a hundred rubber stamps that need a good home, and I was going to donate them to a charity shop, but I’d love to send them to you if you want them!” Um, yes? We agreed that’d I’d pay the cost of shipping.

Now I exaggerate a lot. Like right now, I would say it is -5 million degrees outside, so I thought ‘a hundred rubber stamps’ would be say, 40 at most. When I received the PayPal request for $43 in shipping, I started to wonder if I was underestimating.

The parcel slip arrived a couple days ago, and yesterday I got up early to get to the post office and bring the parcel back here before work. My post office is a 5 minute walk away, so naturally, I walked. I regretted that when I saw the size of the box, but I got home fine. I had 10 minutes before I had to leave for work, so naturally I opened it. I found more boxes. And in those boxes:

Needless to say, I spent all day at working just waiting until I could come home and lay them all out! And 8.5 hours later, I did!

That’s a whole lot of awesome stamps. Here’s some closer photos, click any of them for larger versions:

That skeleton was divided up between all the different boxes and bags, I kept finding different bones different places.

A very long-winded way of saying: I love the interwebs, and the connections I’ve made with people from all over through it. It’s great to know crafters, because crafters are awesome people.

Excuse me, I have 100 new stamps to go play with.