My 1st Post

My husband, Tom (nr-notrare), has been harassing me to join the club. Apparently he just can't get enough of me, so this is me, joining the club! We just got home yesterday from the St. Louis Stamp Exposition where in addition to seeing a mind boggling amount of wonderful stamps and covers, we met Gussy and her hubby, Mike. I wish we lived closer to each other because I feel like I've found a kindred spirit in Gussy. I consider myself to be an advanced beginner....which means I know enough to be dangerous to our budget. My current interests are Special Delivery, especially E7s on cover and I find the local posts to be very interesting. I'll close my first post with a pic of one of my favorite stamps, a mint E7. I look forward to getting to know all of you.

wow..very minty indeed...congrats on your first post and welcome to SC

Glad you are here. Sorry I didn't meet you all on Saturday. Stamps can rub off on you after awhile. I got my wife collecting Disney stamps several years ago. She has since backed off almost completely, life gets in the way with a toddler running the house. I am a member of the Local Post Collector Society, which I just got an interest in. Can't wait to here more about your collection.

Welcome Sara

I think it's great that you and Tom can enjoy this hobby together

I'ts great that you decided to join us. I also think that it's great that you got to meet gussy. I only wish I lived closer to some of the members of this forum.

Dianne

PS I know exactly what you mean when you say you know enough to be dangerous to your budget

Hi, Sara! So glad you all were able to make it to St. Louis! Thank you for your kind words! It was great to get to meet you and nr-notrare! It was my first stamp show and I didn't know where to jump in at! ha Tom pointed to that back corner and they had some great stuff--I'm just waiting on my HONEY TO DO the computer re-arranging to acomadate my scanning and posting all from the same room.
So many stamps and so little time! ha

You're gonna have to show off that beautiful Hospital special delivery cover,too! I was amazed with it!

Welcome to the forum!
Gussy

Hey Everybody,

Thanks for the welcome! I have to go back to work tomorrow and my pillow is calling.........so, see ya tomorrow.

Know what you mean.

It's past midnight here and it's wayyyyyy past my bedtime.

Dianne

Hi Sara, welcome to the SCF.

It's great that you got to meet Gussyboy. I would like to meet some of you too, but it's a long way from Australia.

I'm thinking of starting a collection (of money, not stamps), to raise enough for airfares for Bandicoot, Emma and Myself (and Nuggethill from the other side of Aus) to come visit you all. Anyone want to make the first donation?

Steve

Welcome!
I testify that your husband never waste one cent for his interest.

Hi Sara. Welcome to the forum

Wecome! Welcome!

Hi Sara, and thank you for joining as others here have twisted my US only collecting habits towards World Wide.

Finally another US collector.

Hi Sara, its great to know another husband/wife collecter team or wife/husband....i suppose my wife got the bug from me...she has far surpassed me..she doesnt fool around...if she wants something she gets it...she doesnt sit there drooling about an item like I do ! Welcome !!

Welcome to the family!

Welcome, Sara.

Specialising in one aspect of United States collecting can be facinating. I have a few collections, mainly King George VI reign of our Empire & Commonwealth (see my avatar), and Costa Rica. I do specialise in the 1975 Americana Definitve Series. Very interesting.

I look forward to seeing some of your collection and learning more about the U.S. "Speedies".

Have fun, here!

David

G'Day Sara and to the forum,I'm into the BOB's as well but mainly Air mail,also it would be good to see your collection of Special Delivery stamps.regards Harry