What Keeps You Busy With Your Stamps At The Moment?

Having finished the taxes, finally! I'm back at my scanning of everything in the older International Scott.

As for me;

Finally finished all the soaking and sorting into countries.
Now ready to create album pages for all my Germany stamps.
Still sorting my US into Scott number order so I can separate all the dups out.

Always a major undertaking. All those differences in perfs from outwardly identical stamps.

Haven't had time to work on my stamps this week, but will try to get in a few hours tonight.

But at least some covers and postcards with postmarks from Finnøy came this week.

I am building a new album for my exposition cancels. It is taking more time than I intended but is progressing. I have about 25 pages done now.

Lovely pages Russ.

How about conducting a workshop on SCF
on how to lift and isolate postmarks?

A day of just relaxing with SCF.

I haven't had time to do much at all lately, I'm just waiting for a couple of orders I placed to show up, then I'll have a little bit of work putting it all away, but for the moment... nothing.

Russ
Fantastic pages! This album will be one of kind.

"I thought it would be fun to see what keeps the members here busy stamp wise at the moment."
Well probably filling in the gaps in my collection and looking for the best bang for my buck on the early ones and plate blocks and souvenir sheets. also trying to get all the on-paper ones I have amassed off paper and into stock books and organizing of course.

I agree with the praise given for those pages, Russ, inspiring stuff.
I have just realised I am trying to do too much again all at once, and consequently getting in a logjam. I have been soaking, buying kiloware, getting into covers, and trying to sort out my France and my USA collections, all at the same time.
Need to sloooow down again, take a deep breath, and tackle one job at a time
(Oh yes, and of course that other time consuming but rewarding stamp activity - Surfing on SCF!)

After not having much stamp time for a few weeks, I cleaned up my stamp area and did a bit of reorganizing. It actually made all the difference, now I can work with two stockbooks and a catalogue without any problem. Earlier that was complicated.

Have been working on my Canadian stamps the last few days. Been organizing them from an accumulation to a collection, while waiting for a load of Canadian stamps from a trade and from a lot I bought at an auction site.

Been thinking of doing the same thing with my New Zealand stamps next, unless something else catches my fancy instead.

I used the 3-day Memorial Day Weekend to delve deeper into my stamps. I printed out some pages from Stamp Albums Web for French Airmails, Switzerland, Canada and Israel and got all mounted except for the Israel page which I hope to do tonight.

My modus operandi has been to just select one set of stamps, find the appropriate page to download, print it out and then start mounting. Finished pages go into a 3-ring binder.

My process has been just to select what's on the top of the pile - a big pile at that - and work with it. At the same time, I am keeping a computerized want list for issues that are on the same page as the sets I'm mounting so I can be aware of what I need to complete the page. I also sent a want list request to a stamp dealer and am interested to see what kind of discount off of Scott Catalog Value they will offer.

I will put up some scans tonight.

Russ, I wanted to ask how you're fixing the covers to page? I have some I want to keep, and like the look of yours. Is it totally freeform, or is there a template of some sort?

Well now that the weather has changed from cool and wet to dry and hot..i am involved with things around my property...and checking on the SCF and stamp auctions on the net !!

Barb, It is pretty much freeform. I use the same basic style in MS Word and add the images that I want. I size the frame to allow for 1/8" space around the cover and mount with clear corners. If I have back stamps I cut out the area so that the back stamp can be viewed by flipping the page. If you are interested I can email a few pages to you.