I need to vent to someone who'll understand.
Tonight my daughter had Brownies (2nd and 3rd graders). Later this month they are doing some international day event and our troop is France. All the scouts will have a passport which will be stamped/ marked at the various booths. The leader mentioned trying to find a stamp to stamp passports.
Who jumps up wildly waving her hand, "I have a France stamp! I have a France stamp!"
She's happy and I am tickled that I can make this contribution to the troop.
Flash forward to when I get home and I start looking for the stamp from my special international stamp set. It has 10 countries as words: Malaysia, China, Japan, Scotland, Egypt, England, Spain, Africa and a few others.... Guess which country it doesn't have?
Bummer but I have a LOT of stamps and I was on an international kick in my stamp youth so I trudge on and go through all my UM's, mounteds and sets. Maybe I have an Eiffel Tower or something that will work. NO- I don't!
After all of my scrounging I have a Franc (French money) stamp- in French, dozens of cute French phrases like "Merci" (comped to me by a vendor) and a Paris, France postmark stamp. And 1 HUGE (2x4 inch) very detailed image of a can can dancer. I think we'll be able to use the postmark stamp... but it is not what I had in mind!
The postmark stamp is from Sunday International and you can see the sheet HERE It is on the bottom row 3rd from the left. And I know- you can't see it well. It is about the size of a nickel.
I swear if the kids had China, Japan, India or Egypt I would have had every option possible for them. I even have some faux postage stamps for really obscure countries. I have a mini bagpiper who would be perfect for Scotland and some other stamps that would be the perfect thing for passports... but do I have ANYTHING like that for FRANCE? Oh heck no!
Just had to share that story with you...
9 comments:
I'm sorry, I've been laughing reading thru the post...
I know just how you feel.
Thanks for sharing.
That's funny, I can just imagine the panic!! I thought I had one I could send to you, but I just checked, apparently my memory is like yours! HA!
oh no! I can just see the panic...rummaging through stamps....oh well, we do understand! Thanks for stopping by my blog, too!
Oh no! I can only imagine!
No France? WHAT THE?!?!?! Do you have a Just Rite stamper? Could you 'make' a passport stamp? I have the one with all the little letters to make your own circle statement, like Happy Birthday and boring things like that. You could make a F-R-A-N-C-E one with a date in the centre, non?
So sorry ;) I think this is how life goes usually..... very typical!
In my house, this type of event is common. We call it 'Sod's Law'. LOL
Did you manage to find anything suitable?
Viv xx
I agree...that is pretty funny. :)
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