Some turn of the century Stamping Nostalgia

In between meetings, why not use this blog for some old photos? I was browsing around the oldest and dustiest corners of my hard disk, and found these. I think they are from Melbourne Papercrafts in 1999 - the report in the January 2000 issue of The Rubber Gazette (written by me, in my magazine debut!) seems to corroborate that.

Melbourne Papercrafts was held at the Community Centre in Mount Waverley, not far from where SERS meets now.

Here's Helen, AKA Daisy, the founder of the Stamphappy mailing list, and co-organiser of Melbourne Papercrafts (with Stacey, who is still the boss of Paperific). Helen is standing at the stamp-making machine she organised to be in the foyer for us - it would take a photo and produce a self-inking rubber stamp. Whoa, cool, eh?


This is Laurie, SERS regular in past years, and owner of small dogs.
















This is Julie van Oosten, co-founder of The Rubber Gazette magazine (right), with Lea Saddington, (center) who took the magazine on in later years, and Anne Kelso (left), brilliant stamper and TRG helper.