“My hypocrisy only goes so far”
I'm your huckleberry...From Sam
I'm sure most folks in the card blogging community have read that Sam, aka The Daily Dimwit, is taking a break from collecting. While many have left kind regards and well wishes to him on his blog (as well you should), I actually know Sam in real life, and can do that...
To Sell or Not to Sell
So, per usual, this weekend we made a shopping trip to Target and per usual I'm standing in the card isle trying to find something worth buying. My Target's card isle is usually pathetic, but this weekend they had two lonely blasters of Diamond Kings. I love Diamond...
How To: 2016 Topps Flagship
I should start this off by saying the easier way to do this is to take a scan of a card and simply cut out the "corner" design elements and paste them onto a photo. If you're more inclined to do that, I'd recommend reading the first part of the tutorial and ignoring...
Tutorial Sneak Peak
It had been a while since I did a custom card tutorial, so I thought I'd break down 2016 Topps flagship and try and recreate it. I think this is a fairly accurate representation. I'm still writing up the tutorial, I'll probably post it on Monday, but here's what to...
Five by Seven
I had purchased one of those oddball 5x7 cards in the past, a 1/10 Mookie Betts to be specific, but I guess I didn't realize Topps was just going to run with the idea for pretty much every set and/or variation. They're selling them online, usually in sets, and dealers...
2016 Card Show – Round 2
To be honest, I had the remaining stack of cards from the card show (back in freakin' February) sitting on my desk to be scanned until I moved them in an ill-fated attempt to "clean". Never again. Organized chaos is my go-to from now on. Not that anyone was waiting...
Two of the Big Ones
It's not every day you get to cross two cards off your Most Wanted list. One of these is relatively new, but impossible to find. The other has been on my want-list from the very beginning. The 2006 Upper Deck Dustin Pedroia rookie card. When I started collecting...
2016 Card Show – Round 1
Back on Valentine's Day, my wife surprised me with a "let's go to the card show!" day trip. We're not big Valentine's people, I don't need a special day to tell my wife I love her, and the mark up on flowers is insane, so we usually keep it low key. Going with me to...
The Random
There's always those random cards you pick up at random times that don't quite fit into a post on their own. Sure, I could mention how I picked up two Astros cards for no particular reason, but the truth is I just added them on to something else I was buying and I...
9 Threads
So, does having three Triple Threads give me nine total threads? There's something about 2015 Triple Threads that just wasn't really working for me. The background sort of looks like Inception, or Museum Collection. The colored parallels are just different colored...