It must have been five years ago when I was in my office with my son opening some SP Authentic.  He pulled a beauty of a card. While it wasn't (most likely) this exact card, this is how I remember it.  I thought it was absolutely amazing.  Brilliant even!  They took a game used jersey worn by Griffey to cut up and have him sign a letter ... then put it on a card! Then I found out they just manufactured the letter to be signed.  I thought something was up when they started making sets of these cards that

Know what I love?  Making customs of cards that don't exist or were never made.  It adds a certain layer of depth to my collection.  I suspect many of you who have customs in your collections feel the same way.  A '69 Topps Garvey, '66 Topps Ryan, 81 Fleer Ripken, etc. In the past few weeks, I have focused on creating a few cards that never existed and modifying others. I found this autographed 2011 Goodwin Champions on an advertisement sales sheet for the set.  It didn't look familiar, so I checked my collection.  Not there.  I also checked Becket. 

Last night, the city of Houston was treated to a torrential downpour, and isn't expected to be finished until Wednesday night.  At around midnight, we decided to go out and watch as hail pelted our roof.  The rain came down so fierce, we could hardly see the houses across the street! When I woke up, all was quiet.  After enjoying some delicious milk with breakfast, I had to run my folks back to their house since they borrowed our car yesterday.  On the way, our neighborhood looked like it had been hit by a friggin' tornado.  This is a pic