In fact, toe tags make lovely Valentines. She just bought them because they looked cool. Soon after her purchase, while watching a rerun of palimony expert and actor Jack Klugman's 1970s-era television series Quincy, M.E. , Houser noticed that the shipping labels bore a close resemblance to the morgue identification system, a.k.a. toe tags, used in the show. Unwittingly, she had stepped into the national tag-trading arena. That's right, rubber stamps.
Toe tagging elevates rubber stamps from child's play to artist's medium.
Mostly we are hobbyists, and our activity is for fun and creative expression. Creating the art, however, is only half of the attraction. Perhaps what is most interesting about tag art is its function as a social activity, like bridge or quilting. Artisans come together to trade tags, ooh and ahh over each other's masterpieces and forge community. The theme was to commemorate favorite artists, and the response was overwhelming.