K is not going to Houston on Thursday for a 6 month job. The job has been postponed a few months and won’t be Houston (at least not Port Lavacca, Texas).

I am relieved and anxious. This company is a huge opportunity for K so I hope it all comes out right, in the end.

Plus, there is always a chance that the new assignment will be around here (please).

So Jack The Cat and I are happy and K is restless (as usual).

On to NewNeedlepoint.com, business is good.  I recently had an order from Odessa, in the Ukraine.   I do the occasional overseas order, with prior agreement on postage.  I am not able to fill international Air Mail orders with Free Shipping.

My wake up call there was, years ago, when a copy of Margaret Boyles Bargello: and Explosion in Color cost $19.00 to ship to Australia.   Yikes.

I sold out of my initial order of June McKnight’s newest book, Bling, Glamour & Glitz in less then 1 week.  I have more copies (15, no less) speeding to me as I write this, I expect them before the end of the week.

Speaking of…..I have always sold a lot of June’s books, they seem to perennially in demand.  This past weekend I sold  4 of June’s books to a nice lady in Jacksonville, FL.  She got my last copies of  Christmas Stitches and Holiday Stitches for Needlepoint.

I will order more.  If you are a fan of these books you might have noticed that Needlepoint Wisdom, a classic June McKnight book, has been out of stock for a while now, has been withdrawn so it can be up-dated and re-released

(June told me this herself, in an email. (m brags)

As far as I am concerned that is as good as having lunch with Madonna. I once read a great story about Lunch With Madonna.  It was a group made of of Herself, some of her entourage and Jennifer Gray (Dirty Dancing etc).

Madonna ordered a small salad without cheese and everyone else got the exact same thing, except for Jennifer Gray why had cheese on hers.  She must have been flexing her own star power there.

Sorry, back to reality.  I am in process of listing my new Laurel Burch canvases & kits.   I have just a few more to do

The 2nd of the Pony series as a kit:

And 2 Orange & a Blue Dog:

I still have tons of new and new rare books to list too.   (reminding myself)

I also have some new hand painted canvases from other people.

The Quilting Bee is by Danji Designs

Vacationing Pets by Jane Wheeler.  I love the humor in her canvases, remember her raining cats & dogs from last year?

What else,  well, I am almost ashamed to admit it but I was interested in what all the Chelsa Handler hype was about so I read My Horizontal Life.  Yes, it had it’s funny parts and it’s true to life as I know it parts but this is not good writing or literature in any form.

I know that is harsh coming from an old lady like me who sometimes falls into a surging pool of Regency Romances (Love Georgette Heyer etc) still…..

Happy Valentine’s Day, as the Beatles sang, way back when I was still young  (did I ever mention I saw them live in Boston in 1964?)