less is more
I love cliche’s. They cover every occasion, no need to think or be creative in any way. Just insert the appropriate cliche’ and you’re good to go (yes, another one).
I have lowered the prices on some (not all) of the canvases & kits in my Clearance Sale Category.
Now I am priced below (AWK) my wholesale price and the free shipping is my gift to you (someone stick a fork in me, I’m done).
I did not mark down all of them. A few of the Danji Design canvases are worth what I am asking for them (and more).
I am not doing a 2nd markdown on my Patt & Lee designs. I think the sale ones are well worth what I am asking for them
I am, this week I hope, going to begin listing all the new, new books and the few new rare books I have. Now that my sale is in place, I am ready to move on.
Look for category changes, consolidating the remaining needlepoint canvas & kit categories and adding a few specific categories (like a stand alone Laurel Burch category).
I am expanding the books categories. All cross stich books will be in their own category with cross categorization for needlepoint books which also cover cross stitch (many of them).
Ok, to the meat and potatoes of this blog (see, 4 cliche’s so far). Here is a random sampling of the items I have further marked down. And not just a dollar or 2. These are real 2nd markdowns.
That’s just some of them. The ones I think might hook you into coming to my web store and looking around
I am still reading Charlotte Bronte’s Vilette. I am on page 600ish of 750ish. It has been good for me to read this. About 6% of the book is written in French with no translation.
When I was in grade school (the try this program mad 1950s) I was part of a test group. They began us in French (which is a more or less a useless language now, better it had been Spanish or Chinese) in 1st grade and we had it until 6th grade. The again in High School.
The result is I can still read French (more or less). I can not reasonably speak or understand it but I can read it. This has been good practice.
Villette is an interesting book, much overlooked by the Wuthering Heights crowd. It is from the point of view of a private, shy and introspective young lady. Surprising how much happens to her while nothing happens to her.
K had a fun 50th birthday, it was fun for me too. His freakout has passed for now.
a week in
My Clearance sale is going very well. I have sold some wonderful designs. Among the solds are these:
and all three Rosewood Laying Tools I had.
I have also sold 2 of Patt & Lee’s excellent Stash Tread designs, at full price (YES)
I have a few more to add today.
These 3 are printed canvases. This one is not printed that well but it is a nice subject. I have kitted this using Paternayan Wools for the buildings & night sky, DMC #5 Perle Cotton Floss for the details and Kreinik Metallic Gold and Metallic White for the angels.
These 2 are printed very well. Both would work as Scrap Thread designs or can be stitched using the wonderful colors in the designs.
Plus the big Iris canvas is being posted but not as a kit. I did not have enough shades of purple to kit this design.
and this pretty design, kitted with Paternayan Wool.
I am in process of setting up my new iPad, I have finally read all my new “paper” books and I am ready to begin reading ebooks. Set up is easy (if you are not me). This is my 2nd day at it.
BTW, I finished Frances Burney’s Evelina. If you can manage it, with all the archaic speeches and protestations, it is a wonderful and romantic book with excellent villains (a good villain or 2 makes a story).
I think I shall collapse into a pool of quivering jello when I have finished today and try to solidify over the weekend.
done (for now)
I have marked down the Patt & Lee Designs canvases & kits that I still have. As I mentioned, I sent quite a few of them to a trunk show they are doing in Arizona in February. It helps to have more to show and I have/had a very large stock of Patt & Lee designs.
What is not included in the sale is most of Patt’s Scrap Threads Designs. They have been solid sellers for me and I believe in Patt’s Concept. I think the idea of designs specially made to use up the massive amounts of *extra threads, yarns etc* we all have is a great one.
Although Patt uses color for the designs, the point is you use what you have, with some good judgement & taste (which we all have, of course) the finished product will be fine.
Below is a sampling of the P&L I have for sale
There is more in the Sale Category
Despite what I said earlier, I have included a few tools in my sale.
The books are not on sale, interestingly I have sold 4 books (3 new, 1 rare used) since the sale began along with a good number of kits. So far everyone is buying the kits, not the canvases alone. It makes sense, you are getting the threads for the canvases close to free.
I know, I know, I need to lighten my inventory. Not only for cash purposes but we all know another move is coming up, maybe as early as next summer.
This sale has consumed me for a while now. I will begin to list some of the new books I have received in this time.
I am thinking of other stitch “areas” to go into in my book collections. I asked some advice (as usual) from Jane, the mistress and master stitchtress of The Chilly Hollow Needlepoint Adventure Blog.
I will ask Jane’s permission to quote her answer here in my blog, she put a lot of work and thought (and links) into it.
My good friend Patt of Patt & Lee Designs has a blog as well, it is interesting, as is her design work.
2 blogs ago she said it was her last blog. I hope not. I tried to respond to that but her blog thingie would not let me. (she probably has me on a do-not-blabb-endlessly list or something. If you want to post to it, this is the link:
http://www.pattandleedesigns.blogspot.com/
She has the best blog background I have ever seen.
Yes, I am still reading. Currently Francis Burney’s Evalina. Published in the 1778 it is also in the form of letters but this book is sparkling and witty and fun. I am really enjoying it.
It is one of the last of the new *paper* books I have. I suppose I should finally set up my new iPad. I have no idea why I hesitate, it is a Mac thing and I have been a Mac user since before they were called Macs. (remember Apple Computers? Apple 2, Lisa etc)
My son told me his blended easily and seamlessly into his Mac set up. It practically did it all by itself.
So, it is cold here, snow due this week but nothing like what they are getting in the south and is due in New England. This area seems to be a moderate climate, cold but not terrible or hot but not unbearable with long lovely springs & falls.
I wonder where we will go next? I have asked to live close to my son. Best would be a “Regional Position” where we can mostly live where we want (as long as it is near a major airport).
Are you listening down there in South Carolina (where K’s employer is based). Probably not, I doubt they know about my silly little bog (I enjoy it so).
almost there
I listed a lot more of the sale items today. These were the ones that had not been listed ever…on NewNeedlepoint.com anyway.
It was a long day. I had to assemble the kits, photograph the kits & canvases, edit the pics, and list the items. No surprise is is 2:08 am (my usual productive hours).
I am making life easy on myself (relatively speaking). The canvases that had not been listed before are going up as either Canvas Alone or just as a Kit. I do not think I can face doing them all as both.
Most of these will not come with a Stitch Placement Guide (unless I have already made one or it is a Beginner Kit). At these sale prices I am not leaning towards working the usual hours they each take me.
Here are today’s new canvases & kits. All the Sale stuff can be found in my CLEARANCE Category.
There are some more to do, mostly the Patt & Lee Canvases & Kits I am including in the sale (not that many of them) and a few laggards I have laying around.
So, it has been a long day.
BTW, we bought Jack The Cat an amazing new Cat Condo, it took a long time to be delivered but it finally came today (in a semi on my small residential street).
I will take a picture of it tomorrow. You will then have proof positive that I am a total moron besotted with my cat.
it begins
I have about half (maybe 1/3) of the needlepoint canvases & kits I am including in my BIG Clearance Sale marked down so far.
The cuts in price are deep, in some cases below my own wholesale cost. I am pretty much *eating* the free shipping. Trust me, I will ship this stuff as cheap as I can.
Below are some samples of what I have marked down, for prices go to NewNeedlepoint.com
I have 12 canvases I have been holding back to kit, photograph and list for the sale too as well as the Patt & Lee canvases & kits.
I have sent some of my stock of Patt & Lee designs canvases to be shown at a Trunk Show but I still have a few left to add to the sale.
In fact, while I am sitting here writing and pondering I think I will go back to my web store admin site and make a Clearance Sale Category, not just talk about it.
Night.
all kinds of updates
Well, my tests for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome were inconclusive. I do not think I have it. I think I was just sick a long, long time and am a lazy no-goodnik.
I do seem to have more energy now. I have listed all but 2 of the rare books I had in a huge pile. I made a special category for the Glorafilia books
There are 4 of them, so far. They are also cross-referenced in the Rare Needlepoint Design Books category
Now I will create another category for the Cross-Stitch books.
Do you remember last Thanksgiving my son (the dual trained pastry chef and culinarian) made this gingerbread house for the restaurant he works for (LTK, a division of Legal Sea Foods)
This is Boston’s Old North Church
This year he did a gingerbread boat. It is Old Ironsides (the USS Constitution) permanently docked in Boston Harbor. When I was in school we did a tour if the boat, it was fascinating.
I will try to get a better picture of it.
I am taking Jane’s (the Chilly Hollow Needlepoint Adventure Blog) advice and buying just the handpainted sports ornaments (mostly)
but I can’t resist just one of the large Red Sox canvases, the same one I am about to stitch. Keith says (and I agree) that there are Red Sox fans everywhere.
I will not get these until after the first of the year so the ornaments will be for next year (unless you want one for now, to hang where ever)
I will try to do this blog more often. As exhausted as I might feel, once I start to write this I am energized. I will try harder. I don’t want any of you (my 3 readers) to forget me.
I am reading another Amanda Quick trilogy, the Dreamlight Series. It is an extension of the Arcane Society Series.
I finished The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield but I am left with 2 questions.
Who died in the fire, Emmeline or Adelaide? and did Ms Setterfield create her “storyteller” in the book to look almost exactly like her on purpose?
done, done, done
This is a first, I am *caught up*. I have listed and done everything I intended to do on NewNeedlepoint.com
(m does her happy dance, it is not a pretty sight).
I think I have only been close to being caught-up once before and it lasted 15 seconds or so.
Father B update:
BTW, Now I know why I had a run on Father B’s 21st Century Stitches book. It is mentioned in the September/October issue of Needlepoint Now.
I ran out last week but place an order for more right away. I made the listing In-Active on my web site. I am activating it right now. You can buy the book and I will ship it the instant I get (which I hope will be soon)
Ok, back to my scheduled blather:
The holiday stuff is listed, the books are all listed. All my ducks are sitting in a nice row quacking happily.
I am now at leisure (ha!) to do a few things I have wanted to do to improve the site.
I have begun showing a colorful inside picture of the books that do not have dust covers
instead of the title page
I think it is a much more attractive way to show the listing on the web site catalog page.
Of course, some of them have colorful title pages so the point is moot.
(I love the word “moot”)
I have been doing the recent ones this way, now I will change the others.
I have a few canvases I have been holding back, not wanting to flood the site with too similar designs. There are 11 of them. I will list 2 of them plus a Patt & Lee Design I was having trouble deciding what to do with.
Patt sells this is a regular canvas. I, in my search for more Scrap Thread canvases, I thought I would market it as that. But when I got it, I saw that if it was listed as a Scrap Thread Canvas and stitched in other colors the whole point to the design would be lost.
The feeling here is very Southwest American. The design, the colors, everything.
So, I have gone from planning to list it as a Scrap Threads canvas to listing it as a kit only. I think it needs these specific colors for the design to be a success.
It seems that I *lost* a second Laurel Burch canvas on my racks (where I hang the canvases using skirt hangers so they stay nice). I am not sure why this keeps happening, maybe because they are smallish and get hidden between others. Or maybe because I have the memory span of a goldfish. Anyway….
I like these Green Dogs. I will list them canvas alone or as a kit. I am kitting them using rich Copper Kreinik Metallic Thread in place of the same old Gold
The last one is an Imari Plate design by Danji Designs. It is one of their 13 mesh canvases so it needs a larger size floss to stitch. Since I do not stock DMC #3 size floss (yet, it is a huge investment to buy another size, I have to buy the entire color spectrum in boxes of 12) I usually kit these using the lovely Paternayan Needlepoint Wool I have. The colors are different from the DMC & Anchor colors, richer, softer, perhaps more subtle and it is a easy stitch, using 2 strands on 13 mesh.
I am going to list this 3 different ways. As the canvas alone, as a kit using all Paternayan Wool and as a kit using Paternayan Wool for most of the design but the Gold Accents all done with Kreinik Metallic Hi-Lustre Braid Thread in Gold.
Obviously it will use quite a bit of the Gold, I estimate 5 spools (and I made sure I had more, in case more was needed). This will make the kit much more expensive than the all wool kit so I am offering it both ways.
Ok, moving on. Remember that possible scam I told you about involving the 2 orders for the exact same 2 bargello needlepoint books the same night, just minutes apart?
I have had another email from the 2nd buyer (the one who got the refund). I have sent her all the transaction information I have (isn’t it a good thing I am compulsive and I printed it and attached it to the order).
Hmmmmm again.
My sale of my house bumps along. The buyers have been “traveling” so the inspection is next Monday. I am told my house passed the appraisal thingie (to give a mortgage the bank wants to be sure the house is worth what they are lending).
I hope this goes through. My marvelous caretakers, Doreen & Valerie, tell me there is so much for sale there, I am lucky to get a buyer and I agree.
I have veered off from reading Georgette Heyer on the an odd tangent. I have a collection of books by Richard Matheson, the famous writer of genuine scaries, adult ones.
I re-read Hell House, incredible book. The old movie made from the book, The Legend of Hell House with Roddy McDowell and Pamlyn Franklin, was (and is) a pretty creepy good movie but it is nothing compared to the book. WOW.
Going to Richard Matheson from Georgette Heyer is some change. I am following Hell House up with the another novel by John Harwood, who wrote the book I recently finished , The Seance. It turns out I got it backwards (go figure). The book I am reading now, The Ghost Writer, was his first.
This book has no connection to the recent movie of the same name, with Ewan McGregor (who is indeed a hunk). That was an ok movie, I am not far enough into the book yet to judge it.
I think I mentioned we rent this dismal & dingy 3 bedroom duplex house here in Lititz and that our joining wall neighbors have 3 kids, 2 of whom are in a Heavy Metal Rock Bank. They practice there. They are very LOUD. They try to be considerate of us and once they realized I do not “go out to work every day” but work here at home they stopped practicing 7 days a week. (Plus school has started again!!!).
The drummer is a 15 year old, Andrew. These are nice kids, very nice kids but they do look the heavy metal part. I have lost track of the number of studs he & his sister have on their faces & bodies, a lot of them (the sister, Danielle is a wonderful singer).
Andrew, this young Heavy Metal Drummer mows our lawn every week. We pay him for this and are glad to do so. We were in a HOA community in Florida, they did all that, we do not own a lawnmower etc. anymore.
So, here is this punk rocker mowing our lawn. I love discordant things like that.
So, I am off to enjoy a Night Off but before you get too excited for me, I am going to iron tonight. I like to iron, I do it while watching a movie.
Pirate Cat
I received my 2 copies of Patt’s (of Patt & Lee Design) wonderful Pirate Cat, holding a Trick or Treat sign, needlepoint canvases today.
As many of you already know (or suspect) it takes me anywhere from a few days to several months to list a new canvas.
This one arrived here at 4pm (we have a late afternoon mail delivery schedule here, it can be annoying if you are waiting for something).
It is now 10:32 pm and Pirate Cat is taped, photographed, edited and listed!
I don’t know if you are following Jane, the Master Stitchress (is that a word?) of the Chilly Hollow Needlepoint Adventure Blog as she stitches this Pirate Cat on her blog
She is doing wonderful (and unusual) things with this design, she really is one great stitcher (as opposed to ole plain stitch me).
I have listed all the “time is of the essence” Christmas themed canvases & kits except for this one.
I suspect this means I do not love/like it. if so, I have no idea why (maybe the muddy colors?). It is a Laurie Korsgaden hand painted design and I liked it well enough to order it……we shall see if I get over this or not.
There are a few more *regular* canvas & kits I have to list now.
Some of them I have not shown you yet.
This is the Gail Lang River Bird I have mentioned. This is a small canvas.
Another Beginner Kit, The Lady Bug, also a small canvas in 14 mesh.
This Beach Cabanas. The rich colors and design are very evocative for me.
The last of the Patt & Lee Christmas Tree Ornament needlepoint kits. This one came just today with Pirate Cats.
My first thought when I saw it was “Baby’s First Christmas” but I need to change the gray background. These toys deserve a better color background.
I have The Mighty Bright L.E.D Floor Light and Magnifier back in stock. I was amazed that I had sold all I had, even with the $10.00 shipping surcharge. This costs me more then that to ship, even using UPS Ground.
I even have an account with UPS now but I find for the things I mostly ship I do better with cost & ship time with USPS.
I do have to confess, this is the only one of the tools I sell on NewNeedlepoint
that I don’t actually use.
I already have 3 (count em) Ott Lights and at this price (even high wholesale) I did not want to keep one. My supplier told me they are excellent lights and so they seem to be.
I am ok, we are sweating out the inspection 15 days on the sale of my house. Then I have to worry for the 30 days of their Mortgage Contingency. They want to move in 10/28 so they are cutting it close.
There is nothing wrong with my house (except maybe the pool motor which failed last weekend and my excellent pool guy replaced as fast as he could.).
Why do things like that always happen just when you most need them to not happen. One of my houses got a good offer during the only time the basement of it ever flooded, ever!.
Of course, they asked for a sump pump to be installed which I gladly did.
I am still hiding in Georgette Heyer’s books. I plowed through A Civil Contract, then Frederica and now Arabella. I am running down my favorites list.
Have any of you seen the Leonardo Di Caprio movie directed by Martin Scorsese, Shutter Island? I am a fan of both of their work. This was a deep and sometimes difficult movie. The ending was a total surprise for me. Overall I liked it very much. It is on Pay-Per-View right now.
I keep thinking about both their first (well known anyway) movies.
For Leonardo it was the excellent What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, with Johnny Depp.
For Mr Scorsese it was Mean Streets with an impossibly young Robert DiNiro and Harvey Keitel. They both remain favorite movies (among my zillion others).
Odd, I would use Johnny Depp in this post (a first) which starts with Pirate Cat
I , ahhhh, lifted this picture from the Chilly Hollow Blog.
And
a request
I don’t have much to show you tonight. I have 9 new & replacement canvases from Patt & Lee ( Patt gets & deserves my appreciation for getting them to me so fast). 7 of them are brand new Stash Thread Designs, I have 2 Mona Lisa Cats and 1 is a star ornament. I have 4 new Laurel Burch (including the one I found buried in my stock) 2 ornaments, 2 pets.
3 new Ornament designs by Laurie Kostigan and one small Stocking. These are very color rich using 10, 13 or more colors in each 5 inch ornament.
I have a replacement for Gail Lang’s adorable Snowman Ornament.
Plus an amazing bird, about to take flight from a branch above a river, also by Gail Lang.
They have all been taped or hemmed (the smaller ones mostly taped, small canvases rarely have enough extra canvas outside the design for me to hem them).
They have been kitted and are all ready for the photographs. Unfortunately it was dusk before I got this done and I need daylight for the pictures.
So I have nothing visual to show you.
As you might (or might not know) I won my bet with Jane who writes the Chilly Hollow Needlepoint Adventure Blog. Interestingly she says the word “Adventure” is the most important word in her title. I believe it.
I bet her readers would pick Patt & Lee’s Pirate Cat and they did.
Patt has promised I will have several of these to sell while Jane is stitching it. I am holding my breath.
The main purpose of tonights post (besides just reminding everyone that I am still here) is a letter I received from the Ohio Women’s Prison NeedleArts Rehabilitation Project thanking me from my last package. The letter went on to say that their greatest need is Knitting Yarn.
I surmise that knitting is considered the most “marketable” of the NeedleArts.
I do not knit but my mother used to, we all have and love the afghans she made for us all over the years. My mother has a real eye for color as long as it involves blue.
She can’t knit anymore but has a fair amount of wool left over. I have asked her to send it to me, so I can send it to them.
I am asking you too. Please send any extra and left over knitting yarn you have to:
Elizabeth Wright, Warden’s Assistant
c/o The Community Service Stitching Post
Ohio Reformatory for Women
1479 Collins Ave
Marysville, OH 43040-9102
You can email her at
Elizabeth.Wright@odrc.state.oh.us
You will receive, eventually, a nice letter thanking you for your donation that you can use for a nice little tax deduction.
Ask your knitting friends. I think this is a good one.
OK, I know I said I wouldn’t do it but I did. I have 4 Clair Sanchez Tote or Shoulder Bags left. I have marked them down to $20, which still includes free shipping). This is much less than 1/2 of what I paid for them (if you figure in the shipping and I do).
So…….buy them already.
I am still reading The Seance by John Harwood. An extraordinary book. I often figure out mysteries before they are done, even some of the really good ones. I have no idea what is to be here. I am on my last few chapters and only true love for for NewNeedlepoint got me away from the book this close to finishing it.
Ok, I promised myself if I list the last 5 rare/used books on my desk I can go finish the book. See ya.
Laurel Burch & Christmas
I have new canvases. I just finished taping/hemming the edges. I can’t kit them until tomorrow, I need daylight for that. It is hard to truly see a color and it’s relationship to other colors in artificial light.
I have 3 new Laurel Burch animals, 2 Laurel Burch Tree Ornaments. Four new Ornament designs and 1 replacement for 1 sold
Please, do not absolutely judge these canvases from these pictures, they were taken in terrible light using the camera’s flash.
My usual pictures are done in “studio conditions” with proper lighting etc.
But I wanted to show them to you.
The next three are Laurel Burch designs. They are smallish designs ranging in size from 3.5 X 6 inches to 4 X 7 inches.
Below is the Blue Dogs, they look like “father & son” to me. It is 18 mesh.
Next and the smallest is this handsome Black Cat. This is also 18 mesh canvas. I have a antique gold color Kreinik Metallic Thread that will be perfect for his flowers. However, I think his outlines will not be in a metallic.
The last one is a surprising 14 mesh canvas. This is the canvas I forgot I had. It has been sitting buried among my other canvases for a while now. I can’t believe I forgot this cat with his friend the bird (or maybe his tormentor the bird)
Below is one of the two Laurel Burch Christmas Tree Ornaments I have. The design measures 5 X 6.5 inches and it is 14 mesh canvas. This should stitch up very quickly. As always, it has LB’s wonderful jewel tone colors.
These next Ornament & Stocking is from Laurie Korsgaden Designs. Most of her work seems to be holiday themes and she clearly knows holiday design and motifs well.
The ornament is a 5 inch circle on 18 mesh canvas. This is the Snowman Angel
Below is a small Christmas stocking design that could be used as an ornament. It measures 5.5 X 7 inches and is also 18 mesh canvas. I like the Santa Cat here.
I have not been sleeping much lately, no idea why but NewNeedlepoint.com is reaping the benefits or me awake & alert (how unusual).
Last night I listed all the rare books I bought as replacements for ones I sold. Some of them sell so frequently I have begun buying more than 1 at a time.
Every time I look for some of my most popular books I find the prices are higher. It goes from slightly higher to very noticeably higher.
I suppose I am creating “rare book situations” with my buying, thus driving prices up.
I have 5 new used/rare books to list. Assuming I can’t sleep again I will do them tonight.
I know I have mentioned I am stitching one of the Eileen Best designs that I took from my stock.
This is how far I have gotten. Remember, I had to unstitch ( a polite way of saying rip it out) the double strand stitches I had done. The area was pretty much this size.
These are the maybe/maybe not colors I am using. The pink/red/mauve is a keeper. I am not sure yet about the greens, I have changed them a lot, so far. I think the yellows will be good. I would love to do the white with Kreinik #12 Metallic white thread but I only have 4 spools of it left and these Ornaments are going to need it (all that snow)
Then again maybe it would not suit, just one Metallic color with all the others.
I do need to order more (but that means I have to go through all the Kreinik to see what else I am getting low on and what colors I want to add).
I am using the DMC & Anchor #8 Perle Cotton Floss. As I said, the colors are up for discussion.
I ordered another of the Pink Circles canvas and I will list it tomorrow but I think I will list it as just the canvas. If someone wants to stitch along with me, we can discuss the colors.
Things for me are good. The weather is gorgeous, we went for a ride yesterday through all the back country roads and farmland.
Actually we were looking for someplace to have dinner. The few places that were open had waiting lists to eternity (or bus loads of tourists running to the door to get in first).
In an Amish and Mennonite area such is this, almost no place is open on Sunday. They even close the self-service car wash that is open 24 hours a day. 6/24 not 7/24.
We had a lovely ride. we passed an amazing numbers of Amish families and couples in their buggies on the road. They drive beautiful high stepping horses, it is something to see. (the Mennonites drive mostly mini vans it seems).
Anyway, we ended up at a burger joint not a mile from where we live, in the end. Figures.
We are looking at fall clothes. I have been buying some but K announced today HE needs winter clothes. Oh my, this will not be fun.
After all, spending money on me is good, spending money on him is bad. Simple isn’t it? In my own defense he has been outfitting himself (from scratch) to go deer hunting this fall.
There is almost none of that in Florida, it is all deep sea fishing which he did and gave away all his northern hunting stuff, thinking we would never live north again surprise! surprise!.
I am finally out of my romance reading rut (no idea for how long, it may be brief) I am re-reading John Harwood’s The Seance. Next up is his The Ghost Writer. I found it in my book shelves, I did not remeber buying it. from the perfect condition of the book & the spine, I never did read it.
I have run out of blather…back to work.
