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A Welcome Cocktail Hour

I blocked the lace this afternoon and safety pinned the ‘arms’ up so I could judge its suitablity as a shrug: I am thinking that it will work AND I wont have to knit cuffs since…

Orange Lace Crossroads

I could probably make this into a reasonable length scarf with the remaining yarn in this ball and the other (smaller) skein I spun, but the idea of converting this into a shrug…

Aquisition and a bit of knitting

I treated myself this year. I bought Angels in Stone from Dijanne Cevaal. Dijanne is a well known textile artist in Australia and I’m very pleased that we have been able to…

KrisKringle

My Spinners and Handweavers Guild met for a Christmas lunch today. Pot Luck style. I cooked a potato fritatta using a recipe from Stephanie Alexanders Cooks Companion which I…

Come up and see my ...

Etchings. I did a printmaking workshop with Jenny Peterson today at her studio in Boolarra. She has a lovely house and studio slightly out of town. I was her only student today,…

Tinkering

This scan doesn’t accurately represent the metalic parts of this assembly, but I quite like the effect I get here anyway. I cut up and painted (then rubbed) the edges of foil BBQ…

My Favouite Restaurant Reborn!

Today we found out that our favourite restaurant, Rasa Satay, which closed about 3 years ago, has come back as Rasa Thai!!! Same owner, new chefs, and located in the next town…

Contour drawings and some flowers

I’ll start out with my first modified contour drawing: Maryellen (who left a comment yesterday) could you please email me by clicking the ‘Contact Me’ section on the right hand…

Blind Contour Hilarity

First a thing of beauty: A couple of big clumps of agapanthus in my garden are just about to burst into bloom. Look at all the stems! Something that I often overlook is how…

Baskets

I did a Basket Weaving with Natural Materials workshop today with Gippsland basketweaver Pat Dale. I have had her book for about 6 months, and jumped at the opportunity to do a…

Winner!

Handspun Article – First! Handspun Skein – First! PLUS Best in Class (fancywork) for Kirishawl. I am totally chuffed. Riscy took me out for dinner tonight to celebrate! The firsts…

Reflections

These charcoal and pastel pieces remind me of reflections you can get on road surfaces at night when it is wet. I also scratched and errased the surface, taking the top layer of…

I can see this will be a rush

I just spent an hour and a half producing a heap of shit. I ripped off the worst bit and present the rest to you as ClaArProMo No 22. Melanie Testa linked to this amazing site…

Quickly

I’m posting this very quickly in my lunch hour. I did this monoprint the other night after I blogged the other ones. I think it is probably the best of all of them. Last night I…

A little bit of art, a little bit of Cricket

I also decided to try out the Hahnemuhle paper for relief printing. As mentioned before, it is a soft paper with a fair amount of texture. This is an image taken from a magazine.…

Warning

Never linocut when tired or under the influence of a glass of wine because mistakes will be made and tears will be shed. So, I decided to do some little paintings. Riscy’s foot…

Ink Drawing - Branches

I am dead tired, but wanted to share today’s creative endeavour with you. I love looking at stylised vegetation in rug design etc, and I’ve been meaning to do some of my own for…

Paper Paper Everywhere

As indicated above, the PAPER has arrived. As expected, there is HEAPS of it. As feared, the Dutch Etching Paper is not as smooth as I need to pick the detail on my monoprinting…

Injury, triumph and a little bit of creativity

In an effort to bring more colour to ClaArProMo I cracked open the watercolour for the first time in ages 🙂 And I think this brings me a third of the way there We won our second…

I'm way behind

I don’t like the above piece, it was good to practice some techniques out, but it is about nothing, of nothing and doesn’t work for me at all. But, since I’m 7 pieces behind my…

More Monoprint

My sister and I have an informal postcard swap happening and I owe her one: I woke up this morning with a very sore neck and shoulder. I lasted half a day at work before I called…

Monoprinting Rocks!!!

I knocked off work at 3pm yesterday so I could get my entry form in for the Traralgon Agricultural Show. I’m entering the Homespun section, my Kiri shawl and a skein of wool (yet…

ClaArProMo Exhibit # 4

Yes people, I reckon Nick Cave (and the bad seeds)albums are perfect in every way . If you see it, snap up his double album Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus. When I was at…

Charcoal Delight

I’m loving this challenge I have set for myself. I couldn’t spend as much time on it as I would have liked tonight. We had our first game of touch footy for the season… first…

Collage

ClaArProMo No 2 😛 A few years ago Riscy bought me a subscription to National Geographic. It had been my total favourite magazine when I was a teenager, our school had hundreds of…

ClaArProMo

My plans for a weekend of printmaking have all but halted. I spoke to the ‘person in question’ on Friday, and she is not keen for me to use the workshop for various reasons, I…

Busy Saturday

Today was beautiful. The sun was out, and it was a great day to spend in the garden catching up on all that weeding. Riscy mowed and I commented that the garden REALLY did look…

Wire Work and Some Yarn

I finished the sculptural piece I was working on – only to find it photographs terribly, believe it or not, the grass helps LOL. I think it turned out ok, but I wish I hadn’t…

Wire sculpture and Jewellery

I have obtained a good quantity of copper wire from a local generator place (nice blokes), but I’ve found I can’t solder it readily as there is a coating on the wire (as the nice…

Phillip Glass etc

On Saturday Afternoon we zoomed off to Melbourne again. We had arranged to stay with the lovely Tricia in Brighton – one of my room mates from the Geelong Forum. Tricia had a…

A FO and some photos

I finished some more knitting this week. Another One Skein Wonder but putting a wider rib around the edge and put a wide rib on the sleeves instead of moss stitch. I used Noro,…

weekend Continued

After months of discussion, Riscy and I bought an new digital camera on the weekend. Canon 30D Digital SLR. I immediately took many brilliant photos of my leg: I’m not an educated…

Weekend in Melboune

Our weekend in Melbourne was heaps of fun only marred by Riscy having to work on Thursday night so he missed the performance of Theatre du Soleil – Le Dernier Caravanserail…

Kaleidoscope

How cool is this, I’ve been playing around with a Kaleidoscope attachment for photoshop. These are some from the Lincut I showed yesterday:

Linocut Revisited

I’m giving Linocut another red hot go. One of my dorm-mates from Geelong (Chris from Queensland) gave me a few tips, mainly that I should use a texta to colour in the negative…

Books on the Edge

The workshop I took at Geelong was called Books on the Edge – That Ain’t a Book! by Marianne Little and Gail Stife. We actually did do traditional book binding as well, coptic and…

Another Finished

Pattern: One Skein Wonder from Glampyre Yarn: My handspun, hand dyed merino, very soft. I dyed the top, spun it up and navajo plyed. I was delighted to find it knit to gauge.…

Kiri - Finished

Kiri Shawl – FINISHED!! Pattern: Kiri (12 repeats of chart 2) from All Tangled Up Needles: 5mm Circs. I used a 7mm straight needle to cast off. Finished size: I haven’t measured,…

Nearly There

Kiri is finished and blocking. No full shot photos til then, but here’s a glamour shot to tide you over. Another day, another gallery opening. Geez life is tough LOL. Cowwarr Art…

Motivation

Well, to motivate myself to finish Kiri, I’ve purchased the One Skein Wonder pattern from Glampyre. I’m not sure whether it will flatter me (busty as I am), but I’m keen to give…

First Rose of the Season

I ventured into the garden in the fading light this evening and was delighted to find a beautiful rose blooming: E’toile de Lyon is Tea rose, quite an old variety having been…

Kiri - A Sneak Peek

An unfortunate mistake required the heartstopping decision to take Kiri off the needle. But every cloud has a silver lining ’cause this allowed the opportunity to get a preview 🙂…

I Can Crochet!!

Proof: This is all a bit experimental so it doesn’t sit perfectly flat, but I think I can fix that with a bit of thoughtful blocking 🙂 The Paynesville Spin In went well. There…

Why it is wonderful to belong to a guild!

The Latrobe Valley Spinners and Handweavers Guild has 12 members. I spend my Wednesday lunch hours with them and it is heaps of fun 🙂 I’m the youngest by a long way, which is…

A Bit of Dyeing, a Bit of Knitting.... A Lot of Work

What to do with 250g (8.8oz) merino/silk blend top. Dye it orange of course! This was a very expensive purchase, it was a toss up between spinning it white or dyeing prior to…

Little Gem

The silk strand is actually a silk merino blend I spun up a few months ago. The colours were brilliant but muddied up when spun. Also the silk flew all over the place when handled…

A Thanks and .... a bit of sewing!!!

Thanks for the comments on my last blog post. It suprised me how much better they made me feel. I’m sticking with the philosophy that the only way to get through time cruch work…

I've Been Spinning

Ink Drawing

I occasionally get the urge to buy art supplies. Last week I bought a pen nib and holder and some sepia ink. I wanted to practice drawing… something I’m not natural at, but I know…

Printing

The big printing weekend is finished and here are some of my results, click on the photo if you want to see a bigger view: These were photograped as the ink isn’t dry enough to…

What a Day

I am exhausted after spending the day in a printmaking workshop with Jenny Peterson at ARC Yinnar. I go back for more tommorow 🙂 I constructed some collographs today, I am full…

Ski Weekend and a bit of knitting

Skiing Rocks! I knew I’d love it! We’re expecting some good snow falls this week so I’m hoping we might be able to nip up to our local resort (Mt Baw Baw) next week sometime… the…

Wave and Shell Scarf Finished!

Ta Daaaa!! Wave and Shell by Laurie Osborne. The yarn was spun from beautiful Silk and Merino tops dyed by TreeTops Colour Harmonies. It is a very light, but warm little scarf.…

A Computer Holiday

I’ve just had a nice little computer holiday 🙂 But I’ve been busy doing other things like painting (nothing good to show here though), spinning and knitting. This is some of the…

Some more wool and an Art Quilt Apology

Unlike the turd below 🙁 And onto the apology. I really want to make art quilts, I want to lock myself into my sewing room and CREATE. But this wool is calling me, the knitting…

Purple Beanie

I tried dyeing some wool yesterday with some fibre reactive dyes (Procion), but I mustn’t have used enough vinegar as a most promising orange and green mix ended up a washed out…

To market, to market...

A trip to my local, once a month, farmers market today resulted in the following: I enjoy shopping like this, but, like my resolution to also buy meat at the butcher rather than…

Ear Warmers

The navajo plied, continental knitted ear warmers are finished ready for my snowfield adventures in a few weekends. I know I’ve mentioned it before, but damn, it’s hard to get a…

The Wool Show

Before I launch into the goodies I bought at the Australian Sheep and Wool Show in Bendigo, I want to show you what came off my wheel tonight. Just as I arrived at the show a very…

On the Wheel

Some Spinning Content 🙂

This Too Shall Pass

Tommorow this journal will be winging its way to Jane in Vancouver, Canada. I had doubts about whether ‘this too shall pass’ is really advice, its more of a statement… but one…

No Flash

I’ve been practicing taking photos in low light without a flash. In other words, I finally got the tripod set up. Here are the best ones Sam Javanrouh from Daily Dose of Imagery…

Challenges

I’m making progress with my piece for the journal project which needs to be posted early next week. Although I forgot to email the next participant for their snail mail adress…

Muckin Around in Photoshop, again.

I had cut snippets of images from an edition of the ArtAlmanac (Byline: Essential Guide to Australian Galleries. $3.00/issue, great value). I assembled the snippets on the bed of…

Yarn, Journal and a Knitting Decision

I was spinning and plying the second skein of this yarn whist trying to think of the Best Advice I Ever Got…. for the journal project conceived by Penelope Dullaghan… I received…

House of Yarn

I’m keen to see how these will look in as a two ply yarn. I’ve recently been spinning lots of beautifully prepared superfine merino tops which has been wonderful. But there is…

Back in the Saddle Again

photo screen print of the dredger: veiw of the underside I screen printed this image of the Dredger mainly to see just how much detail I could get using the photo screen print…

Photos From Fiji

This lagoon was beautiful. A lovely place to stop for a musli bar and a wee break. I’m not in this photo. I think I was out in the lagoon. Riscy took this photo. It’s my favourite…

1 Sleep 'til Fiji

Well it’s two sleeps really if you count our overnight flight (will I sleep??) Excitement is reaching fever pitch, I’ve got two weeks off work (Yay!!) and I’m not packed for Fiji,…

Green Merino Handspun Yarn

Thought I’d show you a recent spinning effort. It turned out way prettier than I thought it would. I don’t think it’ll knit up as yummy as it looks in the skein. Actually, that’s…

I Love Muslin

First let me start by saying that Muslin has a different meaning in Australia than it does in the US, and some other cloths and sewing things have different names too: Aust. = US…

Book Goodies

We dropped into Chadstone yesterday, I nearly bought a set of crockery, but really, we should spend our money on getting some chairs for our dining table…. I hate being rational.…

Doodlebug

Today’s doodles: Talking about doodles. Did you know that in Australia ‘doodle’ is a common term for male genitalia. and ‘fanny’ is a common term for female genitalia. Does…

Some Jewels and Some Spinning Content

More Jewels Darlings 🙂 They are so much fun, rather addictive and not really what I need to be working on. But what’s new? I’ve also been dyeing up some merino. And spinning some…

Woolly Goodness

I’ve been knitting and spinning all weekend. The merino and silk has taken me weeks due to it being a very very thin yarn. I haven’t worked out the length yet, but I think it has…

Art in Meetings

I sat in a meeting today, a meeting I participated in quite a bit, but I also went prepared with some paper scraps and a purple and green pens. I was multitasking. Doing art while…

Lace, Lace I'm Knitting Lace!

I can’t believe that I’m actually doing this. I’ve worked out what yo, ssk and psso mean and after a few false starts, here it is: It’s the yarn spun from my hand dyed merino. The…

Claire. Plan before Dyeing

I’ve had excellent cotton dyeing results using Adriene Buffington’s book Hand Dyed Fabric Made Easy. I don’t follow the book 100% but I normally chart out my plans prior to dyeing…

And Now for Something COMPLETELY Different

Today has been filled with wonderful creativity, check out what is drying on my fridge right now: Bird and the Tree In addition to the linocut, I did heaps of painting. This is…

Is Less Really More??

Tonight’s Jewels: Orange Brooch Pink Brooch Once again, too much stitching. The orange piece was very good before I went crazy and stiched it to oblivion THEN hacked it up, then…

Bracelet

I’m not 100% happy with this piece. But, wasn’t I just saying recently that I need to accept the crap with the good otherwise nothing would be created at all? Matchstick Bracelet…

Jewellery

Ok treasured readers of Little Fish, you may have wondered if I was off my nut yesterday when I mentioned that I would like to explore quilt jewellery. This is a little piece in…

A Finished Object, Motivation and Fitness

First, I want to show you a simple little bag I finished tonight. It is 25cm (10″) high, from tip of handle to bottom, and 20cm (8″) wide at the base. The body of the bag is made…

Amulet Challenge

It seems like forever ago that I signed up for the Amulet Challenge hosted by Becky Kelly. It’s a round robin format with four participants in each group. The moment has now come,…

Sewing Machine Blues

This time last year I invested in a new sewing machine. The Janome 6500, my dream machine. I’ve been neglecting her a bit lately in favour or the spinning wheel. But tonight, I…

dyeing Merino Wool - Lessons Learned

Last night I tried my hand at dyeing merino top in the microwave using Landscaped dyes. The colours came out great, but my treatment of the wool after dyeing caused some felting.…

Opera, Art, Parades and a Little Bit of Footy

I’m back from Melbourne. We had a wonderful weekend, the highlight for me being the Opera and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. The opera was packed out. We saw Opera…

Tiny Paintings

Yesterday I received a little package in the mail from my sister. We have recently been sending bits of art to each other. I love sending her stuff but even more fun is getting…

Sisters Three

I’m going to be away alot this week, Monday and Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and then down to Melbourne on Saturday, returning on Monday. I hope I’ll have some stuff to post on…

Another beanie FINISHED!

Well, I’m getting pretty fast at this. This photo was taken last night at about 1am, I’d drunk a hell of a lot, but I also finished this beanie. I feel crap this morning, totally…

New Do

BEFORE AFTER I’ve gone with a fringe. It’s very radical as I had various awful fringes in the 80’s and early 90’s, the horrors of my Nan putting stickytape across my fringe to get…

Beanie, Sans Pattern

I’ve nearly recovered from Sunday’s gardening. Riscy came home with pizza so I didn’t starve to death after all. I also finished this beanie. It’s made from my homespun yarn which…

Today

Before I start this very long blog post, I thought I’d show you the painting I did last night: Cockatiel Today started out so good. I got up at about 7:30, read some blogs, ate…

Flight

A big hello to you from the back seat of the little plane I flew in this morning: New Plantations in the Strzelecki Ranges The flight went well. Although it was a beautiful…

Hanging Sleeves SUCK!

What possessed me to enter two quilts into the local show??? I’m sewing hanging sleeves every night, and it is terrible. Way more tedious than sewing the bindings on by hand…. AND…

Lookee lookee!!!!

Before I launch into photos of the very exciting delivery I got today from TreeTops Colour I want to tell you that using my sewing machine is not as fool proof as I imagined. I…

Sophie's Bag

Check out this fantastic Blog: Daily Dose of Imagery. When I grow up I want to be a photographer like this guy. I’ve just got to start taking photos consistently. Riscy and I have…

A recent read

On the weekend I finished reading The Flower Seeker, A Painter’s Travels by Judy Cuppaidge. It was a lovely book, both a visual treat AND interesting in the written content. The…

This was going to be a blog with no photos. But...

I decided to show you some photos of our picnic yesterday. I’ve been sewing, but I can’t show you yet, because it is for my swap with Sophie. We decided that since our camping…

My well ordered existance

As promised here on this blog yesterday. I ventured into my sewing room to tidy up the mess that has been festering there for a few months. I get into a frenzy of creativity;…

More Painting, No Quilting

Hmmmm, see below: Twirly Swirly Pear’o’rama I went to the Farmers Market this morning and bought 4kg of the most yummy apples you can imagine. We spent quite some time trying to…

Easter Camping - At home

I love camping. My family camped regularly when I was growing up in Tasmania. Last Easter Riscy and I were back in Tas and took off camping for five days, travelling from the top…

Engineering excellence

I got my new wheel on Wednesday. I was so excited to get it out of the box and assembled and set up I completely forgot I had a committee meeting that nightand didn’t even…

Big Head Beret - FINISHED!

It’s pretty hard to look normal when trying to take a photo of the hat on your head… I’m afraid this was the best one. I had to do some major cropping too, otherwise you would…

Creativity Gone Awry

My creativity has lost focus. Not terribly suprising since I have recently taken up spinning and knitting and Linocut and drawing in addition to my interests in making art quilts…

Big Head Beret

Well. Remember yesterday I blogged about my beret and how it would work providing I got the maths right? Well um, this is what it looked like prior to unpicking tonight! I can’t…

A Beret, A Headlamp and Bean Enchilladas for Dinner

The rhubarb patch merino yarn I spun is being knit into a beret. Well I think it’s going to be a beret… this is dependent on a number of things, including: 1) that I’m reading the…

Quick Post

The weekend went well. Much wine and cheese was eaten. I have probably gained 5kg must go back on diet posthaste. Now onto the exciting news. I have won an Ebay auction for an…

Little Update

Today’s photo is of my Ugly Duckling Scarf. It is definitely getting better looking though, so I’m thinking of changing it’s name to Swan Scarf. I’m more and more pleased with…

Friday Yay!!

Whew! It’s Friday. We are just about to head into a series of 4 day working weeks 🙂 Its Labour Day here on Monday then we head into Easter. An old friend of mine from High School…

Slow Progress on the Shave for a Cure bag

Tonight I WILL finish the bag for the Shave for a Cure auction. My excuse for it taking me so long is that I decided it needed more quilting than I originally planned. The fabric…

Finger Painting

I was feeling pretty bad about obliterating the beautiful leaves on my Linocut extravaganza so I made a tracing of them in photoshop, printed it out then fingerpainted it.…

Linocut progress

Righto. I’ve probably gone overboard, I’ve certainly lost the effect of the beautiful leaves… but I couldn’t just leave them like that since this was intended to be a linocut…

The Great Linocutting Adventure

Last night I Linocut ’til I couldn’t see straight. This is my progress so far This is my linocutting so far. I have decided to use the huge piece of lino in one big linocut…

Birthdays are Great!

It was my 28th birthday yesterday. I’m now a hop, skip and a jump from 30, my main panic is that it is getting scarily close to the age I was sort of thinking about having…

Straight and Narrow Challenge Quilt

Ahem. This is the quilt for QuiltArt Straight and Narrow Challenge. I’m on a high from the glue spray I used => why don’t I ever follow advice? Don’t breathe this stuff friends of…

Sunday at the Beach

A big day of fishing and sailing in Inverloch Around 4pm the beach was inundated with fishermen. Riscy told me that he saw a rat and it ran up one of these trees. I hate rodents!…

Sunday Pastels

All the skeins so far from my dyed fleece. I’ve decided against knitting this into a vest… the wool is too crispy feeling. I think I crochet it into granny rug squares with some…

Two Posts in One Day

In the spirit of me returning to my sewing room I present a finished quilt, I was so keen to have this finished, I sewed the binding by machine instead of by hand. Hand would have…

Photoshop Fun

Computer innards look pretty fascinating to me. I was admiring an old graphics card today, I love the minature roads and houses and decided to take a photo or two. Graphics Card I…

In the Mail

I received this postcard in the mail today from my sister Meg. Chicken Pox by MegLeg Meg is a painter. I think she’s having trouble doing art consistently as a young mother of an…

The Knitting Bag is FINISHED!

Bev’s Knitting Bag I’ll be sad to give this one away, but I’m sure Bev will get plenty of use out of it 🙂 We attended the Victorian Chilli Festival in Jindivick today. The…

A Bit of Everything

Tonight I did a bit of everything: Cooking – I made vietnamese noodle soup called pho. This was my favourite food when I lived in Vietnam in 1996. Reading – I got another lot of…

More knitting and spinning

I’ve got to finish the bag I started on Sunday so I can stop feeling guilty for spinning wool instead LOL. Check out today’s accomplishment This is the first skein of yarn I have…

Spinning Corner

I spashed out and brought some fancy storage boxes from Freedom Funiture for my spinning supplies, wool etc. I have also found that they are good ‘tables for my flick carder,…

Knitting Bag

Late last afternoon I started this bag, which I had planned to give to Bev today. I’m pleased with the way it’s turning out, but I don’t think I have time to finish it 🙁 This is…

More Spinning

I’ve been busy spinning and dyeing this week. I’ve managed to ply every bit of yarn I’ve spun so far and I’m now faced with the daunting task of KNITTING something. I’ve stocked…

Adventures with Dye

I don’t have a clue what I’m doing, but I won’t let it stop me from trying anyway: The Raw Product The fleece after washing. I forgot to pick the clumps apart in my excitement.…

The Things You See

I had to go to Buchan today (yes it rhymes with the swear word and I get a jeuvenile pleasure from saying it). On the way there is a town with this in the main street: Monument on…

Drum Roll Please

I present here my first ever bona fide hand spun yarn. My first hand spun yarn! Dark brown Corridale from Jumbuck Wools in Bairnsdale and dyed Ashford Corridale from Benambra Blue…

Love Actually

We just watched Love Actually (again). I really like that film :-). Unfortunately that means I didn’t have time to completely finish my pear quilt… but I’ll show you the almost…

Saturday, Saturday!!!

I’ve been quilting all afternoon. Here is a sneak preview, I hope to have the grand ‘reveal’ tomorrow night. Sneak peek at a new quilt project Yeah, Yeah, I know… those are pears…

Back to the Spinning Wheel

I’m tired tonight, going to bed early… but not before I post some pics of the progress I’m making with my spinning. This is my first spool. I had a minor mishap caused by me…

Smoked Out

I got back to my sewing machine. It seems like forever (well it has been over a week!) I previously posted that I love to draw pears… when I can’t think of anything to draw (most…

The Journey

I almost didn’t blog tonight because as a quilter I’m doing a hell of a lot of spinning and there are only so many photos of a slowly growing spool of yarn that I can post here…

First Spinning Lesson

Yay! I just came back from my spinning lesson with Bev. She showed me how to deal with fleece straight off the sheeps back, I learnt to comb the locks and then I got to spin 🙂 As…

Lazy Saturday

I had a fairly lazy Saturday, although I did finish Scarfzilla… which I will wear as a stole I think. The damn thing is about a foot taller than moi LOL I was watching Terminator…

Today's purchase

I had to go to East Gippsland for work today and noticed a shop on the outskirts of Bairnsdale called Jumbuk Wools. There were spinning wheels in the window, I bought some carded…

Books From the Exchange

I recently went through my book shelf and culled out a box full of books to take to the book exchange. I got to refill my box with $70 worth of books to bring home… these are the…