Thank you all. As I said, I did this late at night and I didn't spend a lot of time with it. Next time, I would make a good template. With wrapping paper, there will be so many options. I'm going to be keeping my eyes opened for a good plaid for next Christmas. Christmas Tree Shops have shades for $1? Wow, I wish we had one near by. I've never seen the chandelier shades for less than $4 except when they're on sale. The ones I have were $2.50 on close out. - Gail

You know, you should be able to see what his IP address is. Then look it up and you can see where he's located. Looks like this and should be at the bottom of the email he sent you: IP addresses consist of four numbers separated by periods (also called a 'dotted-quad') and look something like 127.0.0.1. The strange thing is that nothing like this text comes up when googling. It sounds quite personalized. Are you sure it couldn't be from a friend or relative who's trying to invite you to Monaco for Valentine's Day? Here is a link that might be useful: IP address

There's a gal on the cross stitch board i frequent who gave her niece a recipe for something that was made with campbells soup and other things.The niece went to the store to get all the ingredients,and couldn't find them all according to her.So she calls her aunt and said i looked all over that store for a "can of Water" and couldn't find it.Auntie almost fell over laughing,as what she meant was after you empty the can of soup,fill the can with water,but the niece didn't read it that way. Her aunt thought it was soooooooooo funny she designed a cross stitch pattern using the campbells label only added canned Water to it instead of soup.She stitched it for her niece and sent it into Country Cooking magazine and they published it.This was a few years ago.Tooooooooooo Funny. Kathi

That's exactly what's happening at my step-fathers work. To cut costs, they went in on a coffee-maker and Wally buys the coffee. He buys Maxwell House on sale. Lately one of the girls stopped drinking the coffee, cause she likes Tim Horton's coffee. She offered to bring in her can of Tim Horton's to try. So he made the Tim Horton's the next day, and they asked what kind of coffee he was making. He said "you tell me". They drank it, and they all thought it was Maxwell House. Maxwell House sells for $5 and Tim Horton's $16 for the same size can. There was a test on tv recently where generic food was poured in name brand container, just like you did. Everyone thought the "name brand" tasted better. Manufacturers count on this as well. We eat with our eyes, and they know most people will pay more for the "real thing". DH and I prefer a lot of generic brands over name brand.