Nice hearing from you and that you enjoyed my 'metalman' piece, and, yes, go ahead and use it or others in your book --just let me know when you do. Curiously (though not for the Synchronicity Scout), just last night I was admiring your 'Lavender Vortex'. I've looked at this site, too, and think that your 'roc-k-mac' is very similar to my style as well. I really love the way they appear in front of me out of the collection of odds and ends, sort of like life or friendship in that way. Right now I'm in Atlanta, back to South Africa on Jan. 3rd, and am looking for a new necklace to wear with me. Where are you; what've you got? RESPECTGRACEPATIENCE, --Aman