Boy! Oh, Boy !!Amazing things going on here of late !! Mug Rugs and critters and craftyness !!
AND fresh tomatoes !! We've only had 2 and a few cukes...a handfull of green beans.... we have been so
hot and dry that garden sort of goes into a holding pattern...not maturing and just sitting there drinking up.
Well done ! Well done !!!

Ritzy, that plaid is so clever and pretty!

Horses, lizards and birds, oh my...a beautiful new set of pictures to admire! Renata, I hope those tomatoes were awesome. There's nothing like a sun-warmed & ripened home-grown tomato is there? Charae, glad you survived Baltimore. It's a bit better now, but still mighty hot, just not as humid. Now I'm off to find out why my email forum notifications have stopped

Renata wrote: I'm sure you are right about the fabric, Renata. It is amazing! I love Baltimore, but on this trip I ventured outside only after work was done and it had cooled off "a bit" in the evening. The heat index didn't keep me from enjoying a crab... or two~

Charae, that mug rug is gorgeous and I would not be surprised if the background fabric were one of Norma's own hand dyed fabrics! Wish the weather had not been so bad for you here--I live about an hour away from Baltimore and I don't ever remember the heat index at 110 degrees!

Aren't Norma's cards wonderful? The one I received from Lorchen today was great too--all projects she made on the front of the card.

Boy--when you're gone for a while there are a lot of great mug rugs to see. They are all fabulous! AND, the hits just keep coming! After a long, hot, muggy week of working in Baltimore I arrived back in San Jose this morning to find an absolutely gorgeous mailing from... DENMARK!!! Norma!! I can't begin to add enough exclamation points! This mug rug is absolutely amazing--beautiful birds, beautiful flowers, beautiful workmanship! I am so proud to have it and thank you so much. In addition she sent some yummy cording and a quilted card. WOW! Lucky me, lucky me, lucky me!

What a beautiful white horse, Rita! Rosemary, you are so creative and so good at this, and the lizard is precious!!! The colours of your mug rug are amazing!

Ritzy, one tomato conveniently fell off the vine this evening (seriously, I barely touched it and it plopped right in my hand)!

Oh Rosemary, I thought you were working on a Cerne Abbas Giant!

Too late tonight for pictures, but I was in for two surprises when I got home from school today, from two totally different directions: Denmark and the US. Details tomorrow.

Norma and Ritzy..... you both rock!!!!

Rita I thought you were getting the chalk man

Who's that for Rosemary, love the mug rug, pouch and lizard

Lots of fabulous new muggies today. Couldn't choose a favorite!

And the first white horse too... So good... And guess what I've been listening to while sewing tonight: terry pratchett s 'a hat full of sky' where tiffany explains the white horse cut into the chalk... 'Taint what a horse looks like, It's what a horse be.'



Beautiful lizard too!

Lizard all around. I vote eat the tomatoes.

Lorchen your Lizard for Ritzy is terrific. You really are a flyer at the cross-stitch. And the colours are beautiful.

I also received a mug rug today from Rosemary. It's the Westbury/Bratton white horse 1778. I love it. It arrived with a little lotus pouch with a beautiful little beaded lizard inside. So cute. Thanks so much Rosemary.
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Renata, those tomatoes look too tasty to leave, enjoy.

Love the lizard, Lorchen! Ritzy, I've got to make Christmas plaid fabric!!! Wendy, I sent him the photo I sent you all and told him I'd have to eat them before the birds and insects got to them... his reply was that they would not get eaten by birds and insects before his return. I'll still eat them! There's more ripening below those!