Certainly far more than most of us writing here did !!

Terrie I think your 6 year old is showing great promise if he liked Picasso - I am a big fan. As for the nekked man - he is art after all and I am inclined to be of the opinion that those grand kids will have seen much more explicit images than that if they have access to TV and the internet.

I took my 6-year old to the Museum of fine arts because he says he is an artist, and I wanted to nuture that in him. I never ran through that Museum (MMFA) so fast and 'saw' stuff through his eyes I had never seen before! But at the end I asked him what was your favourite and he said the Picasso. Like the 12 foot tall Picasso with the giant thing about 2 feet long. At 6, I don't think he knew what some of the items represented. But it wasn't that abstract to me.

My 6 grandkids are all grown up so no worries there--and they all live in the midwest while we're here in AZ so we don't get to visit often. When we do we all have a great time but it doesn't happen too often. Anyway, I'd just tell them it was some abstract artwork that a good friend made for me, or set my cup down very carefully in the most appropriate spot

Jane, you can have the giant. If I had him, I wouldn't know where to put him when the grand kids come over. LOL

No, no, no! I want the Giant--no white horses

golfjane wrote:

That will be the White Horse at Uffington then, since I have already started the series

Not if you do them all with the Cerne Abbas Giant -- and I want the first in the series !!!

So, if I do a series on chalk figures for my mug rugs is there going to be a fight as to who wants the Cerne Abbas Giant?

BJ it might depend upon the age of the grandkids

Hooray! I just finished my final rug mug and now I can work forward on my Hoffman Challenge quilt. I have to work fast... But I feel better having these rug mugs done. I'll mail them soon.

PosyP wrote: Rosemary, I've always wanted to see Stonehenge and the Vale of the White Horses. My dear late Marvin had a whole collection of books on them. He visited them when he did a European tour following his graduation from college. So when my youngest son, who is now grown and a sci-fi/fantasy writer, was little, he made up a story about "the enormous men" who put these things in place. He has always told fantasy stories even from when he was very young...knowingly imaginative stories, not lies. I think the Cerne Abbas Giant would make a very funny mug rug, but you would have to put another design on the back so you could turn it over when the grandkids were around. LOL

dang that would a mug rug for the grandchildren to see

Well, since I was not at all familiar with the chalk drawings I had to Google them. You're absolutely right, Rita, very interesting (maybe arresting) mug rugs

These will make very interesting mug rugs Rosemary. The Cerne Abbas Giant is just ready for action (not matter which action is required. )