hugs and kisses.....

x hearts o

it's just embroidery, have fun with it!

monogram construction...

monogram under construction

no hard hat required

it's just embroidery, have fun with it!

Dear Betsy...

as written stitched in Thomas Jefferson’s hand

Thomas Jefferson is the father of the University of

Virginia, and designed the campus himself.

Mr. Jefferson was given a 1,235-pound hunk of cheese, giving us the term... “the big cheese”

Jefferson was the first president to shake

hands instead of bow to people.

He took a cold foot bath every morning for 60 years!

Thomas Jefferson was one of the two presidents who signed The Declaration of Independence. 

And now he has signed your bath towel...sort of!

So Betsy, while at UVA...

eats lots of cheese,

shake hands with everyone,

and remember to wash your feet with

Thomas Jefferson’s signature towel!

Thomas Jefferson also had a penchant for

monograms and silver!

Silver expert extraordinaire, Nancy of Silver Magpies has a Jefferson monogrammed silver cup challenge for you.

I’ll bet you a Jefferson silver nickel that you’ll

enjoy a visit to SilverMagpies!

Tell Nan I sent you!

it's just embroidery, have fun with it!

gunpowder, rum and tattoos...

warning...do NOT try this at home

Arrrrrgh

St. Augustine March 2011

Pirates added gunpowder to rum as a proof test.

If the gunpowder and rum mixture did not ignite,

it was under proof—watered down rum.

Arrrrrgh

Blackbeard the Pirate is the most famous consumer of gunpowder rum.

Gunpowder and rum were also used by pirates to create tattoos.

Arrrrrgh

Nowadays it’s safer to stick with

Captain Morgan’s Tattoo brand rum...

and a monogrammed tattoo in thread

Disclaimer…

I don’t imbibe Captain Morgan’s while thread tattooing

raspberry...

Definition...colloquial sound made with the lips

expressing dislike, derision, or disapproval

Wait, what?!

Not that raspberry!

The fruit kind, and the color thread kind.

Raspberry cheesecakes no one would give you a raspberry for!

meow...

while the hound was guarding our domain snoozing

with visions of tennis balls running in her head…

look what the cat dragged in

do you have a...

Canine?

Or

Cat?

cartography

map-making

crafting representations

gift cartography—crafting a personally unique treasure

adding the extra touch makes a gift even more special

The Fork and the Road will follow the map with a bit of gift cartography

crafted with the images from her business card and logo

Happy Birthday M!

Meg, Pigtown Design, shared this fun Hermes Kelly inspired bag idea

School Zones

Sniff.  Time to send all my guys back to school. 

Pack up the car - multiple times.

Let the road trips begin...

There are probably only a handful of guys in college with their own monogrammed sheets.

But hey, it's what I do!

I only do what we call

Manly-Man Monograms

for my guys though.

My goal for this fall:

ditch the standard-monogrammed-catalog-tote I use,

and create a custom design for ME!

If you see us trucking through at least seven different states in the next week or so - wave hi!

My theme song:

"on the road again, just can't wait to get

on the road again..."