Maria is crafting a new potholder series, she is calling it “Donkey Love,” and there is no question about who or what inspired it. She is charging $25 for these potholders, plus shipping. they will be described and sold on her website.

Donkeys can be the sweetest of creatures, and also the most willful and independent. They are capable of enormous affection, they love to sidle up to the people they love and just be close them. They are also inseparable from one another. Today a big box of classy eco-tote bags (made in India) came to the farmhouse. This is turning out to be quite a week.

I sold a book, Maria’s going to India, I’m about to be a grandfather.