hi Carole, the pictures are just out of Victoria's head, she puts the outline on the rug and changes it if she does not like it, the cat was copied from a picture just to get the right size and the skull and cross bones she made up, a tree is just as you see them, it just takes a lot of guess work, patience and hard work, our Victoria did amazing with the skull and cross bones, and as long as I have an idea we can modify it from the idea, like Jessica's rug the cat is sitting on a bench looking out a window, you usually could do with a picture to copy, sometimes you can enlarge pictures from cross stitch patterns, the tigger rug I have to do its being copied from one of my tigger rugs, and the Japanese rug is being copied from pictures in a book, Think the teacher will take a lot on if they rug, it is very expensive to keep going, with canvas and wool etc, in the New year if I pay you could you send me some more canvas, as nowhere down here selss it, cheers and have a good day