Lambie Pie (Vicki Sawyer and Toni Kochevar)

Toni Kochevar just posted two photographs of her version of Vicki Sawyer's "Lambie Pie" on Facebook.  Toni's stitch guide will be ready shortly.  Contact her via her Facebook page to arrange to take this guide home.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=883300285092332&set=pcb.915095441900948&type=1&theater

The Guitars (The Collection and Connie Glenn Camp)

Tracey just posted her guitars and banjos canvas from The Collection on Facebook and it is drawing raves.  The stitch guide is by Connie Glenn Camp.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10204725474637237&set=gm.910330792377413&type=1&theater

Marcy's Closet (Julia and Tony Minieri)

Lori posted a photograph on Facebook of her Marcy closet stitched using Tony Minieri's stitch guide. The canvas itself is called "Woman's Closet II" and is distributed by Julia's Needlework.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153420986785041&set=gm.906496059427553&type=1

You can get the guide from Tony's website.
http://www.tonyminieri.com/julia

Stitch Diagram Software for the Mac (and PC)

Alert!  The replacement for CanvasX is finally available for those who use Macs.  It is now called Canvas Draw, and is on sale until September 15, 2015. (There is also a trial version to test.)  Like Adobe's Illustrator, there is a steep learning curve for this graphics software program but it appears to be very versatile.  Canvas X was used by a great many people in the needlepoint world until it was dropped.  (The current PC version of Canvas X is Canvas 16 but Canvas 15 is also still available.)
http://www.canvasx.com/en/products/canvas-draw

While reading the discussion about it on NP Nation, I discovered that Ursa Software also has a stitch diagramming program called StitchGraph that works on both Macs and PCs.
http://www.ursasoftware.com/stitchgraph/sgraph.html

If you are looking for software to create diagrams and charts, Linda K. Reinmuller has a list of programs that might work for you on her blog.  It's at the bottom of the page, under "Blog Archive."  Thanks, Linda!
http://www.lkreinmiller.blogspot.com

Four New Melissa Shirley Stitch Guides

Melissa Shirley Designs has proudly announced four new stitch guides are available for canvases from MSD.  Two are from Mary Legallet, one from Cynthia Thomas and one from Carolyn Hedge Baird.
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10153594286704252&id=370199729251&notif_t=notify_me_page

Mary's guides are for Marty Lake-Thompson's "Crab Cakes" and Melissa's "Wicked Witch."  Carolyn has written a guide for the Melissa "Easter Basket" which you can get a good look at here,
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205161698146084&set=gm.1661420540743092&type=1&theater

...and Cynthia Thomas has written a guide for Vicki Sawyer's "Frida Peep."  No photo of that yet.

A Quick Look at a Susan Portra Guide

Linda at Split the Needles is working Shelly Tribbey's Gingerbread Manor using a Susan Portra stitch guide.  I thought you'd like to see how Susan lays out the 98 separate areas in her guide so that it's easy to see where you need to work next on this very complicated piece.
http://splittheneedles.blogspot.com/2015/08/coloring-candy-house.html

I don't know where Linda got her stitch guide and canvas but Enriched Stitch probably can help you out if this canvas starts whispering "buy me" to you.
http://astheneedleturns.com/susan-portra-is-coming/

Needlenook of La Jolla has Susan's guide in stock.
https://www.facebook.com/148322051879196/photos/a.874331942611533.1073741836.148322051879196/1042777862433606/?type=1&theater

You may also may be able to get the guide from Susan herself.  Check out the Featured Canvas section of her website to see more about how she approaches a complex canvas.
http://www.susanportra.com/page/page/8750914.htm

Summer Songbird (Melissa Shirley and Laura Taylor)

Aristeia proudly posted a photograph of Melissa Shirley's A Summer Songbird on Facebook.  This was stitched by a customer using Laura Taylor's stitch guide.  Contact the shop or Laura herself to pick up a copy for yourself.

https://www.facebook.com/174291765923411/photos/np.1440259240673635.1277706333/1012431872109392/?type=1&ref=notif&notif_t=notify_me_page