Cindy M and I went to the State Fair!

And it was Awesome! It was everything a fair should be! The Arts! The Crafts! The Animals! Squee! Our feet were numb by the time we were done!

There were lots of beautiful decorated gourds – this one being our favorite.

Here’s the Miniature Basket winners.

Quilt Displays.

The Cakes were spectacular – I actually have tons of pictures.

I was really interested in how things were displayed - especially after my disappointment with our local show – and I was thrilled! You can see above how the quilts and cakes were done.  The gourds were on a large island pedestal surrounded by a picket fence (decorative and secure!). Here’s the display for the canning categories.

And the 2-D Art display…

Most of the Knitting/Crochet Items were in waist high glass display cases – as were the baked goods.  The needlework section was a combination of glass cases and 2-D boards like above.  The Spinning and Weaving entries were on an island pedestal like the gourds.

It was so awesome!

And then we went to through the animals!  And I am so taking my Baby Buns next year – and we’re going to take 1st, 2nd, and 3rd!  There were tons of English Angoras but only 3 Frenchies (there may have been 2 more but they had wandered off apparently).  The 1st place bunny was beautiful but the other 2… well I wouldn’t have brought mine if they looked like that.  I think one might have been sick.

So next year… I’m going, bunnies and crafts and maybe some veggies and gourds too! I think we should all go and participate – whose with me?!

Friday Night Live was a blast!  Paul D and Val J joined me at the booth with their respective men folk. Surprisingly I think the guys even enjoyed it (they got to hang out with each other and have ‘manly time’ while ‘being there’ for us! It was win-win! ).

We gave out all the business cards and all the Challenge flyers (I made flyers for with the rules and categories for the 37 Projects Challenge).  We met lots of nice folks and sold enough things to cover the space rental.  We would have come out ahead but I bought a $100 awning – I see it as an investment though, so I’m still counting this as a win.

Gordon’s wooden rocking motorcycle was the main attraction and I definitely don’t think we would have had the foot traffic we got without it.

Hopefully we’ll see more action here on the site!

If anyone gets wind of any other events we can get into, let me know!

We’re setting up a booth at the Friday Night Live event held tonight in downtown Madisonville! I’ll be there with my knit items, flower pins/bows/magnets, and christmas table decorations.  We’ll also have some purses from Paula D and I believe Mr. G is going to bring one of his wooden motorcycle rocking horses; we’ll be taking orders on those.

So come on down and check it out! 5-9 PM tonight!

Our lovely webmaster Eric D has set up our 37 Projects Pages and I’ve posted the categories here.  The formating is a little skewed but I’ll fix that in the next few days.  So send me your lists!  My pattern for the Mario Brothers cross-stitch sampler is nearly done!