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!

The visit to the fairgrounds last night was very… very, very sad. The vast majority of the entries were uninspiring (to be polite). There was an afghan that looked like it had been on someone’s bed for the last 10 years, a very nice cross stitch piece that was obviously a kit (don’t know if that was against the rules or not but come on!), a 2^nd place quilt was one of those preprinted fabric panels sewn onto a back… and one of the gourds was an apple gourd, painted like an apple. There was a pretty lace apron… that was stained.

***OK – so that fabric panel quilt was legit – when I was retyping the full category list for posting there is a category for printed panel… but still***

On the bright side, there was some very nice black & white photography, the 2 smocked pieces (by the same person) were cute, and there was a darling crocheted child’s dress with a beret.

To make the whole dismal affair even drearier, the items were all just kind of tossed up onto metal retail shelving that looked like it had been salvaged from the old Roses store when it closed 15 years ago. I mean, come on people! Goody’s just went out of business a few months ago.  Are you telling me in this town of doctors and lawyers galore that no one could scrape up a bit of dough to buy new-ish displays from them? They were cheap as hell!  Cindy M got 20 torso mannequins for like $15.

I was heartily disappointed.

I’m thinking about speaking with our county extension agent about the whole thing.

And I’m a bit more determined about the ’37 Projects’.  In fact I’m starting a new category on here just for that.

I’ve decided that for # 4 (Counted Cross Stitch Sampler) – I’m going to do an homage to the Mario Brothers… ‘cause they’re awesome.

For # 3 (Counted Cross Stitch Picture) – I’m going to look into that photo to cross stitch conversion software… If it’s cheap enough I may take some photos of a gothic still-life type thing and turn that into a cross stitch pattern.

I may have to talk to my man Eric D about setting up a 37 Projects page…

NOW I CHALLENGE YOU ALL!

I want you to match me! I know 37 projects is a lot – and I doubt I’ll actually DO 37 projects… but we need a better Crafter presence at these Community Events. So I want you to make a list of the categories you are interested in participating in and match me Completed Object for Completed Object! There’s only 1 entry per category but a lot of craft types have several categories – (there’s at least 6 for cross stitch and 10 or 12 for quilting, etc).

So come on! Get started! Send me your lists and progress reports! Send me pictures of your FO’s and I’ll post them here! I’m thinking there might even be a $50 gift certificate to the craft store of your choice in it for the winner…

It’s the 1^st Annual 37 Projects Challenge!

Ok – so apparently I’m a dumb-ass and have never really put much thought into the local fair as it relates to Crafters. Leave it to my boss to point out this stupidity to me (in a roundabout way) and ‘lo he hands me the Agricultural & Industrial Official Program & Entry Schedule for the 2009 Hopkins County Fair.

So I paged through looking for the Rabbit Show… and found Crafts!  Lots and lots of crafts! I’m going to try to convince Cindy M to go with me tonight to check out the goodies on display… Mwahahahaha.

And since I’m a compulsive list maker, here are the categories I would like to create an entry for (and yes this list is stupid long).

So that’s 37 projects right there! (Not counting the growing stuff… the gourds are growing right now for next year!). That would give me a week and half (roughly) for each project. I wonder how many I can actually get done before next year’s fair. Anybody out there want to match me project for project? (It doesn’t have to be the same category – just match the number amount – I can supply you with the full category list).

It could be a Challenge!

My husband made a mistake… and now the livingroom is paying for it! MWAHAHAHAHA! (That’s the universal evil laugh, for those of you not in the know). It started simply enough – “Hey Judy, we need to find some bins or baskets or something to keep your yarn in, in the livingroom.” “What a good idea sweety – then the dogs won’t be able to steal my projects anymore”.  This conversation combined with his, “I want to move that other bookcase in the livingroom – it’s not really doing anything in the dining room…”

Led to all the yarn and collected fiber being in the livingroom! MWAHAHAHAHA! Extending my crafty reign of terror from the attic into the heart of the house! MWAHAHAHAHA!

Seriously – I love these boxes from Wal-Mart – I bought 12 more last night to use in the studio upstairs. The 2 shorter boxes on the 2nd shelf are full of tools – needles & hooks and things.  The bottom 2 shelves are fiber from the rabbits and that loose ziplock bag is felting fiber from the buns also.

Hubby’s reaction was shock & awe, and “Well I didn’t mean ALL your yarn…”. Little does he know… more lurks in the depths of the studio! MWAHAHAHAHA!