County Fair 2011

Our County Fair was last weekend. I entered 20 things in the 4H divisions and 11 things in open. On Friday night there was the Icecream Freeze off and Salsa contest. I entered Apple Pie Icecream, Vanilla Icecream and a salsa. I placed 2nd for the Apple Pie icecream! I was pretty excited. After they have judged the icecreams and salsas, everyone gets to try them. Our family entered 10 different icecreams this year.  It is something we look forward to every year, and is alot of fun :) 

Here are some pictures of my entries:

There is a category for re-finishing furniture. I re-finished this desk to enter. I got it free out of one of our neighbor's big junk piles sometime last year. I sanded all the old varnish off, and stained it.

Before

After

After view from the side

This is that t-shirt I remade. There is a category to enter "recycled garments."

4 photos that tell a story 

Best photo taken this year

4 photos of people doing different activities 

4 photos from different categories: people, animal, plant life and landscape.

Felt cow puppet. Tutorial HERE 

Leather checkbook cover

Stuffed Elephant. I used Heather Bailey's Effie and Ollie Elephant pattern

I made these collages using pictures from magazines. I stuck them to the cardboard with a 50/50 mixture of Elmer's glue and water. When they were dried I sprayed
 them with a gloss polyurethane spray.

I like the Geico lizard on this one :)

I painted this mug at a pottery studio last month.

Some of you might have seen this post on Sarah's blog. This is the turtle I made.

A tea towel I embroidered. Usually I start embroidery (or cross-stitch) projects and never finish them. I think I started this one in January of this year and finished it last week. 
Thats got to be a record for me! :)

A hand appliqued pincushion made out of wool.