Hand Trees

Here's my version of hand trees. I made these for my room using me and Brian's hands. I need to come up with the perfect quote to put somewhere around it...

Alaska State Fair

We had a great time at the fair this year. I went on 'Kids' Day with Brian and all the kids. It was a ton of fun. First, we went to the kids' games competition. Then a quick run through the craft exhibits. Then off to the midway. The kids rode a ton of rides and played some games. Brian bought them all cotton candy. It's all about the food with that man! He bought corn dogs, crab cakes, shrimp, buffalo burgers, Denali cream puffs, lots of good stuff. We stayed for the closing fireworks. The best firework show I've seen. They were right in your face. It's going to be a yearly tradition for sure.
Once we got home, I realized that I didn't get any pics of the kids with their projects. That meant another trip to the fair. This time it was just me and the kids (minus Hart) I got a ton of pics but, should've taken more. We went through ALL the exhibit buildings this time. Seward Sealife Center, 4H, crafts, flowers, animals, vegetables, and Raven's Hall. I got paint cleaned off my shoes, got lotion massaged into my hands, had a fresh fruit/veggie smoothie made in a vita-mix machine (I want one). We tried all the bizarre foods chocolate covered bacon, deep fried Cajun pickles, elephant ears. I didn't learn til I got home there was something called a donut burger there. It's a yeast donut with a hamburger, fried egg, and cheese on it. Next time perhaps...
I'm hoping to go one more time just me and Hart. I hear there's good sales on the last day. I'd love to get a good deal on a vita-mix!

State Fair Pics

sharing an elephant ear

Fisher enjoying a Denali cream puff.

Fisher with his prize frog

Thatcher with his prize ladybug

winning prizes

River Hart and Leify

Fisher and River 2nd car

Fisher and River

River

Fisher

Fisher climbing the rock wall. He did not make it to the top this year. In his defense, it was raining.

Thatcher at the Seward Sealife exhibit.This is their version of a petting zoo. There were sea anemone, starfish, and sea urchins.

Kids' Day Games

Fisher coming in last in the pie eating contest. He thought it was a contest to see who could eat the most pie. Turns out it was who could eat the fastest. He was all geared up to eat some pie! It's always the skinny ones...

They practiced this every day training for the big day

It paid off! The did it!!! 1st place!! wheel barrow race

three-legged race

2nd place three-legged race

Egg Race

River and Fisher both did the sack race but I didn't get any pics of Fisher.

The Results are In...

Leify- wood burning  Love it!

Fisher in front of his blue ribbon hand tree. There's a terrible glare on it. It was REALLY crowded the day we went so, it was hard to get good pics. We had to act fast. Never go to the fair on BOGO day. It wasn't worth the $16 we saved.

my baby coccoon- red ribbon    2nd shelf-middle

My purse with the big blue flower- blue ribbon The pic doesn't do it justice. It has a lot of texture to it. It's made of all sorts of yarn scraps and has a blue liner. I was happy with the way it turned out   top shelf-middle

My crocheted  'coonskin' cap- blue ribbon   bottom shelf middle

Fisher's blanket- red ribbon? For some reason, the judges gave Fisher a red ribbon and River a blue. I saw one of River's ties had come undone. (I didn't mention that to him) I don't think he noticed.

Leify and Thatcher in front of their projects   Leify's doily flag-red ribbon???!!!       Thatcher's finger painted flag- blue ribbon

River's blanket- blue ribbon

Target plarn bag mine- blue ribbon

River

River's coasters on the left- white ribbon.     Mine on the right- red ribbon

This is not our project but, I liked it. So I took a pic. I'm thinking of making some.

This is not our project. This entry got the ever coveted purple ribbon. Notice the gaps in the stitching. You can actually see the fluff inside! The nose is askew. The arms don't match. I could go on... It's a cute moose but, come on!! Purple ribbon???!!!

River's soap gets a blue ribbon

Family Fun

I tore these ideas out of Family Fun magazine.  I really like their wall idea too.  It's a little different than the one I did. I like them both.

Wall photos

Well, here's what I've done with the wall next to the kitchen table. I like it but... I don't know. Something is lacking, maybe some more colorful art work would help.