wanna win some twine?

Want to win some fabulous baker's twine? Head over to the Itsy Bitsy Paper by Lindy blog to see how you can win a Sampler Pack from The Twinery!

new maya road to love

Maya Road just posted the last of their sneaks and it is YUMMY! The thing I'm really digging is the canvas and especially the canvas dress form. Isn't this too cute? Take a look at these projects from their blog using the dress form:

To see the entire sneak, be sure to visit the Maya Road blog (did I mention there's a giveaway involved?)

this song got stuck in my head

We've Only Just Begun by the Carpenters. Actually, it's just been a single line from the song that is stuck in my head..."a kiss for luck and we're on our way." Except that in my head I keep hearing "a kiss for luck and you're on your way".

I know exactly why this phrase is floating about in my gray matter --it's because I was kissing my MMM entry goodbye today and sending it on its way.

Bye-bye pizza box. Have a happy journey!

dollar daze

Yesterday was opening day at the fair. It took me over an hour to get in due to a crazy new traffic funneling system that was put in place. Had I only known, I could have come from a different direction (all roads lead to the fair!) and not been detoured in a slow snail-like line of cars. Ugh!

The good part is that you can get in for a buck on opening day. The size of the crowd really isn't too bad either, which surprises me. I was only there for a short while since I had to be back in time to run Mom's After School Taxi service -lol! Just enough time there tho to enjoy roasted corn on the cob (yum!) and do a quick browse thru the arts & crafts building.

As you might've guessed I entered some SB stuff. This year there were LOTS of great entries - and lots more than last year. It was cool to recognize so many names on entries. My mom entered for the first time ever (and took a red ribbon --wooo hooo! You go, Mom!) My sister also entered several items (more ribbons -congrats!) And there were lots of yummy entries from my fellow good time girls as well as some of our customers. All in all, a great showing of awesome SB art and isn't that great to see? Early SB displays at the fair were very limited and the pages (if I may say so) were very conservative. It's terrific to have a varied and substantial display of creativity. Sheesh, better step down off the ole soapbox now.

On a related note... there were lots of ribbons on all the entries noted above, but two especially delightful ribbons were the orangey-gold "best of show" ribbons that went to two particular good time girls: drum roll.... Susan Bugelli, an SGT DT member took the rosette for stamping art and... TOOT! I took one for SBing. Woo hoo!