State Fair

After two years of intentions, I finally entered some items into the Arizona State Fair. Below are the items I entered. I never intended to enter my quilt, because the ones I saw last year were so spectacular, then I saw a category called my first quilt. I figured that is a good category for me; although, it means I don't have it on my bed for the next two months.

This belt I just finished on my inkle loom and they actually had a category for that.

My knife sheath went into the beadwork category.

The blue basket went under "natural matierials" while the red basket went under "my first basket."

Finally some photos of my house

I am going to show some before and after shots. The first two photos were taken looking into my tv room from the front door. Here is a closeup of the paintings Grandma June did of mom and dad. Thats me in the painting of dad when I was 11 or 12.

The hall bathroom.

The second bedroom without any artwork up yet. I'm still figuring out how much work I want to put into it since I haven't decided whether to get a roommate or not.

Below is the kitchen before and after.

My dream to have a project room where I can have all my tools and a work table always at the ready has been realized. You can see I hung mom's tapestry, stained glass quilt and the girls dress for which she won first place ribbons at the Utah state fair and Nevada state fair. In the lower right hand corner of the second picture is one of mom's hardangers resting on a wooden towel rack that dad made which I haven't hung up yet. The red and blue wall hanging is an amish piece. Maybe they will give me inspiration.