Going to the Fair

The Nebraska State Fair is moving from Lincoln to Grand Island after next year's fair season. I've been going to the State Fair in Lincoln since I was a little girl, and it's one of my favorite things to do. Today Conan and I went to the Fair and here are my highlights of this year's Fair.

Every year, I just love seeing the baby chicks in the UNL Birthing Center.

I couldn't resist this sleeping baby goat and I couldn't believe it could sleep with all the other babies running around it.

Who says llamas aren't cute.

These ducks are the "Puddle Jumpers."

Cabela's "Dock Dogs."

Dana Kunze, Pirates of the Caribbean High Dive Show

There were marching bands every fifteen minutes.

My niece, Kaley, received a Blue Ribbon on her quilt entry that she worked reeealy hard on.

This was a pencil drawing that looked like a photo! It was drawn by a fifteen year old 4-H'r. It was amazing.

This is an open class, mixed media, collage.

A black and white photograph that received Best in Show.

The Grand Champion in the quilt exhibit.

These were other quilts that I thought were colorful and interesting...my favorites.

Planning My Trip to Georgia

Next week, two of my sisters and I are going to visit our sister in Georgia. This will be my second trip there, and I'm looking forward to it. We're going to be there for five days, with nothing really planned while we're there. We'll be winging it. I made a Charming Handbag for my sister in Georgia. It was from the Bend-the-Rules Sewing book.


Our neighbor's Hibiscus flowers are blooming and I just love them. Actually three of our neighbors have them and each have plants with different colors, white, pink and red.

My Bunnies

Just a short clip of my bunnies.

A Busy Week

This is going to be a long blog entry because I've had a busy week and tonight is my first time to write.

First of all, I wanted to tease you with a photo of my bag for the Bag/Bucket Swap. I was really working hard on my bag, but now I'm at a stand still because I want to put in a zipper and I have to figure out how to do it.
On Tuesday of last week, I went to the Bernina Club Sew and we had some talented artists put on a presentation called, Converging into Cornflowers. The talented artists were: Elaine Johnson, Elizabeth Sterns, Judy Bucklin Lane, Lois Wilson, Margrethe Ahlschwede, Marty Eischeid, and Zita Schneider.

They're going to have a fabric art exhibit August 21st through September 18th at the Bernina Sewing Studio in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Their works were still in the creation stages and I loved hearing about their ideas of what they were doing and what they were going to do. Their thought processes were so interesting. I can't wait to see the finished projects.

On Friday night I took my niece and nephew to the Lancaster County Fair and we had a great time. We watched the Bunny Dress Up Contest and the winner was a bunny dressed up like Snoopy.

The Bunny dressed up like a pig was also adorable.
Next we watched the hay hauling contest where teams of three load a pick up with forty-two hay bales, drive an obstacle course and then unload the pick up and re-stack the hay. The team with the fastest time wins. It's always well attended each year.
Daryl's Racing Pigs are a staple at the fair. Daryl chose our fair to train his twenty-four day old pigs and they were so cute. We couldn't cheer, because it would scare them, so we could only clap.

Then the experienced pigs raced and we could cheer as loud as we wanted to for them.
As the sky turned dark, we checked out the rides with their colorful lights.

As a former 4-H'r, I love all the excitement of the fair and can't wait for the Nebraska State Fair to start.

Today was the Sandall reunion and we had a great turn out. I was happy to have my center pieces completed and displayed on the tables. There were about two hundred relatives there and everyone had fun celebrating their Swedish heritage.

Dala horses made by children out of paper mache hung from the ceiling.