A Day at the Fair

We spent last Saturday at the Orange County Fair, where I witnessed first hand my first and second place necklaces! I wish they had been hung with a little more care in the final displays but I'm happy and grateful to have won.


Here are some other favorite moments from our day:

Ode to the OC Fair, made out of bread... To see a bread Eiffel Tower, click here

An "antsy" tablescape, with ants on the table and the mannequin. Take note of the "melting" plates!

Here are two of my artist friends' entries:

Max Yamada is the artist I know from the Yorba Linda Celebration of the Arts. That's his Corgi in the foreground!

And here's Kim Vanderhoeck's landscapes. She got to go on an art trip to Italy recently. I'm jealous! Visit her blog here

A little Wallaby Joey safe in a "pouch". We saw one of these "pouches" at Sea World, too.

Donkey Love. The Husband used to work with a donkey at Knott's, so he has a soft spot for them.

Piggies!

And more piggies!



And me with the quintessential Orange!

We had quite a weekend, being as my birthday fell on Sunday. Next post will be our trip to the Huntington Library in San Marino.

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5 Things Friday

Five Things I Like About the Celebration of the Arts Show:

1 I get to see certain artists and friends at least once a year

Max Yamada and Charlie Chan (Max is the artist :-)

2 It’s in a park, so we get to see lots of dogs. In fact, this year we brought a water dish for thirsty puppies

3 Had too much fun talking to people to work on a chainmaille project I brought along to do during the show

4 We have an excellent spot under a tree, where we had shade and a sweet breeze all day

5 We’re in the middle of several stages, so we hear great music throughout the show


Here’s me and my booth (note the earring display on the chair to the left of the picture. It kept blowing over in the sweet breeze so I had to give it a lower position to keep it stable...)


This is my Bead Society Buddy, Anneliese

These pictures are courtesy of the Yorba Linda Arts Alliance.

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Award Winning Jewelry Designer Goes to the Fair!

Low and Behold! My humble Orange County Fair entry, The Beaches of Orange County, won second place in the Bead Jewelry division! I know it’s only a little local competition and all, but I’m still really surprised and happy that my necklace is Number Two. Here’s proof:

I hate my camera. I can’t change the date on it, it doesn’t have a viewfinder and it won’t let me see the pictures in order after I take them, so unless I want to sit for 10 minutes trying to find them, I can’t see if they turned out well. All things to remember when I buy a new one…

Anyway, here are some other artist friend’s entries this year:

Here’s my co-worker, Teresa’s, scrapbooking page dedicated to her mom. I wish this was a better picture (see kvetching above) because it’s really a beautiful piece of work. In fact, when I showed it to The Husband, a woman was looking at it and talked to me about how lovely it was. I was proud to say I knew the artist!

I wasn’t sure whether my blog buddy, Kim Van Der Hoeck, was exhibiting this year because she’s preggies but I was happy to find that she had 3 pieces in the Fine Arts contests. Here are two of her wonderful oil paintings.

For the last several years, we’ve had our Celebration of the Arts booth right across from Max Yamada, his wife Jolyn and their adorable Corgi, Coco. This year, Coco wasn’t with them and we were sad to find that she had passed away earlier in the year. But she was one of Max’s favorite subjects and is immortalized in many of his acrylic paintings, one of which is on view in the Fine Arts Building this year.

Besides the wonderfully air conditioned buildings, we also wandered a bit, seeing little piggies, hearing musical groups in the plaza and enjoying the wafting aroma’s of the food vendors. Here’s a booth we avoided~deep fried everything~but I think I gained 5 pounds just looking at it!

Here’s The Husband in front of a sand sculpture honoring the Santa Ana Army Air Base. Yeah, it’s a little cartoon-y, but it’s a county fair, after all…

And what’s a trip to the fair without a stop at the petting zoo? Llama’s and wallaby’s and deer, oh my!

I wish I had gotten pictures of some of the wood carving projects--gorgeous! I hope you get a chance to go to your local county fair this season. We hadn’t been in several years and I had forgotten what a fun, interesting experience it is.

So much to do, eat and see!


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Happy Monday!

We had a great day for the Celebration of the Arts yesterday. Man, I’m still tired after a day of standing and then falling asleep at 8:30 last night! I must be getting old! But we met lots of people, gave out plenty of bookmarks (I do bookmarks instead of business cards), had my first public showing of ATC's and sold a few things.

Dean did his show with the banjo and mandolin and felt really good about it. Next week, we’re going to pitch his show to the folks at Tom’s Farm, a really fun place in Riverside county. Wish us luck!

Here’s a picture of the artist across from us yesterday.

OK, Coco isn’t really the artist, she’s their beloved mascot. Such a sweetie, she’s 10 years old and shows up in many of her master’s paintings. You can see some of Max Yamada's work here: http://www.geocities.com/maxyamada/index.html He and his wife are very nice and he’s wicked talented. Someday, I hope to afford one of his paintings!

I’m waiting to hear if I’m accepted to an Indie Public show sponsored by Tall Mouse in July. I’ll let you know if I’m in!

Well, I’m off to do my walking DVD, take a shower and do my bills. All the necessaries!

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