Yesterday was the last day of the Fair — for me. The Fair will last the rest of this week concluding on Sat. But I’ve had three days of the Fair and that’s all I can take for this year.
The baking competitions that I take place in were all done Sat., Sun, and Mon. I took a salad and won 3rd place Sat. Of course there were only three entries, so I was guaranteed one of the prizes.
Sunday was almost as bad. I baked Sat. night and all morning Sun, and took six baked items — bread, coffeecake, cornbread and three kinds of muffins and received a ribbon on all of them because in most cases, there were only two or three entries in each class. How pathetic! It just takes all the fun out of it when there isn’t much competition.
However, I did get one thrill. The last class to judge was the bread made with any other ingredients not listed in the other classes. I made a zucchini bread with carrots, raisins and pecans and out of the four in this class, I won the 1st place! Then the contest for Champion ribbon is judged from all the 1st place winners in each class. There were six entries in this competition. And I won the champion ribbon on my zucchini bread!!

That’s the kind of contest I like to be in.
The ironic thing about this whole ordeal was that the zucchini bread was my second attempt to make a bread. I had made a bread with cherries, coconut, etc. the first time around. It didn’t bake well at all and I told Hubby that I can’t take this to be judged. So he told me to just make another one. It was late, and I was tired from the days’ activities. But he kept saying that I had time, etc. So I gave in and “whipped” together this zucchini bread. I didn’t even take time to “do it right.” I just wanted to get it in the oven, clean up, and go to bed as soon as it was done.
And then I got the champion ribbon on it! What a deal, as Hubby would say. I owe him one for talking me into it.
The grandparents’ cookie contest was about as pathetic as the rest of the baking classes. There was another lady who was a little bit of a competition, (not like last year where I won all the ribbons), and the kids were adorable to watch as they judged our cookies; but I still walked away with a ribbon on everything and the champion again. (I’m seriously considering not doing this cookie thing next year.)

I did pretty good with the craft sections again this year. Of course since they spread everything out and you can’t see how many entries are in each class and what you’re competing against, you have no idea if there was enough competition to warrant a ribbon or not.
Here’s a run-down on my ribbons this year.
My sis’s afghan that I made her,

My poncho and sweater. The two afghans I made are in this pic, but neither one of them have ribbons.

The knitted ear warmer for the Caps for Comfort (the gray circular one)

And the blue and white crocheted one for the Caps for Comfort.

Here’s the finger puppets for the Toys for Toddlers

They had them turned on the side and sorry about the blurry pic. (Can you see the blue ribbon?)
And the little bear going to the beach,

Here’s the little princess puppy,

Another cross-stitched stocking,

The book cover that I embroidered with ribbon yarn,

A couple of pillows, the Halloween house and the plastic canvas cow tissue holder,




That’s a white ribbon on the Halloween House. You should have seen the competition in the Halloween class!! I was lucky to get any ribbon at all.
Next pics are of my painted projects,





So not too shabby this year. I just wish I knew what my competition was. It’s hard to read a lot of the tags, so it’s anybody’s guess how many items were in each class.
I guess I’ll start on some more projects for next year. (Yeah, I’m a die-hard. What can I say?)