Originally Posted By JazzCat I have finally downloaded the paperwork to enter a few things in our county fair. I'm planning on entering some photography, scrapbooking and beading. Who's entered their projects and what did you win?
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP ElderP has entered some of his collections and some of his cooking, but I'll let him tell you more about it later. I keep meaning to enter crafts, but never do, so good for you!!
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 I've entered a small wall hanging quilt and the next year I entered a rag doll( cow). I recived 2nd place for my quilt and 3rd for my cow. That was for our Mid- state fair, when I lived in Ca. ten years ago. It was a lot of fun to see it being displayed, though.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 I'm not sure if this counts, but... As a high school kid, I entered some things into the County Fair through 4-H. Tooled leather, ceramics, and some other craft I'm not remembering. Won some ribbons and a small amount of money. I also entered the "Horticulture" knowledge competition. It was half written test (eg. "Which level of nitrogen is most desireable in a fertilizer for azaleas?") and half species-identification (there were tables and tables filled with parts of plants; you had to identify each plant). The prize was that the person who scored the highest out of all the fairs in Michigan would be flown to Colorado to compete in the nationals. Turns out that I scored highest in the state. But I was a few days short of being old enough to compete in the nationals. Wah. I also competed in the "Demonstration" competition. This is where you're graded on your ability to explain/teach something. I chose to demonstrate how to make a cake. This was WAY before "Queer Eye" and all the male-hosted cooking shows on TV. The judges were a bit taken aback by a GUY talking about baking, but I think that ended up working in my favor. I got graded down for not wearing an apron (as I ended up splashing some flour onto my pants), but scored well. No prize for this one, though.
Originally Posted By lilgoofymom We entered a Mickey and Minnie Latch hook rug in our local fair a few years back. We won a blue ribbon and about $3. Not a very good way to get rich, but it was kinda cool to get a blue ribbon for something we made for fun.
Originally Posted By JazzCat Just an update: I came to the fair on Wednesday the 3rd and found out my placements. I got third place with my photography. Now, that may sound good, but there was nothing lower than third place. (Ugh!) My jewelry received second so I'm pretty happy about that. Appearantly my scrapbooking was so bad they didn't even put it up. But I consider myself successful because I have been saying for years I was going to enter and never did so to FINALLY do it and get second on something means alot to me.
Originally Posted By LPFan22 I'm happy you placed Jazzy. Sounds like fun. I would definitely try that someday. Especially with photography and baking. How many people entered the photography competition? 3rd still sounds good to me.
Originally Posted By LuLu I say, Congrats for making the effort to enter! AND, Big Congrats for winning prizes! Well done!
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 Congratulations, Jazzalita! It's WONDERFUL that you got your stuff together, steeled yourself for taking your chances, and entered the competitions! GOOD FOR YOU! And GOOD FOR YOU for your second and third place finishes! (Yeah, yeah, I know -- third is the least you could get in that category, but at least you did it and got displayed!) I hope you were able to look around at the other entries and were able to discern what distinguished First from Second from Third. That would make it a real learning experience -- and a challenge for next year. But whether you enter next year or not... Feel good about what you did THIS year! Congratulations!
Originally Posted By DlandJB My kids have and both have won awards. My son for an art project and my daughter won a grand champion ribbon for a poem she wrote when she was nine. She got on local access television too -- She was thrilled and so were we.
Originally Posted By JazzCat This topic got buried (as topics do!) but I thought I'd let people know something else that happened. When I went to pick up my things, I discovered that my scrapbooking had won third place, but they put up only the 1st and 2nd place finishers. It's funny; three years ago there were hardly any entries and now they have so many they run out of room!
Originally Posted By threeundertwo Wow! Congratulations. I just had a conversation last month with a friend of mine (lets call her OverachieverMommy A) who told me about OverachieverMommy B who found time on top of everything else to enter cookies in the county fair. I teased B about it later and she said that Mommy A not only entered cakes in the fair, she won lots of ribbons. Guess I'm some kind of slacker. So next year I think I'll enter a quilt.
