Fairs and Lotions!

Lake Superior Ice - Tingle Mint

I have been very busy with Kiyi Kiyi things!  Here are a few of my newest creations.

I will be selling  displaying (Hopefully selling, but let's not get cocky LOL!) at the Farmer's Market for the first time this next Saturday.  I thought it would be fun to do a series of posts about how I designed my booth with vintage/up cycled items, so look for those posts in the next few days.

I'm getting a real professional web site made - yay!  So excited about that :)  I'll post a link when it's up and running.

Kiyi Kiyi soaps will be for sale at The Indiana Blueberry Festival - here.  What?!  Indiana?!  Yeah!  I'm participating in a fun Soaps Across America group.  So if you want to see Kiyi Kiyi soaps live and in person (and you live in Indiana!) go check out the Blueberry Festival the last week-end in August. 

Acai and Mangosteen

Herbal Essential - smells EXACTLY like herbal essences shampoo

  

Lotion!  

Yes it's finally here!  I will stop hording it all and finally put some up for sale.  Hopefully some will make it onto the Etsy site - if my local people don't buy it all!  I love making lotion, I LOVE using my lotion, but I HATE making labels for everything.  I'm a perfectionist freak and label making drives me crazy, because I can't control everything!  I should go sniff some soap and calm down!  :)  LOL!

Fair Ivy Finalist!

Wow!  I'm still in shock!

My soap was selected as a finalist by the Soap Queen team for the Fair Ivy Contest.  Check it out here: Soap Queen 

As they say in show business, I'm just honored to be mentioned.... among such an amazing group of crafters.    Wow!

So surprised and happy!

I entered, because I like contests.  I'm a terrible procrastinator, but if I have a very firm goal in mind I will work obsessively until I think it's perfect :P   Contests are a good push for me to try new things and be creative.  I didn't think I would be a finalist!  

I almost missed the deadline for submissions, because I couldn't get my label template to cooperate.  In the end I just used an address stamper to add my name and address to the back of the label, because I couldn't re print the labels again at the last minute (my Dad prints my labels on his fancy (expensive) printer and I trade him labels for soap LOL!) and having name/address on your label was one of the requirements for entry.  It was right down to the wire and I paid extra at the post office just to make sure it would be delivered on time.

Now I wish I had taken a picture of my submission before I sent it off!  

I designed and sewed little clutch type bags that folded like an envelope to hold the soap.  They had ribbons sewn in to tie them closed.  I thought they were really cute :)

I even made my own pattern  - although it isn't that complicated a pattern LOL!  Just the shape of an envelope.  

I don't think that I will win the final contest - there are a lot of REALLY gorgeous entries and mine looks kind of plain by comparison, but there is always next time!  And it was an honor just to know someone liked my soap and my sewing :) 

County Fair

I won 3 red ribbons!

For my special events, buildings and birds entries.

I wish I could figure out what the judge was looking for, so I will know what to enter next year.

The grand prize winners are in the upper left hand corner.

Not really sure why she picked them for grand prize.

The Lumberjack show!

Lots of vegetable entries.

The biggest vegetable entries.

Mom and Dad checking out the flower entries.

Check out this HUGE sunflower!

Cute goaties!

If I could, I would love to have a goat.

They are so sweet!

Dad and a friendly goat.

Pretty Belgian horse and its baby.

County Fair Confusion

I re-read the fair entry form yesterday, when I was preparing my salsa and jam for entry, and I noticed the entry form said, "mail or turn in to the county office on or before July 31st".

Oh no!

But when I dropped off my scarecrow today I saw a huge line of people waiting to register their entries.

And an empty window for pre-entries.

Ah ha!

I rushed home, but I only had time to grab my photography entries and rush back to the fairgrounds.

Then I stood in line for 1 1/2 hours.

This is what I entered.

Category - Nature

Special events



Flowers

Birds

Water scene

Buildings

Kids

Animals

Country scene

I'll try to enter my canned items next year.

When I'm more prepared.

County Fair Scarecrow

I turned in my scarecrow today for the master gardener sponsered contest at the county fair. The theme was "butterfly garden".

This is The Flower Family.

There are some very, very nice scarecrows, so nice I didn't even want to vote for mine!