Country Fair Blog Festival with Jewelry Giveaway

Welcome to A Country Fair hosted by Art's Chili Pepper. In this Bloggy Country Fair, you can share your creativity and talents, whether they be sewing, canning, painting, drawing, photography, baking, scrapbooking, needle arts, etc. I love a Country Fair, so here please are my entries for your perusal.

I enjoy photography and consider my strength to be composition and sheer luck like in this beautiful pink sunset next to the Lombardy pines.

This sillouette of a guard dog in training also was a lucky stroke of the shutter. (No, my dog will not be playing with you today!)


Decoupage is very rewarding and I have been doing it since I was a little girl with my Mom. I bought this adorable small trunk for storage for my powder room. However, it had a hideous Sunflower design on it which I covered and applied vintage postcards, gold leaf, and accented the trim with paint and fleur de lis. Tres facile!


I love to garden and I am so lucky to live in Southern California with its Mediterrean climate in which so much grows so easily! We are in a long term drought and I was happy to exchange my water thirsty strip of grass for this rock and periennial flower garden I designed and installed myself.


Baking is another love of mine and I think it has to do with the fact I LOVE TO EAT The END Results!!! This strawberry whipped cream cake was made for a friend's son's graduation party.

I have recently discovered the joys of jewelry making and here are a couple pieces I made for some dear friends.
I call this a Goddess style necklace and it has the anniversary month and birthstones of my friend, her spouse, and their children.

Here is a birthstone and anniversary month bracelet with a charm that reads, "You Are My Special Angel".

I love embellishing, reusing, and repurposing jewelry including these three single earrings in a bag of beads from the thrift store.

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Chain belts are a personal favorite and I embellished both this silver chain belt from the thrift store and an old pearl belt of mine. I used ribbon and old and new beads and charms for the chain belt and jade beads and a vintage button to dress up the pearl belt.

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I am blessed with a very artistic and musical family, both the one I was raised in and now my own family with my husband and our two sons who both inspire and support my creativity. My sincere thanks to them and to you for stopping by my little booth at The Country Fair. As a special Thank you to all my dear Bloggy friends, I would like to Giveaway Your Choice of Either a bracelet or a Pair of Earrings Custom Made Just For You! To enter, please just leave a comment telling me you would like a chance to win. That's all and please leave an email or link to get in touch with you. This giveaway will end at 12 MN Pacific Time October 12, 2009. Tax, tag, title not included. (Kidding, just wanted to see if you're paying attention.) Thank you again, my best for a wonderful day and week too.