My $10 cabinet, the State Fair and the New Falling for Fall Challenge!

I have so much to share with you lovely ladies today!  It's been a while since I made a real post...things continue to be very busy at our new home.  We're still moving things over from the old house and also redoing some things along the way.  I promised a picture of my $10 china cabinet...it's not prim, but more Victorian,  and I will most likely sell it soon (after touching up a few places on it)...but for $10 I figured it was worth trying to sell on Craig's list...to make some money for the kind of cabinet I would like once I redo the dining room.


Saturday Mr. Whimzie drove the whole clan (me, our sons and their wives) to the great New York State Fair.  We had a grand time, even if it was 90 degrees and very humid!  We ate sausages, cheese-steaks, huge plates of curly cut french fries, warm, cinnamon/sugar fried doughs, drank wine slushies and saw lots of interesting sites.  Below are just a few of the many pictures I took! 

The Sand Sculpture - a Memorial to the victims of 9-11

I LOVE this hooked rug!

Pig Roast at one of the vendors

Anvil cloud at the end of the day - there's Drew, our meteorologist, taking a picture

 Tomorrow I will be posting about a new Family Food Blog we are creating, so stay tuned for a link to that.  It will feature tried and true recipes with pictures, of foods either I or our sons and their wives have made....lots of yummy stuff will be posted...but I'll tell you more about that blog when we are up and running tomorrow.


I have been hinting for quite a while about a NEW CHALLENGE.  Well, today is the day I will be unveiling the pattern and I will be calling this the

Falling for Fall Challenge

This challenge will work much the same as the Bunny Challenge I hosted back in the Spring, but this time I am providing a fairly generic pattern, and it is up to you to make it into a doll that reflects Fall.
Some interesting ideas might be:

a prim Fall Annie doll,

a scarecrow, 

perhaps a witch, 

a skeleton or 

some other Halloween ghoul. 

You are free to enlarge, decrease and alter the pattern to make it fit your ideas and I am hoping to see lots of creative additions.  Since this is not a pattern for any specific creation, it will be a TON of fun to see what you all come up with.  As with the last challenge, I will highlight your creations on a PictureTrail album, which I will place on my blog when the pictures start coming in.  There are just a few simple rules to follow to join in the fun:

1.  Make a comment on this post telling me you would like to join;

2.  Make your creation and get a picture to me on or before October 14th, so that I can feature them on the Picture Trail album I will create;

3. Agree not to sell my pattern for profit.  You may sell items you make from my pattern, but you must give me credit as the creator of the pattern.

Remember - this is a challenge just for the fun of it and although I would like to see the finished product, if you cannot complete your creation in time, I won't think any less of you. 
I call this a challenge because each of you have a different style and so many great ideas, and it is fun to see what we can create on our own.

Good luck on the Challenge - I hope you will join in the fun!

Click on the Link below to get the PDF pattern for the Falling for Fall Challenge

http://www.scribd.com/doc/64013906/Falling-for-Fall-Challenge-NEW