gardens, wedding, donuts, and owls.....

This past weekend was Kinsey's sister's wedding. The ceremony was held outside in the Hershey Gardens, in Hershey Pa. The weather was beautiful and was quite an enjoyable time.


Here's the rehearsal. They got married beneath the archway.



These were the centerpieces on the tables. Yes, donuts. The reception was all breakfast foods catered by the Hershey Hotel, which is a Rice favorite for breakfast. Yum!



Here's my sister in law, Hilary and my new brother in law, Shawn (Shawnzie).



Here's Kinsey and I after the ceremony.


Just one of the many butterflies hanging out.


This tree was in the Japanese gardens. I love how curvy it is.


Hello owl!

This is the first of two sibling weddings K and I will be attending this year. My brother is getting married in October. This was actually the first wedding we've been to since we got married ourselves. It's nice to just be able to sit back and get a chance to talk to people who you never see and eat the food at the reception. I found that I hardly had time to eat much of anything at our reception and could barely say more than hello to everyone that came. It's hard to believe that it's almost been 3 years already!


Our wedding in September of 2007.

fair ribbons....

We like ribbons. We like arts and crafts. So what to do? Enter the fair, of course!

Last week was our county's community fair. We've never entered anything before (in fact we've never been because it's about 40 minutes away), but thought we'd give it a try just to see what happened.
We certainly am well aware that our style isn't really what is typically entered in county fairs. Not that all fairs are the same, but you see a lot of cross stitch geese and flowers really. Not that there's anything wrong about those things, but it would be nice if people enter a more wide range of work.
Anyhow I entered a pot holder, my Acadia embroidery/painting, my forest mini art quilt, and one of my favorite embroidery hoops of an eastern hemlock branch. Kinsey entered a magazine collage and a new pen and ink drawing. We weren't really able to go see the fair to see if we won, so we had to wait until this past Monday when we picked up our work to find out.
We won ribbons! Yeah!

Here's Kinsey's work. The collage won 1st and the pen and ink got 2nd.


My Acadia wall hanging took 3rd and my tree mini art quilt and embroidered tree hoop each took 2nd place.


We were pretty excited to win ribbons (which is the whole reason we entered), but weren't even aware that winners received a little prize money, too.