07.04.08

Fair Submittals

Posted in The creative side of life at 12:15 am by Meg

Thursday evening was when our county has the kids turn in exhibits for some of the more popular 4H projects - crafts and photography. Because they do community judging, turning in projects is a slow process as each exhibit is examined and the judges talk to the kids about what they like or dislike.

While the kids leave the judging knowing if they have won blue, red, or white; we’ll have to wait until Sunday or Monday to find out if they got any honor awards, Championships, or Grand Championships. We also have to wait until then to find out if anything will be going to state.

So, they left the judging with all blues except for Girl’s 10 color prints - it got a red because the pictures were not as sharp as the judges would have liked. While I’m not posting the photography collections, I thought I’d share their salons and leatherworking. They each had three 8×10 salons - one in color, one in black and white, and one that has been modified into a creative print.

In photography, Girl competes in the intermediate level, while Boy in advanced. The only way they compete against each other will be for Grand Champion - a touchy point since Boy won it two years ago and Girl last year.

Boy’s salons:

And his original picture and what he did with it:

Girl’s salons:

And her original picture and what she did with it:

They both had leather to submit in crafts. For this project, they are both in advanced - but neither is really competitive. Crafts is a very competitive project and winning anything other than an honor ribbon is hard.

Boy made a pair of leather bracers