If you’ve not been Facebooked nor Twittered to death about it (by me), I’ll tell you now: the Science Quilt did not win a prize in the Ventura County Fair. Instead, I got an “everyone gets one” Honorable Mention sticker.

inadequately displayed. on the bright side, it was two quilts over from a NASCAR quilt!

The other quilt I entered also got a “sorry, sucker” sticker.

I did get second place for my scarf!

i can only hope there were more than two entries in this category.

But I did win something grand and totally unexpected at Opening Day of the Fair:

the turkey calling contest!

I am forever grateful to my brother for teaching me the turkey call. It’s one of the best things I do.

HERE’S A CONTEST FOR YOU VENTURA PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO THE FAIR

First three people to take a picture of themselves in front of one of the things I entered into the VC Fair gets a DEEP DISCOUNT on selected items the fabulous Etsy shop that I have with my friend Turquoise called MockOrange. The three items I entered are in the Home Arts building: there’s a scarf and two quilts. I’m being a little coy about showing an image of the second quilt here, but you’d be able to see it on my flickr photostream.

When I say deep discount I mean crazy deep discount.  And by selected items I mean scarves, the Gocco cards, the blue pincushion and other things. Oh, and robot potholders. That’s right.