Is it FAIR?

OK, so it's that time of year again.  Fair time.  I thought that this year I would try for the 'homemakers award'.  If entering you have to have at least six blue ribbons in four of the six homemaking categories, which are: horticulture, flowers, sewing, needle work, food preservation, and baking.  I had several things in mind and then one night last week I was reading the scriptures and came upon the scripture that says something about not spending your money for that which is of no worth and your time for that which cannot satisfy. 

Well that did it for me.  I had been thinking in my mind that maybe it would be ok that I was behind on my laundry and cleaning to sew this cute dress and pair of shoes to enter, crochet bead socks, bake bread, make scarecrow cookies for premium points, and root-beer cookies, and pecan bars, and so many other ideas.  ~So I thought to myself, "I'll just make the cookies and that's it.  So I designed the cookie shape, and decided how to decorate it.

After making just two of them Jesse got a sliver in his foot which quickly snowballed into several different problems and to make a long story shorter, I didn't get the five done that had to be entered and only ended up entering my mini pumpkins and my red grapes.  Maybe it will work out for next year?!