With August already zooming by, I realize how fleeting the days are that my garden blesses me with such beauty. I hesitated to have roses. Once before I put a lot of time into a huge roses garden only for it to be nothing more than a meal for Japanese beetles. I have enjoyed the plants and not a beetle one. Thus, I have been so rewarded with their special beauty this year.
Candy Thompson, sister of the late Dawn Thompson, just won first place for her Topsy-Tervy doll of Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs - with the witch on theflip side. She placed for in the Oldham Co. Fair held this last week forhandcrafted division. The doll is totally hand-sewn, not from a pattern.