Life in Kentucky

The days are flying by as I get ready for the NAME national convention to be held this July in Cleveland.
Today was the day that the Overman's competed at the Garrard County Fair..
we were winners... and I had the best ever thing happen. I won the overall Grand Champion ribbon in the flower competition. The judge said, my glad was a perfect flower! I thought so too but never dreamed I would win over a gazillion flower entries.
My miniature entries - 4 entries took 1st place and a 5th entry into the "other doll" category won 2nd place.

We also won first place in Veggie Basket, cucumbers - pickling type and "other" category, mints, seconds in squash, beans, slicing cucumbers.. for having such a rainy year and so far a very short growing season - we are very happy and looking forward to the Kentucky State Fair competition.

To be auctioned at the 2011 NAME National Convention

My NAME Miniature Club

I wanted to share with you pictures of my "sisters" of NAME and my Blue Grass Miniature Society at ourl ast meeting. You will see our new officers and photos of several of our projects which will be on display at the NAME national convention in July in Cleveland.

As a member of NAME's Board of Trustees and the Cleveland Convention Steering Committee, my list of "to do's" is still a long one.

I hope you enjoy seeing a little bit of my wonderful NAME club.

A day trip

A great place to visit when one wants to take a day trip!
George Vanderbilt Biltmore home..

A Club Visit

A few days before Easter, I visited the Mini Junction Miniature Club of Cincinnati and held a basket making class.

Chocolate bunnies were made, tiny candies and eggs were added and everyone was ready for Easter!

Tom Walden Radio

NAME, talented member, Tom Walden from Florida, has donated a "working" 1" scale radio to be raffled off in an upcoming fall 2011 Miniature Gazette magazine.

To be auctioned at the 2011 NAME National Convention

This is my "Bewitching Screamway Piano" which will be auctioned off at NAME's 2011 National Convention Patron Party. This year's Patron Party will be held at Cleveland's House of Blues-a great way to kick off the convention with great friends, good food and the best blues one could hear! Twenty - nine NAME members, some being past NAME presidents, members of the Academy of Honor, special artists and present Board of Trustee members have taken a miniature piano/gramophone and have recreated it!

Things I love..

Just a day of working on miniatures as I get ready for the NAME National Convention to be held in July in Cleveland , Ohio. I serve on the steering committee and today was to a meeting day in Ohio but a March snow storm canceled it and here I am with the sun shining and daffodils blooming! I am busy wrapping 375 souvenir gifts for convention goers. Convention is like a miniature holiday vacation.

Busy month of March

I have been extremely busy preparing for the NAME National convention to be held in Cleveland this July.
I will be speaking at the main Theme Dinner about my collection of over 4,000 Little Golden Books and how I married a song, a little golden book with a miniature.

Each person who attends my dinner will receive as a souvenir gift a miniature pedal car which appears in one of my favorite little golden books.

My miniature club has also been busy working on their centerpiece for the convention- at the closing brunch held on Sunday of the convention, a lucky person at each table wins the centerpiece.  The convention theme this year is " With a Song In My Heart" so our centerpieces will be so different as every maker of a centerpiece has selected one of their favorite songs to recreate in miniature.  The club members have also been helping me with making 500 gifts- a gift for every convention attendee.

Those times together are what NAME is all about sharing but for me it is much more- these ladies have become my sisters.

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