An Explanation for State Fair Goers

I had mentioned in yesterdays post that I hadn't placed at the fair over the past few years so I almost gave up. It seemed like every year I was trying new things to impress the judges and do what they "seemed" to like the year before. Well, when I went to pick the pages up from the fair office, and the nice lady told me congrats as she handed me my $8.00 check (funny I know) and said, "You know it is really hard to get ribbons in the scrap booking category at the fair." She then went onto explain that they have different judges every year, so for those of us who have been trying year after year to "please" the judges this could be why we are not getting it right! Those weren't her exact words, but you get my point. I know that I have talked to a lot of you about what do you think that they want from your pages and what to enter. So my advice to all of you is to just be real, do what you like, and maybe next year you will get lucky like I did and appeal to the judges!