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It’s Bluegrass Festival Time Again!

Jun 2

Posted by Bob Stovall in Antiques, Art, Crafts, Day Trips, Events, Food & Drink, Home and Garden, Properties for Sale, Tips & Tricks, Travel

Summer’s here and it’s time to celebrate life in the Bluegrass by getting out to one of the fabulous festivals that make Kentucky the greatest place to live. We’ve made a list of when and where some festivals are taking place this summer and we hope to see you at more than one.

Festivals are held all over the Commonwealth and each has a unique and distinctive local flavor. So get on out there and attend one of these festivals. You’ll have a great day out and you’ll be supporting Kentucky’s economy.

Festival organizers and sponsors: If we don’t have you listed and linked, please let us know where we can get information on your festival, your website and how we can download a logo to display on our events page.

Tags: Antiques, Art, bluegrass, Crafts, day trip, event, festival, food, Kentucky, ky, Music

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How to Decorate Easter Eggs

Apr 10

Posted by Bob Stovall in Crafts, Food & Drink, Holidays, Home and Garden, Tips & Tricks, Travel, Videos

From Howcast, make your Easter eggs little oval works of art.

Tags: color, decorate, easter, egg, how to, howcast, natural

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Cakes for Kids Children’s Theater Benefit

Apr 7

Posted by Bob Stovall in Business, Events, Food & Drink, Home and Garden, Travel

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Pam Birt of The Twisted Sifter Cake Shoppe in Perryville has been invited to design a cake for the Lexington Children’s Theater’s 70th Birthday Bash. Please join us in celebrating this special occasion.

The Lexington Children’s Theater Birthday Bash at Joseph Beth Booksellers will be on Saturday, April 18, 2009. The cakes will be displayed between 11:00 am and 2:00 pm. Please be sure to stop by, sample the cakes and support your local children’s theater.

Celebrate LCT’s 70th season with cakes decorated by local bakeries and pastry chefs in the style of your favorite LCT shows! Cakes based on popular children’s books seen on LCT’s stage, including Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan and others, will be available for silent auction.

For a donation of $5.00 kids and families will receive a cake judging ballot as well as the opportunity to sample cake from all participating bakeries! Yum! The top three cakes will be awarded with a special prize!

Also, enjoy a free craft compliments of The Mad Potter! Paint your own mouse to commemorate the popular children’s book, If you Give a Mouse a Cookie, an LCT favorite!

Adding to the fun of LCT’s 70th Birthday Bash, Joseph-Beth will be holding tons of activities for kids and families! Some of the activities include:

Costume Character Story Time
Crafts galore
Games
Face painting
Balloon animals
Bouncy obstacle course

All proceeds benefit LCT’s Annual Campaign.

Get out to Joseph Beth [map] at Lexington Green on Saturday, April 18, 2009 between 11AM and 2PM. Support the Lexington Children’s Theater and The Twisted Sifter. Have some cake and vote for Pam.

Tags: april 11, bakery, benefit, cake, joseph beth bookseller, lexington children's theater, the twisted sifter

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Building raised beds for your garden

Mar 28

Posted by Bob Stovall in Home and Garden, Videos

“Garden Girl” Patti Moreno shows you how to build a raised bed for your garden.

Produced by Urban Sustainable Living

Tags: fruit, garden, livestock, raised bed, sustainable, urban, vegetable

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Kentucky holiday exhibit at U.S. Botanic Garden

Dec 3

Posted by Bob Stovall in Attractions, Holidays, Home and Garden, Travel

Every holiday season since 2004, the U.S. Botanic Garden has staged the Garden Railway exhibit, a wonderful display of incredible workmanship and holiday whimsy. And it has a Kentucky connection.

The Garden Railway is the work of Paul Busse and his company, Applied Imagination of Alexandria, Kentucky (see the Applied imagination website for more information). A landscape architect by training, Busse freely admits to being an incurable model train enthusiast with a deep appreciation of plants. His garden railways and building replicas have been a part of the holidays at the U.S. Botanic Garden since 2004.

Here are some photos I took this year of the Garden Railway and replicas of the buildings that line the National Mall in Washington, DC.