Country Living Fair Ticket Giveaway

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Winner of two weekend passes to the Country Living Fair in Columbus, OH (chosen randomly by Rafflecopter is Leslie from House on the Way! Congratulations, Leslie. An email has been sent with instructions on claiming your prize!

Guess what?! I have the fun opportunity to pass along 2 weekend passes to the Country Living Fair in Columbus to one lucky DIY Show Off reader! In less than two weeks September 13-15th, we could be talking face-to-face, shopping, filling up on delicious goodies and gathering some DIY and fall inspiration…together! 

Country Living Fair

{photo courtesy Country Living}

The Country Living Fair in Columbus will give us the chance to enjoy the Country Living lifestyle in a fun, festival atmosphere with cooking, crafting, and other DIY demonstrations, as well as fantastic local and artisanal food. In addition, we’ll be drooling, buying and getting some DIY inspiration from more than 200 vendors offering antiques, gifts, home décor, jewelry and more.

Country Living Fair

{photo courtesy of Country Living}

Country Living Editor-in-Chief Sarah Gray Miller and many of the magazine’s editors and contributors will be on-site to bring the pages of the magazine to life. That’s exactly what my experience has been like going in the past: walking through the pages of a my favorite magazine. Special guests scheduled to attend the Columbus Country Living Fair and participate in book signings, demonstrations and panel discussions include:

  • Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell, of Cooking Channel’s “The Fabulous Beekman Boys”
  • Cari Cucksey, estate sale expert and host of HGTV’s “Cash & Cari”
  • Faith Durand, executive editor of TheKitchn.com and author of “Bakeless Sweets”
  • Allison Chapman, owner of Igloo Letterpress in Columbus
  • Kelly McCants, founder of Modern June and author of “Sewing with Oilcloth.”

TONS of fun! Fall is the perfect time of year. I’d love to see you face-to-face! Interested in going?

Country Living Fair

{photo credit: courtesy Country Living}

For additional details visit www.countryliving.com/fair; to buy tickets visit www.stellashows.com or call (866) 500-FAIR. 

Tickets:

  • Admission is $13 in advance and $16 at the door; three-day weekend passes are available for $15 in advance and $20 at the door
  • An Early Bird 3-Day Weekend Pass is available for $40 (in advance only) and grants early admission on Friday and Saturday at 8:30 a.m. (no early admission on Sunday)
  •  Children ages 16 and under are free
  • Ticket prices include admission to the Ohio History Center Museum.

Hours: Friday, Saturday & Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; gates open for Early Birds at 8:30 a.m. Friday & Saturday.

OR enter to win one for you and a friend right here:

Country Living Fair ticket giveaway

  • Giveaway starts now, Monday, 9/2 at 9 a.m. EST and ends Thursday, 9/5 at midnight EST. Winner will be announced Friday, 9/6. 
  • Prize is two (2) weekend passes to the Columbus, OH location, good 9/13-15.

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DIY ShowOff Country Living Fair 2010 

Hellooo, Farm Kings! #farmkings

Uh, hello? Where have I been? Have you heard of the tv, the docu-reality show called Farm Kings on GAC? A show about an amazing mom, her 10 kids and their farming? I hadn’t. And they are nearly geographically right under my nose. 

Farm Kings

farm kings family

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Well, the day that you realize that family is seriously practically your neighbors (as in less than 10 mi. away), that Freedom Farms sells pasture raised, antibiotic/hormone free chicken, beef and pork, non GMO foods, AND fresh flowers for all of those room makeover props and that they have their own tv show is the day you’re completely star struck. And your usually controlled crazy gets loose like the time I learned that Brett Michaels is from my hometown too. Craaaazy! The Kings are hard working good people and they live local! So in a small effort to support local business along with my shopping, I felt they deserved a bit of a “show off” in a DIY Show Off post. 

And so even though I’ve eaten their pies and carved their pumpkins, Bri and I still couldn’t resist the temptation to make a point to stop by the Freedom Farms just down the road on the day their new season starts. I did have to pry myself away from the Farm Kings marathon leading up to the season premier. Okay, no need to whisper that I’m being borderline stalker crazy. I’m well aware. But it just seems so cool and now that I’ve had a chance to see a little behind the scenes to “tv-meet” the fam, I’m a fan.  

Roeshel and Bri

Me and Bri at Freedom Farms 

Oh and I have to mention it – these are four of the brothers.  No further comment needed. If you’re not familiar with who I’m referring to, here you go: 

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You’re welcome!

I’ve never been able to get on board with reality tv but this show and family has won over my heart. Since I raised two girls on my own for a very long stretch of time, I have to tell you that if I ever have the chance to meet Lisa, I’m giving her a big high five. Smart, strong and funny. And well, I did have the chance to meet her today but since I’m shy, I was too chicken to approach her. How do you do that anyway without being so awkward? So I purchased some fresh green beans and leaf lettuce, the Freedom Farms magazine then couldn’t resist a bouquet of beautiful fragrant flowers from Lisa’s Garden…

Flowers from Lisa's Garden

I’m pretty excited to have a very local place to shop for hard to find NON GMO food! I’ve been asking Bri to get started on a blog to share her wealth of non GMO knowledge (will keep you posted). A major obstacle to changing our diet has been the inconvenience and difficulty finding non genetically modified foods. So this is BIG! 

So…who’s seen this? Who’s looking forward to the new season? Who’s watching today and tonight? And why didn’t you tell me? 

New to you too? Meet the King family tonight (July 11th) at 9/8c on GAC. Check out more info here. You know where I’ll be on Thursdays.

Farm Kings Show

 Shop for Farm Kings Things here.

ps. This is not a sponsored post. 😛

Free Standing Pallet Herb Garden

Our vegetable garden is located a few acres from the house. Wanting to have a small herb garden closer to the patio, grill and kitchen and inspired by so many vertical pallet planters (thanks, Amanda!), Mr. DIY and I created a free standing (moveable) vertical pallet herb garden.

free-standing-vertical-pallet-herb-garden 

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