Late September for three days, artists’ cars are loaded with two art pieces and delivered to the Fine Arts Division in the Cantey Building at the South Carolina State Fair. I’ll twiddle my thumbs and cross my fingers and hope the 2015 Art Juror, Larry Elder of of Elder Gallery in Charlotte, NC, finds a watercolor and
a mixed media
worthy of the 2015 Exhibit.
An Orange Pumpkin Cake will be entered in the refrigerated cakes and
cucumber and squash pickles in the canning department. 
Check out the fair food free at lunch time and brouse through the art exhibit. Be sure to check out all the Student Artists. If I receive a blue, red or yellow ribbon, I will share my Orange Pumpkin Cake recipe with my readers in November. It is the perfect cake for Thanksgiving.
Morning sunlight enters Ruby’s Art Party Studio in Dutchman Shores in Chapin where painting allows her to fall into the face of a flower, to touch yesterday, to behold a landscape and briefly walk with her creator. As a teacher of writing, Ruby always wanted to write a children’s book. “Make your dreams big,” she advises after writing and illustrating three. Ruby, a retired educator, now enjoys Author-Illustrator visits to schools as her new way to spend a day teaching children and influencing literacy. The G.R.O.W! theme of Great Readings Open Worlds echoes through her books. She writes a monthly Growing Little Green Thumbs column that can be found at www.jungletaming.com Books are available at Learning Express, Minuteman Press, Palmetto Fine Arts, ArtCan Studio & Gallery, The Cotton Exchange Gift Shop at the SC State Museum, Books On Main in Newberry, on line at Barnes and Noble Book Nook and by email at rhdeloach@aol.com or call (803)345-2134 and stop by The Art Party Press, Studio & Gallery. The nonfiction science books are for ages 3 – Fifth Grade and address National Science and Literacy Standards. Ruby offers private art lessons in her Art Party Studio in Chapin, SC.
