Alta Sierra woman, 81, takes blue ribbon for 30-year project

Alta Sierra woman, 81, takes blue ribbon for 30-year project

GRASS VALLEY, CA - Anna Oates knows crafts. Painting, embroidering, wood work, creating lamps out of plaster, building a wall clock ... at 81 years young, Oates has done it all.

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Never seeking any public attention for her labor, Oates does like to share her arts with friends and guests. She's just not the type to enter any contests.

A framed, embroidered flower basket 30 years in the making has changed all that.

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"When I got back home, I went to pick up my flower basket and they said, 'Oh, we got your ribbons, too,'" Oates said.

That's how Oates discovered she had won a blue ribbon and taken best in division.

"I was nervous driving back to the house," Oates said. "I was so excited and so full of joy. I didn't want to get into an accident."

http://www.news10.net/life/community/herocentral/story.aspx?storyid=91472&catid=33

Yeah, it ain't 'news' to some but I thought it was cool :)

I thought it was an embroidered flower basket but it is an embroidered picture of a flower basket -- very beautiful indeed.