SC - Re: Judging-OT

[Elise Fleming]

Greetings!  Regarding using judges in areas other than their own 
expertise...  It was the first Regional A&S competition I ever entered. 
 I had made a sugar paste box, decorated with the arms of the Midrealm 
Queen with lots of side decorations of leaves, etc.  I had carefully 
shaved down the flat pieces before joining them to make the box, but 
some didn't fit too well (sugar paste stretches when you cut it, and 
can dry somewhat out-of-shape) so I filled the cracks as best as 
possible.  Apparantly they were desperate for judges for sotelties 
since one of the three was a woodworking Laurel.  His comment to me 
(and one of the best that I ever had) was that the bottom of my box was 
poorly finished.  He told me as a woodworker he always turned boxes 
over to see how they were finished.  As a "confectioner", I had paid 
far more attention to the top (visible) decorations.  I learned a very 
good lesson from a non-cooking judge.

Alys Katharine
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