[Sca-cooks] alternatives to A&S competitions

[Bronwynmgn at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/9/2004 8:33:44 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
ekoogler1 at comcast.net writes:

<<It is a "first attempts" display. 
The whole idea is for Pearls (our Kingdom grant-level A&S award) and 
Laurels to display an early/first effort at the art for which they 
received their awards.>>

There was one like this many years ago in the East - possibly at a 
coronation.  It had the added bit of "guess which Laurel made this" attached to it.  
Some of them were highly amusing, simply because they were SO awful that the 
concept that the person who made it, whom you know as a consummate artist, was 
actually that bad at one time.

Brangwayna