This year's special exhibits, sponsored by NAME and Miniature Collector Magazine, were absolutely breathtaking and just sooooo creative!!! One of the

fun things about the exhibits is that anyone can participate - you make an exhibit related to the theme or of your own choosing and enthusiasts vote for the Peoples Choice award. It's really cool and you can win nice prizes AND bragging rights for a year! There were also some really neat door prizes. Unfortunately, I didn't win but there's always next year!

This year there was a project room set up just for kids to work on miniatures and there were lots and lots of donated goodies for them to work with. After gabbing and having a bite to eat with some of my miniature club members I roamed around looking for some CDHM artisans.