I found myself in Indiana's Amish country this past weekend and on my way back to Chicago I took a side trip to Napanee, Ind. That's how I wound up at Amish Acres, a sort of Colonial Williamsburg knockoff of the Amish variety. Except, you know, without any actual Amish on site.
They happened to be having an arts and craft festival that featured some truly hideous things. (One guy was selling carved wooden signs that said "Tequila makes my clothes fall off." Like I said, TOTALLY. NOT. AMISH.) But amidst the calico and spice dips and rag quilts (side bar:
rag quilts? No. Just no.) there were some cool pieces of folk art.
And thus, I present to you, a selection of the non-heinous items at The World's least Amish Amish Arts & Craft Festival.
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| Spoon art. |
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| Carved wood gnomes. GNOMES, PEOPLE! |
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| There were lots of letter pictures. |
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| I'm bummed I lost this artist's card, but her mixed-media work was cool |
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| A dala horse. |
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| Reclaimed metal turkey! Gobble. |
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| Reclaimed metal flowers. I ALMOST bought one. |
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| This was the most Amish thing there. |
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