More baskets and more aprons

Love these two hip chicks. Love the redhead with the braids bright red shirt partially hidden and worn with a darker red skirt (again with the multi-hued combo!) and love her friend with the huge dreadlocks, downtown sunglasses, and full-on khaki apron over her cute 40s-style daydress. And let's not forget more rubber boots, and a traditional Maine wooden garden basket.

Baby catchers

This is a local homebirth midwife (homebirth is another one of my passions), looking completely amazing, I think. I saw her on the first day of the fair this year as well (before I had the idea to do this project, sadly) and she was wearing the most incredible skirt she had made out of past years' Common Ground Fair volunteer t-shirts. (As I mentioned before, the Common Ground Fair t-shirt is a very popular item in these parts, and you get free ones, special ones marked VOLUNTEER, for doing so.) It was a fantastic idea for a skirt, but what was especially cool about it was that rather than just making some basic, square-shaped tube skirt out of the t-shirts, she made a gored, flared, knee-length skirt with the t-shirt images pieced together in a really lovely, abstract way that was actually totally adorable and flattering. I completely want to copy this idea.

Mostly, though, I am just so happy that like me and many others, Chris clearly dresses UP for the fair. Check out this combo of floppy hat, handmade vest, bright skirt, striped knee socks (which always score huge bonus points with me) and then the totally pragmatic walking shoes. I can safely say that she doesn't always dress like this.

And here she is again with her midwifery partner Julie, who kind of does always dress like she is dressed here. She's a great dresser. And ahem, I have the exact same silver metallic Hunter rain boots. A girl's gotta be working some good boots in a place that involves mud, wet grass, manure and dirt much of the time.

Fall color

I thought I'd start with this one because I love the color of her outfit against her just-purchased farmer's market carrots and all the pumpkins (from Peacemeal Farm). I dig the orange print skirt with the pink leggings and pink boots!