Alexa Kramer is this year’s winner of the Urban Hay Day poster contest, sponsored by the Hudsonville Area Arts Council.  Alexa is 9 years old and in fourth grade at Jamestown Elementary.  In her free time she likes to play with friends, bake, and go rollerblading.  Alexa’s favorite type of art includes drawing and using colored pencils.  When she grows up she would like to be either an art teacher or a baker. 

            When asked how she came up with her idea for her winning entry, Alexa said, “I looked at a lot of fall pictures and most of them had trucks and pumpkin patches.  I thought they are really fall things.  I combined the ideas because they seemed like fall.  The sunset and trees I added because I had extra space and thought it would look pretty and make the truck stand out a little bit.”

Jennifer Leatherman is a local woman who takes old jeans, sheets or other fabrics and turns them in beautiful twined rugs using a wooden loom with pegs.  She started out using denim and has branched out into cotton rugs with patterns.

She sells her items at the Painted Farm Girl and helps teach twined rug making at the Gary Byker Memorial Library of Hudsonville.