Crafters Celebrate Mossy Creek Barnyard Festival

9:15 PM, Oct 21, 2012   |    comments
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The Mossy Creek Barnyard Festival in Perry might be hidden in the woods, but crafters near and far gather for a chance to showcase their art.

The semi-annual event started 35 years ago. 

Besides arts and crafts, visitors have the opportunity to dance, make soap, and even learn how to bull whip. 

Five- year-old Morgan Faircloth came to this year's festival to help her grandmother sell corn chuck dolls.

Her grandmother, who lives in Florida, has been a longtime vendor at this festival and is known for her colorful dolls made out of corn husks. 

Faircloth says there are only three ingredients to make these dolls: corn husks, string, and a cotton ball.

"You get a cotton ball and your corn chuck doll and then you put that little cotton ball inside and then you roll it up and then you get a piece of string from a corn chuck and you wrap it down there," she says.