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When Blayney was part of the B2B bike race, the route became a drawcard for lovers of all thing farm art and hay bales.
With the town no longer the starting point for the race the entire shire has opened up to the travelling public.
In its inaugural year the entry numbers in the hay bale challenge have been low, but in the farm art and scarecrow sections, the entries have been impressive.
Rocks held up by gushing water, giant dice, massive blow flies and about 200 metres of farm and nursery rhyme animals are just some of the creative entries in the farm art section of the Sculptures in the Bush competition.
Winner of the farm art section Peter Dando said that his 40 pieces of corrugated iron art work took their toll on his equipment.
"I was only going to do a few pieces, but I got a little bit carried away," he said.
So prolific is his work that he's donating the snowmen and elves to Blayney Pre-school and the kangaroo and emus to his son.
"I didn't think you could blunt tin snips, but I managed to," he said.
With the taste of victory now being savoured, Mr Dando is ruminating on next year's entry.
"Whatever it will be, it will be as equally quirky, just not involving tin snips," he said.
Second prize was won by Simon Ryan's Rock Up and third by Bryce Ryan's Mow-Hawk.
Out on Hobby's Yards Road there lurks a wicked queen with an evil plan.
Hatched by brothers William and Lachlan Ryan the scarecrow 'The Fairest One of All', was deemed by the judges to be the scariest one of all.
According to their mother Sally Ryan, they used the Evil Queen from Snow White as their inspiration.
"They wanted to create something that was both scary yet easily recognisable to those passing by," she said.
So successful has it been that the apple in her hand hasn't been touched by any birds.
Second prize was won by Littlewood House's Nurse and Patient and third prize was Wilma Ferguson's Old Mother Hubbard.
On Errowanbang Road in Carcoar, the winner of the hay bale section Lorraine Furner said that her two bale house took two weekends to construct.
"I spent a fair bit of time in the shed building the windows on the front and the little attic windows on the iron roof," she said.
It has also inspired other to get involved next year.
"Now that my neighbours have seen it I think that our number of entries next year will be a lot greater," she said.
St Josephs CPS took out second prize and Greg and Kay Hooper and grandkids took out third prize for Bluey and Bingo.
The entries will be up on display until Sunday July 19.
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