FarmQuest General Store Challenge #36 Anything Farm and or Country Goes Theme + #35 brags

   Welcome to the country store of crafting called 

FarmQuest General Store challenge blog!!!

January 7- February 5, 2026 is competition #36. 

Theme is Anything Farm and/or Country Goes. 

Think about rural/remote outdoor kinds of settings and activities: mountains and hills, campgrounds, farms/ranches, petting zoos, farmers markets/roadside produce sales, forest animals, ponds, etc.

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Scroll down towards the end of the post to see the #35 bragging rights Top Shelf Picks (3) and a Top Shelf Winner/Guest DT Invite.

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  FQGS Designer/owner delivered her AFCG topic inspiration projects for #36:

**DT Call is located towards the end of this post**

DT/owner Becca's AFCG choice #1:

{AFCG elements: horses, fair ribbon}

 and

AFCG choice #2: 

{AFCG elements: snowy mountain ski lodge & skiing sports items}

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PLUS

GUEST DT invite honoree: !

her blog's homepage: 

about 

her project:

badge:

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FQGS #36 date and theme badge

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**NOTE = skip over the brags for the link-up section to participate

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BRAGGING RIGHTS Notice from #35 

from December 7, 2025- January 5, 2026

Congrats to these 4 artisans: Katrina, Sigrid, Pauline C and Deanne!

 We're loving the variety and thrilled our 6 FQGS entries embraced the broadness of rural topics we want to see! Thank you to all the wonderfully talented artisans who took time to create and deliver projects to the store!

Congrats to Guest DT invite honoree for upcoming #37 challenge for February 7, 2026

is entry # by ! 

email owner/DT Becca S if you'd like to accept the Guest DT invite

questbybecca@gmail.com by January 31, 2026.

Top Shelf Winner entry #2 Scrappy Horses/Katrina:

outdoors winter horse & rider photo! 

and this is your badge to copy/paste to your blog:

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3 Top Shelf Picks honorable mentions = 

in order by entry =

entry #1 by Sigrid : squirrel, snail, leaves

and

entry #4 by Pauline C : festive mice

and

entry #5 by Deanne : festive pig

So much rural country charm with these artisan projects!

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DT Call or Short-term DT

I need at least 2 or more to help out long-term to create 1 AFCG theme DT project for each challenge time period. 

Email me/Becca S with a subject line FQGS long-term DT

questbybecca@gmail.com

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PARTICIPATION: 

* January 7- February 5, 2026

* each participant can enter 1-5 AFCG theme projects

* bragging rights are possible: Top Shelf Picks, a Random Winner with Guest DT invite honoree

FarmQuest General Store #36

Inlinkz tool address:

https://fresh.inlinkz.com/p/2bf241f8539340afa59d2dd27b516e2a

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See ya soon at the country store!

FarmQuest General Store Challenges blog

DT/owner Becca

Special note:

(DT member Nana Connie decided to officially leave the team in early December 2025. We wish her the best to enjoy her retirement years. If you have interest in being a design team member, please send a FQGS subject inquiry email to= questbybecca@gmail.com)