Cow chair steals the Arlington Heights show

Cassidy Selep proved you don't have to be a professional artist to create an impressive chair for Arlington Heights' annual Frontier Days' chair decorating competition.

The 12-year-old Arlington Heights girl attracted crowd attention and won the People's Choice vote with a Moo-sical chair decorated in a cow theme.

"All her friends have animal nicknames," said her mother, Brooke Selep, "and hers is 'Cow.'"

While Cassidy, a student at South Middle School, is not yet a professional artist, her career goal is to be a photographer and she does have an area in her house that serves as her studio.

Another winner in the organization category was the Gulf Coast Preservation Society, gulfpreserve.org. Michelle Marsicek of Arlington Heights created a chair with Mother Nature holding a dolphin coated in oil.