The Raleigh Hemerocallis Club is holding its annual daylily sale from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at Sertoma Arts Center at 1400 W. Millbrook Road.

Plants of unusual colors and varieties will be on hand for $5 and up.

For more information, contact Jane Sovine at 828-8434 or Wanda Quinn at 552-7844.

ALL ABOUT KIDS

Spring Forest Road Park will transform into a village of little people Saturday during Kidsfest 2007. The family-oriented event held each fall features entertainment and activities for children and fun for adults, too.

In addition to main stage entertainment, activities will include games, pony rides, moon bounce, hay rides, a giant inflatable slide and, of course, food. This year, the theme is "Kidsfest 2007: A Birthday Bash - 10 Years of Celebrating Kids" in honor of the event's tenth anniversary.

The event will be held from noon to 4 p.m. at 4203 Spring Forest Road. The raindate is Sunday.

Admission is free, but activity tickets cost 25 cents each. Concessions can be purchased for a nominal fee. Details: 831-6833.

ARTISTS' STUDIO TOUR

This year, the annual Wake Forest Area Artists' Studio Tour will be held for two weekends, giving tour-goers a better chance to visit every participating artist's studio.

Studios will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15 and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16 and the following weekend from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 22 and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 23.

Wake Forest area artists have invited the public into their studios every year since 1995 to see works in progress and purchase work directly from the artists.

A meet-the-artists reception will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14 at Sunflower Studio and Gallery at 214 E. Jones Ave.

For details, visit www.artistsstudiotour.com.

A sample of participating artists include, from top to bottom: * Fruitful Hands by David Boone; * Charlie's Classic Car by Bonnie Brooks; * Hoffner's Heifers by Mary Margaret Steele; and * Lotus Opening by Cheryl Doyle Kearns Boone

HOT ENOUGH FOR YA?

No? Then the first annual North Carolina Hot Sauce Competition in Oxford is for you!

Granville County is the home of Bailey Farms, which claims to be the largest pepper producer on the Eastern Seaboard -- what better place to showcase North Carolina hot sauces? And to cool your taste buds, five N.C. microbreweries will pour their finest ales.

Local barbecue, wine, antiques, plants and bluegrass music will also be on tap during the event, which runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at 100 Main St.

Visit www.stovallsgifts.com for more information.

YOUR PICK OF BUTTERFLY CLASSES

Durant Nature Park at 8305 Camp Durant Road is offering two monarch butterfly classes Saturday.

The first class, Monarch Monitoring, from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., will teach participants how to identify monarch eggs, larva and adults. Learn what they like to eat, how to help them and what plants attract them to back yards.

The cost is $5 for ages 16 and up.

The Magical Monarch class will be from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Learn about the monarchs before they fly south to spend the winter in Mexico. Participants will have an opportunity to see the butterflies in all life stages from egg, larva, chrysalis to adult. The cost is $10 for children 6 to 12. Both classes will Meets at the training lodge at the park's north entrance. To register, call 870-2871.