Sally's Angelworks

{first day fun!}

Yep...first day of school for everyone in our area...

For us, we've had a crazy start this year. The older two kiddos started on separate days and the two youngers (as I like to call them) started today, sorta!! No real school work, but I will show you what we did in just a second!!

First, let's show off the kidlets. 

yep, the obligatory pictures of the first day of school...

Here's the senior last Monday...

and with the tree (we take a pic next to this tree every year!! wow!!)

and the only begotten son...

He started last Tuesday!

He was ready to get to class...

8th grade, here he comes...

and on to the youngers...they started today!!

Monday is gymnastics day...love this little 7th grader in her team practice leotard!!

(love the matching flip flops!)

and last, but not least and full of life, our 4th grader!!!

Can you believe she is that big??? All of them, for that matter...*sigh* 

time passes too quickly!!!

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so here is our school project for today, the first day of school!

Our School Closet (which, btw, hadn't been cleaned out for two years! yike!!)

I totally forgot to take the before picture, but I'm sure you can imagine how messy a school closet could look!!!!

and here it is after...

and the two youngers after we got all of the craziness out of it...

aren't they fun?

This for me was the victory of the month!! And I will revel in it for a while, for sure!!

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Wildness aside, even though I didn't have time to really sit in the craft studio today (*GASP!!!*), I did take some time to take some pictures of some works in progress (WIPs).

This is a quick baby quilt. I'm going to applique some flowers and possibly "put a bird on it!!"

Dontcha just love charm packs??? ADORE!!

LOOK what I found at Hobby Lobby??? These little guys again!! I grabbed a bunch of the sets to GIVE AWAY!! So stay tuned to the store for the special posted in the Christmas section!!

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and my last little secret that I wanted to spill tonight is a little fundraiser I'm doing!!

Our little homeschool is called Brazos Wood Academy, and this year, we are doing a fundraiser for some new books for us this year. We want to raise around 300$ to finish off our book needs for this semester. And one of the products I'm offering for this fund raiser is a new coffee cup cozy!! yay!!! 

This pattern is by my darling twitter friend Ashley from One in the Hand! Special thanks to her for the license to make these!! (she has a bunch in her etsy store...they are soooo cute!!!)

*iced is good, too!!*

Isn't this cute as a button?? and so functional!! 

I will have these in the store in the next two days!! yipeeeeee!!! 

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Happy first day to you!! Did you do anything special on this first day? I'd love to hear all about it!!

Happy crafting!!

 

{winner + finish-it-friday}

I'm super excited about anouncing the winner of the Glamp Kit!! (Check this post here for details!)

How exciting is this??? and our winner is...

MaryBeth!!! yay!

MaryBeth, watch that email box...sending you one right now! :) Congrats!!

To see Amanda's winners from her Glamp contest, hop on over to her blog! yipeee!! and congrats to all of the many winners in this fun project-palooza!!

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So what are you finishing up today? 

I love to take Friday as a catch-all finish it day!!

 

so on my list today? getting my house ready for school which starts on Monday!!

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Speaking of school, I have decided to do something totally cool as regarding our homeschool...

It has to do with crafting, sewing, and coolness!! and right now, it's a secret!!! But you will find out in the next 24 hours!! wooohoooooo!!!

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A quick shout out to my darling friend, Jennifer Paganelli over at SisBoom!! I am soooo thrilled to be working with her fabulous designs of her newest line, West Indies!!! 

I love the three different groupings...I have three different projects that I have in store for these fabrics! yummmmmm!!!

Are you jealous yet? Well, check out Jennifer's last chance to enter to win your own stack of fat quarters!! Right here on her blog!!

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and OMGosh! As if this week's mailbox wasn't filled with enough awesomeness, I got a sweet package from Julie at the Intrepid Thread! Ohhhhh check out these fabrics!!

Tina Givens' Pernilla's Journey!!

The elephant is my fave!!!!

and the unicorn is soooo wonderful!!

seriously? these fabrics are soooo wonderful!!

She also sent these fabrics - Promenade from Stitch Studio from Riley Blake...absolutely pure gorgeousness!!!

I'm seeing fun aprons with this fun butter yellow fabric! LOVE love love!!

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I have to finish this post quickly before we go to a friend's Back to School dinner party...but before I do, check out these pictures of this embroidered/cross stitched picture that my grandmother did almost 40 years ago! I LOVE it!

Happy Crafting!! :)

{sallyfest - the quilt edition}

so, yep...I had a birthday!! I love birthdays. Even if they make me older. I don't think that bothers me...I haven't decided yet!! Anyway, Sunday I celebrated 42 years, and I'm still kind of celebrating throughout this week!! After all, it's a "Sallyfest" tradition...

The Sallyfest tradition began on my 18th birthday back in 1987 while I was at summer camp at Tanglewood Music Camp in Lenox, MA.  Mail call was the best for me the 8 weeks I was there, because my mom loves to write cards and letters!

The best was when I got a package from her on the Monday before my birthday on Friday.  She actually sent a CAKE in the box!!! Now, you don't leave a cake for 5 days...right? You eat it right away! I kept thinking, let's start celebrating today (monday) and do something special every night until the big event on Friday!!! so we did!!

My fave part was when we tie-dyed t-shirts on one of the nights and then on Friday we wore them!! (there were 5 of us crazy partiers all week!!) At one point, I had this guy come up to me and see my tie-dyed shirt and he said, "Hey! Are you part of that Sallyfest thing?" I looked at him squarely and said, "I'm Sally!!"

Thus began the tradition of Sallyfest!!  Sunday, on my actual bday, I went out to eat with my entire family (LOVE!) and then Mr Gorgeous took me shopping! phenomenal!! Yesterday, I got to shop all day (for school, mind you, but it was still shopping, right?) Tonight, I get to go to music group practice! Tomorrow night, I think there will be some really great cake pops to create!! Wanna come over and join me?

There is this great video on the Amazon listing of Bakerella's Cake Pops book!! Watch it and see how to make them! Isn't she awesome!! 

(all of the above photos from Bakerella's very fun site...don't go there if you are hungry, though!)

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So, here's what else has been going on here?? Let me show ya!!

Here's a fun block, or pillow front, or a mini quilt made out of that fun Lizzy House fabric, 1001 Peeps...

What do you think it should be??

Here's my quilt top for the Modern Quilt Guild Habitat Challenge! I'm super excited as to how this came out! It's called Modern Garden. And guess what? It has purple in it!! Yep, I'm growing!!

btw, ignore my "design wall" design. It was a cheap vinyl table cloth from Target (thank God for the clearance bin!!). 

Here is my first block for Cora's quilt...she has given me until next May to finish it. At this pace, it may be for her wedding...which better not be before next May...just sayin'...lol!! This block is from Amy Ellis' book Modern Basics and is my quilt for this month for the Quilting Book Club. so fun!!

Check out what I got from Julie over at the Intrepid Thread!! Perfect birthday fabric, don't ya think????

Be sure and "LIKE" me over on FB so you can join in on the discussion there about this fabric!!! There might just be something in it for YOU!!! :) 

Here is a fun little quilt in process for a contest over at my LQS, Quilter's Emporium! I'm hoping to get it done in time! It's made almost entirely of Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic fabric!! LOVE!!!

 I got a bunch of fun crafting mags for my bday, including this British one, Mollie Makes. I love it! It came with the felt and templates and instructions on how to make this felt flower. I think it came out great! 

I love the purse, too!! Yep, I made it. Sooooo fun!! 

This Happier fabric from Riley Blake just makes me Happy!! :) 

I hope this post has inspired you a little!!

Speaking of Summer Camp, don't forget the Glamp kit giveaway!!! It's going to close soon!!!

Have a wonderful week this week...of course you will!! It's Sallyfest!!

{summer camp excitement + a giveaway!!}

Ohhhhh you know how I told you about Amanda's Summer camp??? Everyone who bought or won a Glamp kit and created it, hopefully, has sent Amanda their pictures to enter into the voting!!

Well, today is the day to see all of the entries!! Check them out and VOTE over at Amanda's BLOG!! 

And to celebrate, several of us on Amanda's creative team have created our own Glamps!! and we want to share them today, too!! And while we inspire you with our creativity, we want to share the love!! So Amanda has given each of us a little somethin' somethin' to giveaway!!! Make sure you go to Amanda's BLOG to see the entire list of all of our blogs with giveaways today!

So I'm super excited to show off my Glamp to you! All of my fabrics are from Amanda's Sugar and Spice fabrics! 

The "Lolly" that I created to embellish my Glamp is from a tutorial by Amanda!! She has this very cool tutorial in Lizzie B Crea8ive's Premiere issue of Dream.Live.Create!! (check it out in the sidebar of their BLOG). Be sure and watch her video tutorial. Love love love the Lollies!!!

I created this Glamp for my darling Lillian's room. I have to tell you that when I finished this Glamp, I hung it on the staircase (in our front entryway) and told Lil, "If you clean your room, we will put it up for you!!" Not only did she clean her room, but she kept it clean for several days. This is quite exciting for a 9yo!! 
Here are some pics of her sweet room!!

 

{did you notice the sweet little curtains in the window? Can I tell you how much i love Amanda's fabric???}

Totally LOVE this pattern. With Amanda's phenomenal pattern, it's super easy to make, and the results are awesome!!!

This little queen loves it!! :) and I have two other little girlies that want one for themselves, too!! Keep watching here so you see how different my three girlies are!!

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Now that I've shown off my Glamp that I've created, I'm going to show you what you can win here at my BLOG giveaway!! 

a GLAMP kit!!!! yipeeee!! 

To win this, just leave a comment here on this post and TELL me what you love about these Glamps!!! 

Be sure and sign up for the newsletter!! August's newsletter will be going out in the next 24 hours and will have a special store coupon! And my latest projects will be in the store in the next 24 hours!

Life is exciting here at Sally's Angelworks! So thrilled you are riding the ride with me! Thanks for the commnents!! :)

 

 

{winner + free art smock tutorial!}

I'm soooooo thrilled to be guest blogging over on Amanda's blogf again today!

And the very, very cool part is that I'm teaching you how to make this:

Here are a couple of extra pics to share the love!!

 

So head on over to Amanda's blog and create one of these for yourself! yay!

(btw, I just found my Lil tucked into my bed (11:40am) watching a movie and I asked her, "are you still wearing the art smock?" She replied, as she got out of the covers, "I didn't know I had to take it off!!" LOL!!! She loves it! yay!!)

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before I leave and go create in the craft studio, I must announce the winner of the Birdie/Hideaway squares challenge!

Thank you to all of the participants for all of your fun comments! yay!

So the winner is...

Laurie W.!!! Yay!! 

Laurie, I'll get these out to you right away!! yay! congrats!!

Now for those that didn't win, never fear!! I've got another giveaway coming VERY soon. In the meantime, make sure you are "LIKING" Sally's Angelworks over on FB, because I happen to know that there will be a very cool freebie tutorial on there VERY SOON!! and only fans can get it! woooohooooo!!

Happy creating!!!

{ready, get set, and...}

Be sure you sign up for my newsletter to get wonderful savings, ideas, and the latest news! August's edition is coming out this weekend!! yipee!!!!

Are you ready for some last minute summer fun??

Let's party while we still have time!!!!

Hop on over to Amanda's BLOG and check out her Summer Camp fun!!

You, too, can make something incredible and win great prizes doing it using this kit: (fabric not included!)

Amanda's Glamp Kit (click to purchase your own!!)

I'm done with mine, but I'm not gonna show it off quite yet! Stay tuned here to see my great reveal AND to win a prize!! :) yipeeeeee!!!

soooo fun...

and that's not all I've got goin' on here!!

Aren't these fabrics pure awesomeness??? I'm starting a long project with them (not too long, but not a one day one, either!!) I promise to share what I do...every step of the way! BTW, thanks so much to Riley Blake Designs for their aweosme fabrics!! Check out their Cutting Corners Tutorial Blog to see other free tutes and fun projects you can recreate at home!! :)

One more thing before I leave you today...

Be sure and check back here at my blog tomorrow for a very cool tutorial involving LAMINATES!! Sooooo fun!!!

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Blessings!