Finished with the last flower girl dress!

Helloooooooooooo!  How are you all doing?  Fab?  Super fab?  I hope so!  I have been sewing like a madwoman for a few months now, but I am finished with wedding type projects.  I just finished the last flower girl dress, so I will be moving on to Christmas presents now.  :)  Here is the final flower girl dress I made for a friend (for her son's wedding) ~

the front ~

the back ~

close up of the back so you can see the little pearly heart buttons ~

Here are a few pics of the flower girl dresses from my daughter's wedding (being worn by the darling little flower girls).  Pictures were taken by France Malate, check out his work on his Facebook page, he is amazing!  First pic is of the two flower girls and two ring bearers before the wedding ~

During the wedding ~

I will be scrapping soon, I am so excited!  I plan on working on boatloads of thank you cards next. I can't wait to play with paper and scissors, I am having serious withdrawals.  I love sewing, but I also love playing with paper.  :)

That is it for me this week, I'll catch up with you later.  Hope you have a fab and creative week.  Happy crafting! ~ Pam 

The wedding was beautiful!

Just a quick post to say thank you to all of you who sent so many well wishes for Cort's wedding.  It was a beautiful fall wedding!  I am so thankful to all the wonderful and caring people that helped make it such a special and memorable day for us all.  I promise to share boatloads of pics soon, but for now, here is one of my son, myself, my daughter, my grandson, my son-in-law, my granddaughter, and my hubs taken after the wedding-

I promise there will be a lot more photos, many of them are still being uploaded.  By the way, if you are in need of a fantastic photgrapher, and are in the Chicago area, please give France Malate a call, he is amazing!  We were fortunate enough that he and his beautiful wife and family drove to Nappanee Indiana to capture this special time (and his children were adorable in the wedding too!).  Again, I promise to post additonal pics soon, including the wedding party, the decor, cake, and more.  It was beautiful!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.  Happy creating till I catch up with you again ~ Pam

Time for a winner! Please take a peek at the wedding book too.

Alrighty then!  Time to post the winner of my last blog candy.  Without further ado, it is Lagene!  Please email me your postal addie, and I will zip your prize out to you as soon as I can get to the post office.  I also have a wee little something else for fairyrocks (Pam) since I drew a second name, you know I can never do just one give-away.  Last but not least, since the blog is at 100 followers now, I decided to send a wee little something to Cathy, who is the 100th follower. Thank you so much to all of you who left me some love, and who took time to go peek at my guest artist post at Scrapbook News and Review.  I greatly appreciate it!!!  Ladies, please send me your addies when you get time.

OK, on to wedding stuff now!  I have to tell you, I have been working like a wild woman.  I have lots and lots of things half way done or in process, so I don't have a lot of wedding project pics to share this week, but I promise they are on the way.  I did finish the brown copper metallic organza table runners, all 25 of them (thank you to my super duper pal Judy, who ironed for HOURS to help out), and I have a pile of the aqua tealish table toppers done too.  I am so lucky, two friends at Sew B helped me stitch on this super slippery material - Sharon and Cindy.   Cindy even took the rest of my stack home (over half the pile YAY) to finish stitching them up for me.  I am SO DANG LUCKY to have such helpful friends (including Suzanne and Rae, who helped put the table decor things together a few weeks ago).  A great big ole THANK YOU  to all of you!!! 

I did finish up the wedding wishes book though, here is a little peek ~

Do you like it?  I like how it turned out, hopefully Cort will too.  I don't know if you can tell, but the foam letter stickers are super glittery, soooooo pretty!

I am working on Kaya's flower girl dress now, it is all cut out and I will start stitching it up soon.  Then I will cut out Katie's dress and work on hers.  That will be more of a challenge, since she lives in Chicago (a few hours away), and I need to enlarge the pattern several sizes.  I won't see her until the rehearsal dinner, so keep your fingers crossed for me.  :) 

I worked on just a wee bit more garden stuff the past few weeks too.  Here are some of the fun fun rainbow carrots we planted ~

I love the maroon carrots!  Something fun about them, they are orange and yellow inside.  Here are a few in the sink, besides the two I cut the tops and ends off, you can see I scrubbed another odd shaped one a wee bit too hard, I took off some of the lovely maroon color ~

Here are some lovely rainbow carrots all diced up and ready for soup ~

They are definitely a fun crop to grow, and easy peasy too.  I hope to grow them again next year.

Well, that is it for today, I promise to share lots of wedding project pics next weekend.  It definitely looks like a special fall event is about to take place when you look around my house.  WOOO, exciting! ;)  Less than two weeks now, oh my!

Wishing you an awesome happy and creative week.  Happy crafting!  ~ Pam

My word, I am working on a zillion things at once! I need your help too please! :)

Hi there!  How have you been?  Hopefully great.  I have worked on so many different projects this week I have completely lost count.  I was fortunate enough to have friends come over and help with creating the table decor for Cort's wedding (BIG thank you to Suzanne and Rae, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!),  I have been working on jazzing up the flower girl baskets, (picked up for a quarter each in the big US HWY 12 garage sale expedition a few weeks ago), worked on ATCs for a swap at Read Lead (totally love their stamps), worked on my tutorial for my guest artist feature coming up at Scrapbook News and Review (Sept 6th, hope you will stop in and check it out), worked on a book for a co-workers reception today, working on another little mini project, working on Cort's wedding guest book, and if that wasn't enough, I decided to check out this fun fun new site - The Hive.  Here is where the favor comes in.  ;)  I posted my badge holder as a BEE project to a challenge they are having.  I am really late to the game, since the challenge ends soon.  PLEASE go check out my link and vote for me HERE (I am Pamela Sandy, and number 15).  I would greatly appreciate it!  While you are there, check out the Hive, it is a cool new site.  There are boatloads of creative talented people.  I also posted about joining the hive on my FB page, check it out HERE .  Sned me a friend request if you can't see it, and let me know who you are.  WHEWWWWWWW.......OK, that is it for the begging portion of today's post.  ;)  On to crafty stuff!!!  Look what part of my basement looks like right now (can't show you more, it is too frightful!) ~  

close up shot of some of the almost finished arrangements (26 are partially finished) ~

Here is a sneaky peek at my co-worker's gift which will be posted on the Bind It All blog the first of September, and I will share pics next week ~ 

 

I like how it turned out, I hope she likes it!  I'll explain in more detail what it is next week. I can't really share anything else right now, but next week I will have a BOATLOAD of stuff I can share.  Most of my projects are due to be posted the 1st, or are noooooooooot quite finished, or I haven't cropped the pics yet (too crazy chaotic this w/e, wooooooooooo!).  Of course the wedding decor project is ongoing, and will be for several more weeks.  ;) 

Hope you all have a fab fab fab and creative week.  Take cake, see you next week ~ Pam

Create Beautiful Wedding Decor on a Budget

Helllllooooooooooooooo!  How are you all doing?  Fab?  Super fab?  I hope so!  We have been busy collecting supplies for my daughter's wedding that is coming up October 2nd.  Last weekend I did not create anything, I was busy garage sale shopping on US HWY 12 in Michigan, a giant affair that stretched all the way to Detroit from the western edge of Michigan.  We didn't go that far, but we did go several towns over.  We got boatloads of loot, the majority of it great stuff to use for my daughter's wedding.  She came over this weekend and we got to work creating some things.  Here is a pic of what we accomplished so far ~

How do you like it?  We love it so far.  First, we took the bargain beautiful champagne glasses that I found at a garage sale for only $5.00.  Little story about the glasses ~ the lady having the sale was so kind, she only had 2 new boxes of 4 glasses each in the sale (8 glasses total).  My hubs and I were hesitant to buy them since we needed 10 for the bridal party.  She ran in her house and grabbed 3 out of her cupboard, and sold us all 11 glasses for only $5, can you believe it?  That was SOOOO nice of her!   OK, back to the creating.  I took some brown and gold thick wire and decoratively twisted it around the stems of the glasses.  Meanwhile, my daughter strung some beads that we picked up at half off at JoAnn's and Hobby Lobby (part of our shopping expedition from earlier in the week).  Once she had them strung, I wrapped them around the base of the glasses and secured them with additional fine gold wire.  Then I topped it off with an ivory organdy ribbon bow.  Here are a few close up pics ~

Next we did the cake server and knife in a similar fashion.

We started working on the table arrangements, but just briefly.  We picked up boatloads of clearance sparklie stuff last January, and will be incorporating it into the table arrangements with the half off stuff we picked up at JoAnn's and Hobby Lobby last week.  Here is one more pic where you can see the table arrangement a bit ~

We are also doing some mirrors (two per table, and the catering hall is very kindly letting us borrow her stock so we don't have to purchase any, isn't that AWESOME???). We will put glass vases, bowls, and assorted vessels on each table and have burnt orange floating candles (picked up for 30 cents each during a Hobby Lobby clearance sale in January WOOO HOOOO), ivory votive candles (purchased on sale), and lots of the sparklie glass stones, also purchased on sale.  The catering hall is letting us use her glass bowls and vases as well, isn't that kind?  I also picked up a BOATLOAD of assorted glass bowls, vases, and containers that we will be using as well.   We have lots of pretty little votive holders too, we will show you pics of those in another post.  I will be making aqua table mats out of the spaklie satin (shown above, not stitched yet), and table runners out of the sparklie copper brown organza.  As you probably guessed, the wedding colors are ivory, brown, aqua and burnt orange.  Since it is fall, we are using lots of fall type decor, such as sunflowers, pine cones, leaves, berry stuff, and more.  Kind of a vintagy chic look is what we are going for.  What do you think?  Like it?  I'll keep posting pics as we create more things.  We are on a serious budget, but want to have a beautiful wedding.  Hopefully we will accomplish our goal.  :) 

As to other creative endeavors, this week I will be working on some vintage ATCs for a swap at Red Lead, (going to use some glitter, yippee!) and some projects for Zutter.  I also have a guest blog post coming up somewhere soon, I will let you know when and where the first part of September.  I am super excited, it is one of my very fav places!  Hope you stop in and say hello. 

Well, I am off to Erica's Craft and Sewing Center, my fav, fav, FAV fabric and pattern designer will be there today signing copies of her books.  I am meeting friends, since there are lots of Nancy Halverson fans.  Check out out her newest pattern book at Erica's.  It is loaded with darling projects! 

Have a wonderful week!  Happy creating ~ Pam