I have dreams of learning new things at work, growing this blog with possible sponsorship, starting an etsy shop with accessories and sewn goodies, improving in my photography, learning new recipes each month, finishing our basement, trying to eat healthy and workout while traveling, being the best wife/friend/daughter/sister-in-law/co-worker/blogger/stranger I can be, starting a family (eventually), all of this and trying to get enough sleep each night.  Those dreams are somewhere… somewhere over the rainbow right? 

This week’s flavors to follow idea, as well as some of the links, were actually sent to me by sweet Erin from Slipcover Your Life.  If you love cross-stitch, you must check out her shop!  I’ve been so busy dreaming that I’ve been scrambling for ideas for this feature lately, so I was so happy when Erin sent me an email with this wonderful idea.  I hope this colorful collage brings happiness to your weekend! 

1 spotted by slipcover your life, a delicious and freaking gorgeous M&M covered double rainbow malt cake by raspberri cupcakes
2 spotted by slipcover your life, a beautiful ceramic stripey mug all the way from the UK, seen on design*sponge
3 store your documents and pictures in style with this uber cute friends with you USB flash drive
4 lovely scrabble pieces spell i can see a rainbow in this vintage style print by lola’s room
5 polaroid land camera rainbow flare spotted on 74 lime lane
6 spotted by slipcover your life, an adorable butterfly wedding cake by martha stewart seen on the ritzy bee blog
7 spotted by slipcover your life, a community painting project in rio de janeiro spotted on oh joy!
8 lovely cabachon flower rainbow necklace by nest pretty things kids
9 celebrate a carnival themed birthday party with this beautiful bunting banner made by blue moon studios
10 these irregular choice chica shoes would match any outfit, yea?
11 seen on green wedding shoes, how perfect that a rainbow showed up for a beautiful backyard wedding, photographed by kamp photography

If you guys have any ideas of things you’d love to see in this friday feature, please don’t hesitate to let me know through comments, email, twitter, whatever!  It could be anything from puppies to the color turquoise to lace to stars!

Have a wonderful weekend lovelies!  See you next week from Canada, eh?

Wowee!  THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for all the sweet words and encouragement you have all given me in the few months I have been blogging!  I’m sooo shocked with the wonderful turnout of my 100th post giveaway and I am soo happy to have met new blog friends from it as well.  And to my regular readers, quite honestly, YOU keep me blogging. 

I loved reading your answers about your favorite colors!  And I realized that I totally forgot to mention what my favorite colors are – well in the long run it would have to be PINK! But lately, I’m really digging yellow + grey, so I think all three of these would be my faves!

And now for the winner, which random.org chose…

And who is lucky #59??  Why that would be the fabulous Gracie from Gracie Bella Butterfly who said…

Another win for the color pink!     Congrats Gracie!  I will be emailing you shortly to get your mailing address.  Please bear with me, it may take me a few weeks to get you your banner as I will need to pick pretty fabrics, sew it all together, and ship it to Australia! 

Wow, can you believe it??  This is my 100th blog post… ONE HUNDRED... I’ve been quite the busy girl!  And you know what that calls for?  A tutorial AND a giveaway, yup!  Celebrate good times, come on!  And what better way to celebrate than by learning how to make your own bunting banner (pennant banner/flag bunting banner/whatever you’d like to call it).  But if you just don’t have the time to make your own or don’t know how to sew, you’re in luck because I will be making one lucky winner their own personalized bunting banner… details on how to enter below!

But first, I just wanted to give a shout out to all my lovely readers!  From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU all so much for being so supportive with your comments.  I truly appreciate each and every comment that you leave, each one just puts a smile on my face!  This blog and you have all pushed me to be more creative with my sewing, photography, cooking, and home design inspirations, I really couldn’t have done it without you!  So here goes my tutorial:

1. Make an paper isosceles triangle template.  Draw a 5″ line.  Mark halfway down the line (2.5″) and draw a point 8″ perpendicular from it.  Draw a line from each of the ends of the 5″ line to the point.  (Like the drawing?  My husband, the engineer, drew it for me!)

2. (For each triangle) Cut two pieces of fabric using your template.  Put the two pieces of fabric, right side together and sew along the sides, keeping the 5″ side open.  Cut the point of the triangle off.  Trust me, it will make you life easier when turning the thing inside out.  Turn inside out.

3. Once you have finished making all triangles, measure out a piece of ribbon and line up your triangle.  Make sure your ribbon extends past the triangles.

4. Fold the ribbon in half and pin the triangles inside of the ribbon.

5. Sew along the ribbon to secure the triangles!

6. Voila! You’re done!  Hang your banner on your porch, over your crafting area, on a boring wall, as a decoration for a party or wherever you please!!

Hope you enjoyed the picture tutorial, not too bad, eh??  But if you still don’t feel like making your own, here are the…

{Giveaway Details}

I will be making one lucky winner their own personalized 8 pennant bunting banner in the colors of their choosing (fabric choices will be up to me, hope that’s OK with you)!  And I’ll throw in some other random goodies as well, yet to be determined!

{To Enter}

1. Leave a comment on this blog post with your favorite colors!  (It can be one or it can be many.)

2. (For additional entries) Blog, Twitter, or Facebook about this giveaway and leave a separate comment with each link. If you Twitter, please use @sandyalamode in your tweet so I can track them.  And to make things extra easy, feel free to use this tweet:

It’s a tutorial + GIVEAWAY celebration for the 100th post on @sandyalamode! Enter to WIN a personalized bunting banner! http://bit.ly/9xvn9m

Giveaway ends on Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 5:00PM CST. The winner will be chosen by random.org and will be announced on this blog on Friday, June 18, 2010.

Good luck!

Entries for this giveaway have been closed.