Here are the entries for the Angel challenge. Categories were: 1)  Most Splendid Angel: Workmanship, color coordination, fabric choice, overall design. (Selected by popular vote) 2)  Most Inventive Theme: Imagination and how well the angel represents its chosen theme. (Selected by popular vote)	"Designer's Choice" was chosen by our angel designer Sherry Goshon
Disclaimer: Not everyone submitted a Front and Back photo. Where Front and Back photos were submitted they were used.  If they were not submitted I used up to 2 photos per entry that were submitted.	Text sent in with entries was edited in some cases. All entries are fabulous and I am in awe of your talents!
Voted Most Splendid! Entry # 2  Prosperity by Kate Erbach!!	Voted Most Imaginative! Entry # 16 Baking Angel by Missy Munrow!!
Designer's Choice Award!! Entry # 20 Angel of Artistic Creation by Shirley Ritter!!	Thanks to everyone who participated!! I received so many messages about how wonderful all the angels were and many people wanted to vote for more then one!!! Sherry Goshon will be creating her own angel, and that original doll will go to Shirley Ritter who won the Designer's Choice Category. The winners of Most Splendid and Most Imaginative will each receive $50 gift certificates to this site. Congratulations!! All Entrants will receive specially printed ribbons.  Please make sure I have your addresses!
All Entries are shown below:
Entry # 1 Angel of Peace and Tranquility by Gale Lyons Tranquility - Praying for Peace
Entry # 2  Prosperity By Kate Erbach She is dressed in cream, gold, silver, and pewter, quality cottons and silk from an old wedding dress. I added some beautiful jewels and gold painted wings.
Entry #3   Noel  by Patt Noel was made to match the color of my daughter-in-law's Christmas colors.
Entry # 4   Angel of Peace and Unity by Deanna Hogan Her bodice is covered with puzzle pieces, representing all the people in this world who just can't seem to get along - separate, yet with the hope they may come together. She holds a white dove representing peace.	She is made from craft velour. I needle-sculpted Sherry's basic cloth face; facial features are acrylic paint and colored pencil.  I designed her wings - quilted muslin, gessoed, then painted with a dark green, with lighter colors sponged on.
Entry 5 Angel of Peace By Elizabeth Marten Angel of Peace Dressed in white dupioni silk, burned velvet and organza. Wings are feathers. Hair is maribou. Face painted with prisma colored pencils.
Entry #6 Miss Nyia By Gail S. Wilson Miss Nyia represents everything new for 2007, a possible new job and a new grandchild on the way.
Entry # 7  Gemma Angel of Artistic Adventure By JoAnn Bradley  She is a total mixed media piece comprised of fabric, tissue paper, wax, acrylic paint, metallic threads, various fibers including angelina, polymer clay, porcelain roses and beads.
Entry #8 Hope for a Cure By Lee Barker Each ribbon on her skirt represents an illness/disease that affects or affected either myself or a family member. They are: Multiple sclerosis, breast cancer, fibromyalgia, brain cancer, epilepsy, lung cancer and Alzheimer's disease.
Entry #9  Joy By Jeanne White	Joy personifies my hopes for 2007. Joy is a very loving and trusting angel. She follows her own joy and does not concern herself with what others think she should be doing. She has tie dyed her wings and usually wears roses in her hair instead of her halo. Today, she was out gathering mushrooms when she spotted a falling star, so she rushed to catch it before it could hit the ground. She will polish it up and replace it in the sky this evening.
ENTRY #10 Angel By Helen Grossman	Dreaming Violet. This dolls represents 2 of my passions - painting and doll making. I was using Ukrainian folk art painting as a part of doll decorating. White body of the doll - is like a new snow, new beginning, canvas for our work. Red color to bring some bright moments and to purple and green - for some calming effect, for spring flowers that coming after cold winters. And I just love flowers :) I used wired ribbons for her hairdo and let it flow like a waves down to her body. It is a wall hanging doll. I used acrylic paint mixed with textile medium, no patterns for drawing, and watercolor pencils and watercolors to paint her face.
Entry #11 Felicia Navidad Angel of the Year Long Christmas Spirit By Kai Naconi Here is Felicia Navidad, the Angel of Year-long Christmas Spirit - MY hope for 2007!
Entry #12 Harmony Mermaids need angels too! By Sue Kurowski	My wish for the new year is harmony, and I chose fabrics in colors that make me feel harmonious and also have a touch of gold for angelic elegance. As I worked on the doll, it became apparent that she was not just an angel, but a mermaid as well. Thus, though her name is Harmony, her subtitle is "Mermaids Need Angels, Too." I designed a fluke for her, handbeading the fringe with coordinating glass beads in a variety of colors and shapes. Her bodice and cuffs are handbeaded in gold, and there's a tracery of beadwork on her chest, as well. Her wings are a combination of purchased, dismantled, and reassembled butterfly ornament wings, with an added layer of vintage hat veil stiffened with Paverpol.
Entry # 13 Exultation and Hope By Melisa Matkin The theme for my angel is “exultation and hope” in our marriage. My husband and I both sew. This angel, representing God’s presence in our lives together, will watch over us now and for the rest of our lives. The dark, sophisticated colors convey inner reflection, dreams, grace and beauty.	I needlesculpted, gessoed and painted the angel’s face and hands. I drafted my angel a hat from the Middle Ages called a liripipe. The liripipe is lined with coordinating box pleats. The tail of the liripie is stuffed to give it shape. For the skirt I began with a lined black broadcloth underskirt and then finished with a burgundy overskirt. I used more of the body fabric to make a scapular and finished with matching burgundy satin ribbon. Her wings are made from foam and trimmed with burgundy ribbon using a whipstitch. Lastly, she is attached to a resin Romanesque candlestick.
Entry # 14 Polaria By Christine Costanzo	She is an angel of the North Star; she symbolizes the search for a straight path in the journey of life. Every New Year, we make resolutions, which are simply choices on our path. She is my guide. She is made of flannel, with polyester dress and wings. Her bodice is made of fabric petals edged with metallic beads in the colors of the Aurora Borealis. She has slippers made with the same beads. Her hair is fun fur, and her halo is made form a wire and bead garland left over from Christmas. Her face is embroidered in cotton threads with a bit of metallic thread in the eyes. She is designed to hang on a wall (on the North side) so she can be viewed every day.
Entry #15 Anna Angel of World Peace By Wendy Whittemore My angel doll, Anna, was inspired by my wish for world peace in 2007, by the interesting combination of sub-Saraharan African and Islamic clothing, and by the beautiful sheer textiles seen in pictures of women in Darfur refugee camps. She has a lower body based on a tree branch, using Sherry's pattern for the upper body. The face, hands, and wings are needle-sculpted.
Entry # 16 Baking Angel By Missy Munrow I was inspired by the kitchen witches that used to be sold. So I made a Baking Angel. Her skirt is partly made of a retro enamel colander. Her apron has useable pockets (two hold clay candy canes I made!). While the pictures don't really show it her wings have 3 rows of feathers each has a glitter chip at the end.
Entry #17 MUSE By Lay Basden My hopes for 2007?  I wish everyone the opportunity to get away from the routines and distractions of daily life to savor the joys of dollmaking! Hence, I created the Angel of Muse. She is the guardian of the creative inner muse. She evokes the inner child in all of us to come out and play so that we are inspired to express ourselves through our creative mediums.	The Angel of Muse has a clay over cloth head and is fitted with a base so she is free standing. I envisioned a muse to have a colorful personality and a nature to be different from the other angels. With that in mind, I dressed her in a more contemporary design than the usual classic angel garb. J She wears an embroidered and beaded gown in bright red with splashes of color for her wings.
Entry # 18  Youthful Spirit Angel By Venus Thomas	This angel represents my youthful spirit I hope to maintain for the new year
Entry # 19 Angel of Maturity by Venus Thomas This angel represents the mature me who hopes to continue to stay calm and peaceful as I become wiser.
Entry # 20 Angel of Artistic Creation By Shirley Ritter	My angel is representative of my hope to be able to create more in the New Year. She is all painted with a canvas skirt and hair and paintbrush wings. She is painted with representations of some of my favorite artists: Modigliani, Matisse, Picasso, Franz Marc, Georgia O' Keefe, Van Gogh and Miro. It was fun to meld all the paintings together.
Entry #21 Hope Angel By Rita Hernandez	She is made of suedecloth, plastic eyes, real eyelashes and has legs, also she is wired for better posing . On her left hand he carries a felt dove, feathers are hand embroidered with silver thread, symbolizing my hope in growing spiritually. On her right hand she is holding the Rod of Asclepius (Medical symbol) in hopes that I get a better grip on my health. She is wearing a flower head piece representing my hope that I will be able to do some gardening this year.
Entry # 22 Creative Angel Come Here! By Cynthia Kandel She is wearing her most comfy clothes and carries in her left hand her housecleaning bucket, which is hanging downward. Her hair is askew because she doesn't care about that. In her right hand she grips her trusty doll needle threaded with jointing cord. Her front pockets contain doll parts. She has a drawing pencil in her back pocket. "CACH" stands with her feet planted firmly on a cloud, her eyes focused on her creative tool, the needle. This is my wish for the new year!
Entry #23  Aunt Agnes Plays the Angel in Shady Elms' Annual Pageant By Alice C. W. Dennis I covered the head and hands with clay and added legs.
Entry #24 Faith By Doris Sutton	Her name is Faith I have been studying for a new Job and I have great hopes for the New Year. I took my finals today and I am happy to say I passed. Faith will sit in my living room holding the musical instrument of a happy life all year to remind me to continue to strive for the New life I am entitled to receive.
Entry #25 Wish Angel By Debby Robinson My angel represents a wish to end children's diseases. Note baby wearing footed sleeper and the bandana due to chemotherapy. The base of this doll is a plastic bank to hold donations for the cure
Entry # 26 By:   (I have lost this entry info...please email me! noelwolfman@yahoo.com)
Entry # 27  Traveling Angel By Jennie Loudon	I travel often between my home in Edinburgh and our cottage in the Scottish highlands. This goose angel is a traveling angel. I made her at the cottage on Hogmanay with the greylag geese flying over. Her body is pieced with"flying geese" panels front and back. Her face and parts of her body are coloured with pencils as I had no paints with me. The colours and patterns on her face and body are bright summery ones though her goose is in winter colours. I'm hoping to travel south this summer - she's a good omen.