(This post will remain at the top of the blog until the contest ends on Dec 17th–newer entries will appear beneath.)
Tomorrow is the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day! I’m participating and have cracked open the vault for some out of print / hard to find Amy Butler Ginger Bliss and Charm fabrics. 😉 Up for grabs is your choice of one of these two bundles, one a little girly, one a little more masculine. If you’re a first time visitor to my blog via for Giveaway Day, thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you’ll like what you see and add me to your feed reader or stop by again soon!
On the left is a bundle with 1/2 yard of linen, 4 kona cotton fat quarters, and a 22×13 piece of Amy Butler Ginger Bliss. On the left is a bundle with a 1/2 yard of linen, 3 kona cotton fat quarters, and 1/4 yard of my favorite print from the Amy Butler Charm line. They are the perfect bundles for some pillow or baby quilt making!
There are two ways to enter:
1) Leave a comment about your favorite holiday tradition.
2) Add my blog to your sidebar (if my blog is already on your sidebar, you qualify for this too) for two additional entries! Once my blog is linked on your site, please leave two additional comments (these can be as simple as “linked your blog pt 1” and “linked pt 2”). (I do check, so please wait until it’s set up to comment!)
I will have my husband randomly pick a number on Friday, Dec 17th @ 11pm Mountain Time. If your comment is that number, voila! You are the winner!
EDITED: Contest is closed. 520 entries–WHEW! Our winner was #412–Kelly – My favorite tradition is taking out our felt advent calendar. She picked the ginger bliss pack–congrats, Kelly! I can’t wait to see what you make!
Kati S. - I love making wassail each year. We have a family recipe that I just love.
Kati S. - Linked your blog pt 1
Kati S. - linked your blog pt 2
Jessica - What beautiful fabric combo’s!
I love decorating the tree with my kids every year!
A.J. Dub - Saturday is actually the 18th.:)
We try to make gingerbread houses every year, in some form or fashion. Sometimes they are just graham crackers, sometimes homemade, but always fun.
A.J. Dub - Already have you linked up. 🙂
A.J. Dub - And linked up part 2!
Still loving your stuff!
Brooke - We always make Egg Bake (a casserole-type dish with bread, ground beef, sausage, eggs, cheese, and milk all baked up kind of like a quiche) and Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without it!
Brooke - Already have you linked up, part 1.
Brooke - Already have you linked up, part 2.
angela d. - I love making gingerbread houses for xmas.
Susanne - You’re so brave to do this so close to the holidays 😀
I’ve always loved decorating our tree. But watching our kids run full speed from their rooms Christmas morning is undeniably the most joyful “tradition” : )
Susanne - linked pt 1
Susanne - linked pt 2!
pick me pick me ; D
Carol Bowen - Lovely fabric — crossing my fingers. My favorite Christmas Tradition is making handmade items for all the special people on my Christmas list.
Greta - Hi. I’m new but your blog looks great. Thanks for a chance to win some ginger bliss, what a great prize. My favorite tradition is that on Christmas Eve before we open gifts we read a book my brother got when he was little. Last year my parents even tracked down a copy for me from a used bookstore so that no matter what I will have a copy to read with my family if I ever can’t be with them.
Leonie -Australia - I love to watch the movie “The Grinch” even though the kids are grown up I still try to get them to watch it !
Mystica - Watching my son decorate the tree has always been a very nice thing! from the time he was ten years old he has taken this over!
Marie Biswell - Our family tradition is trying to avoid our family!!!!
Gali - love to get together for long festive meals.
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Kirie - I will try my luck 🙂 Thanks for th giveaway! My favourite christmas tradition… I think going to my grandma on the christmas eve and spending it with everybody from the family. That’s really fun 🙂
I also have a giveaway on my blog if you like to visit 🙂
Best regards
Kirie
Christie, Describe Happy - My favorite is Christmas eve when the family gathers and there is still that excitement about what the next day will be. To me that’s what it’s all about — family and being close with them!! Beautiful fabrics too, would love to work with them!
Christie, Describe Happy - I’ve happily had your blog on my sidebar under Creative Outlets for sometime now!
Christie, Describe Happy - Linked part II – thank you again for holding this amazing giveaway!!
Deborah - Favorite tradition…Christmas cookies…eating them.
I’m participating in the Sew, Mama, Sew Giveaway Day! I hope you have time to stop over and enter my giveaway at homemakerhoney.com
Merry Christmas!
Deborah
Homemaker Honey
homemakerhoney @gmail .com
Lesly - Wow – your blog is a winner – I’m going to have to come back and spend some time looking around. I love your free motion machine embroidery! So inspirational! Thanks for the chance at your giveaway, too – what great fabrics!
Veronica - My favorite holiday tradition is making cookies, especially bourbon balls!
Jennifer - Im new to your site glad I found you. Favorite tradition would be making Christmas cookies. Merry Christmas
kao - Christmas Eve open house…and all the food!!
Leslie P - My favorite holiday tradition is enjoying Christmas afternoon with all of our friends and family
Ammie - Mmm! Fabulous giveaway. Your blog is super cute, too, so I’ve added it to my sidebar under “Sewing Inspiration.”
Ammie - Added to my sidebar entry #2
Ammie - Okay! My favorite holiday tradition is making a nativity each year with my hubby (and now kids). Some nativities are temporary, like a gingerbread man & animal nativity. Others, like sculpey ornaments, are permanent. I love this time of togetherness and making.
Thanks again for your sweet giveaway bundles.
Sonja - I love putting the lights on my Christmas tree then going through all the memories that we call ornaments…fun times!
Sonja
Joy - Favorite Tradition is chili and cinnamon rolls on Christmas eve. My family has been doing it for years. Me and my siblings are the third generation to take it into our homes. It’s fun knowing that even if we are not together we are still doing the same things.
michele - Thanks for the giveaway! Christmas cookie baking is a holiday must!
andrea - great fabric-thanks for the chance to win 🙂
my favorite traditions are getting together with the family…
Gill - I love all the Christmas baking !!
Beautiful fabrics
2hippos - I love eating all sorts of delicious treats!
allison - i love cookie-baking with my mom and sister.
Caroline - Your blog looks lovely and the chance to win those fabrics is wonderful ! My favourite holiday tradition is putting up the decorations (lame, I know, but we don’t have that many traditions) And also making the christmas dinner is always fun 🙂
VickiB - Love the Charm! Even though my daughter is in her 20’s now, we still have stockings filled with small goodies. Even the dogs get one!
Tong - we don’t really have a holiday tradition, but we do all go home to my parents’ and have a big jolly family dinner =) thanks so much for the giveaway!
Katie Ringo - First time visitor!
I love the fabric on the right, the blues and browns. One of my absolute favorite color combos and I’m dying to make a quilt using those colors.
Favorite holiday tradition: Inherited from my husband, his mother bakes cinnamon rolls every year on Christmas morning. I am continuing the tradition and it is so nice to have a few rolls huddled around the TV in jammies with hot cocoa watching all the Christmas specials. 🙂
starjumper - when i was little we used to blast the boney m xmas album (on record) while making xmas cookies. lets just say that i tracked down the cd 😀
Jamie - Making candy!
Nicole - My favorite holiday tradition is going to Midnight Mass & opening one present when we get home <3 Love your blog! I'm a new reader.
Fawn - Favorite holiday tradition is watching A Christmas Story as much as possible on Christmas Eve thru Christmas day. I usually have it on when wrapping up last minute Christmas gifts and it’s a childhood favorite.
Becky - Our annual Christmas light drive:)
I’m hosting a giveaway too, so pop on over if you have some time…
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beckymac1@hotmail.com
Becky - linked part 1
Becky - totallly would have linked even if it didn’t get me two extra entries:)
linked part 2
Suzanne - I love decorating the Christmas tree!
Karen - My favorite tradition is making cookies with my daughter for Santa!! We always have a great time and I love the memories <3
Elizabethdx - As a Jewish family we don’t observe Christmas, but we do have a favorite holiday custom– we volunteer at a food pantry in the morning, then we go to the movies and then out to a Chinese restaurant for dinner. We always run into friends and it is very festive!
Clare - Buttered brazil nuts. I know, they sound crazy and I’m not sure how they became part of our christmas but brazil nuts dipped in butter toffee hard enough to break your teeth – yummo! Wouldn’t be Christmas without them 🙂
And what a lovely giveaway! Thanks
Farah - favorite holiday tradition is making cookies with my kids!
Hannah - My family has always spent Christmas up in Wisconsin (where my grandparents and most of the rest of the extend family lives), so we’ve always done our own family Christmas (eating a big meal and opening presents) the night before our trip, always a few days before Christmas itself. I guess my favorite tradition, then, is opening gifts early!
Jennifer Woodward - When my children were young (they are adults now) they would create a Christmas program for me and my husband. Some years it was the nativity, some years they made up a Christmas play, other years it would be all music they played on their instruments. Hours of preparation went into it and they even made programs which, of course, I saved them all. So now I’m hoping that soon I can can enjoy this same type of tradition with my grandchildren.
Cheer!
Jennifer
thimbles3@hotmail.com
Jennifer Woodward - Linked part 1 on my sidebar under the category FABULOUS FIBER ARTISTS
Jennifer Woodward - Linked part 2 on my sidebar category titled Fabulous Fiber Artists
Jessi - My favourite tradition is decorating the tree!
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EG - Our kids are only 3 and 1 so we’re still developing our own traditions. But I love decorating the tree while listening to Christmas music and drinking egg nog or hot chocolate!
Amy - Gorgeous! I love decorating!
Annie - I love getting a real tree and cutting it down every year! 🙂
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Morgan - I love caroling! Thanks for the great giveaway.
karen p. - we love getting together with my husbands family christmas eve for dinner & gifts! acp328(at)yahoo(dot)com
duff - My favorite holiday tradition is ice skating once the pond freezes over!
duff - I happily added your blog to my sidebar–we both have an affliction for the Practical bag–I’m giving one away today–your Dr. Seuss is too cute!
duff - linky love, part deux!
Eerika - My most favourite holiday tradition is decorating the tree.
Beth Moore - Al my favorite traditions revolve around food! bmoore_mamabee@hotmail.com
Diana - Every year, my not very domestic mother and I spend an entire day baking goodies for all our family and friends. I’ve always cherished our time in the kitchen together.
Stacy - My favorite holiday tradition is making cookies with my son on Christmas Eve.
Lee - GREAT giveaway! I love it!
My favorite holiday tradition: The last two years, I’ve done an Advent Activity Calendar with my girls. For each day of advent, we do a different holiday-themed activity—anything from decorating the Christmas tree or making cookies to having hot chocolate or building a snowman. It’s fun and it ensures no holiday traditions are lost in the busyness of the season! : )
Krystina - We exchange one present on the 24th, usually a set of PJs so we have something cute to wake up in on Christmas morning!
Jessica C - Favorite newish tradition — gigantic Christmas morning breakfast(or brunch) with everything breakfasty you can think of. I’m hungry for it now.
Rebecca - my favorite tradition is the Jesse Tree devotionals and ornaments we place on the tree every yr!
cannonsc3@gmail.com
Andrea - My favorite holiday tradition is the cinnamon rolls that we have every Christmas morning!
Jessica - Ohh…what beautiful fabrics! We have a boy on the way in the family and the ones on the right are awesome! I just got married so this is a year of starting our own traditions!
mugrl113 at gmail dot com
Lori - Your website is beautiful!
Favorite holiday tradition… my husband comes from a large family, so we do Secret Santa for the siblings. We all turn into little kids. So much fun.
alisha - My favorite tradition is Christmas tree ‘hunting’ 🙂
Deanna - My favorite tradition is getting up Christmas morning and going to church, even though it’s not Sunday.
Katie - Great fabric bundles. Thanks for the chance to win. We have a gazillion Christmas traditions, but my favorite is probably going to the 4:00 mass on Christmas Eve then coming back home to feast on a meal of my husband’s delicious appetizers.
Michelle - Making gingerbread houses with the kids is my favorite.
Mary T. - I enjoy baking (and eating) cookies from our family recipe book every year! Looking forward to following your blog, thanks for the giveaway!
Max - Wonderful giveaway! I love to bake and decorate cookies with the kids. It’s become a tradition!
Becki - My favorite Christmas tradition is making orange cinnamon rolls in the morning, burning cherry wood in the fireplace, and watching the kids tear in to their stockings.
Sandy - I look forward to getting together with the whole family!
Callie - I love decorating the tree and fires in the fireplace!
Tanya - I love putting up the Christmas tree, going through all the ornaments and how great the house smells!
Elizabeth - Eating Chinese take-out on Christmas Eve!
Happy Holidays!
zabecc(at)hotmail(dot)com
Erin - I love picking out and decorating the tree! We always play Christmas music. It’s fun to think about the memories that each ornament represents.
Amanda - I love making Christmas cookies… especially when I get to bake with my mom! 🙂
Charise Randell - My favorite tradition is cutting our own Christmas tree. We did it for the first time last year and it is so much fun. All for a $10 permit!
Tks for the lovely give away!
Charise Randell - You are on my blog roll. I love your blog. Can’t wait to find time to try out the free motion quiliting tutorial!!
Charise Randell - Blog roll post # 2!!
Heather - favorite holiday tradition? hmmmm? watching Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol/Scrooge. cheers!
Nicole - I love baking cookies with the family 🙂
Nicole - I love watching my kids open presents.
Rachel - On Christmas eve, we go to midnight mass then come home and eat meat pies. The pies are a tradition from my husband’s family. We made them in mid-December but hide them in the freezer until Christmas eve. It’s hard to wait – they are sooooo good!
Love the Ginger Bliss fabric. Yum!
Kacey - cinnamon rolls on christmas morning!
Liz Mouse - Baby Jesus doesn’t show up in the nativity scene until Christmas morning… helps us remember that it’s to celebrate his birthday that we’re waiting for during the holiday season.
Janimal - My favorite holiday tradition is buying Toys For Tots! SO much fun to buy toys and feels so good to know they are headed to some kids for Christmas.
This is my first time on your blog and that embroidery of the Eiffel Tower over those patches is just lovely. I will have to copy that on a dress for my daughter. Thanks for the inspiration!
Laura - Favorite holiday tradition is most certainly setting up the little candles in the windows and the house–and the kids running around to turn them on every evening 🙂 It adds such a lovely glow to the house.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Alisa - My favorite holiday tradition is spending time with family! The location and gifts don’t matter. The best gift anyone could get is spending time with loved ones!
jane - I love going to midnight Mass with all the carols.
Kristin - We make froot loop garlands for the tree every year. Then, slowly, until Christmas, they get shorter and shorter as the kids sneak nibbles. 🙂
Kim - Gingerbread house making!
Amanda Woodruff - I love the Angel Tree shopping. Way better than all of the other shopping. And I do like the family all being together. Thank you for your awesome giveaway!
Staci - Cookie decorating has always been a favorite here, and even though my kids are adults now, if they are home at Christmas, we have to cut out and decorate cookies.
Wonderful giveaway! Thanks!
Wendy L - My favourite as a kid was waiting in the dining room until all the family was ready on Christmas morning before we could peek into the living room to see what santa had left 🙂 Can’t wait to do the same for my new baby twins!!
Heather Moll - My favourite holiday tradition is the candlelight service at church on Christmas Eve.
Valerie - Every year growing up, My parents and sometimes grandparents, bought each of us girls a tree ornament. Now, each year, I buy one for my children, and sometimes their grandparents do, too!
Limor - I love making treats to share with friends. I especially love baking for them.
Sara - Wow what a generous giveaway! I would love to have some Ginger Bliss!
Desiree - Just being with my family… but, we did start getting a live tree last year, and I absolutely love that!!
Desiree
weeshareblog@gmail.com
Sara - We like to collect Christmas houses.
ManLe - Love Amy Butler!! Love to decorate the tree..used to come up with a different color combo each year. Thanks for the chance to win!
Megan - Favorite holiday tradition is cooking with my momma and hanging out with the family.
Dianne Lovelock - My favourite holiday tradition is trying to peek at the presents under the tree! And getting together with all my extended family.
erika - My favorite holiday tradition is Cheese fondue with my family on Christmas Eve.
Korie - Our biggest tradition during the holiday season is spending one evening together and having a game night with all of the adults and kids. We have so much fun together.
Thanks for the giveaway and continued good luck!
Korie - Linked your post 1
Korie - Linked your post 2
Meagan Cramer - Love your blog and just found it because of the Sew Mama Sew giveaway. Thanks for participating. My favorite holiday tradition is enjoying the Christmas tree and lights throughout the month.
Meagan Cramer - Linked your blog pt 1
Meagan Cramer - linked your blog pt 2
Jenn - We wait until christmas eve to decorate the tree. Happy Holidays!
Amanda - We make homemade cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning!
Melissa - I love the charm set 🙂
Heather - My favorite holiday tradition is going on my annual christmas shopping date with my mom. We do lunch and shop till we drop!
Thanks for the great giveaway!
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noell - my favorite holiday tradition is signing Christmas carols with my family and friends 🙂
Karyli - I love making lots of yummy treats and sharing them with friends and family.
Woodbines - My favorite Christmas tradition is the huge Christmas Eve party we have 😀
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cayce - i love leaving work behind and being together with my husband and kids.
Rachael - my favorite holiday tradition…the reading of the night before chrismas at my parents house on christmas eve…we’ve done it since we were little squirts….
nice blog and swell giveaway, thanks for participating in give-away day 🙂
Amber - My favorite tradition is watching A Christmas Story alllll day the day of Christmas!
Mrs. Mordecai - I love writing predictions every New Year for the coming year. And reading last year’s, of course!
Catherine - My favorite holiday tradition is going to grandma’s house on Christmas Eve, then everyone coming to my parents’ house on Christmas Day- and dad and I cook dinner for everyone.
Kylie - I love the holidays. A favorite tradition is my Dad reading “The Night Before Christmas,” each year before we go to bed on Christmas Eve.
sukie - Favorite holiday tradition is watching all our family favorite holiday movies.
Edith - I really look forward to when my family gets to sit together and relax after a big prime rib dinner in the living room and watch the grandkids open their gifts.
Edith - linked your blog pt 1
I put it in the side bar on my blog under “blogs I like”
and really I love your blog and I’m not just adding it because of an entry.
I have really enjoyed looking at all your posts and seeing your photography, It is just eye candy!
~Edith
Edith - linked your blog pt 2
tara - My favorite tradition is making cookies with my daughters.
Megan Presley - I love having coffee cake every Christmas morning for breakfast! We started that when I was a kid and now I make it for my own kids! Thanks for the chance to win!
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Natalie J - My favorite tradition is probably decorating the tree. It’s so much fun and makes the house feel festive. 🙂
Natalie J - Put you on my “blog roll” page.
Natalie J - Happy Holidays!! (linked up 2).
Laura W. - My favorite holiday tradition is watching Christmas specials and eating cookies!
amy - My favorite holiday tradition is baking cookies with my daughter on Christmas Eve!
Patty - Our favourite family tradition is to watch Christmas Vacation together every year.
Anitaa - We love to go cut down a tree after Thanksgiving and decorate it while listening to Christmas Carols and drinking eggnog. =)
Thank you for a great giveaway!
Barbieann - love making cookies. Simple answer, but thats what we do. The more the merrier!
Thanks for the chance to win.
Mary - Our favorite tradition is going to visit Santa with each of our children’s families.
Cherie - My favorite holiday tradition is when we all pile in the car and seek out the best Christmas lights in the neighborhood.
sharmie - my favourite holiday tradition is eating a big meal with my family… i only really see them all together once a year!
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greta - my favorite tradition is christmas morning brunch. its one hetch of a massive meal.
margaret - I love having popcorn and hot chocolate with marshmallows while decorating the Christmas tree. been doing that ever since I was a kid, and now am passing on the tradition to my 7-y.o. daughter. mcglen8 {at} gmail {dot} com
linda - My favorite holiday tradition is spending time with my family (parents, sisters) on Christmas Eve and then having breakfast and opening gifts with my own children on Christmas morning.
Jessica - we have a gingerbread house contest with extra points for arguing, which allows us to get frustrations out early, super helpful!
jhoseyheitzman(at)gmail(dot)com
thank you for the giveaway!
marilee - christmas books. getting new and rereading the old!
Elizabeth - For some reason, my family has always had oyster stew on Christmas Eve. My mom still makes it for us and it’s not “Christmas” without it. Yummy!
beingvfox - my favorite tradition is exchanging pjs on christmas eve
June - I love making sugar cookie cutouts with my daughter. It’s a new tradition, only 2 years old, but I buy her a new cookie cutter every year for it!
Alissa - My hubby and I get together with my family (his is out of state) for Christmas. This year we have three little ones with us!
Colleen Yarnell - I love that mom, my sister Kelly, and I still unwrap pjs Christmas eve. We take turns buying them for each other.
Patty D - One of my favorites is making gingerbread houses – the kind that are already baked so you just assemble. We’ve quite a lot of fun doing this!
Liz - My favourite tradition has to be having the kids jump in bed with us and their stockings on Christmas morning. We used to do the same thing!
Cass - I give the kids a small gift every morning of December – just to add the excitement of the season 🙂
Liesl - Oooh, very pretty. I’m adding your blog to my reader. 🙂
Thanks for the chance!
Barbara - I light my walkway with luminaries every Winter Solstice!
Katie B - Awesome! Favorite tradition: my son’s advent calendar
Beth - Every year, as we put away our Christmas tree ornaments, my daughter writes a letter to daddy telling about her favorite parts of that Christmas. It’s packed on the top of the box and daddy gets to read it the next year when we unpack the box. We now have a lovely record of Christmas memories through the eyes of our daughter.
Kelli - Adorable blog! My mom always had the tendency to stuff our stockings so full, you had to lay them on the ground and pile the gifts around them. They were all small, sweet gifts and I like to do that with my kids, too 😉
JD - Going to chop down a fresh tree.
Meg - My favorite tradition definitely is decorating the tree!
Meg - I follow you now!
Melanie - Wonderful fabric. Thank you for the chance. I love the candy making!:)
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Meg - It is in the sidebar.
Narelle @ Cook Clean Craft - We’re still trying to work out our Christmas traditions, but I’m really looking forward to driving around to look at the Christmas lights on the houses in our neighbourhood.
Sara - Oh, I like those…my favorite tradition is making handmade ornaments as gifts.
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hilary - I love the Ginger Bliss! My favorite tradition is…crafting. Its true.
Cat - My favorite Christmas tradition is my Dad reading the Polar Express on Christmas Eve, he hasn’t done in the last few years, since I am the baby at 26, but I hope it will start up again when there are grandbabies.
Caren Adams - Thanks for the giveaway! This is the first time I’ve visited your blog, but I’ll be back! My favorite Christmas tradition? Well, a few years back I was so overwhelmed by Christmas – just plain frustrated. I really do not like shopping. Really. So I took some time to think over the whole Christmas thing, and now I look forward to Christmas because I’ve discovered that I am very rich. Not in money, you understand, but in creativity. And the things that are hand-made are cherished by my friends and family. So I’ve made it my Christmas tradition to make stuff for Christmas gifts.
Sarah Mathias - We have sticky buns for breakfast Christmas morning. Thanks for the giveaway.
Kelly - My favorite tradition has to do with Thanksgiving — That’s okay, right? Each day leading up to Thanksgiving, we write things we are thankful for on paper feathers and attach them to a bird (made of cardstock). I love seeing all the things my fam is thankful for — that bird begins to look like Maisy from the Dr. Seuss (?) story: It has so many feathers, it looks like it’d fall over backwards if it tried to move!
Kate - My favorite holiday tradition is definitely making christmas cookies! Thanks for the chance to enter!
Debbie Fick - Driving around town with hot cocoa and viewing the light displays after Christmas Eve services.
denise - my favorite tradition is starting off the season with my Dad by watching Planes, Trains and Automobiles on Thanksgiving
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Jen S. - My favorite tradition is something that started when I was a teenager and now my husband and I do it with our kids. Each year each person in the family gets a new ornament. It tends to represent each of us that year, what is special to us. It’s so much fun pulling the ornaments out each year and remembering the past Christmases (I also mark the year on each). I would love to win the girly bundle! Thanks for a chance!
Madeline - Hot chocolate, Christmas carols, and decking the halls!
the sewing dork - Around here, any favorite traditions have to involve mountains of snow… so I guess skiing is a favorite. My brothers and I always got toboggans or skis for Christmas as children. Now, I’m dreaming of Christmas fabric bundles in my stocking.
cynsaw2@yahoo.ca
Carla - Every year my grandchildren gather at my house to decorate gingerbread houses….so fun! Thanks so much for the chance to win!
Kristin - Love them! =) I enjoy decorating the tree (minus light stringing…ugh!).
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MJ - I love Fudge!! Love it… and Christmas is the only time I get it!!
christy - i love caroling the neighbourhood with all the kids in the neighbourhood!!!
Sertyan - Our family tradition is having Christmas dinner. Thank you for the giveaway
deborah - oh my! i love both but would prefer the one on the right.
favorite holiday tradition – the ‘santa cookies’ we have baked every year since i was tiny. this year i won’t be home at the holidays but i will be baking them with my own daughter, and mailing a couple home to my mom and grama, who won’t be able to bake them this year.
thanks for the chance to win!
Cortney - I enjoy making cookies with my girls every year. Thank you for the chance to win!
laura - Opening stockings on Christmas eve!
Kathy G. - I love how my family always sets an extra place setting for that certain someone you are missing or they are not in your life anymore… everyone pictures someone else, but the setting is left empty.
Victoria - My fav tradition is when our son and I would decorate the tree while watching Muppets Christmas Carol, eating homemade cookies and candies. He is 21 now, it may be time to make a new tradition…
Keri - I love our candle light Christmas Eve service at church!
janet in jackson - Making rum balls and homemade jam!
Eve - We enjoy looking at Christmas lights. We often find reasons to go out at night just to look at the lights.
Megan - I love baking cookies. I also like cozying up by the fire with Christmas songs! Thanks for the fun giveaway!
Amy - I love having Poteka (similar to a cinnamon roll) every Christmas morning with hot chocolate.
h2ogirl76 - Lovely giveaway. . thanks. As for traditions it’s a turkey for Thanksgiving and Christmas. So not a ham family.
Emily Flippin Maruna - We have a Solstice party every year
Tabitha - I love doing advent activities. We only started it 5 years ago, but it’s considered a tradition to the kids.
Junglewife - I just love the decorating! oh, and making homemade eggnog 🙂
Alana - I love the ginger bliss! My favorite tradition is long walks with the family! And pumpkin spice holiday drinks!
Kirsten in Oslo - Wow what a great giveaway! My favorite tradition is Christmas Eve when we eat our traditional dinner and with the coffee and dessert afterwards we open our presents – a bit different from other countries, but it’s how we have always done it!
Hugs from Kirsten in Oslo
Jon - My favorite holiday tradition is opening up my small collection of Christmas decorations and celebrating the memories of Christmas’ past.
Thanks for the opportunity to win such a great giveaway!
Leah J - What a wonderful giveaway! 🙂 My favorite holiday tradition is attending a local Festival of Nativities 🙂
Loree - We make cookies to share with the neighbors!
Sarah B - Great giveaway! My favorite holiday tradition is getting together with family and telling funny stories from Christmas past.
Thanks for a chance to win!
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Tulle and Torts - My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the xmas tree – it’s always fun to pull out the ornaments that’ve been collected over the years!
Andi - My favourite tradition is gathering around the piano each year to sing Christmas carols.
ryder - giving and receiving handmade gifts
little bird in a beehive - on christams eve we go to carols by candle light, and then upon returning home we eat cherries and slowly open our presents going to bed at around 2.30-3am on christmas day. this is something i love about how we do christmas in our family 🙂 the cherries are really special, its the only time of year we get them, and we get a whole box!!
in case i win (fingers crossed) i’m ekswhyzed_@hotmail.com
Charlotte - My favourite traditions are the ones I’m starting with my children. This year they’re enjoying the advent calendar for the first time
kristen - We light advent candles every night during family time, it’s my favorite tradition. <3
Ayu - Love your stuffs. I linked up you blog.
Adey - Decorating the tree is my fave and off course all that food! Thanks for this giveaway!
Rose - beautiful fabrics! I love this giveaway day! It is exposing me to so many new blogs I had yet to discover!
Rebmara - I want to start a new tradition this year: we go to my parents and my father in law with christmas and I want to bake cookies for them with the boys.
Barb M - Singing, singing, singing
Sabine C - Hi! I did discover your site through the SMS-give-away, and I just have to say that I really like your style! So clean, and yet colorful in its own way – like the pillow you just finished. I only recently learnt about freestyle sewing and find it fascinating, so I will definitely check out your tips for it. There, bookmarked your site!
As for favorite holiday tradition – my children are still small (5, 4-as-of-yesterday and 1), but the two eldest show a keen interest in crafting. So I am writing down an idea-for-crafts list for the holidays and hopefully, we will be able to turn it into a tradition in the years to come, as indoor-activities is what we need with this cold!
A “true” tradition already is sledding down a perfect kiddy-hill we discovered at an open-air sculpture park. It’s perfectly calm and quiet there, and it’s quite nice to woosh down between those frozen statues 🙂
Thank you!
Sabine C.
Bev C - Thank you for the chance to win some lovely material.
I love everthing about Christmas especially baking something different each year. This year I am trying out a recipe for some fabulous icecream.
Happy days.
Bev.xoxo
Nancy - My favorite tradition is gathering together & opening gifts one by one, while drinking cofee & baileys 🙂
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Natasha - Favorite holiday tradition is now the opening of the stockings Christmas morning. My girls are 6 and 4.5 so they have so much fun seeing what Santa left everyone.
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Millie - In our house we have a quiet dinner, just our little family and other family members call around in the afternoon.
Melanie - Christmas stockings. I don’t know why, but ever since I was a little girl… we were allowed to get up early and open them up before my parents woke up… it was fun discovering all the treasures!!!
Aimee - My favorite Christmas tradition is Christmas day dinner wiith the family. Thanks for the great giveaway!
kathy h - One of our favorite traditions is reading the night before Chrismtas on CHristmas Eve. Our kids are all older but still want to listen to that.
Dorian - My favorite tradition is reading “The Night before Christmas” and the story of Jesus’ birth in the bible, to my three kids. And watching “A Christmas Story”….Thanks for the chance at winning, Merry Christmas!
SoozeM - My favorite tradition is just spending time with my family without the stress of work or anything else, just relaxing and enjoying each others company.
Sara - You’re quite a seamstress! My favorite holiday tradition is going around to look at all the lights a few nights before Christmas.
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sharon - My favorite christmas tradition
CHRIStMAS COOKIES !
Stephanie - I really look forward to our candlelight church service. It is so special to sing the hymns, hear the scriptures, and see the delight of the holiday in my childrens’ eyes.
Tanya Barrett - One of my favourite traditions is to read “the Night Before Christmas’ with my children. We read it every night the week before christmas, and our library has grown to incluse several editions so it doesn’t get boring!
Carrie Dunn - I love to decorate the tree with my family, all the ornaments mean something to us and we like to reminisce!
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camelama - A favorite tradition of mine is when I help my Mom make Rosettes, a special Swedish cookie we only make at Christmas. We even have special plates that are only used for displying the cookies.
deanna - christmas eve dinner with the whole family and present exchange 🙂
Sarah - Lovely fabric!! Dec 17th is my birthday, so winning would make the day extra-special.
My favorite tradition is making chocolate-covered pretzels with my mom.
Cammie - We have a huge Christmas Eve dinner: Cheese fondue, Challah, and veggies. It is not Christmas without this happy feast.
Susan C. - My husband and I always go out for a fancy dinner on Christmas Eve. It’s something I look forward to all year!
MJ - My favorite tradition is watching my husband set up his Dickens Christmas Village…he is very careful and particular to make it historically accurate and adds books underneath a sheet to add height and white flour for snow!
Amanda - I love decorating the Christmas Tree with my family. My husband Everybody in our family has their own ornaments, and every year St. Nick brings a new ornament to add to their collection.
Great giveaway!
Alli - I love having dim sum for Christmas breakfast. 🙂
Amanda - linked to you on my blog #1
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Emily - I love the annual family drives to see holiday lights. When I was younger, I remember this being a special night that we all looked forward to. Now as a parent, we seem to make every night from the Friday after Thanksgiving on a holiday light drive! Oh, the magic of childhood. I love it.
Becky - My favorite tradition is decorating the christmas tree with my hubby. We have ornaments from our vacations and we love to reminisce while we hang them.
Kelly Irene - We are starting a new {to us} tradition this year of a Jesse Tree Advent Calendar to help us get ready for Christmas. I’m loving it so far!
Thanks for the chance to win!
tracey - Eek, what a great giveaway! Both of those fabric bundles are amazing!
My fav. holiday tradition, is definitely Christmas Eve with my mom’s side of the family. For as long as I can remember we’ve been spending Christmas Eve at my grandpa’s house (now my parents live there too) They’d let all us kids stay up until midnight and distract us while “santa came” and then we’d get to open all our presents then, we’d play for a few hours then go to sleep around 2am. Good thing for the parents is that we slept in nice and late on Christmas morning!
Gidget - I love Christmas morning having all my kids together opening and sharing the stockings!
Bobbie - Thanks for a lovely giveaway! I’m going to be old fashioned and say the tradition I look forward to most is decorating the tree.
Lynne - Wow! Fabulous fabrics! My favorite tradition is decorating the tree with my family. Thanks for the great giveaway!
Nicole - My favorite tradition is watching White Christmas on repeat all day 🙂 Thanks for the giveaway!!
Consuelo - We all sing Christmas carols around the tree every night before Christmas! Thanks for the great giveaway.
Consuelo - We sing Christmas carols around the Christmas tree every night before Christmas! Thanks for the great giveaway.
Madeline - The last two years we have done all handmade gifts and it has been so special and fun! You have beautiful work!
Em - Favorite holiday tradition is candy making with my dad.
Katie - The family gets together Christmas Eve and we have a big chili dinner. Thanks for the chance!
Marcia W. - My favorite tradition is the entire family gathering at my mother’s home for a dinner and exchange of presents. We draw names so there is only one present to purchase. Four generations – my mother the great grandma – to a newborn great grand daughter. Low key family visits are wonderful. This year it will be on December 26th.
Jingle - My favorite tradition is our annual Christmas morning breakfast!
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Hannah - My favorite holiday tradition is lighting Advent candles in our home each night.
Marcia W. - Wonderful fabrics for your giveaway. I like the AB charm set – photo on the right. My comment didn’t appear sop I’m entering again. My favorite tradition is 4 generations of family gathering at my mother’s home to eat dinner then exchange presents. Low key and family companionship. Love it.
Ciel - Midnight mass followed by a mince pie – I love Christmas!
wendy - I love making the cookies with my kids 🙂 Great prizes! Love the girly bundle.
blueberryblues - We have a fondue on Christmas Eve – a nice slow meal to catch up with each other and relax into the holiday!
Alexis - My fave tradition is helping my dad wrap his presents for my mum on Christmas eve. Thanks form then
giveaway!
sapna - Beautiful fabrics, thanks for the giveaway. I look forward to spending time with the family and making meals together!
Tracy J - Thanks for the chance to win such lovely fabric, and Merry Christmas!
Tracy - We do a big Christmas eve dinner with the whole family! Its a nice tradition and getting better with the new babies and kids growing up!
amorette - watching muppet christmas carol- they are so hilarious!
Amy - My fave holiday tradition is spending Christmas Eve with one side of the family and Christmas Day with the other side. That way we get to see everyone every year 🙂
Anne - What a generous giveaway, and what splendid fabric combos!
This isn’t anything out-of-the-ordinary, but Christmas morning with all the family is one of the high points of the year.
hayley l. - Lovely giveaway! One holiday tradition I treasure is baking with my Mom (and now my own girls!)
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Victoria - I love to wrap presents while watching The Bishop’s Wife. Not the Whitney Houston version, the real Cary Grant version! Add coffee and christmas cokkies and I am in heaven!
Kyra - I LOVE going and chopping down our Christmas tree every year!
jenny - i love meeting my entire family at christmas eve mass at the church i grew up. always people too meet and greet.
Kelsey Rose - My favorite holiday tradition is always decorating the Christmas tree together!
paulette doyle - Lovely Give Away! Thanks so much for the chance to win this wonderful fabric!! We open our gifts on Christmas Eve and then Santa brings gifts on Christmas morning followed by a huge dinner later in the day.
Take care and have a wonderful Christmas!!
Paulette
Steph G. - We love our Advent calendar. Thanks for the great giveaway!
Katie - My favorite holiday tradition is a recent addition, which is having brunch with Santa at a nice restaurant near us. It is some great family time with some great food.
Lindsey - I love having cinnamon buns for breakfast on Christmas morning!
Manali - We always wear matching christmas PJs as a family! So fun 🙂
Laila Porter - I love making new paper snow flakes each year!
Thank you for the chance to win beautiful fabric!
Mandy - My favorite holiday tradition..hhmm….you know…my baby girl turned one this year and I hope to start some new ones with her 🙂
Carla - Our favorite tradition is to have an appy night at our place on Christmas Eve and each year they have to be new recipes. Thank you for a chance to win.
Shirley - I guess making a gingerbread house or something every year. Last year it was an army tent as my son was doing his army service.
Kelly - Wonderful giveaway…thank you so much! I have many traditions I like, from cookie baking, picking out a real tree, singing while my daughter plays piano, watching The Nutcracker, singing at the nursing home, etc. Just love this time of year, love family time.
sadie fox - I love our Christmas Eve tradition. It is just my little immediate family. We have a nice vegetarian candle light meal. We open just one present and for my girls it is always a new pair of pajamas. We read The Night Before Christmas. Put out the cookies and go to bed!
Johanna - My favorite tradition would be visiting christmas markets and drinking hot spiced punch while eating tons of gingerbread 🙂
Sounds like one healthy life style, doesn’t it?
teresa - i love making gingerbread houses with my sons
Jasmine - Cookies! I love baking holiday cookies.
Chelsea - My fave holiday tradition is eating too many cookies. Isn’t that everyone’s?
Deb - If the comment numbers are correct and no one else jumps ahead of me while I’m typing, then I’m #291….think you could whisper sweet 291s in your husband’s ear as he sleeps tonight so he’ll choose my number? LOL! I’d love to enter your giveaway.
Vanessa - My favorite tradition? Making christmas cookies with my girls! thanks for the chance at some great fabrics!
Laura Wilson - My favorite holiday tradition is baking sugar cookies with my daughter. Yum!
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Kristine - I love watching my hubby and kids put up the lights!
jenny - Wow, great giveaway! My favorite tradition is reading the Christmas story from the Bible on Christmas Eve with our family all gathered together, it’s so special. Thanks for the chance to win, my sister is expecting and you’re right either of these sets would make a beautiful baby quilt! 🙂
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Marybeth - Hi! My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the tree, which we always do on my birthday, December 11th! Thank you!
bonnie - Mine is making gingerbread houses with the grandkids, they then help get things ready for our family Christmas eve party..
Kristie at OCD - Hey! You are a contact of mine on Flickr! Great stuff 🙂
Thanks for the giveaway! My favorite holiday tradition is going to pick out/chop down our live Christmas tree 🙂
Tracy Kipper - We get up on Christmas morning and watch one of the Christmas Carol movies. My favorite is the old, old black and white one. Thanks for entering me into your drawing! Happy Holidays!
Jessica H - My favorite tradition is going to my grandfather’s for a big Christmas meal.
racergirl1313 - I love eating my Mom’s homemade stollen on Christmas morning. Thanks for the giveaway!
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addie - Great photos & fabrics! I love making special holiday treats like cookies & desserts and sharing them with friends & family.
jackie of cute kipepeo - My whole family meets together on Christmas and its a usually a wonderful time.
Mindy - Attending the various activities like The Walk Through Bethlehem in our community is one of my favorite Christmas traditions.
Pam - My favorite tradition is prime rib dinner on Christmas …yum!!!
Thanks for the chance at your wonderful giveaway.
Merry Christmas!
mab - We live in New Orleans. The city park decorates the small amusement park, the children’s storybook village, and the botanical gardens with lights and animated light figures. It’s absolutely gorgeous! So, we go with the kids and wander around for hours. Plus, it’s never terribly cold here, so it’s quite pleasant to walk and look at lights! No frozen toes!
Thanks for the chance to enter!
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Brooke - my favorite holiday tradition is making donuts on christmas eve morning with friends! lots of fun!
Citra - I usually collect old/unused clothes from my own, my husband, and kids’ closet. Then transfer it to charity fair or poor neighbours
Sadly, our old/unused clothes are getting fewer and fewer because now I learn to reuse them, *sorry folks :)*
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LynnR - What a wonderful fabric giveaway! Our favorite tradition is getting some homemade tamales, some eggnog and some good friends over to play some fabulous games. Merry Christmas!
Caitlyn B. - My favorite tradition is getting together for a bonfire with my childhood friends on Christmas Eve. We’ve been doing it a long time and now we all have kids of our own. Thanks!
Leslie S. in MN - My favorite tradition is putting an orange in the toe of the stockings, just as my mother did. It meant a lot when she was young if they could have fresh fruit on Christmas. Thanks for the giveaway.
Nancy Sue Phillips - Our favorite holiday tradition is piling everyone into the car with a cup of warm cocoa and driving around the neighborhoods, looking at the lights….with our windows down and carols on the radio. (Unless the temps are what they were this evening, and then it’s HEAT all the way!
Sheila V. - Very nice giveaway, thanks for the chance. My favorite holiday tradition is making cookies for Santa with my son.
Wendy - My favorite holiday tradition is enjoying cookies and sparkling cider, a Christmas book and then sleeping around the Christmas tree. It’s just such a precious moment and as the boys are getting older, I’m thrilled that they still ask to do it! 🙂
Thanks for the chance!
Violeta Petrova - I love picking out the Christmas tree
Great blog, I am defenitely subscribing
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Krista - Poppyprint - Christmas dinner is my favourite. I love preparing it, eating it and sharing it! Lovely give away bundles you’ve put together. I definitely see pillows there!
Melissa Mclellan - Lovely fabrics. My favourite tradition is reading a new christmas story on christmas eve each year with the family
cherry - My favorite holiday tradition… having a champagne breakfast with all the neighbors on the street I grew up in, every christmas morning. It has been going on for nearly 30 years and will probably continue for 30 more!
Thanks for the giveaway- I love the girly bundle. cherrymonty@gmail.com
Teresa - We love to decorate our house with lotos of ornaments, mostly handmeda by me and my daughter.
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KT - We give our kids new pjs and a new Christmas book every year on Christmas eve–the kids really look forward to their new pjs. Thanks for the chance to win!
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AJ - I’ve linked you in my blog list!
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AJ - Favourite holiday tradition….I;m just starting them with my son ( 16 months) he was too little last year…my favourite so far with putting up the tree and playing with the nativity set!
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Pamela Pino - i love to have all the family and friends for christmas diner, and play, talk and laugh
smalltowngirl - We love tracking Santa at noradsanta.com! I think I get more excited than the kids! 🙂
Karen - I love that we all get to choose one present on Christmas Eve to open. Happy holidays to you!
Katie - Hello, I’m so glad I found your blog through this giveaway! You’re definitely in my reader now.
We don’t celebrate Christmas as a family tradition here in Taiwan but I do enjoy Christmas music tremendously. I like to put them on whenever it starts to get cold. Thanks for the lovely giveaway!
Amanda - I love reading the night before christmas before bed.
Alecia - I have really come to love the hour or so of eating coffeecake from my mom’s bakery with some spiked coffee on Christmas morning while sitting with just my hubby in front of our tree and having a little quiet time together relishing in the moments of the past year.It’s cold, cozy, happy, peaceful, and beautiful. One of my favorite parts of the year.
Helle S. - Great Giveaway! Favorite holiday tradition is walking around the Christmas tree singing carols before opening gifts.
Happy Holidays, Helle (hellest(at)hotmail(dot)com)
Jennifer G - Every year I make 14 pans of fudge for my husband’s clients and 4 pans of english toffee for my neighbors (both are family recipes). Lots of work but they all LOVE it! Just started following your blog and I’m from Colorado stuck in Illinois for the time being! (please send some Colorado sun my way!!!)
Leigh - We always go for a drive on Christmas Eve to look at Christmas lights, then come home and have homemade corn chowder and a fire in the fireplace. So cozy, I love it!
Claire - My favorite tradition is that each child gets an ornament that relates to a big accomplishment or event of the year. When they are grown and move away they take the ornaments with them and have plenty to start their own collection already. 🙂
Melissa - My favorite tradition is buying each of the kids a Christmas ornament of their own every year. My mom started it when I was a kid, and I’ve continued it with my children. The best part is looking at all the different ornaments with the year wrote on the bottom or back.
jessica - I love to sit in front of the fireplace and watch movies at my in laws house!
baukje - I am going for the right bundle. I am completely in love with the kona solids…. saw your free motion tips, will come back soon…..
DebbieKL - Great giveaway!
My favorite part of the holidays is just spending time with family. I can’t think of any traditions we have!
Michelle - My new favorite tradition is to do something everyday to celebrate the season with my girls.
Beth - Awesome! Both packages are cool. I really enjoy a quiet time Christmas eve wrapping presents with my hubby once the kiddos are asleep.
Cid - Going to midnight mass with my family.
Thank you for the great giveaway.
Cricket - My favorite holiday tradition is reading the Christmas story to my children on Christmas Eve. Now that they are all grown, I read the Christmas story to my Grandchildren on Christmas Eve or before we open presents on Christmas Day.
Jodi - Beautiful fabric combinations. My favorite tradition is baking cookies with my grandmother, mother and daughter.
nrnoodle - Our families favorite tradition is driving around on Christmas eve and looking at the Christmas lights while drinking homemade hot cocoa.
Shelly - Great giveaway!!!
rachelle - we have chocolate fondue on christmas eve
Katie - Homemade mince pies and mulled wine.
Shelly - My favorite tradition is not having Santa presents wrapped. It sounds a little silly, maybe, but I love being able to see the kids’ faces immediately upon coming into the living room, as that’s when they see what they’ve gotten and get so excited!
Amanda - we always celebrate Christmas Day on Christmas eve at my parents house before we make the 2.5 hr drive up to my grandma’s. With all the festivities involved with both my husband’s and my side, it’s kind of nice to celebrate a day early. Christmas always starts on Christmas eve in my mind. …or maybe even eve eve
Sarah - My favourite holiday tradition is making paper chains on Christmas Eve with my daughter.
Thanks for the great giveaway!
Chiska - I love going out in the woods and cutting down our tree. I also love singing carols around it with only the tree lights on.
Tina - I love doing the 25 days of Christmas with my daughter!!
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Greta - My favorite tradition is making homemade caramels while blasting Christmas music. The inevitable molten-sugar burns are somehow not as painful when you’re singing carols at the top of your lungs. lol.
Billie K - Love eating chocolate pie and peanut butter fudge during the holidays.
Thanks for the giveaway,
Billlie
Aleesha - My fav tradition is having a hot roast lunch on Christmas day, even though in Australia it is summer and usually HOT HOT HOT! Oh and water fights after lunch!
Pam R - I love going to church on Christmas Eve with the family and bringing home the candles and watching them burn in the dark, with only the light from the Christmas tree and the candles.
Mia - What a lovely giveaway, I just bought two of Amy Butlers books and some of her fabric would be great to accompany them. 🙂
My favorite tradition is my husbands and mine baking day a week before christmas. The whole apartment smell lovely and we then got yummy things to eat ’til january.
Jen B - My favorite tradition is the food! So much yumminess, so little time.
Anne - Hi! My favorite holiday tradition is the day my family and I make fudge. We make a ton of it, and everyone helps. The men in my family usually help by eating the candy as soon as it cools enough not to burn their mouths! Thanks for participating in Giveaway Day!
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Lobela - My favorite Christmas tradition is going to church on Christmas eve, driving around looking at all the lights on the way home, then watching the rest of It’s a Wonderful Life while wrapping presents. Love this giveaway, thanks!
Barb - My favourite tradition is sharing stockings with my family. Thanks for the great chance to win.
Sarah - My favorite Christmas tradition is waking up at 5am on Christmas morning to go caroling at nursing homes. My husband’s family has been doing it for a long time, and this will be my second year joining them (we’ve been married a year and a half!). It is so good to take some time with people who are usually forgotten on Christmas, and to put smiles on their faces first thing in the morning.
Tricia - Love the fabric! thanks for the giveaway!
Bea - Thanks for the great giveaway. I’m loving the girly fabrics. We don’t really do much around here for the holidays so I have trouble with this question everytime. Can it be in the past then? My mom and my grandmother used to make Russian tea cakes each Christmas. I kinda miss that.
Mara Nolan - love spending christmas morning with my kids before the crazy day starts.
JenniferB - awesome blog- My favorite holiday traditions is making decorated sugar cookies with the kids- lots of messy fun and good eating!
Jessica H - My favorite holiday tradition is when my family watches “The Muppet Christmas Carol” every Christmas Eve 🙂 Thanks for the chance to win!
Jessica H - Linked to your blog, part 1
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delia - I like hearing Christmas music on the radio!
desiree - Thank you for the chance to win!
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Lisa McGuire - My favorite holiday tradition is eating chicken wings and crab dip washed down with some yummy prosecco on Christmas Eve!
Tawny - My fave holiday tradition is one started by my mom. She would always do a jigsaw puzzle on Christmas Eve night. And when we were too tired to stay up any longer and the puzzle wasn’t finished, somehow it got done by the morning. She always said that Santa finished it! Pretty busy and smart guy that Santa is! 🙂
Meghan - My favorite tradition is my Polish Christmas eve dinner
Jennifer - I make a Greek Christmas bread that we all look forward to. And we always make Jesus a birthday cake! Thanks for the giveaway!
Kelly O. - we go on ahorse drawn sleigh ride each year
I think this is a GREAT giveaway!
Merry Christmas!
Edwina Shwedyk - We celebrate the Festival of Jewish Lawyers on Xmas Eve – a tradition started by my friend’s parents many many years ago since, although not Jewish, they knew a lot of Jewish lawyers who were eager to party on Xmas Eve and needed a reason!
Marshall - I love having our favorite pancakes together. 🙂
Allison Brake - My favorite family tradition is opening presents on Christmas Eve instead of in the morning. We stay up real late and then sleep in in the morning.
Jenniffier - A new ornament for the tree each year.
Genevieve - I love decorating the tree!
I love the Amy Butler Charm bundle on the right. Gorgeous!
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MoeWest - Thanks for the wonderful giveaway and Happy Holidays! Decorating the tree is my favourite part.
Sonya M - My favourite tradition is going to our town’s Santa Claus parade, then coming home and spending the day putting up our Christmas tree.
Thanks for the chance to win!
Jorie - As a kid, my sisters and I were allowed to pick one present on Christmas eve and open it up, and then the next morning we weren’t allowed to go in the living room or wake my dad up until 7am (haha that one was instated after we woke him at 5am one year). My sisters and I would try to guess what Santa brought us while we waited until 7, then my dad would grab his coffee and we would all sit in the living room and open the rest of our presents. I plan on doing the same with my kids (my older one is 2, and the younger one is just a baby still so they won’t quite get THAT part of it yet)
Tina "The Book Lady" - I added your web address to my master list of blog linkies & blogs I want to revisit. I’ll definitely be back and hopefully this will count as an entry.
You can find it here:
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Jane Poh - My fave hol tradition is playing Mahjong during Chinese New Year.
Gillian - My favorite holiday tradition is a fairly new one for me — making fresh pierogi on Christmas Eve morning, ready for Christmas Eve dinner! My boyfriend’s family is Polish Catholic, and a fish dinner with pierogi is their Christmas Eve tradition. It takes a long time to make them all, but it is SO worth the time and effort!
Julia - Favourite holiday tradition? Opening the next window on the nativity themed advent calendar every day – simple right? Thanks for the chance to enter!
ccb - Love making fruit cake for the holidays
Tara - Your blog is already on my sidebar (1)http://embendesigns.blogspot.com/
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Ellen - my favourite holiday tradition is easting my brother’s left-over birthday cake for breakfast. y um!
Patricia - Each year we all go to a forest to choose and cut our christmas tree.
Sarah - I love opening the Christmas presents on Christmas eve after Midnight Mass.
Candace Henderson - thank you for a great giveaway. My favorite family tradition is chinese food and a movie on christmas day!
Nana - Midnight mass is my favorite thing.
anne - Holiday favorites – Yule Kage (swedish christmas bread), sugar cookies and new pjs!
Debb Lou - Favorite tradition… hanging the stockings…
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Anya - How wonderful! Thanks for the chance! My favorite tradition is making a gingerbread house!
catnap - My favorite part of Christmas has always been the late service at church. What it’s all about for me.
Kelly - My favorite tradition is taking out our felt advent calendar.
Erin - I love that we celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve so that we can sleep in on Christmas Day before getting up and fixing a HUGE family breakfast. Thanks for the chance to win!
Em - Baking lots of cookies and having fun decorating them with family and friends. Makes for some, um, unorthodox cookies…
Looking forward to exploring your blog!
robin - Favorite holiday tradition – eating sage dressing. Can’t get enuf! Yum.
joyce mosby - My favorite parts of Christmas are the carols and family.
robin - Your blog is now on my sidebar. 🙂
robin - On my sidebar, part 2! 😉
manda - I love decorating the Christmas tree!
Stacy - I love Amy Butler, so this is a great prize! 🙂 I love going to my parents house every year on Christmas Eve & having a great time visiting with my sisters. Thanks for the giveaway! 🙂
Heidi - I love baking for the holidays. It seems to be the only time of the year that I actually make cookies.
hugs from snowy northern ON, Canada,
Heidi
Kylie C - I love the “girly” combo, and my favorite tradition is that since my family can never all be together on Christmas (divorces and re-marriages and all that) we all get together on New Years Eve for the Holiday. We do Christmas dinner, gifts, Christmas music- the whole nine yards. I get to spend Christmas with my whole family this way rather than having to pick who I can see on Christmas Day.
charlotte - making cookies with the kids
thanks for the giveaway
crissy - I love making cookies and gingerbread houses!
please take a peek at my giveaway, if you get the chance…
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Claudia - Thanks for the great giveaway!
I love making wreath cookies with my grandma, mom, and kids. Fun with four generations!
LisaB - My favorite holiday tradition is watching the movie Love Actually – it always puts me in the christmas mood!
Hilary - My favorite holiday tradition is baking treats with my fiance!
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Lindsay - I love our annual christmas eve open house.
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karie - My favorite tradion is leaving oranges in the kids stockings just like Santa did for my when I was a kid.
StephanieS - I love the masculine colors and print. Thanks for the chance to win. Happy Christmas. stephspitzer at gmail dot com
robyn - My favorite holiday tradition is burning all the wrapping paper in the fire place at my dad’s house after we open presents. Thanks for the giveaway! Robyn (dot) Geddes (at) gmail (dot) com
Corey - Wonderful giveaway! I enjoy cutting down and decorating our tree every year. It’s even more fun that we have added two daughters to the mix–such fun!
Miss Mary - My favorite holiday tradition is eating dipped chocolates. Mmm… my great grandmother’s recipe never fails to appease even the most persnickety of palettes! 🙂
Sharon T. - My favorite holiday tradition is going out into the “high country” with my husband and dogs to tromp through the snow to find the perfect Charlie Brown Christmas tree. Thanks for the giveaway!
Irina De Juan - My favourite tradition is to go to see the parade of the Three Wise Men.
thanks for the chance!
Irina De Juan - I linked your blog. It’s on my blog list, on the right hand side.
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I love your pillows and the apron. I’ve never worked with linen before, and it looks so beautiful! My favourite is Dr Seuss bag! I love Dr Seuss!!!
Judyk2310 - We have a tradition the last 10 years that my son-in-law makes our breakfast. I get to their house about 6:30am so that I can be there for Santa.
Knititall - My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the tree. I love its foresty smell and unpacking all the little ornaments we’ve had since I was little. Some I even made myself as a kid, some were made my parents… it just makes me feel like a child again, eager for Santa to come.
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Lori - Great giveaway! One of my favorite Christmas traditions is pizza for dinner!
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Lixa - My favorite tradition is spending time with the family. invaluable.
Marci - family board games.
Deserae Fiedler - I love Christmas caroling! 🙂
Garilyn - Our favorite tradition is baking…lots of baking and sharing it with neighbors.
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Courtney Lewis - We have a delicious beef tenderloin with Gorgonzola sauce and roasted potatoes. Total winter deliciousness!!
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Joanna - Our fav holiday tradition is being in the live nativity at our church! Somewhere in the back of my mind I hope it’s cementing in the kids’ minds the true meaning of Christmas!
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Joanna - Linked to your blog pt 2 – an I want you to know that you’re the only blog I’ve linked to in this whole crazy SMS week!! I love your blog and am so glad I’ve found it! I also love your photography blog!
alli b - I love snuggling up to watch Rudolph and Claymation Christmas and Christmas Vacation with friends & family.
Thanks for the giveaway!
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The Hungry Crafter - Great giveaway — love the “masculine” pack especially. My favorite holiday tradition is going to see The Christmas Revels performance in Cambridge, MA with all my friends — this year I’ll be seeing it tomorrow night — woo hoo!
The Hungry Crafter - Linked to your blog – #1. Looking forward to reading more! Great stuff!
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Chancy - My favorite Christmas tradition is having waffles with my family on Christmas morning. We all wake up, open our stockings, and then my dad makes homemade waffles. And not until the dishes are done do we open our gifts.
Jennifer P - My favorite tradition started when I was a kid and continues with my kids today. They each get to open our gift to them and then it’s all about Santa on the big day! 🙂 BTW, I added you to my reader, so glad for giveaway day!
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Jen - My favorite holiday tradition is making homemade bread for Christmas breakfast! Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
Lindsay - I love decorating the tree and making ornaments!
Sandra - My fav time is making cookies for Pere Noel with my little one 🙂
And yours?
ikkinlala - We play crokinole after Christmas dinner.
Anne - What a lovely giveaway, thank you!!
My favorite holiday tradition is probably the “gift-time dance.” We open gifts Christmas eve, in the evening. At about 1pm, my father (who is now retired) will begin asking “can we open the gifts yet?” My mother will respond “not until dinner’s done!”
Then the dinner will be eaten, but ALL the dishes need to be washed before the presents can be unwrapped. Of course we enjoy dragging this out to torture my father. Then we all go sit in the room by the Christmas tree. We go to hand out the first gift…Oops, someone has to run to use the bathroom, we have to wait.
It’s so silly, but it’s something I look forward to, EVERY YEAR. My father, the eternal 5 year old.
Thanks again for a fun giveaway!
Tiffany - I love singing Christmas songs at parties with my Mom and three sisters.
Lisa - LOVE your blog.
Great giveaway, thanks for the chance!
My fav holiday tradition is the big party we have on Christmas Eve, lots of family, food, gifts & fun.
PaperTigerKNits - I love seeing my cousins for Christmas.
Nelly - ooo… my favorite holiday tradition is to decorate the tree with my kids!
nelly dot barney at yahoo dot com
crazyestonian - I love all the semi-secret crafting we do in the month of December. It is so much fun! To avoid lazyness, I make up a Christmas countdown calendar filled mostly with crafty activities. It adds a bit of peaceful craftiness to each December day 🙂
Crystal - Thanks for doing this giveaway!! 😀
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Crystal - I have linked you to my blog part 1
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Janet - I love the tradition of Christmas trifle. So yummy!
Marilyn - I like getting to spend more quality time with my family, some of whom live out of state, at Christmastime. Thank you for the chance to win!
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Peach Rainbow - Visiting Relatives was something we loved when we were small.
Thanks for the chance 🙂
Sammie - Thanks for the great giveaway! I love eating chocolate pie around Christmas time… for some reason, my family never makes it any other time but Christmas.
Sheila - Great giveaway!
My favourite tradition is all the eating we do as a family. We’re all serious foodies, so this is when we all get together and cook great food and drink great wine and enjoy each other’s company. I can’t wait!
Sheila - Already have you linked up – 1.
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Jiaying - I always enjoy making a Christmas ornament with my daughter’s most recent picture. Thanks for the lovely giveaway.
Kristie Brock - reading the christmas story from the bible. thanks so much!
Megan P. - Thanks!! My favorite tradition is decorating the tree with unique and personal ornaments my Mom either purchased or hand made every year of my life for me.
Holly U - My favorite tradition is Christmas caroling to ailing friends and family. The group I go with has been doing so since I was a kid and Christmas would never feel complete without it!
Colleen - Thanks for a lovely giveaway.
Fav tradition – “light night” – hot cocoa and popcorn – off in the car for some holiday light viewing. Always fun!
Colleen - Thanks for the lovely giveaway.
Fav tradition – light night – hot cocoa and driving to see all the holiday displays.
Sandhya - Having a wonderful supper with family!
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Susanne - We get together with our family on my husband’s side every Advent Sunday and eat waffles covered with icing sugar! Mmmmmm….
Thanks for the chance to win.
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Kat - What beautiful fabrics!
My favourite holiday tradition is our insane tree decorating – we have acquired so many decorations over the years (some beautiful traditional ones, some terrible tacky fun ones) that we no longer go for beautiful. We go for masses of stuff! There is an ongoing competition between me and my sister to see who can put just one more item on the tree before things start to fall off!
sean - I don’t enter these things that often because I don’t have any luck. But my daughter said I should so here goes, in the past she had me enter for her. This time I hope to win something for my wife.
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Michelle - My fav. tradition is our advent wreath. 🙂
erica - I like the charm pack. I love decorating for christmas, especially the tree because most of the ornaments have memories attached
Paula Ganyard - Thanks for the give away, the fabrics look wonderful.
Paula Ganyard - I have linked to your blog from mine. – part 1
Paula Ganyard - I have linked to your blog from mine. – part 2
Paula Ganyard - The first entry got submitted to soon. It should have read…
Thanks for the give away, the fabrics look wonderful. My favorite family tradition is the Goofy Gifts on Christmas Eve. Everyone picks 1 name and has to buy some silly present for under $10. It has brought us all more laughs and memories than any expensive gift could.
Julia - My favorite tradition is Decking the halls to christmas music.
Izza - Thx for the giveaway..Fav tradition, I must say it’s the family feast!!! Food tastes better when with your loved ones.
Liz - My mother and I have made Swedish Tea Rings for friends and family as long as I can remember. It wouldn’t be xmas with out them!
Krista - My favorite tradition is not having holiday dinners at my own house! I neve have to clean or do dishes!
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Kerry - I love everyone waking up and opening their presents!
Kim - We grow our own Christmas trees…so every year we choose and cut our own. That is really the only tradition we have!
Skooks - Hmm . . . I’ve always loved hearing my dad read “The Night Before Christmas” . . . even as an adult. 🙂
Amy S - I love cutting down the Christmas tree!
Caroline - We watch “Little Women” every year on Christmas Eve.
NorahS - My favorite holiday tradition is baking holiday cookies.
Marguerite - 1) nifty comment function you’ve got here!
2) I like going to the German service at the local Lutheran church with my father.
Laura Hughes - My favorite tradition is having my family over for dinner on Christmas Eve. It’s relaxing and fun!
Kat Hardisty - Love the fabrics! Very nice sets – thanks for the chance to be in to win. 🙂
My family goes for a long (1-2 hour) walk after Christmas lunch each year. It’s a nice way to spend an afternoon, so peaceful and quiet with hardly anyone around. It’s my favourite time on Christmas day.
Have a lovely Christmas! 🙂
Claire - I love decorating the tree with my folks. We’ve done it together for years, even if we have to wait until Christmas Eve when everyone is in town. So excited to have my husband AND my 10 month old daughter join us this year!
Thanks for the chance to win. I LOVE charm packs.
Jansie - Hi there, my favorite Christmas tradition is going out on Christmas Eve to drive around the neighborhoods looking at all the Christmas Lights. Always spectacular! Thanks for the chance to win!
arlette - One of the traditions we have’s on Christmas day all the family use to go to my grandma’s place, we’re making that year after year, have a meal (everyone brings food and gifts) and stay all day with her. She’s now almost 102 years old!!!