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*TIME’S UP!* Holiday Giveaway Extravaganza Spectacular Spectacle!
Sunday, December 21, 2008 at 9:34AM
Welcome to our first-ever Holiday Giveaway Extravaganza Spectacular Spectacle! Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah (or Chanukah, if you prefer)! Make the Yuletide gay!
Whatever you're celebrating, we want to help make your holiday a little brighter.
That's why we're giving away -- in our Holiday Giveaway Extravaganza Spectacular Spectacle -- three fabulous prize packages full of wonderfulness and awesomeness.
Tell them what they can win, Bob!
Bob?
BOB?
Fine, I'll just fill you in myself.
By entering our contest, you'll be eligible to win one of three great prizes.
Prize #1: A Three Irish Girls Sock Kit. This includes your choice of any of our awesome patterns and a skein of yarn in your choice of colorways to complete the pattern! If you are already a sock club member and you have all of our patterns, we'll have a special alternative for you. (Approx. $28 value!)
You know you want a pair of socks like these:
Prize #2: A custom colorway consultation and two skeins of a custom colorway! We can make your colorways dreams come true! On your favorite yarn base! (Approx $50 value!) Exclamation point!
Prize #3: Three months of your choice of club memberships! Sock Yarnista features your choice of two colorways, a custom designed pattern, and a fun extra each month.
If you prefer heavier weight yarns, Stash Menagerie has a broad variety of fibers, your choice of two colorways, and fun extras every few months!
Being a club member also gives you access to exclusive members-only colorways like these:
If you're already a club member, you can extend your membership, add extra skeins to your existing membership, become a member of a club you're not in, or give the membership as a gift to a very lucky person. (Approx $90 value.)
Why are we giving all of this away? For a few reasons. One is the spirit of the holidays. We like brightening people's days a little with a yummy yarn package. It's good to put a little good out there in the world.
Another is to say thank you for all of your support this past year -- you've been with us as we've moved into a new studio, expanded our yarn offerings, and started new clubs. We would be nowhere without our fantastic customers, and we want to say thank you.
Here's how you enter: leave a reply to this post answering the following question: What is your favorite holiday tradition? Do you have a latke party? (And does your house smell like latkes for three weeks afterward?) Do you have a family outing to cut down a Christmas tree? Do you bake something special? Watch something special? Go somewhere special?
If so, I want to hear about it!
Winners will be randomly selected from the responses. You have until Monday, December 22nd at 9pm EST to reply. Winners will be announced Tuesday, December 23rd.
If you'd like to give any of these prizes as a gift, that can certainly be arranged!
Thank you again, dear readers and loyal customers.
Whatever you're celebrating, we want to help make your holiday a little brighter.
That's why we're giving away -- in our Holiday Giveaway Extravaganza Spectacular Spectacle -- three fabulous prize packages full of wonderfulness and awesomeness.
Tell them what they can win, Bob!
Bob?
BOB?
Fine, I'll just fill you in myself.
By entering our contest, you'll be eligible to win one of three great prizes.
Prize #1: A Three Irish Girls Sock Kit. This includes your choice of any of our awesome patterns and a skein of yarn in your choice of colorways to complete the pattern! If you are already a sock club member and you have all of our patterns, we'll have a special alternative for you. (Approx. $28 value!)
You know you want a pair of socks like these:
Prize #2: A custom colorway consultation and two skeins of a custom colorway! We can make your colorways dreams come true! On your favorite yarn base! (Approx $50 value!) Exclamation point!
Prize #3: Three months of your choice of club memberships! Sock Yarnista features your choice of two colorways, a custom designed pattern, and a fun extra each month.
If you prefer heavier weight yarns, Stash Menagerie has a broad variety of fibers, your choice of two colorways, and fun extras every few months!
Being a club member also gives you access to exclusive members-only colorways like these:
If you're already a club member, you can extend your membership, add extra skeins to your existing membership, become a member of a club you're not in, or give the membership as a gift to a very lucky person. (Approx $90 value.)
Why are we giving all of this away? For a few reasons. One is the spirit of the holidays. We like brightening people's days a little with a yummy yarn package. It's good to put a little good out there in the world.
Another is to say thank you for all of your support this past year -- you've been with us as we've moved into a new studio, expanded our yarn offerings, and started new clubs. We would be nowhere without our fantastic customers, and we want to say thank you.
Here's how you enter: leave a reply to this post answering the following question: What is your favorite holiday tradition? Do you have a latke party? (And does your house smell like latkes for three weeks afterward?) Do you have a family outing to cut down a Christmas tree? Do you bake something special? Watch something special? Go somewhere special?
If so, I want to hear about it!
Winners will be randomly selected from the responses. You have until Monday, December 22nd at 9pm EST to reply. Winners will be announced Tuesday, December 23rd.
If you'd like to give any of these prizes as a gift, that can certainly be arranged!
Thank you again, dear readers and loyal customers.
Reader Comments (479)
My favorite holiday tradition is one I married into. Following the Danish tradition of my father-in-law we have a big "smorgasbord" on Christmas Eve. There is some required fare such as wonton soup, Spam pizzas, deviled eggs, and "stinky cheeses." Delicious fun!
My favorite Christmas tradition was watching "Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas," this old, fairly obscure early Muppet special. When I met my now-husband 3 years ago, we knew that we were destined to be a couple, as it was our first Christmas together. I ashamedly revealed to him my favorite holiday movie, and I just described it -- no title -- and he laughed and yelled the title. It was fate, I think, to finally date the one other person in the world who loves Emmett Otter as much as I did! So now it's our tradition to watch it together every Christmas eve. Hopefully, by next Christmas, we can watch it together with our first child!
My family has always done our main celebration on Christmas eve. We have a huge feast, open presents and enjoy each other's company. The last few years, though, since my parents moved far away, we've missed the tradition and have to try to get together across the distance on that day. I suppose we need to create a new tradition!
My favorite part of the holiday is decorating the tree with all our old ornaments and remembering the years they came from. We don't do latkes in my family but the Christmas Eve tamales are a special treat. There's no family outting to cut a tree but sometimes it takes the whole family to get the artificial one out of the attic. We dip pretzels in chocolate and bake cookies. And all the aunts and uncles and cousins come to our house for the big Christmas gorging. It's a great holiday.
We watch lots of movies, eat all day, have candles going, and try to take it moment for moment instead of rushing thru the day.
This holiday is extra special, having my husband deploying in January, we are trying to make it as memorable as we can for the kids.
Happy Holidays!
My favorite holiday tradition is taking my daughter to see The Nutcracker, just the two of us. We make a day of it, get all dressed up, go out for lunch, really enjoy our Girlie Time together. It's magical to see the world through her eyes for the day, to be totally in the moment with her.
every year we bundle everyone up and brave the freezing temps to see the christmas light display at the idaho botanical gardens. it really is spectacular! there are cookies and hot beverages, and santa is there with one of his reindeer:: the real santa of course, not one of those dept. store santas ;)
we went just last night in fact! we had a blast!
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=winter%20garden%20aglow&w=all
happy holidays!
xo,
erika
We always have a big Ukrainian feast every xmas eve. We make perogies, cabbage rolls, and soup and basically overdose on food. I am not sure why we do this because the Ukrainian is way back in the family, but this tradition has stuck.
We always watch a Muppet Christmas Carol and eat cinnamon rolls after the presents are opened. Yum =-]
My favorite Christmas tradition is attending our little churches Christmas Eve service where we sing and share and then all light a candle and join hands in a big circle around the room and sing a last song together. Such a special time!
Neither my mother or my grandmother were much into cooking during the holidays, so it's taken me 20 years to accumulate, test, and decide on my holday recipes. It's nice to know that my children have fond memories of Thanksgiving and Christmas meals and want to make the same things for their families.
Every year my extend family gathers at someone's home on Christmas Eve and we eat and drink and laugh and usually we have a gift exchange but this year we adopted a needy family instead.
Hmmm... I think my favorite Christmas tradition is going to Midnight church services on Christmas eve. It will be extra special this year as my 10 year old son will be an acolyte for that service. :o) I also look forward to our family breakfast that morning. I do breakfast casserole, and homemade cinnamon buns. Delicious!
Our holiday traditions consist of doing a family Christmas Eve party at one of my extended family members homes. Complete with yummy food, good conversation, and of course presents!!! We also do a yearly round robin gift exchange for the adults. It is very fun. In the last 2 years it has become tradition for us to make a 4 hour drive to the town of my birth to visit with my Grandmothers. Both of them lost their husbands within a month of each other and have little to no family in the area. We love to spend time with them and it gives our children a chance to develope memories with Grandmas that they rarely see. Holidays are all about family after all. :)
My favorite holiday tradition is putting up and decorating our Christmas tree. Now that our son is nearing 2, the look on his face when he puts an ornament on the tree and the lights turn on is the best feeling in the world!
We have a special Christmas Eve dinner and then we all watch It's A Wonderful Life. Christmas morning used to start very early when the kids were little but now, thankfully, they sleep in. We start with stockings, eat some breakfast, open presents. Then we lounge around until we make dinner. Various relatives and friends have joined us over the years.
OK, I have quite a few family "traditions" that I have carried forward from my childhood. I am the youngest of 6 kids, and I didn't find out until I was in my early 20s that the traditions that I grew up with actually started with me! That Christmas present I always opened on Christmas Eve? Yep, that started because I finally wore my Mother down. The Blueberry Buckle on Christmas morning! Yep, harassed her for that too. Poor woman, lol.
The one tradition I know started before my time was the Christmas stocking that were hand-knit by my Grandmother, a master knitted if I ever knew one. Since she passed away the needles have been passed to my Mom since I am a crocheter instead of a knitter. But she has made my husband and 2 girls stockings to match mine including the soft angora hair for Santa's beard.
I'm looking forward to actually being at my Mom's house this week for Christmas for the 2nd time in 10 years. Yay, here comes the blueberry buckle! :D
My favorite holiday tradition? That's hard to say, I have so many! Baking shortbread cookies, our knitting group's holiday party complete with Secret Santa, decorating the tree while watching a Christmas movie, watching National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and Elf at LEAST three times each from Thanksgiving through New Years, watching the cats play under the Christmas tree, and most of all visiting hubby's family, especially seeing the neice and nephew :) This year we should see snow for the first time in 5 years - heading to Denver, CO!!
My favorite holiday tradition is making cookies. I make several different kinds (and fudge). My 8 yo helps. It would be shameful to give Santa anything but homemade.
Well this is funny, as my "kids" are now 29, 26, and 22 and we still laugh when then come over early in the morning and "beg" us to get out of bed to see what Santa has left to start our day. We make coffee now, instead of hot chocalate, and then enjoy our day remembering years of Christmas celebrations. This year will be particuarly special as we start a NEW TRADITION of going to my oldest daughter's house, bright and early, to get my first grandson up, to start the day's celebrations and adding new memories of family through the new Little Guy's Eyes!
Since my kids are older now, we have a new tradition that we started a few years ago - we fill each others stockings with handmade gifts. They can be baked, crafted, sewn or recorded, but they have to be made by the giver. It's been really fun and way more meaningful than the typical 'stocking stuffer' for us.
My husband has a toy train hobby which is extensive already, but at Christmas it expands to the livingroom. He designs a lovely train layout on the floor around the tree and presents. We have to get a spray bottle of water handy to keep the mini schnauzers from attacking the train as it chugs around- I think it pushes their ratting instinct into high gear and they really want to kill that train- but then they'd rather not get wet, so the train wins and we all enjoy the scene. Happy Holidays everyone! Thanks Three Irish Girls!
I love attending our town's tree lighting ceremony which we follow by taking the kids to see Santa. It's a great way to start the holiday season.
We never really had a tradition growing up, but since having children of my own I was looking forward to starting one. So now every year we buy a gift for a child the same age as ours and donate it to a charity such as Toys for Tots. I hate to think of any child not having anything to open on Christmas morning.
The first that comes to mind is one that we have carried over from my childhood - after we get home from Christmas Eve church service, we each open one gift - a new pair of jammies to wear to bed that night. I am particularly excited for this year as it is our first with the kids having matching jammies! :)