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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)
We usually celebrate Xmas on Xmas Eve. We put baby Jesus in the "pesebre", as a symbol that he has been born. Then we pray, and sign carols for about 15 minutes. Then we have a HUGE dinner. In the mean time, all children are shoving up their mouths with food, because they know you can only open the presents after you are done eating. Then we open the presents.
Fondue for Christmas Eve Dinner. Its easy to prepare and the meal takes hours so its a great way to spend time with the family.
I think my favorite family Christmas tradition is our family party. I have a huge family (my Nana has 8 kids, 21 grankids and 21 great gran kids!) plus we add in freinds and general craziness abounds. We have a gift swap and a potluck dinner but the best part is just catching up and spending time with my family.
Other then that the thing I love the most about the holidays is how my family gets so excited to have a handmade gift from me under the tree!
Thanks for a great giveaway! Happy Holidays!
I think fondue might be our tradition, but I am just not sure. Otherwise it would be...ummm...opening presents.
My favorite Christmas tradition is the only one that has survived the death of grandparents and the relocation of Christmas from my family hometown in New Hampshire to my nephews' hometown in Texas. We had many traditions that were lost with certain individuals (my uncle Tosh's homemade ice cream) or geography (the fresh cut tree from a famliy friend's Christmas tree farm in NH ~ this one persisted as far South as Virginia!), but my mother's cranberry muffins on Christmas morning have stayed with us no matter where we are or who is celebrating with us. And I believe that even after my mother passes on (at least 20 years from now), we'll still begin every Christmas morning with her special recipe.
Being with family is the best.
Favorite Holiday tradition? The Chanukah carnival at my son's school! I usually escort one of the classes around the carnival, and I always have a ball. Plus I get to teach the little ones how to eat latkes afterward!
I would have to say my favorite holiday tradition is our New Years Eve tradition. We've been getting together with good friends for about 25 years, and have only missed 1 year! We started before we had kids and always went out, once the kids came along we'd alternate going to each other's house and spending the night. Food ALWAYS includes shrimp cocktail, steak, and lobster, among many other things! And a BIG breakfast in the morning. Their kids are grown and doing their own thing now while we still have a couple at home. We're still going strong. There is something to be said for good friends!
My favorite tradition is my mom's early Christmas dinner for my brothers and sister and all our children. We don't live all that far apart (3hrs) but regular life doesn't allow us to see each other as often as we'd like. Because she does it well in advance of Christmas no one feels too rushed or has another party to get off to. This year we added sledding to the day. It sounds silly, but doing dishes with my brothers after dinner brought tears to my eyes -- remembering the years when the same task brought on name-calling and arguing.
No real traditions except getting together with family and doing gift exchange. Everyone puts their name in a hat and then we pick names. Keeps the cost down. I would love to win a sock club membership!! I had one, but could not afford to keep it:( Thank you for the chance to win!!!
Happy Holidays!! Sandi
How festive!
My favorite tradition is that we spend Christmas Eve at our neighbors house. We've done it since I was a little kid, and now I always look forward to seeing our surrogate family that night!
Also.. another tradition ,I suppose, is my mother telling my brothers and I not to eat the Christmas cookies! I don't think it will ever be clear what the greater purpose of these cookies is, but it definitely does not involve the three of us eating them :-)
For many years our family has joined at my house for Christmas Breakfast and gift opening. My parents were amicably divorced and they and their spouses came. We exchanged gifts watched my DD open her gifts ate breakfast casserole and took lots of pictures. We would reflect on our good fortune. This is not happening this year due to life changes.
The night before Christmas we gather at my Dad's for dinner and Dad reads The Night Before Christmas. He always gets carolers and we stand in the cold and listen to them.
My favorite tradition is getting a live tree and decorating it with ornaments from my childhood. I love pulling out the decorations and remembering their stories from Christmas' past. The smell of the pine and the lights are what get me in the mood for Christmas.
My favourite holiday tradition is watching animated holiday specials with a dear friend of mine. How the Grinch Stole Christmas always makes it on, and usually The Tick Loves Santa and the Pinky and the Brain Christmas special. She always has baked treats handy too. It's a wonderful oasis of relaxation in the often stressful Christmas trip home.
We always chose one gift on Christmas Eve to open. On Christmas morning, my 2 brothers and I would wake up to the Chipmunks singing Christmas songs and hot chocolate. Now, with my own kids, we are starting these traditions as well as a few of our in. My daughter helped me with the tree this year (she's 3) and we are going to bake Christmas cookies together on Christmas Eve to leave out for Santa. She's really getting into the whole Christmas thing this year!
Our family traditions include filling my handknitted stockings (for adults and cats) - no kids, but we summon our inner childlike love of the season. Baking mince tarts, making my grandmother's recipe for spiced beef. Cutting down our own tree and decorating it with ornaments full of meaning, and a Christmas Eve listening to the Nine Lessons and Carols from King's College Cambridge. These are the traditions that define our festive season. Joy to the world!
With everyone's busy lives around holidays we try to make more homemade meals and treats to share with our family and friends. it's a nice way to share in the holiday spirit.
We always go to visit friends & then to Grandmas for Christmas dinner.
My favorite family tradition is hiding the pickle every year in the tree. As the kids have grown, we keep getting a smaller and smaller pickle. I try to be really sneaky and not let anyone see it if it is the year a smaller one is introduced, but sometimes I takes days for anyone to find it. It gives each of us a chance to really look at the ornaments on the tree and remember who, when, and why we have each one there.
My favorite personal tradition is going to Christmas Eve Midnight Service. The peace and calm that begins such a glorious holiday is a great way to really remember what we are celebrating. Though it is coming home from that, when I hide the pickle and can't remember myself where I put it.
Traditions
- Yes to the latkes, always this time of year
- The orange at the bottom of the socking - the same one every year - handmade, of course
- The dinner with the close friends and their family, who have made us a part of them
- The tree, with soft ornaments that won't break when the cats knock them down, as they do, repeatedly.
Best wishes to all!
Fundue on Christmas Eve :) yum.
Every Christmas morning, after the gifts have been opened, and the paper has been tossed away, my mother (and grandmother before her) always prepared a wonderful breakfast of "Dutch Babies". Now that I have my own family, I've continued the tradition, and I prepare a breakfast feast complete with "Dutch Babies"! (Dutch Babies are a sort of German Pancake which is cooked in your oven and topped with powdered sugar and butter.)
I buy a new special bauble for our christmas tree. I look out for something unusual or commemorative for that year. This year i'm starting a new tradition.. i've nearly finished crocheting our 2yr old little boy his 1st xmas stocking and have been having fun collecting bits and pieces to go him it :)
My favorite Christmas tradition is all of the baking we do throughout the season. My husband and I get up early on weekend mornings, put on tons of Christmas music, and bake 40 loaves of bread and dozens and dozens of different cookies. We then package them up and give them to our family, friends and coworkers. It's always nice to receive something yummy and handmade with love.