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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 my mom's Rouladen. MMMMMMMMMMMMMM!
Since I'm not religious, there's no ceremony or family event that appeals to us as a tradition.
We listen to Bach every morning, and like the fact that there's more Bach at this time of year is wonderful, but I think that the chance to make a year-end letter to send to our friends and relatives is my happiest holiday tradition. It gives us a chance to think about our life and what we have done, and where we are going.
Best holiday greetings to you all.
My dad would always hold us up to put the angle on the tree for a special picture...every year...all three girls, up until I left for the Air Force at 21! So he would be completely swamped by a 20 yr old, 17 yr old, and 13 yr old at the time. Yeah, you could barely see him in the pics anymore, I don't know how he did it! But now I make my husband do the same thing with my kids every year! He just goes along with it, because it was the only tradition that really meant much to me growing up!
My most favorite and long-lasting holiday tradition started when my four kids were very small. Our tree stood in our living room and my husband and I would play Santa after the kids were asleep (yep, that usually was around four in the morning), and the wrapped package took up the entire living room floor. We didn't want the kids to see them before we got up (usually they woke up as soon as we dragged ourselves into bed) so we would hang a sheet across the living room archway and the kids just knew better than to go beyond that sheet. The excitement in the children's eyes as they anticipated what was behind the sheet was something to see. While the sheet was still up my husband would go into the living room to light the tree and bring out the children's stockings for them to open.....then.....the sheet would come down and the kids were speechless.
Today my children are grown but the tradition goes on...my youngest at 30 still insists that the sheet be in place, that the tree be lit before the sheet comes down, and that her stocking be brought out by her father. And you know what? I love it.
It's a pretty new tradition, but definitely has become my favorite. Instead of exchanging presents, 4 other friends and I adopt a needy family and buy clothes, household items, toys, etc. for them. We make a night of doing the shopping - pretty amusing watching 5 childless people try to figure out what fits children of various ages - and then we go out to dinner. None of us are actually in town for Christmas so this tradition makes sure that we make time for each other during the holidays and we put our money where it can do much better good.
My favorite traditions are baking and decorating cookies, now with my kids being old enough to help. I have the same Betty Crocker cookie cookbook that my mom used. We also get the kids a new ornament every year.
My favorite "new" tradition is going to Taos Pueblo Christmas Eve for the procession of the Virgin. They build huge bonfires and everyone from the Pueblo and the town comes out. It's wonderful being outside with friends and neighbors watching the fires light the cold, dark winter night. Afterward, we go out to dinner with friends and family.
One of our favorite traditions, is that if we are home on the night of the Winter Solstice, is to not turn on any lights and avoid using electricity. This takes some planning to have an early because cooking by candlelight is a bit hazardous to me. LOL
But it's a wonderful quiet evening to reflect the past year and the coming year. To enjoy family and good food.
My favorite holiday tradition is driving around on Christmas eve to look at all the beautifully decorated houses in a suburb near my home. There are lights and candles and decorations galore and everything looks so beautiful especially if there is snow!
Our family tradition is on christmas eve we all get a gift of p.j.'s. So then on christmas we all stay in our gifted p.j.'s all day and stay home together. The p.j.'s make it so no one can leave, everyone is together, and naps are very easy!!!! It has been a tradition for years and is such a popular one it will stay around for years to come.
Our family always cuts down a tree from somewhere on our farm. We could look for this tree well in advance, but of course we never do and always find ourselves desperate a week before Christmas stomping around in the cold and rain or snow... one year we decided to drive around, and used the truck headlights to see to cut the tree... and ran down the battery in the truck so we had to walk almost a mile back to the house in the sleet. One year we'll get our acts together and locate the tree in September instead!
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What a great idea! I love reading everyone's traditions (and I'm thinking about how I can incorporate a few into our Xmas fun!). Besides the usual gatherings of family and friends, my favorite tradition is the one that gets the kids to behave for a whole month! We have some Gumby figures that are dressed up like elves and we them move around when the kids are sleeping. We tell them that they're Santa's elves who are here to keep an eye on their behavior.
My husband and I have known eachother for 10 years.....and he always takes me to Longwood Gardens to see the holiday display. It is so magical there. I love the lights and the flowers and the fact that it is something we do every year. Longwood is extra special to me since the hubby proposed to me there as well.
This is a fun contest. It is cool to read everyone elses traditions. We are an interfaith family and it is nice to get some ideas about things to start up when we have kids!
My favorite holiday tradition is watching the George C Scott version of A Christmas Carol every Christmas eve. We don't have television service, so normally our television sits idle...a dust collector. But, at least fifteen years ago (maybe more!), DH started this lovely tradition. Our three girls have grown up with the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future; even now, at ages 21, 18, and 16, they look forward to sitting down to this classic each Christmas Eve.
I make vanilla ice cream balls and roll them in green tinted coconut, freeze them , then serve in fancy cut champagne glasses with hot fudge. Only once a year!!!
My Favorite holiday tradition is taking all 3 of my kids to see christmas lights (Bright Nights in Stanley Park). We have a miniature train that rides through a park that is fully decorated with lights. I love watching their faces light up everytime we go...It is by far my favorite tradition. A close second is reading christmas books and cuddling on the couch with the kids and a cup of hot chocolate with mini marshmallows!
Well, our tradition is having strawberry shortcake for dinner Christmas Eve, and opening one present each. Then, on Christmas morning, we have green eggs and ham and french toast for breakfast, and open the rest of the gifts. Merry Christmas!
Now that my daughter is grown, my favorite tradition is getting together with her bake cookies, watch Elf, and enjoy some holiday cheer!
We are still trying on different things in our family, but one tradition that seems to have stuck is that we have a big pancake breakfast on Christmas morning BEFORE we open our presents. This gives my parents a chance to come over and be here to see the grandkids rip through the wrapping paper. Surprisingly, my kids are great about this. We have always done it this way in order to include my parents but now it is just part of our family. They also know they are NOT allowed to go downstairs on Christmas morning until Mommy is ready... and that is never before 9am! I get to video them coming down the stairs and getting their first look at the presents. They know if they mess that up by peeking.... they will go immediately on the naughty list and all of their presents will disappear! LOL
My favorite Christmas tradition comes from my childhood. Every Christmas Eve my father would bundle all the kids up and take us for a drive around town looking at all the Christmas lights. Then, when we got home my mother told us we had JUST missed Santa who dropped off all of our presents which were now under the tree!
We buy a live tree to use as a Christmas tree, then plant it in the yard after Christmas. My boys are still little, so we're working on other traditions as we go!
Every year my family treks out on the monring of the 26th and we go ornament shopping. Every child that is 16 and under is allowed to purchase a few ornaments to be added to their ornament box. It was started so that when a child moves away from home or gets married, they have something to decorate their tree and remind them of Christmas with their family.
My favorite holiday traditions are all the holiday baking that goes on. We start of course with Sugar cookies for Santa and then make cranberry bread for the family, all while drinking hot coco stirred with a candycane ;)
My favorite norwegian tradition is to drink gløg with friends and family. It is a sweet drink that goes well with christmas cookies and fun.
My favorite holiday tradition is baking cut out cookies with my Mom. We are both so busy it's sometimes hard to find time to get together throughout the year but we always make time for this at the holidays. We enjoy spending a few hours chatting and catching up over the rolling pin, dough and colored sprinkles. This year was extra special because my Grandma (who is 93!) is with us. This fall she moved into the assisted living apartments at the nursing home where my Mom works. It's been hard to see her have to leave her home and she's not able to do things she used to love (like her needlepoint). But she joined us in the baking and really seemed to enjoy helping us decorate the cookies. I feel really blessed to have her with us this Christmas.
One of my favorite traditions is watching National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. We watch it every year, and it still cracks us up!