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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)
I love baking for the holidays. Some years I make my own decorations. I don't get to do that all the time but when I do I love it.
Puting the Christmas tree up after Thanksgiving dinner...Hanging our plastic mistletoe up ..everyone always hits it with their heads...
My favorite holiday tradition is taking my family to the candlelight church service on Christmas eve. The trees decorated, the bell choir, the carols, the candles...it is simply magical!
I have two favorite traditions: hanging stockings and baking cookies!
I like hanging stockings because it's probably the only part of decorating the house for christmas that doesn't involve acrobatics (stringing Christmas lights), handiling fragile materials (putting out nativity scene), having my baby picture insulted (decorating the tree), or dizzying lights and music (dancing Santas). Hanging stockings is easy, and I am good at it.
I didn't even realize that baking cookies was a tradition of mine until all my coworkers started asking me, "So, are you baking cookies anytime soon?" ever so casually and smoothly. In the past I've made my mom's roll out sugar cookies with homemade frosting. The recipe is basically all butter and sugar, and it's to die for. I'll bake some as soon as my Christmas knitting is done. Maybe they'll be Valentine cookies instead...
Fried Turkey!! It's wonderful, but peanut oil ends up everywhere! The whole family ends up picking pieces off before it makes it to the table. Dad always gets a little upset!
We have many Christmas traditions, picking a favorite is tough! We set up our Christmas nativity scene every year as a family while listening to Christmas music and getting "in the spirit" Every year we talk about how things have changed since the last time we set it up.
My favorite holiday tradition is making my families special peanutbutter and chocolate brownies with my mom. Every Christmas Eve we spend all night in the kitchen making them together.
However! I moved out of my parents' house last year and my mom had a lot of water damage stuff going on at her house which made the kitchen virtually useless.
We were both totally bummed about not making brownies last year. In a stroke of genius I told her to pack up her mixer and come to my house to make them. We had just as much fun here, even though my kitchen is half the size of hers! My mom told me to keep having it here so when I have a child of my own we can keep the tradition going with three generations! :)
Ok, I need kleenex!
My 7 year old son and I live far from the rest of our family so it's often just the two of us at Christmas. On Christmas eve, we call each family member and open our gifts from them while on the phone with them. It makes us feel more connected. After we've spoken to everyone, we put on The (original) Grinch and build our gingerbread house.
My favorite holiday tradition is the white elephant gift exchange. It is amazing to see the truly horrible items that people in my family come up with to exchange.
Now that my boys are getting a little older, I'm really enjoying the tradition of baking christmas cookies with them. The recipes have been passed down through our family and I enjoy making a huge mess with my kids in the kitchen and telling them all about how I used to make these cookies with my mom.
The first thing that came to mind for our tradition:
From Dec. 26th until New Year's we try to stay in the house to be together as a family and not leaving the house unless necessary. We play games and just try to do everything as a family. This has always been great joy for the family.
My favorite tradition is getting together with family. We thought that was going to get even easier this year with my parents finally retiring and moving to CA to be near us - but we got a 2 year corporate assignment in Fl and my step-son and his family moved away to Oregon. We're still managing to get together this Christmas though!
Our favorite holiday tradition is making Christmas cookies! My children love hanging stockings by the fireplace so it's a close one for them, they can't pick which they prefer! Happy Holidays!
Teri
We always make "Martha Washington Candy"--for as long as I can remember my mom has made this for gifts and so do we. It's basically chopped pecans, Eagle brand milk, and powdered sugar and vanilla rolled into balls and dipped in chocolate. All to be bagged up and given away! The recipe makes tons and we spend hours rolling and dipping....It's the only memory of Christmas that is consistent! We always save bags to put in the stockings...so even though my children are now in their teens...they always look for the MW candy in the stocking...right next to a new toothbrush!
What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Starting last year, it has been watching my son have more fun trying to eat the wrapping paper than playing with the toys we buy him - he's not 2 yet, so there's hope he'll out grow the eating but the squeals of joy I hope never fade!
My favorite holiday tradition is listening to Christmas music until I'm sick of it while decorating the tree. As Carter gets older, it is even more exciting as he knows the words to the carols and also loves to "help" in his own special way.
My favorite tradition has come to be driving up to see my family on Christmas Eve, listening to the radio, a combination of traditional music and parody, and knowing I will be seeing loved ones I see so rarely, if at all, throughout the year. Since my family has always opened presents on Christmas Eve - we're all bad on keeping secrets and waiting to see people be happy, it makes a bright evening even brighter.
I love the way we go about decorating our tree. It must be done after dark, so the lights are especially pretty. We turn off most of the lamps in the room, light a few candles, and put on holiday music. Our two children are in charge of all things aesthetic, and watching their design process is always great fun for my husband and me. Over the years, we've also turned over most of the actual work to them, too. We take a few photos, maybe film a couple of minutes with the video camera, but all in all we just try to enjoy the moment. Hot drinks all around as we admire the results!
Hi ladies,. Merry Christmas to you all!
My favorite tradition has always been reading the book "Gingerbears" on Christmas Eve. Now that I'm all grown up with a little one of my own, I plan to read her this book every year, too. Merry Christmas!
My favourite holiday tradition is playing crokinole. That's what we do after Christmas dinner, and usually several other times throughout the holiday season when family and friends visit.
My husband's Jewish, and I'm completely nondenominational (although my family celebrates a very secular sort of Xmas), so on the years when we don't travel to visit family, we go to the movie theater at the mall on Christmas day and watch two or three movies, and then get Chinese food. It's pretty much my favorite way to spend the holiday.
My favorite holiday tradition is to give each of my children a Christmas ornament or maybe even two every year for Christmas. By the time they left home, they had enough to decorate a small tree. I still continue the tradition with them, but this year I am carrying it to the next generation by giving my new granddaughter her first ornament to start her collection. It's fun to try to find a special ornament that fits with their interests/personalities and/or some special event in their lives.
My favorite holiday tradition is that our immediate family spends the day together. We started it when our daughter was in junior high and the traveling mixed in with the sports schedule just got absurd. And we loved it and have been doing it ever since. We travel to our families other weekends--but not that day. Our daughter who is in a relationship, announced to her SO the other day, the day is sacred.. do what you want, I'm with my folks. I was surprised, I'll take it every year I can get it. Yes, we hunt and take down a balsam fir every year--I just can't get enough of the smell.
Happy Holidays to all.
What is your favorite holiday tradition?
getting socks. My dad started a tradition a few years ago, of giveing all the women holiday decorated socks in our stocking to open at christmas. They are always cheerful, usually sparkly, and definantly something we all look forward to.
I started making Santa cookies with my daughter and my two nieces. I let one of them (oldest first) choose a cookie from my big cookie book, and we make them together. This year is my daughters turn to choose :) We are making chocolate chip oatmeal raisin cookies.