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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 started this tradition when my oldest was about 3. We open one present on Christmas Eve - always PJ's, which the kids wear to bed. Christmas morning we open presents, then eat cinnamon rolls.
The biggest one - we stay home Christmas morning or most of the day. We were tired of traveling when the kids were little. It got to the point it wasn't enjoyable for anyone.
Every year we get each of the kids an ornament of their own. Then when we decorate the tree we start with the kids putting each of their special ornaments in year order on the tree.
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the tree together. We make hot chocolate, cookies and finger foods, crank up some holiday music, pull out our favorite ornaments and go to town!
Our favorite traditions are new pj's on Christmas Eve, reading several Christmas themed bedtime stories while eating shortbread cookies and drinking milk, some of which we leave out for Santa, of course. In the morning the stockings are opened right away and after breakfast the gifts under the tree are taken care of. The rest of the day is spent together playing with all the new toys and things. Actually, most of the day is spent in those new pj's.
My favorite holiday tradition is hanging up the stockings the night before "Christmas" As our family has grown and moved away we no longer celebrate on the day but we always celebrate.
Every year as far back as I can remember my mom and I sit down and string popcorn and cranberries while watching White Christmas. Later we use the strings to decorate the tree and feed the birds outside.
My favorite holiday tradition is baking the cookies on Christmas Eve that we leave out for Santa. Last year, I realized we were out of flour and it was too late to go out and buy some, so me and the girls got on the internet and googled flour free cookies. Before then, I didn't know you could make peanut butter cookies out of basically peanut butter and brown sugar! We had some hershey's kisses, and so we plopped a hershey kiss on top of each cookie before baking it. They turned out pretty good! "Santa" ate them all!
My favorite holiday tradition is Christmas Eve, after we're home from church and the kids are finally in bed (gets later and later the older they get!), my husband and I put the gifts out under the tree, turn out the lights and just enjoy the peace and quiet. The he goes to bed and I sit there a while longer enjoying the peace and quiet, and usually a glass of wine. ;)
My Christmas tree is my favourite tradition. I have a white tree with white lights. and about 500 seashells all painted gold. I have scallop shells the size of a CD all the way down to spiral shells an inch long. At the top is a huge starfish, tied on with organza ribbon. I've done this tree about eight years now and I love it more each year. My daughter did most of the decorating this year, and I think she did a better job than I would have.
Last Christmas was spent driving cross country in an RV from Idaho to Philadelphia after getting married. We left the 23rd, spent Christmas Eve in an emergency room in Nebraska due to an infected hangnail exacerbated by the hottub in the honeymoon suite. Christmas Day our gift to each other was a hot shower in the Flying J truck stop. I really hope *that* doesn't become a tradition!
No real hard-fast Christmas traditions, but we do like to see the Hand Bell concert at a local church and drive around and look at all the lights. Happy Holidays!
My favorite Christmas tradition is hands-down opening stockings Christmas morning and seeing the looks on the kids' faces when they see what Santa has left them under the tree. Other than that, my favorite tradition is making snowflakes with the girls and hanging them from the ceiling everywhere, creating our own special winter wonderland. :) Awesome contest, Sharon! I love reading everyone's responses. Merry Christmas everyone!
My favorite Christmas tradition is when my husband and I put up the tree together. We have bunches of mismatched ornaments that we've collected over the years, and we have fun remembering past years as we decorate the tree. We always have a bottle of champagne chilled that we sip as we decorate. Old Gabe, the Christmas angel gets put on top of the tree first. We've had him since we got married!
Ever since DH and I had celebrated our first Christmas, we've always gotten a dated ornament for the Christmas tree. It's fun hanging them up and seeing how many years we've spent together.
I love watching The Muppet's Christmas Carol and all those classic Christmas specials (Rudolph, Frosty, etc).
We usually try to get to a Christmas service on Christmas Eve. Last year we were in the hospital with our newly born daughter, so we didn't go to church. After church we get to open one present. Christmas morning I let DH sleep as long as I can (if I make it to 8 before presents that's good for me) and then we open presents. After presents we have breakfast and just enjoy the day together.
Every year we play John Lennon's Imagine and Happy Christmas when we start opening presents. It's something my father started with us when we were little kids and now I do it to remember him and include him in the day.
My favorite holiday tradition is decorateing cookies with my daughter and spending Christmas with my family just enjoying each other with no stress of work.
Christmas PJs! The kids open their Christmas PJs on Christmas Eve, and wear them to bed so they have cute festive pajamas for pics on Christmas morning.
There are so many great traditions to choose from; baking cookie, listening to Christmas music while decorating the house, driving to see all the Christmas lights. I could go on and on.
I've lived in South Korea for the past three years and while it's taken a while to get used to things I now love it here. Christmas in SK is for couples though and so my favourite tradition involves a little bit of giving and a little bit of receiving. There's no custom of giving friends gifts here, but I give mine little gift bags usually filled with a mix of stuff from home and things I've cooked. No mean feat considering my "kitchen" consists of one hotplate. One year my gifts were carmex lip balms and Terry's chocolate oranges and the looks on people's faces were priceless. It's so easy to make people here happy. So that's the giving part. The receiving part is I have a relative who every year sends me the most wonderful parcel filled with Christmas gifts - there are always chocolates and a book, but other small surprises, too. It's the only parcel I ever receive and all the more treasured for that. Living back home, I always got a lot of stuff and unfortunately, I can't really distinguish one Christmas from another. For the past three years, Christmas has been special and memorable.
Tradition #1 is watching Charlie Brown's Christmas. I can't recall a year where we didn't watch that!
Tradition #2 since having the children has been baking cookies with Grandpa.
Tradition #3 that I'll be starting this year is baking a birthday cake for Jesus. This year's cake will be an organic marble cake with organic fudge frosting. :)
my faveorite holiday tradition is going to my mom's and ordering take out chinese and watching our collective gaggle of dogs open their pressents.
I enjoy cutting down a Christmas tree with my children and grandchildren and coming home and having hot cocoa and fighting with getting the tree to stand up straight
My favorite tradition is watching all the old Rankin/Bass cartoon specials. Reminds me of my childhood and now my kids are loving them as well.
Happy Holidays!
Every Christmas Eve we have a nice dinner and dessert (I usually make pie) and then everyone gets in their jammies and we snuggle under blankets and watch National Lampoon Christmas Vacation. It's fun!
My favorite tradition is the decorating off our tree. It has a bit of a twist to it, as I don't participate! For the last 10 years, my husband and kids have sent me to bed with a girly movie and a glass of wine. They do all the decorating without me. It keeps my stress level down, and the kids always love it when I act all surprised to wake up the next morning to a decorated tree.
Our favorite holiday tradition is going with my husband's family to a local tree farm to get our tree. The kids sit on Santa's lap afterwards and we have hot chocolate and popcorn.