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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 getting dressed up for Christmas Eve Mass and going with all my siblings and neices and nephews. It's been exciting every year to see how our family has grown. I also love baking cookies.
We have a Christmas eve tradition of eating Italian food. When I was llittle I would not eat turkey, stuffing, gravy or any of the other foods that we had on Christmas day. My Mom spoiled me by starting the Christmas eve tradition for me of making her delicious spaghetti sauce and stuffed shells. 40 years later and she is still making it! What a great tradition!
My favorite tradition is cuddling with my sisters until the appointed hour of 7 am on Christmas morning. We would giggle and sing silly songs in anticipation of opening our gifts. I'm sure we woke our parents up every year.
For years I've played the Nutcracker Suite on Christmas morning, and dined on chips and onion dip after we open our presents. Don't ask why or how - my family just laughs, and I've been doing it for 37 years:-)
My favourite tradition is getting new pyjamas from my MIL; every Christmas Eve each of the kids and grandkids gets new PJs. Since purchasing new PJs is pretty far down on my list of spending priorities (hello yarn!) it's great to know that once a year I get a specially-picked-out-for-me set.
my favorite tradition is putting up the tree at my own house. normally i spend christmas with my best friend and my godsons so i miss out on my tree for the week. but this year, i'm home and enjoying my tree and all the decorations at home.
plus the cookies aren't that bad either.. or peppermint bark or or or.. =)
Ours is a little cliche and rather recent actually. My older daughter suggested we start reading 'Twas the Night Before Christmas as a family on Christmas Eve over hot cocoa, so that my youngest daughter would have memories of special traditions in our family of me and my three kids.
I think it is incredibly sweet that a teenager wanted to build holiday traditions for her sister who is 13 years younger.
Getting to open one present each on Christmas eve (normally PJs to wear that night)
watching old movies and relaxing on the deck with a glass of wine (it's summer here) while the kids play in the garden
My favorite tradition is making and decorating cookies each Christmas. We'd often have neighborhood kids stop by to help and they'd get to take their cookies home with them. We have one special sugar cookie recipe we use to decorate then we would often choose another cookie recipe to make from the "recipe books" that our mother made for us. She would buy three copies of magazines and cut out Christmas cookie, cake, and pie recipes then paste them on to paper and put them into three ring binders. That way, we all had copies of the recipes to pass down in the family.
I have two holiday traditions, one with my family and another with my fiance's family.
My mom and I spend a day baking goodies galore and make plates for neighbors and friends. Then my dad and I trek through whatever the Michigan winter weather may bring (this year-18 inches of snow) to deliver them.
On Christmas Eve, after a candle-light church service and family dinner we all settle in for the Muppet's Christmas Carol.
One Christmas Tradition is the Christmas Pickle. My I hide the glass pickle ornament deep into the Christmas tree and then my boys come out and the first one to find the pickle ornament receives an extra gift. The gift is usually a game the entire family can enjoy together. This tradition was passed down from my grandparents. It is one the boys to forward to every Christmas Morning.
Every year we bake all of our favorite cookies. Seems like I am baking for days on end. On Christmas Eve we go to the family christmas service, then come home and hang stockings. After the kids are in bed, the rest of the presents are wrapped, stockings are stuffed. On Christmas morning we take turns reading the Christmas story from Luke before opening presents. Then the gift unwrapping frenzy begins. If only I could wrap them as quickly as they unwrap them
We have a neighborhood tradition. We make and distribute luminaries for the neighborhood. We start at 7am Christmas eve filling bags with sand and candles. The kids ride on the back of pick up trucks and set them out. When the sun goes down the whole neighborhood lights up.
Our favorite tradition is making a batch of hot mulled cider and playing Christmas music while everyone helps decorate the tree and put up lights in the living room. No TV and no cell phones allowed.
Our other tradition is my daughters are allowed to open one gift on Christmas Eve. After 17 years they both know it will be pj's and look forward to new pj's for the morning pictures.
Hmmmm, this is tough. I HATE the holiday season so coming up with a favorite tradition isn't easy for me!
I guess I would have to say that my favorite tradition is baking cookies for gifts - but I have not been able to do it for years now, so I hope that will count!
I think my new favorite can be the Holiday Giveaway Extravaganza Spectacular Spectacle :) There you go!
** (and thank you for doing this, it is very generous of you guys!!)
We have many, but one favorite is to dress the children in warm pajamas, and give them cocoa and a candy cane to enjoy while we drive around to look at Christmas lights. We also listen to seasonal music in the car. :)
My family always gets together at my Mom's house on Christmas Eve. After dinner, we have our annual "Weapons of Mass Destruction" battle. (Hear me out...lol.) Early in December, my Mom goes to the dollar store and buys a bunch of toy weapons...dart guns, blow guns, etc.. She wraps them and puts them in a big bag and we all get to pick one after Christmas Eve dinner. You don't know what it'll be till you open it. As soon as she says, "GO!", we all tear into the packages and proceed to shoot each other silly. Sounds insane, but it's so much fun and we look forward to the epic battle each year. :-)
Our favorite tradition is baking the cookies you roll out and cut, then decorate with colored icing and sprinkles. It's not only because they are so good, and that it's fun and creative. The best part is the time spent with the family talking and laughing and comparing our various gingerbread mens' "clothing." It's something we've done every year since I can remember, and it never loses its charm.
My oldest son and his wife are both young doctros doing their residencies, which menas that they do not get Christmas day off (no seniority). Instead, they fly out to visit for New Years. Realizng this is the way things will be for the next few years, we established a new tradition last year. We have a "cook off". What this means is everyone gets a partner (with 5 kids, spouses, girlfriends, and extended family there are lots of participants) and they all have to come up with a part of the meal. We had a blast last year! The kitchen was a disaster zone, but it was a great time. It was fun to see the different dishes that the pairs made.
Our family holiday tradition is dinner with one half of the family on Christmas Eve, seafood galore and making sure not to touch anything in the living room so my Aunt wouldn't have a coronary, then the trading of the gift cards because no one ever knows what to give the other people! Then my aunt goes through her presents and immediately re gifts what she doesn't want to whoever was there. Then on Christmas day we go to the other half of the family, the food is usually fried chicken and greens and corn bread, then rescuing the dried out tree from catching on fire from the lights we thought we threw out the year before!
We make awful looking (but yummy tasting) Christmas cookies every year. It's even more fun now that I have a toddler who wants to help decorate them ;). Also, the stockings seem to have evolved into our favorite part of Christmas morning. We go all out with stocking stuffers :). Then we open presents and laze around for the rest of the day and conclude with a huge turkey dinner. *sigh* Can't wait!
My favorite tradition is our family Chanukah party. We play a take on blackjack called Kvitlech (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvitlech) and eat traditional donuts, sufganiyot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufganiyah). And talk and laugh and catch up.
My favorite holiday tradition? It's good luck for your first visitor of the year to be a dark haired man, so my husband always walks out the door after midnight and comes back in. I don't know if that qualifies for the superstition, but it's fun. Also, one of the kids each year has to wear the santa hat to pass out the presents. It's fun! If the kids are younger and can't read, my husband prints out little pictures of the gift recipients, and all they have to do is match picture to person. I love seeing all these traditions! There's some great ideas here.
Our favorite tradition, because we do it with friends each year, is a hay ride through a neighborhood where most homes decorate for Christmas. The city helps on the big trees and it is amazing to see the different decorations, colors and lights each year. Residents come up with the most clever ideas in Winterhaven.
Over the years, we've developed our own traditions in addition to keeping some from our families of origin. So, we still have subs for Christmas Eve lunch, we still make the pfefferneuse and celebrate St. Nicholas on December 5, and we still go to church on Christmas Eve. But we also make sure to go to Elizabeth Farms to take a horse drawn wagon ride to the fields to find the perfect Christmas tree, listen to Lessons and Carols from England, and have beef bourginon for our Christmas dinner.