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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 sitting around the table with my family wrapping tamales. we all take part in putting them together and have a lot of fun telling stories and laughing with one another. making tamales together is a lot of fun in a family as large as mine because everyone works together and no one feels like they're doing too much work.
We start a 2-day Christmas decoration marathon the morning after Thanksgiving. Inside and out. We go all out. The children love to do the tree with Dad, while I do the exterior lights and nativity display. Then we do the mantle with stockings and greenery, then the rest of the house. You can count on it like clockwork.
Merry Christmas!
Each year we celebrate the birth of Jesus with a Polish traditional meal. We have perogies, fish, mushroom soup, and green beans. Before this meal we each take a piece of bread covered in honey, topped with a prune & raw garlic & eat it VERY quickly. ;)
My favorite tradition is popovers. I love making popovers once a year. Yummy. A standing rib roast, potatoes, gravy, veggies and popovers.
Well, we're starting new traditions with our almost-5-year-old daughter (and now our new little boy, 8 weeks old!) Early in the morning, after opening presents and wading through the wrapping paper debris, we sit down as a family to a delicious homemade french toast casserole, taking some time to relax with each other, no presents allowed at the table, before the craziness of travelling to family members' houses ensues! Although next year, I vote we start the tradition of Christmas in Florida with Grandma and Grandpa - nothing like a Christmas stroll on the beach at sunset!
Our Christmas tradition is to go to early evening Mass on Christmas Eve (and it's always 5 degrees out and I used to wear a skirt, but I got tired of frozen ankles and sensibly wear long pants now), then out to a fancy Italian restaurant for dinner. This will be the first time in 22 years that our oldest son won't be with us on Christmas Eve -- but he will be flying in the next morning.
My fave tradition is that we have our big celebration on Christmas Eve, but on Christmas Day we spend the whole day in our jammies playing with our new presents, eating junk and just having a relaxing holiday together. I look forward to it always.
Eggnog. Our family has a secret recipe that has lots of bourbon and cream. Just delicious. I remember as a little kid getting to sip it (with nutmeg on top) out of a silver goblet. I felt so grown up. Nowadays I make it before my in-laws arrive and sip it all through the Christmas prep and cooking. I hate to think of the calories, but it's Christmas only once a year. Wish I could share some with you all!
Our Christmas tradition? Reading the Night Before Christmas, *on* the night before Christmas. Only the version illustrated by Tasha Tudor will do!
Our family does a gift exchange for the siblings on Christmas Eve. These are always the most mysterious looking packages under the tree, and sometimes the funniest.
My favorite Christmas tradition is baking with my mom. We spend the entire week of Christmas making cookies, cakes, and all kinds of goodies. On the few years I haven't made it home for Christmas, it just hasn't felt right.
We're just starting to make our own traditions as a family, so it will be interesting as years come to see what develops!
My favourite one from growing up was the gift giving game. We'd have a stack of little stocking stuffer like gifts wrapped in the centre of the circle. You could choose to take a present or take someone elses present if the dice came up with your seat. By the end of the night every is laughing and have a nice little stack of gifts to open!
I have 3 small kids (under 4 years old), so they're just starting to understand Christmas and that Santa comes. They've been dancing around the tree since we got it a week ago.
My favorite thing we've done so far is to decorate the tree. They got to put the ornaments on, so our tree is conspicuously empty at the top. But they're so proud of their work.
I'm also excited about making cookies with them for them to leave for Santa.
It's all magical this year, because I get to see it through my children's eyes.
I make killer chex mix and it is not a holiday season without at least two or three batches!
If I had to pick a favorite I guess I'd have to say putting up and decorating our Christmas tree. It signals that the Christmas season is *here* and puts the house and us in the Christmas spirit.
My family never really had traditions while growing up, and my own family is young, so this year we're just starting to make some of our own traditions.
My two and a half year old is stoked about making cookies for Santa, and I have to admit, baking and decorating cookies is one of my favorite things about this holiday. (And eating them too!) I hope to make it one of the big exciting things about this season in our home in the years to come. It's a tradition in the making, so hopefully, it counts. :)
My favorite holiday tradition is baking cookies with my sons and decorating them while we watch "It's a Wonderful Life". We've been doing it for almost 25 years!
I love making gingerbread houses with my family while listening to the John Denver/Muppets Christmas album.
My mom's neighbor's Christmas coffee cake. I think because it is the only tradition from my early childhood that still continues.
It's all about the lights for me. When I was a kid, we lived by a monastery/Shrine in Massachusetts that had the most fabulous light displays. Now that I live in the DC area and have young children of my own, we do Zoo Lights in DC, Symphony of Lights in Columbia and the lights at Seneca State Park in Gaithersburg. Light it up!
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating! I love the preparation. First, you have to bake cookies because what else would you eat?! Then first the Christmas CDs. Light a Christmasy smelling candle. Then crack open a bottle of champagne (or two). The champagne and cookies are essential. Then pour of the memories of Christmas' past as you pull each ornament from the box. And then drink some more champagne....
Well, our tradition came about from my husband's side. Christmas Eve his dad (the Polish one of the Sicilian Family!) would make cioppino. My husband has always had to work Christmas Eve, and often I do too. So we have Cioppino on Christmas Day now. Christmas Eve is set aside for Mass, sandwiches, and opening presents from friends. Every year it seems as tho more and more people want some of the cioppino....
One of my favorite traditions from when I was growing up is making Santa Snacks. I remember my brother and I sneaking them for breakfast on Christmas morning. Yum!
What we've started with our own kids is each year they get a new ornament for the tree. It's fun to see what they've gotten from years past when we decorate. We also gather all of our Christmas books and wrap them up individually and for a couple of weeks before Christmas we unwrap one a night and read that for our bedtime story.
Our tradition is to open one present on christmas eve - it was always a really hard choice for me as a kid, and now with my son it takes HOURS for him to pick out which one to open. :)
Happy holidays! Can't wait for my shipment of Mulled Wine!
My favorite Christmas tradition is two-fold. As my children were growing up, they were each given an ornament that reflected something special about their lives in that year. This was given two weeks prior to Christmas when we would decorate our house and tree. AND... Each gift had a handmade tag/paper ornament. Before each gift was opened, the special message was read to everyone and then placed on the tree. Then the gift was opened. These kinds of 'ornaments' accumulated quickly. We strung garland across every doorway and window and hung those paper tags from them. My children are in their 20's now and still remember the ornament/tags that they both received and made. I have suggested that we put them into scrapbooks, but, neither are ready to do that. This still continues to this day.