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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)
Every year, the children and I ride the bus into downtown Seattle, go to the holiday carousel at Westlake Center, and then ride the monorail to Seattle Center, where we visit Winterfest and the Pacific Science Center. This has been a family tradition since my oldest was four and we lived in the middle of nowhere and had no car. We now live in Seattle and my eldest is 15, but my two sons still look forward to it every year.
My favorite family tradition is on Christmas eve we all go over to my in-laws and have a huge family get together. First we have a wonderful spaghetti dinner. Then one of the kids reads the story of the birth of Christ from the family bible. After that we open gifts. Its such a wonderful time with family and friends.
I've always loved Christmas although my family doesn't celebrate it. My husband and I have a favorite tradition to celebrate Hanukkah - we put our holiday gifts under our menorah. It's our version of leaving gifts under a Christmas tree.
My favorite holiday tradition is "The Ride". It's from my husband's family, actually, back from when his parents were kids and needed to have Santa come earlier on Christmas Eve because of his grandfather's work commitments. All the kids would pile into the car, driven around by one of the uncles, and listen to Christmas music while looking at all the pretty lights through town. I still like doing this with my inlaws and plan to do a ride of our own with our three little boys this year.
My favorite tradition is writing Christmas cards. It makes me get in touch with people I may have lost touch with through out the year. It makes me remember all the important people in my life.
Chex Mix!! For some unknown reason, it's the only time of the year we make it. It's gone in a trice, and we swear we'll make more "soon" but it's always the next Christmas! Go figure.
Many years ago, when my now husband and I had just started dating (at that point, only a few weeks!), I came to visit his family on Christmas eve and brought them Peanut Blossom cookies (pb cookies with a kiss in the middle). So, now every Christmas Eve I make those same cookies for my hubs and we exchange handmade ornaments by the light of our big tree. It warms my heart to think about doing that for the rest of our lives.
We have lots of traditions in our family, but the two I love the most are waking up and having Bloody Marys with the family after or during the gift opening and having my Nana's twice baked potatoes, standing rib roast, asparagus, rolls, and Charlotte Rouse for dessert.
Wow, I have to knit those socks!
One of our traditions was to always let the kids open one present on Christmas Eve. It was ALWAYS a set of pajamas! To this day, my daughter says when she gets new pajamas, it feels like Christmas.
making christmas cookies!
My favourite holiday tradition is the tradition my family has for handing out our presents. The tradition is that the youngest child in the family hands them out. My 3 year old son will be up to the job this year (last year and he was non-compliant and the year before he wasn't walking) so the tradition will be even more special for me :)
Ooh, holiday traditions. I have to pick one? Well, my favorite holiday tradition surrounds going to the tree farm to cut down our tree. It's always a big outing where my parents meets us there-and this year we met with friends at the farm as well. We traipse around and, when we find and cut our perfect tree, we cut it down and shout "timber" like a group of silly, happy fools. Once we've got our trees we come over for a big, hot breakfast at my house so we can warm up both our hearts and bodies. This year, the excitement was doubled because my little one was was so excited about the Christmas tree. She's only 18 months but loves that tree and learned to say "Christmas tree" the day we cut it down. I love the magic of the holidays more now because I get to see her find the magic.
My favorite holiday tradition is putting up our Christmas tree with all the ornaments that we have collected through the years.
My favorite holiday tradition is two-fold: making holiday cards and baking gingersnaps (and a rotating selection of other cookies) with my sister :o)
My favorite holiday tradition is getting together christmas eve at my parents. We bake cookies and snacks for the men and of course a huge dinner and we also exchange gifts.
My favorite holiday tradition is sitting with my family on Christmas morning and unwrapping gifts. Nothing special, but I LOVE to watch my kiddos faces as they see all their new toys and shrug at the clothes they get! hehe.
I feel lucky and blessed to have such a simple pleasure in life. :)
My favorite holiday tradition is only a few years old. Since a big piece of the holidays is about music for me, this event is a favorite.We have been getting together with three other families (eight adults and ten kids total) for an evening of dinner followed by singing and playing Christmas carols. It was just this past Saturday night; we had two cellos, a viola, two flutes, two trumpets, an oboe and a glockenspiel to accompany the singing. We came up with new ideas about alternating verses (so the singers weren't always trying to sing over the brass) and just had a rollicking good time. We started joking that next year we should record a CD!
My favorite holiday tradition is having Christmas eve celebrations with friends, not family. It makes us remember to include people that may not have family around. It also gives us a great break from too-much-family-itis.
Christmas eve dinner is Kentucky Fried Chicken. We eat the dinner, then open our gifts. It's the only time of the year we get KFC.
I love watching all the TV shows like Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman... we can't put up a tree because our cats climb it and by Yule morning all the ornaments are knocked off. My husband and I walk Christmas Lane, a part of town where everyone goes through extreme decorations. I am also one of the rare people who LOVE fruit cake and can't wait until that starts showing up on store shelves. My mom, every year, used to make fruit cake and send me a loaf or two. She is tired and has dementia now so I don't get her home made fruit cake (which is the best) but the tradition stays with me.
My favorite holiday tradition is simple, but special. When I Set up the nativity set each year, I always leave baby Jesus out. On Christmas Eve I go to midnight service alone (my daughter's too young and my husband has to stay with her) and return to a dark, warm home. I turn teh light son the three, place baby Jesus in the nativity and say prayers. Then it's off to bed for the night, calm and peaceful.
My favorite tradition is writing & sending Christmas cards. I love to remember some things from the past year and share them with special friends & family.
My favorite tradition is a fairly new one that I adopted from my partner whose done it all her life - we celebrate St. Nick's night. It's when we exchange our stockings and listen to Christmas music and drink hot chocolate. It such a nice, quiet, sweet time for us. Love it!
My favorite holiday tradition is taking the kids to see Christmas lights each year. There is a place near our house that has lights, camel and donkey rides and Christmas activities. It's always freezing but the kids love it!
My favorite tradition is midnight mass which is actually at 10 PM.