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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 newest and becoming my favourite tradition is giving my children the knit gift of their choice. My eldest daughters (4 and 3) for the past couple of years have found a toy pattern in a knitting book or come up with their own fantastic ideas and asked me to knit them for Christmas. I have only recently taken up knitting and so at first I thought this was quite the challenge but I have knit chickens and chicks, ducks and ducklings, unicorns, monsters and cupcakes! I love giving them hand knit gifts, even though it isn't much of a surprise! So far this traditions beats the cookie making, tree trimming and the Christmas eve walk we do, to look at all the lights!
My favorite tradition is decorating the tree, we make hot chocolate and play music and all have a fun time, I look forward to it every year.
My twin boys (almost 7) and I make Christmas ornaments out of construction paper, geegaws (our word), sparkles and whatever else strikes us as pretty. Pretty, of course, changes with the age. this year we even made styrofoam balls and toothpicks into ornaments and have glued plastic animals and babies to paper and hung those. Our tree is rather eccentric.
My favorite Christmas tradition is our Christmas Eve dinner. As a child, my mother would make clam chowder every Christmas Eve. Now that I have a family of my own, I get to make it for them. Followed by frosting sugar cookies for Santa. My son talks about this for weeks before the actual event. I love that he is just as excited about making cookies and decorating them, as he is about presents. The recipes have been handed down throgh my mothers side of the family and I'm honored to be able to carry on that tradition to my kids.
My favorite Christmas tradition is singing carols with our girls. When they were little we'd all 4 (hubby, me & 2 girls) sing carols all the hour and a half long drive to Grandma's. The girls are grown and have children of their own, but when we get together on Christmas one will start singing and the rest will join in. Truly, I think it's our girls' favorite tradition too!
Happy Holidays to All of You! And a Healthy New Year!
My favorite tradition is picking out new ornaments. Each year the whole family gets to pick out one that is "them". I love decorating the tree each year remembering the year we went to Disney, when the girls were into princesses, when they were into soccer, etc. All of the items are reflection of them at a time in their lives. Mine are usually glittery.....I'm attracted to shiny objects ;)
My favorite holiday tradition is cooking foods that my grandmothers made when I was a child for the holidays. I want my children to be able to experience the joy that I experienced as a child at Christmas and food was such a central part of our time together.
My favorite Holiday tradition is our family party, which is held about a week prior to Christmas. My immediate family (brothers, mother) rarely gets together, so when we do it is special. It's a quiet get-together, but it's special because we are together. This year I hosted (we take turns!) so it was even more special. It's been a tough year for a variety of reasons, so having "Christmas" at our house this year felt especially, well, special.
My favorite Christmas tradition is family. The day we celebrate Christmas changes from year to year, but getting the whole family together is the best part. And when we are opening presents we always have to listen to the Cabbage Patch Christmas album.
We do a ton of baking. My kids favorite after the cookies is homemade Parker House Rolls. The entire house smells so nice. We also spend the day watching our favorite Christmas movies starting with A Christmas Story. Then we end the day with a visit to the town square to see the lights.
Our holiday traditions have changed a lot as us kids all moved out and stuff, but we do always make time to gather together. Growing up, my parents had great albums with holiday music that we played while we decorated the tree and sat in front of the fire.
My favorite old tradition is how my brother and I have always been allowed to open our stocking before our parents wake up. Presents have to wait until a set time, but stockings were left on the stairs and we could get them as soon as we woke up. Since I've never been able to sleep at all on Christmas Eve (finally started to get a little sleep about 3 years ago) this used to happen at about 4:30 or 5 in the morning. And there would always be some small puzzle or something to help hold us over for another 2 hours.
My favorite new tradition is that we started going out to dinner on Christmas Eve. 6 or 7 years ago my Mom decided it was too exhausting to cook big meals two days in a row. So we decided to go to a DC inn called the Tabard Inn. We've gone every year since. It is fantastic and they always remember us even though it's usually the only time each year that we go there. It's such a cozy spot that it feels like eating at home, without the cooking and cleaning up.
Tradition?
Besides frantically running around cleaning like a homicidal maniac because no one ever comes to my house any other time of the year?
I make rugelach. Lots and lots of rugelach.
(By the way, you know when my browser spell checks 'rugelach' it comes up with 'archangel'. Sweet.)
Love to everyone-- that's my main tradition. From the heart.
Peace ~ fey
My favorite holiday tradition started when I married my husband. My family always opened presents on Christmas morning, but his family always opened them on Christmas Eve. I very happily adopted his family's tradition ~ and every year even though I am a grown adult I gleefully feel like a little kid opening presents a night too early. It's the best!
My favorite Christmas tradition is taking the kids to the Christmas Eve service at church and watching them in their angel and shepherd costumes in the pageant. Then we drive home the long way looking at all the lights and they open a present before going to bed :)
My favorite holiday tradition is evening walks to look at Christmas lights with my family. (this is way more fun now that I live in South Florida rather than trudging through snow!) My husband and our dogs love to stroll through all the neighborhoods and enjoy all the colorful displays throughout town.
My favorite tradition is getting the kids new jammies for Christmas eve. I don't announce it or anything, they just appear on the kids' beds. They have fun guessing where they came from; was it an early visit from Santa? Did the elves sneak away from the workshop and drop them off? Fairies? The dog? I don't admit it being me, but don't outright deny it either. So fun!
In our house, Christmas Eve is a bigger deal than Christmas. The whole family comes to my mom's house (from both sides, even though my parents have not been together for over 20 years). We sit in front of the fireplace chatting and catching up, mom cooks a big dinner, and we open presents. Then, when everyone goes home, the immediate family opens all the gifts under that tree (that we used to open on Christmas morning as kids) and drink Bailey's.
My family has Italian heritage and my favorite tradition at Christmas is all the wonderful food! We do the seven fish Christmas Eve dinner and my mom, aunt and I all make at least 7-10 different types of Italian christmas cookies. I'm in charge of "tarole" - an Italian pastry recipe that's been handed down in our family. It's kind of tricky and it takes about 2 months to prepare the filling so it's ready for Christmas. It's just makes Christmas special (and delicious!).
My favorite holiday tradition is to EAT! I love trying all the various foods that people make for the holidays.
My favorite Christmas tradition is the huge breakfast we all enjoy on Christmas morning once the gifts have all been opened. We have eggs, bacon, sausage, biscuits and gravy, and lots of fun. I will always treasure the memories of all of our breakfasts together as a family and how blessed we are to have each other.
I hope you and your family have a blessed and happy holiday season.
My favorite tradition is baking & decorating cookies. Both of my kids just love this. It take about 2 hrs but they plug along until they are all done!!
Our favourite tradition is to have the family watch Polar Express on Christmas Eve. We never get tired of watching such a wonderful movie.
We have tried to create some different traditions for our son than what we grew up with. We make a non-traditional Christmas Eve dinner...Fettucini Alfredo with Smoked Salmon. We open a couple of presents on Christmas Eve and go to Church and then we open more presents on Christmas morning followed by Belgian Waffles. We don't do Christmas cookies but we do have other favorites that we try to have each year. We also love to give the dog the wrapping paper to shred...he loves that and he loves to destroy (terrorize his Christmas presents) so that is part of the fun as well. The hardest part is being away from extended family. We either travel which means we can't do our small family traditions or we stay home and miss our grandparents,sibblings, cousins and friends. The Blessings and the bittersweet!
We have three books that we read every Christmas Eve. Winnie the Pooh's Christmas, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and a Mickey Mouse version of The Night Before Christmas. We started when my son was a baby. He's 16 now, and he still listens. I don't know if he's enjoying it, or if he's just humoring me, but either way, we still do it. (I hope he's enjoying it!)
Debbie