It's here! It's here! Giveaway day hosted by Sew, Mama, Sew.
What do I have up for grabs? A fat quarter bundle of Art Gallery fabrics by Patricia Bravo: Modern Affair. There are a total of 9 fabrics in this bundle.
The winner will be chosen randomly and yes, international entries are welcomed! Giveaway closes December 16 at 5:00 pm PST.
To win, leave me a comment telling me what holiday family tradition you favor. Please be sure to have a way for me to contact you if you are a winner (either a visible e-mail on your profile page or leave one with your comment.) I don't want anyone missing out just because they forgot to leave a way for me to contact them!
Good luck and thanks for stopping by!!
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I love baking Santa cookies on Christmas Eve.
Making gingerbread houses with my family.
We always cut down a christmas tree from the forest. I love that tradition.
We all (Dad included) paint our toenails red and green.
We always go see The Nutcracker.
I am trying to create new traditions that my little ones will enjoy and remember
I am joining in with this give away day, so pop over to my blog and say hello if you get the chance
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I love having the family all get together and watch the little ones open their gifts.
The kiddos get matching Christmas jammies every year. They get to open them on Christmas Eve and it's fun to see them in the same pj's the next day opening their presents.
I love making wrapping paper with my littles this year we will be making sweets together too.
We don't really have traditions but I love putting up the tree it makes me feel so festive.
One of my favorite Christmas traditions is having hot chocolate by the tree just after we finish decorating it. sewvery(at)gmail(dot)com
I love Christmas Eve dinner with all of my family.
We go to a carol service with the children about a week before Christmas. It gets everyone in the Christmas spirit!
We get everyone a new ornament either signifying something they did over the year (a school house for my daughter who started school) or something they like (an Elmo for the baby). We open them on Christmas Eve so they get to be on the tree for Christmas morning. It's awesome to see the collection and our family grow up!
We like celebrating Advent, reading the Christmas Story and attending our parish church for the Christmas seasons.
I am from Barcelona and my favourite tradition is the Caga Tió...during all december the children must "feed" a log that we have tunned (we draw him a face, put a blanket over him...) and on christmas eve they sing a song and hit the log with a stick so the log can pooh...it's obvious that what the children get are presents and sweets!
I know it may sound strange but it's very funny!
Having our own little birthday party for Jesus with a cake and candles.
My husband and I travel out of state each year to visit family. Thank You for the give away.
skowens (at) sbcglobal (dot) net
I love gathering with family and playing games and making lots of laughter.
I get a new ornament every year for each of my children and mark them with their name and the year so when they move out they have their own set of ornaments.
ramona_murray(at)comcast(dot)net
I love the advent calendar and we always read a christmas story on christmas eve
My favorite tradition is riding downtown on the bus to do Christmas shopping!
j_poshusta@yahoo.com
What beautiful fabrics!
My favourite tradition is hanging all the handmade or bought-with-love ornaments on the Christmas tree. And putting up the hand cross stitched stockings my mother in law made for all five of our children!
soulrunner(at)hotmail(dot)ca
I love our advent calendar. Thanks for the giveaway!
I love picking out and cutting down our own christmas tree every year.
We are lucky. We live near DC so we always visit the National tree on the ellipse as well as viewing the Renaissance art of Christ's birth at the National Gallery.
deborahbullock6618@gmail.com
Christmas Eve service with the entire family.
I love the tradition of making Christmas cookies with the grandchildren. Thanks for the chance to win.
My mom always makes French toast for the family before we open presents. It's always a great way to enjoy time with the family.
My favorite holiday tradition is putting the baby Jesus in the manger to start Christmas day
I Loved getting to open a gift on Christmas eve and Setting out Cookies for Santa and Carrots for the Raindeer! Thanks for the chance to win!! Have a great day,
A
trimming the tree together
I love to spend Christmas with my family. We don't celebrate traditional holidays. Thanks for the chance to win:)
We always spent Christmas eve at my grandparents housel and the angel would leave change under the tablecloth for the kids.
We decorate the tree as a family.
my favorite tradition with family is Christmas dinner. About a month before we send out an email for menu requests, everyone cooks, we eat and laugh. It doesn't get any better.
My favorite tradition is that we have tacos for dinner on Christmas Eve
We do a Chinese Christmas at my aunt's house. We get really sneaky taking each others gifts. Tons of fun!
Watching the Muppet Christmas Carol movie with my family ever Christmas Eve :) I can't wait for this year!
Great giveaway--thanks for the chance! I love having pizza for Christmas Eve dinner.
When we're home for the holidays, my sisters and I like to have a holiday-themed movie marathon. We watch a bunch of our feel-good favorites, like Love Actually and The Holiday! We do this year after year with many of the same movies, but it never gets old!
Thanks for the chance to win your giveaway!
We decorate the tree together. Taking turns and reminisicing about when favorites were bought or given to us. Fun start to the holiday.
Frosting cut out cookies around the kitchen table with the family!
arbendlin(at)gmail(dot)com
What a nice giveaway! Our favorite holiday tradition is making Christmas cookies with the kids & my husband-who is a better baker than I.
Tammi
songsiren1@yahoo.com
I like how we're all responsible for buying little special stocking stuffers for people. It takes the job away from parents and we get to buy something for each person without spending lots of money. Thanks for being a part of giveaway day. erincode-at-metzlers-dot-org.
i love it that santa only brings stocking stuffers at our house - it never goes overboard, and the kids love the little things he leaves for them. :)
great giveaway!
bess
One of my favourite family traditions is doing a big jigsaw puzzle over the holidays.
My favourite holiday tradition is watching White Christmas with my mum while eating junk food! Best!
We go to a movie on Christmas day as a family.
I love that my Dad reads the Polar Express on Christmas Eve
I love Christmas caroling! I can't always get my family to do it, but when we do, it is often my favorite part of Christmas.
we do a kris kringle gift exchange with the family, but not only do you have to buy a gift, but you also have to make a funny poem or skit to go with it...it adds a whole other dimension to gift giving :)
cberends81 (at) yahoo (dot) com
I love baking Christmas cookies with my family. I get to taste test lots of cookies and bond with the family...a win win situation in my book!
Driving around to see Christmas lights and watching Christmas movies at night.
Christmas Dinner - standing rib roast and Yorkshire pudding. Thanks for the giveaway! Merry Christmas!
Fave is the family Xmas day dinner! every1 together:)
I love watching my children decorate the Christmas tree with all of our special ornaments.
My kids get new christmas pajamas each year. Then Christmas morning, we try to take turns opening gifts to try to enjoy everyone opening their gifts too.
we always play games.
imisswaylon@hotmail.com
My favorite holiday tradition is actually Thanksgiving where we all go to my son's in-laws house,
My family puts old thrippences in the christmas pudding and then buys them back around the table for however many you have in your slice!
Giving to charity.
Ever since the kids were little they would be allowed to wake us in the morning on Christmas day and pile onto our bed to open their Santa stockings. It is the only day of the year they are allowed to wake me!! I just love seeing the joy on their faces.
We have a simple tradition of always starting the day with hot coffees before anyone opens a present :)
Beautiful fabric! Thanks for the chance to win. When the kids were little, they would bring their Santa sacks into our room and we'd all sit on the bed opening presents.
My fav tradition is setting up the tree with the family. I am thinking of setting up a new tradition though. I am thinking since I have been teaching my self to sew, I am thinking of using the scraps to make a quilt block each year. And when I have enough for a quilt, sew them all together for a giant project memory quilt.
Baking and decorating the tree. I would love to start a new one of giving each of my kids a new pair of pajamas, but I will have to get much more organized first!
Christmas Eve church is my favorite. froggygirldesigns at gmail dot com
My favorite tradition is making special cookies for special people. Those deliveries are the BEST!!! Thanks for the wonderful giveaway - I love the fabric you selected!
when the husbands and wives exchange ornaments on christmas eve
My favorite is decorating the tree!
My favorite tradition is sitting on the couch with some nog watching the kids decorate the tree. They're so young and they give it their all. Our tree always looks a little odd, but it is always done with love.
I love all the baking and cooking together as a family for neighbors and friends.
My favorite tradition is to walk around the neighbourhood to look at all the christmaslights. It brightens up a very dark month here in Sweden. Thanks for a great giveaway!
We don't really do traditions! Or does baking a fruitcake count?
Every year on december 27th my sisters and I and our families come over to our parents. I love that.
Silke
schellersilke@web.de
My favorite tradition is eating dim sum on Christmas morning. :)
My favorite holiday tradition is baking cookies. I just love it! Thank you for the generous giveaway - the fabric is lovely :)
asewingjournal@gmail.com
We light our advent candles every night during dinner.
mindfulhome at gmail dot com
My family gets together for breakfast, opens presents, and parties through supper-time! We love spendin time together.
Thank you for sharing those beautiful fabrics! Christmas baking, coocies and cakes are very important and so much fun!
nerospostatgmaildotcom
Best holiday tradition: Board games with the family and way too much food.
I like buying ornaments when I travel so that when I dress the tree it brings all the memories back.
I don't want to miss the candlelight Christmas Eve service and singing carols.
wilkcj04 at hotmail dot com
Love decorating the tree
The tree and the dinner together with my parents.
We watch xmas movies each night,(starting three nights before christmas) Everyone looks forward to watching old favourites. Thank you for the chance in the giveaway :)
I love to make gingerbread houses!
opening one present on Christmas Eve and then the rest on Christmas morning while drinking eggnog and listening to carols.
We love driving around looking at lights together
Our family is large...our parents, us 3 siblings, our 15 kids(only 3 are mine!), and 36 grandchildren (only 1 is mine, darn it). We're scattered, literally, from coast to coast, and that doesn't even count in the multitudes of our cousins. All of us light a candle at the same time on Christmas Eve, so we're together in spirit, if not in person. I love this tradition, and I hope all the kids continue it, long after we're gone.
My fave hoiday tradition is going on a after dinner walk through the neighborhood with all the lumminaries lit. Just magical....
Rocio H. thisbe31(at)yahoo(dot)com
Every since I wa sa kid, our family got together on Christmas Even night and did a jigsaw puzzle together. We would always try to stay up as late as it took to get it done. We would end up falling asleep and my mom would stay up all night finishing it up and telling us that Santa couldn't resist a good puzzle and had finished it for us. :) I do this with my kids now.
Thanks!
Favorite tradition is to dance around the christmastree ☺
our family tradition is to make a ginormous bowl of homemade caramel corn!
My favorite tradition is reading the story of Jesus birth before opening the presents.
mframe00@gmail.com
Baking day, when everyone's home and that's all we do. Lot's of mess and laughter, perfect. Thanks.
we love to bake all kinds of goodies!
Our is getting a special ornament each year that we display on a separate little metallic tree. It reminds us of all we have been lucky enough to do in our years together.
thanks for the giveaway!
ewholihan@emc.org
My favorite tradition is having a special breakfast casserol after opening presents on Christmas morning.
Thanks,
Erin
emstone28@gmail.com
We have a tradition of reading the night before Christmas on CHristmas eve.
It's a little thing but my mother makes cranberry fudge for Christmas Eve (and only Christmas Eve) and it's the most delicious thing ever. Thank you for the lovely giveaway. kcarlson1152[at]hotmail.com
Reading the story of Jesus birth on Christmas morning. :) Thanks for the chance to win!
okiedokiemama at yahoo dot com
I favor the tradition of giving the kids a new and special ornament every year. I have those from when I was a kid and they are all so special.
Thank you for the chance at a lovely giveaway. :)
Watching the Christmas movies on TV.
Homemade waffles for breakfast Christmas morning. Yum!
Baking cookies... and eating them! Thanks for the chance to win beautiful fabrics!
We love to open presents together. The kids are allowed to open one present only when they first get up, without having to wait for everyone.
Baking cookies is my favorite - but I think I will start a new tradition this year of Christmas PJs to open on Christmas Eve. Thanks for the chance to win! ryansarahn(at)gmail.com
Such pretty fabric! I just love opening the presents Christmas morning!
What a great giveaway. Thanks for participating. My favorite holiday tradition is keeping church first and singing on Christmas Eve in the choir.
I give my daughters a new ornament each year, to build a collection for when they have homes of their own. ellen@myerly.net
We don't celebrate the holidays but have a family tradition of a family anniversary, this way the whole family gets to celebrate the anniversary together. Balloons are the biggest part!
I started a new tradition last year of making pj's for my children and giving them to them on Christmas Eve (makes a great photo op too, all in their matching pj's!)
Cheers!
We always open PJs as the first present on Christmas Eve. It's a tradition I plan on keeping with my kids!
I love to decorate our Christmas tree while listening to Handel's Messiah. It puts me in the right frame of mind.
Lovely material!
My mom used to always give me a box of chocolate covered cherries for Christmas. Now my son gives me a box every year to sort of carry on the tradition.
I love cutting down our own tree each year!
We eat crab & watch the kids open presents on Christmas eve!
loreew at pacbell dot net
Every year we each open one small gift on Christmas Eve, after dinner!
Our favorite family tradition over the holidays is to make fancy jams and candies to share with friends and family on Christmas day.
Thanks for sharing!
I love to make sweets with my Mom :D
Thanks for the chance!
My favorite part of the holidays is the big family dinner with too much food.
We have an appetizer meal for Christmas with the family. It's fun to try so many different foods at one time. thanks for a chance to win! :)
I love having all my family around in my gradmas house. Eating Lebkuchen and enjoying Christmas CDs.
Susanne
I love playing games with the family - we do this every year. (after gifts and food of course)
cried2dream(at)gmail.com
We love singing Christmas carols.
Sitting around in the light of Christmas lights, drinking hot cocoa and just talking without having to hurry anywhere.
It's not too late to make one is it..we have no really obvious ones but it maight be nice to try to find one..the only one that comes to mind are the chocolates..same ones since I was a child, and I am beginning to appreciate the value of tradition, it brings things like a sense of continuity and safety and love..so it may be worth preserving or even establishing a new one for those reasons.
I love that the whole family meets up on christmas eve.
Eating Guatemalan style tamales while opening gifts on Christmas morning. The best...
We eat waffles on Christmas Eve and have since we were little. Thanks for the opportunity.
What a great prize you are offering. I enjoy the tree decorating with the family and the relaxed dinner in front of the tv latter on
I like wrapping the home made caramels my dad makes. Lots of chatter goes down at the table.
GORGEOUS fabrics - thank you for the opportunity!
My favorite holiday tradition is watching the Christmas Story in bits and pieces with my dad throughout the day. We leave it on all day and just catch snippets between events; by the end of the day, we've usually seen the whole thing!
betsygerding[at]gmail[dot]com
Dates wrapped in bacon and baked in the oven. delicious.
jowynj(at)blueyonder(dot)co(dot)uk
Our favorite holiday tradition is decorating gingerbread houses. They are the semi premade ones you buy at Trader Joe's, which takes a lot of the work out of making them so we can focus on the fun! Thanks for the chance- these fabrics are beautiful. Merry Christmas!!
We wrap up all our christmas books, and use them like an advent calendar with a new book each night
Lovely fabric! My favorite tradition is baking holiday goodies together with my mom and sister. :)
aldara at gmx dot net
our holiday tradition is christmas eve with the whole family.... eating visiting and wearing the kids out!
After Chistmas dinner my aunt and her husband have the tradition of showing the photos of his summer trips. It's nice to «travel» to Senegal, for example, before giving our gifts one to each others :)
We always eat for hours and open presents on christmas eve as most people in Germany.
We love making gingerbread houses! Thanks for the chance!
Karaoke with my family.
Thanks for the generous giveaway and a chance to win!
What a beautiful selection of fabrics for the giveaway - thanks! My favorite tradition is the extended family poetry recitation on Christmas Eve. Everyone, young and old, memorizes and recites a poem... Been doing it for years, and it is always a favorite!
I love everything about the Holidays, the tree, baking, decorating, seeing family and friends. thank you for a wonderful giveaway
we open one gift on xmas eve (usually new pj's) and eat fondue and watch a christmas story!
thanks for the wonderful offer!
baboatman (at) yahoo (.com)
My favorite tradition is to bake with my childres
Decorating the Christmas tree and drinking coffee/hot cocoa.
We love to decorate gingerbread houses. This year we may even venture to a train...
Watching my favorite Christmas movies like Elf and It's a Wonderful Life on a cold snowy night with a hot cup of tea!
I love baking Christmas cookies with my kids to give away to people we love.
Thanks and Merry Christmas!
winterwrens at gmail dot com
I love reading Christmas and holiday stories aloud to my kids.
I like baking cookies with my daughter and hubby trying to eat them all! Thank you for a great giveaway!
Decorating christmas tree!
My favorite tradition is Christmas stockings. I do them for my kids and I still get one at my parents' house.
We go to church on Christmas eve for a candlelight service. It is very special and the children love it.
beth(dot)sebastian(at)gmail(dot)com
I love Art Gallery fabric!
We all enjoy driving around as a family looking at the lights on all the houses.
seeing luminarias on christmas eve!
I love looking at the Christmas lights with my kids.
We love St. Lucias day and hot coffee and cinnamon rolls in the morning. thanks for the lovely giveaway.
My favourite tradition is walking around our neighbourhood looking at the Christmas lights. They make me happy :)
We have a Jesse tree we do every day during advent
Love the tree decorating. Happy holidays
So pretty! We love to go the Christmas tree lighting in our downtown each year. Thanks for the giveaway. :)
The Christmas Eve Candlelight Service is my favorite tradition.
My favorite Christmas tradition is attending the Christmas Eve candlelight service. Then spending time with our 30+ family members for the rest of the night. So much fun!
My favorite tradition is decorating the tree! Love to put the kids homemade ornaments on it!
Baking xmas cookies!
We always go to my ILs; Santa comes to visit every year!
Baking christmas cookies together. heatherkowens (at) yahoo dot com
We don't do Christmas at our house, but I do love baking.
My favorite tradition is visiting family.
love watching elf, or christmas story on xmas eve night, decorating gingerbread houses/trains is another fun tradition.
We do our big family dinner on December 26 so help draw it out a little bit more. We've been doing this for years!
We cook for Christmas Eve then eat leftovers on Christmas!
I love decorating up the Xmas tree! Thank you!
I love to mail out real Christmas cards. And I love to receive them, but people don't have to mail me one to get one from me. I don't keep score!
Love the fabric, colors and design.
Thanks for the great giveaway!
Katina
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My favorite holiday tradition is simply getting together with my family, sharing a meal, chatting...good times! Thanks for the chance to win!
Susan
fredsinthehead (at) gmail (dot) com
I simply love Christmas day together with family, my girls helping the Uncle with the turkey, setting the table...even the cleanup (ugh) can be fun with everyone pitching in. We finish with desserts and then game playing.
Smoked salmon and scrambled eggs for Christmas morn breakfast is definitely my favorite. I should have it more often but it doesn't seem right eating it if it's not Christmas.
Baking with my mom.
Hello! Thanks for a great giveaway! I'm a new follower! Favorite is looking at Christmas lights. Happy Holidays! :)
My favorite tradition is candlelight service on Christmas Eve.
I love making Christmas gifts (edible!) every year. Always while listening and singing to Christmas music!
My fav tradition is having birthday cake on Christmas day for Jesus' birthday. My oldest son was 4 and came home from school and asked why we didn't have cake on Jesus' birthday. How can Jesus have a birthday without birthday cake? So we started a tradition of birthday cake on Christmas day 4 years ago.
I love to act out tne nativity with my kids.
sntbosch@msn.com
It just wouldn't be Christmas without receiving a chocolate orange in the stockings! I think the kids look forward to these more than anything each year!
Sometimes "Santa" doesn't remember until the last day and then that's when the real fun begins trying to track them down! LOL
Christmas tree decorating! We also always do fondue on New Years Eve.. that's a favorite too!
mamaisaac09(at)gmail(dot)com
Definitely decorating the Christmas tree!
the whole extended family go to watch a Pantomime together (Grandparents, Parents, Cousins etc) This year we are watching Dick Whittington with Dame Edna. Last year we saw Peter Pan with Jerry Springer as Captain Hook (yes really) we were dissapointed as it should have been The HOFF! but it was his night off!
I love making and decorating Christmas cookies with my family!
My extended family gets together on Christmas Eve, everyone brings an appetizer to eat and we open gifts and play games.
ourbusylittlebunch(at)hotmail(dot)com
We have six kids and each one decorates their own mini tree.
Travelling to be together, especially when I get to take the train!
Everyone makes a new ornament to add to the tree.
love decorating for christmas. thank you for the opportunity!
Nice fabrics! My son and I make small gifts each year for everyone. I hope it helps him to enjoy giving to others.
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