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!!
423 comments:
1 – 200 of 423 Newer› Newest»I was thinking of starting a new tradition this year... My kids NEVER get sugar cereal except on vacation. Would it be too corny to wrap a box up for them every christmas? :)
We make latkes and home made applesauce. The house smells oily and yummy!
Every member of my family get pajamas made from the same fabric to wear on Christmas Eve. My children are only little - I wonder how long it will be before they protest!
Getting a stocking from 'Santa' even though I'm 24 and my brother is 21!! And the christmas day evening stuff-a-thon buffet. Nom!
Our family has a fun tradition on Christmas Eve - whoever says "Christmas Eve gift" first to you gets to open one gift under the tree. Now that most of us live far away from eachother you know when that phone rings you better answer it with "christmas eve gift" so you can get the jump on the family!
My favorite Christmas tradition is making breakfast pizza to eat after we open presents!
It's Dungeness crab season in the SF Bay area, so we have a big crab feed for Christmas dinner!
We make homemade chocolate candies that have a yummy powdered sugar/butter/nut type center, roll it in a ball and dip in chocolate. Yummy!!!
Watching holiday movies all cuddled on the couch :)
Every Christmas morning I make cinnamon rolls for breakfast. They are super easy and sooooo yummy! My ds even put "cinnamon rolls" on his Christmas list this year!
Every christmas day, we watch our home movies from the past year- so fun to see how the kids have grown!
I loved to spend Christmas eves at my grandparents house. The whole famili was comming. Those are the most magical memories... Thank you for the chance to win :)
We have a house nisse (gnome) that visits every year. The idea came from the book Gnomes by Wil Huygen when my brother and I were children.
I love going Christmas shopping with my Dad...we go out to a nice dinner, then choose something for my Mom.
We always read the Christmas story and thing sing Christmas carols before opening gifts.
We love making Christmas Chocolates each year :)
Wow, beautiful giveaway.
At our house, we have an "indoor snowball fight" every Christmas. We head to the basement, bundle up in our best outdoor gear, build forts at either end of the room, and throw giant marshmallows at one another. Loads of fun, and a great way to burn off that extra energy they have from being trapped inside all day during the cold-weather months.
Thanks so much, and have a great giveaway week!
we love dinner and church all together on christmas ever
I hang up the kids' stockings in *my* room. Then, at a reasonable time (like, not 5am!) they all pile into bed with me to open them. It's a favourite tradition with all the kids, even though they're now 21, 19 and 18!!
My daughter and I set aside one day of the week before Christmas (we both work outside the home) to take off and make Christmas cookies together for family and friends.
Now she has two sons (2 and 6) who have started getting in on the action! We have such fun and it's great bonding time.
Thanks for the great giveaway!
What a great giveaway! Thank you for the chance.
One of my favorite holiday traditions is our family celebration of the Winter Solstice: we make bird feeders with pine cones, we bake a cake, we light a candle and have a delicious feast for dinner.
Until us "kids" starting having babies of our own, we'd always empty out our Christmas stockings while barely awake, in our pj's, crazy hair and all, first thing Christmas morning. Even though we were all adults we made sure to at least wake super early and head to Mom's house (if we didn't sleep over) earlier than anyone really wanted to be awake. Family stockings will have to wait until Christmas dinner this year.
Great fabrics, btw. Love the colors!
I really love cuddling with everyone on the couch, and watching TV. It's nice to have the family time.
I love our Christmas Eve family gift exchange. We have to be creative (no wish lists), so it is interesting to see what everyone gets each other.
Aah, I love the fabric!
I really love going caroling on Christmas Eve!
janiebt at gmail dot com
We are creating traditions as we go. We have a 2 and 3 year old, so our traditions are young. My fave experience with the girls so far has been helping them put ornaments on the tree. simplybeu@gmail.com
I loved to visit the lights at Callaway Gardens each year when we lived in GA. We moved this summer, and it's a tradition I miss.
Desi
weeshareblog@gmail.com
We cook a huge joint of pork on Christmas eve to top up the turkey on Christmas day - our tradition is hot pork sandwiches last thing on Christmas eve and fighting over the crackling! yum yum yum
we let the kids open one gift on christmas eve before bedtime ... and it's their chrismas pajamas.
I love that fabric! We have a tradition to put up our tree after Thanksgiving. We like to get it up to enjoy the entire month of December.
Thanks for a chance to win.
pickle finding on the tree
We don't really have many traditions, but I'm hoping to start some with the BF this year!
We actually don't really have any traditions any more. Hubby really wants to start having them, but I'm very ambivalent about the holiday seasons, thanks to having worked in retail for far too long.
We have a caroling party at my inlaws house on Christmas eve....so fun and sentimental...so many freinds and family; I love it. Our new tradition is that after caroling, the family walks down to my house and the grown children host dinner.
The only tradition we do now is watch A Christmas Carol...do it every year without fail. Linda
Getting up in the morning to greet the sun! :D
I love making cookies with my mom!
we love going for a walk on Xmas eve to find some mistletoe...
and then snuggle with a hot chocolate !
Thanks for this giveaway !
Cat
c.bolon at yahoo.fr
orange & grey - my favorite colorway!
We alternate between a Christmas where we travel to be with our families and a Christmas with our friends... this year it is staying home with friends: wine, cookies, pjs, movies, and board games and a big dinner. Looking forward to it even though I'll miss my family too.
I love watching grinch with my daughter every year on Christmas eve!
Thank you for the opportunity to win your giveaway! Happy Holidays to you and your family <3 xo
krencamp (at) gmail (dot) com
We always open pjs on christmas eve before we go to bed.
Homemade peanut brittle! Thanks for the giveaway! robyn(dot)geddes(at)gmail(dot)com
EVen though we're not Swedish, we make Santa Lucia buns.
I love holiday baking.
We go to church in the morning and to my mom's for lunch. We often do dinner on a different night because it doesn't always work to get the whole crew together when there are in-laws around.
Christmas Eve at my inlaws. Thanks for the chance!
Thanks for sharing some great fabric. We make Ukrainian pierogis every year.
my fav tradition is letting my kdis decorate the tree with all their hallmark ornaments while i unbox them one by one for them
Christmas morning brunch with my maternal grandparents. Thanks for the chance to win some lovely fabric, Pat Bravo is just so awesome.
I love setting up the tree and that we start watching christmas movies at the beginning of december so we can get thru them all by Christmas!
We all go to the church service at midnight on Christmas Eve!
We love looking at lights and usually in our jammies with donuts! Yum! :)
Thanks for a great giveaway!
Wow, what a great giveaway. My favorite tradition is driving to our mountains to pick out our Christmas tree.
I love to fill up an advent calendar for the kiddoes each year!
oh that's pretty! we make homemade pierogi all day on christmas eve!
we eat a lot of sugar!!! and I love getting to open just ONE present on xmas eve!
since we celebrate Hanukkah, i love lighting the Menorah together.
:)
Christmas is all about the family getting together (and eating).
These are so pretty and somehow escaped me until now! We set aside an evening to drive around and look at Christmas lights. The paper prints a map of the "best" ones and we try to hit them all.
I love the orange fabric. My favourite tradition is making Xmas ornaments together!
We love going to the Christmas Eve pageant at church every year. Great fabric!
heidster7@hotmail.com
We have to take a "just woke up" Christmas morning picture every year! Thanks for the giveaway!
I like hanging out with my sisters since I can no longer wake everyone up super early to open gifts.
Eating till you are sick :D
Gorgeous fabric!
I like watching Christmas Vacation every year before Christmas.
homemade cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning and midnight Christmas eve services!
I love going for walks along the clifftop with my extended family. We always do whenever a holiday or family event gets us all in one place.
We pick up ornaments when we go on trips and then reminisce about where we went when we decorate the tree!
I love the advent calendar tradition!
Our Christmas tradition is that Dad makes a full cooked breakfast on Christmas morning - its fantastic, especially as most of the rest of the food for the day is cold given that Christmas in NZ is in the middle of summer!
One of our family traditions is to drive around, drinking hot chocolate in the car, listening to Christmas music and looking at lights. We've been doing it for as long as I can remember.
One of my favorite family traditions is making a nice warm Sugar Crumb Coffee Cake on Christmas morning!
I have a friend who I've known since I was born. Every Christmas, her family put on a party and carol-singing night - where we all gather round the piano with candles and sing.
The tradition was always that the kids had to sing the first verse of "Away in a Manger" on their own - but as we "kids" have gotten older, the rule changes - first it was "still in high school", then "still in college", then "under thirty". Now it's "anyone who has ever been a kid at one of these parties".
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I love making gingerbread cookies with my children :) and decorate Christmas tree and all house with them :)
great giveaway ^^
I love making the mince pies (albeit it's usually about 10 pm on Christmas Eve!)
Thanks for the chance to win :o)
Everyone gets new jammies on Christmas eve... when they were littler they were all matching, but now they all have something different :)
A birthday cake (coffee cake) for Jesus for breakfast Christmas morning. :)
Singing on the choir on Christmas Eve :o)
Sharing a bottle of wine or champagne with my husband and wrapping presents in front of the fire- with 3 little ones we don't get alot of 1-1 time
we used to leave our a shoe for a week before dutch sinterklaas and every morning there would be a treat in it!!!
Favorite tradition is breaking traditions!
We love spending the day in pajamas at our house. You'd be surprised how happy that makes children!
My dad comes over to decorate gingerbread houses with his granddaughter. So special!
I have a friend who gives their grandchildren hand-made pj's every year. I like that tradition. Except I wouldn't want to have to make pj's for everyone. So at this point the only tradition we're doing in my family is to use an advent calendar.
Making snowcream
My husband and I love brining out out mini VW bug menorah and lighting the candles.
I love driving around Christmas Eve looking at everyone's Christmas lights
Gingerbread houses! I love making them!
I don't celebrate the holidays, but I enjoy spending time with my family any day of the week.
I don't celebrate the holidays.
We pile in the car with hot chocolate and drive around for hours looking at Christmas lights with everyone pointing out the "best" house.
We make Ukrainain food for Christmas Eve dinner.
i like the tradition of going out and getting a live tree :) raineoc@yahoo.com
Love going out with my fam and checking out the light displays around the town then for pizza downtown.
My family always goes to look at Christmas lights around town on Christmas Eve. So pretty!
Mary
iammaryburke(at)gmail(dot)com
My family puts up our christmas tree on christmas eve
Pretty fabric like this makes me swoon. A favorite tradition is the Dutch Sinterklaas festivities.
I loved making cookies with my mom as a kid and now I love that my toddler joins me! :)
Our favourite Christmas tradition is going to our local nursery and picking out our Christmas tree! I just love the smell of the fresh pine and the kids always have so much fun! Thanks for the chance to win such a wonderful giveaway!
my favorite tradition is church on christmas eve - we go to the children's service and the kids are too cute! thanks for the chance to win!
driving around looking at christmas lights!
I love to go see my family on Christmas Day and we eat lots of pie and open gifts. :)
brooke at richardchurch dot com
We do a Mary and Joseph dinner on Christmas Eve that has been a favorite since I was a child.
Christmas dinner! We love getting together for dinner!
We put up the tree together- and usually travel to visit family. Thanks for the chance!
My favorite holiday tradition is eating as much food as possible during holiday dinner! Yummy :)
Those are lovely fabrics too :) Thanks for the giveaway!
dramallama56(at)hotmail(dot)com
we play a lot of board games
Baking, baking, baking!
Watching "It's a Wonderful Life" on Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas!
My daughter and I always bake all sorts of cookies and we always go to church as a family on Christmas. Linda
rodlindafansler at gmail dot com
We have fondue every Christmas Eve. I can't remember a holiday without it.
We go sledding Christmas Eve Day. Thanks for the giveaway.
My husband and I eat Kraft Mac'n'Cheese and watch Christmas Vacation every Christmas eve!
Great fabric! We love to read by the Christmas tree every night before bed - so sweet!
Love the orange fabrics!!
My favorite is the ornament exchange. We wrap an ornament and put them a in a pile. Everyone draws for numbers and that is the picking order. The first person picks one and opens it. The second picks an ornament and can then, before opening, trade with person #1 or choose to keep theirs and open. The third can choose person #1 or #2 or stay with theirs and so on and so forth. We do this at the extended family party and we usually have 25+ people/ornaments. The cute ones always trade hands a lot before the end lol
Handmade jammies for the whole family!
A Christmas morning treasure hunt always delighted our son when he was elementary school age. The notes from Santa were magical to him.
Christmas dinner is my family tradition - always look forward to it. LOVE that fabric. :) thanks for the chance
A Christmas Eve walk to look at the lights! :)
we always put our christmas presents in our stockings (they usually aren`t big things)
Holiday traditions? I like watching my kids open presents on Christmas morning in their pjs!
steeplechaser29 at yahoo dot com
Making candy with my granny.....love her peanut brittle.
wollitzal@yahoo.com
I love making Christmas pudding with my mum! we do it every year!
We make spaghetti to serve with our Christmas turkey. My fiance's family is Italian, and they always had it when he was growing up.
We love sitting around the tree and reading the Christmas story from the Bible.
We make shortbread and trifle. We only ever have these at Christmas, so a big treat.
Every year we load up in the car and drive down to the park to drive through all the lights they set up. We love to joke about the awkwardness of the drummer boys and the oddness of santa riding a rocket ship. We are a family who loves to laugh, and this is something we always enjoy doing together =)
we like to drive around the week before Christmas and look at all the lights, picking winners for the houses.
My family's favorite holiday tradition is to go Christmas lights "hunting". I love to hear the boys get all excited when they find a cool display!
As a child I loved opening one present on Christmas Eve. It made the wait more bearable.
I love to bake the gingerbread in my parents house for all family and friends. Thanks for chance to win!
Hmm, we always cut a slice off the trunk of our Christmas tree to keep. I write the year on it and am planning to turn them into a garland at some point.
aliben7 (at) gmail (dot) com
Our family love to bake Christmas treats and wrap them up as gifts for family and friends. Thanks for the chance in your giveaway.
Merry Christmas
I love making gingerbread men and decorating them with my boys. And just hanging around by the fire!! Thanks for the giveaway!! The fabric is beautiful!
Hot chocolate by candlelight, listening to Happy Christmas Eve by the Oak Ridge Boys! roguekeri at live dot com
Lovely fabric! As a kid (and through to three years ago) my mom always made cinnamon rolls from a tube for Christmas morning. Now that we have stopped schlepping the kids across the country at the holidays, I make overnight cinnamon rolls instead--they are terrible for you but outstanding! http://www.turntablekitchen.com/2010/02/the-amazing-overnight-cinnamon-rolls/
Decorating Christmas tree and wrapping presents.
Thx for the chance to win ^^v
Our favorite tradition is to do a Bible study each night starting at Thanksgiving and going through Christmas that is an overview of the whole Bible - we do a Jesse tree filled with ornaments representing each reading.
We have a huge Christmas breakfast after opening presents on Christmas morning.
Lovely fabrics! How lovely it would be to diversify from my current PINK dominated stash!
I always decorated gingerbread people and sugar cookies growing up and i'd like to continue that tradition with my own kids. Had my 3 year old cut and decorate the sugar cookies yesterday. Very inefficient but we had loads of fun!
andrea(at)limbourg(dot)com
Don't laugh but new slippers are an annual must gift for everyone in our family...it started when the kids were small and has continued!
everyone in the house gets a stocking with a mikan/tangerine, a small present to open and some chocolate. We are allowed to eat them in bed and open the present before breakfast.
I love baking a fruit cake together
When we make the Chrismas pudding, everyone stirs and makes a wish!
i like putting up christmas tree with the family. thanks.
Looking at the xmas lights and it has to be very late because it's summer here
I love roasting chestnuts with my family! Thanks for the chance to win. :)
My mom every year makes some christmas tree ornaments using some of my nephews outgrown clothes. They are sweet memories!
The 1st weekend in Advent we all go to My parents house to Deck the tree, put up the lights, eat good food and share some quality time together before the Christmas Season gets to busy.
Cooking Christmas cookies together! Great giveaway - I have very few orange fabrics in my stash!
Eleven years ago, on Christmas morning, we woke up and our children sent us right back to bed. "We're making you breakfast!" "Oh dear," I thought. But every year since then, the kids have made us breakfast in bed on Christmas morning. It has become my favorite Christmas tradition.
I love decorating the tree. We just put ours up Sunday night. My 1 year old oohed and aahed over the lights and 5 year old had so much fun decorating it.
IN my family we Always have a very special Christmas breakfast. This year will be my first year doing it at MY house with my OWN family (My Man usually works over Christmas). Also, my children are 3 and 5. Each year we Make our own Christmas tree. Last year it was a decorated paper one on a wall. http://lovesbyletabon.blogspot.com/2010/12/inexpensive-fun-paper-family-christmas.html
This year it is going to be a fallen branch from a palm tree... I'll blog about it soon enough.
Thanks, wish me luck! ;)
Aleta ღ
HinterlandMama@gmail.com
We all have Christmas stockings that match my original red felt one from the 1950's. Filling and opening them is a holiday must in our family.
Putting out cookies for Santa! And playing Christmas music while everyone opens their gifts!
Bacon sandwiches and Bucks Fizz on Christmas morning!
Great giveaway! My family would probably say that making homemade gingerbread houses is their favorite tradition. My kids are in college - one away and one here. I also have a high school senior. They all asked when we are doing our gingerbread!
My favorite tradition is breakfast on christmas morning - we only let the kids open one present each before breakfast, so the anticipation builds quite nicely over breakfast :)
We started our tradition a few years ago of having Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve and then completely relaxing on the big day with smoked salmon and scrambled eggs for breakfast and leftovers for dinner.
Teresa x
I love taking the kids to pick out their new ornaments for the year.
My husband's family sings happy birthday to Jesus on Christmas morning
I love our big Christmas Eve family dinner!
I love sledding at grandma's house!
peachstateme(at)hotmail(d0t)com
My favorite holiday tradition is the food! Lasanga for Christmas Eve, Prime Rib for Christmas. The best part is too many cooks in the kitchen!!!
My favorite holiday tradition is going out into the woods to get a Christmas tree! pemberleycouture@hotmail.com
it would have to be baking with my children. mzanfardino(at)nc.rr(dot)com
We make a huge pot of wassail and drink it all! Delicious!
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Spending time with family. It's becoming more difficult every year, but we still manage to get everyone together.
we like to go pick out our christmas tree together, and then decorate it together!
Caroling. Thanks for the giveaway!
I love going to the Holidazzle parade that my city puts on every year.
After Christmas my mom and I get together and cut up all the holiday cards we received and make new cards out of them. Those are the cards that I send out to my family and friends next year! It's a great way to recycle old cards!
We eat crab every Christmas Eve with the people that we don't spend Christmas Day with and then after dinner we open one cheeky present!
On Christmas Eve, the Christmas angel leaves change under the tablecloth. Everyone helps clear the table and the kids grab all the coins they can.
I make dozens of gingerbread cookies with my daughters and then we sit and decorate them with royal icing and every sprinkle and glitter we can get our hands on. I did it as a child and now I get to carry on the tradition with my children. I love it!
Santa hides a pickle ornament, and whoever finds it first gets a special last present
I love sitting around the living room throwing wadded wrapping paper at each other as we open presents.
Our Christmas is always pretty low-key, with family and small get togethers. One thing we always do though is watch the Charlie Brown Christmas special on Christmas Eve, while we eat ice cream. Thanks for the giveaway.
I love making salt dough ornaments (or any ornaments!) with my boys.
Thanks for the chance!
I love having our homemade cinnamon rolls after opening pressies on Christmas morning. So yummy! Thanks for a great giveaway.
my siblings and i always sleep at my parent's house on christmas eve. it makes it feel like when we were growing up, and definitely makes the holiday more special.
My favorite tradition is making cookies!
I love to watch my girls open their gifts.
rebekahricker (at) yahoo (dot) com
i love watching everyone dump out their stockings!
Making Christmas cookies!
I love watching White Christmas with the family and having snack in the living room!!!
Oh wow - what a great prize. I love all the colours and prints - whoop! Thanks for a chance to win.
I love decorating up the Xmas tree and then all pile in the car to go and see the Xmas light display in the city while eeating ice cream. It's something I grew up with and would want to continue doing it wth my kiddos.
Marilize
marilize(dot)paulsen(at)gmail(dot)com
making homemade christmas ornaments/cookies with my son as gifts for friends and family. nothin's better!
thanks for the giveaway!
I love the Advent calendar. thank you for a lovely giveaway!
My birthday is this Saturday, and this would be a wonderful birthday present!
I love making chocolate-covered pretzels
My mom made everyone in our family stockings, and she hung an ornament that symbolizes each of us on our stockings. We open those on Christmas morning before anything else. There's always a movie in everyone's stocking, and we pick one out and watch it in our pjs.
My favorite thing is baking day with my daughter...lots of great memories and more to come!
Our extended family has a big chanukah party every year with a white elephant exchange - I usually end up with something silly but every now and then there's something good.
Driving around to see Christmas lights.
Thanks!
Tia
mtrand2 at gmail dot com
I haven't been very good at establishing traditions with my little (fairly new) family, but I do love how the holidays bring out the baker in me. I love this season, the cool weather, and the excuse to pack on some pounds! :)
Homemade eggnog while sitting around a fire on Christmas Eve. christina112358 at gmail dot com
We always decorate sugar and gingerbread cookies. Both our children are adults, but when they come home for Christmas they STILL ask to do this.
Thanks!
thank you for the chance to win. my mother and i make appies and cookies in November that we eat on Christmas eve
Wow great fabric! I love to bake cookies and watch all the cheesy christmas specials!
My favorite tradition is the family Christmas tree, where we display ornaments of 5 generations -- so many memories!
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