Sorry the picture isn't better. It's dark outside when I leave home to go to work and it's dark when I get home and to tell the truth I just decided when I got home tonight exactly what I was going to giveaway.
I'm giving away a half yard of the black fabric with the red, yellow and pink flowers on it and a fat quarter of the green fabric. The green is actually more of a lime green than it shows in the picture. The black fabric has been previously washed and dried in the dryer. The green fabric quarter has not been laundered. I wanted to throw some buttons in that went with the fabrics, so I sorted through my button collection. There is 1 red button and two yellow buttons to go with the black fabric. To go with the green fabric I found a cute blue flower button, a green heart, and 3 other blue buttons (2 small buttons and 1 larger one). I'm also giving away a little box of bobbins - there are 12 in the box. I'm also throwing in a little handmade something. I haven't decided what it is yet - so it will be a surprise.
This giveaway is open until December 6 at 9 pm eastern. I will randomly pick a winner shortly after. To enter, please leave a comment telling me your favourite thing about the holiday season. It could be a favourite recipe (please share - I like to try out new recipes), an activity etc. Please ensure you leave an email address so I can email you if you win. Any anonymous comments without an email address will not be entered. The winner will have until December 9th at 9 pm eastern to claim their prize. If the prize is unclaimed I will announce another winner. Good luck! And go check out the other giveaways at the Sew, Mama, Sew blog!
Edited to add - This Giveaway is open to international entries as well.
156 comments:
Will I be the first one to enter ?
My favourite thing is preparing, trying to make it magical... I loved the *salmon cooked in salt* recipe I tried last year.. If you're interrested I can try translating it to you !
Thanks for this giveaway !
I love holidays because i dun have to go to work!! OK that's a bit embarassing to say:p
My favorite thing about the holidays is seeing family. Seeing lots of children with smiling faces.
Interesting prizes, thanks for participating! My favorite part of the holidays is having a great excuse to basically hibernate - stay at home, cozy amongst drifts of snow, cooking and baking with impunity. :)
I love the kids' excitement. Ever since I've had kids I have a hard time sleeping on Christmas eve because I'm so excited to watch them open their gifts.
celebrating the birth of Jesus is tops on my list - but also Bethlehem Live! Such a wonderful time of year!
Humm, favorite holiday activity...We go look at lights, attend few parties, bake lots of traditional cookies.
got to be the food!
I love spending time with my loved ones
My fav thing about the holidays is cooking Xmas dinner with my mam! I look forward to it already! Thanks for the giveaway!
patriciaconesa@gmail.com
favorite thing... christmas lights.
I love going to the Santa Claus parad with my family, then returning home to put up the Christmas tree and decorations. It's a wonderful day filled with hot chocolate and Christmas music! Thanks for the chance to win your giveaway!
sonya.missbossypants@gmail.com
My favorite thing is the food. I love all the baking that happens.
My favorite thing about Christmas is my mother in law's pretzel salad :) Here's the recipe! It may look scary to some but it's great and I've never met ANYBODY who doesn't like it.
http://www.thejlhlife.com/foodblog/moms-pretzel-salad
My favorite thing about Christmas is to be with all my family - parents, sister (she has a birthday on Christmas) and her family and my children and grandchildren.Who could ask for more?
Have a nice day,
Simona
My favorite thing about Christmas is gathering with the family on Christmas Eve. (My least favorite is shopping for gifts!)
My favorite thing about the Christmas holidays is spending time with family and friends - usually around a fire with Christmas music in the background.
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favourite thing? the smell of a real christmas tree!
gill
I love family gatherings during holiday seasons
I love making gingerbread houses. Thanks for the chance.
My favourite part is the traditions..new and old.
i love the cool weather!
I love all the cookies, anything except oatmeal raisin, yuck!
Cute stuff! I think my favorite holiday tradition is making peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate.
I love the cookies I make every christmas. I like making them and even more I love to eat them.
I love the smells of Christmas...Christmas trees, apple cider, fresh cookies..yummm!!
My favorite part of the holidays is not having classes and spending time with family!
levani77@hotmail.com
My favorite thing about this season is all the music. Its the one time I can really crank it out during the year. :)
simply.simon.sisters(at)gmail(dot)com
Hello, My favorite about this holiday season is making cookies with my daughter. One of our favorite recipes is a simple chocolate cookie we only make in December.
1 c flour
1/2 c cocoa powder
1/2 t baking powder
1/2 t baking soda
1/2 t salt
5 T butter, softened
3/4 c sugar
1 large egg
preheat oven to 325. Sift dry ingredients. Beat butter and sugar, add egg beating well. Slowly add dry ingredients and beat until incorporated . Flatten dough and wrap in plastic. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Roll out dough on lightly floured surface to 1/8 inch thickness. Freeze until firm. Using a 2 inch cookie cutter cut out cookies and place 2 inches apart on cookie sheet. Bake about 12 minutes.
Linda RLGF3@att.net
I like how the presents look around the Christmas tree. It looks so odd after all the presents have been opened.
I love the whole feeling about Christmas. There is time, it's ok to go crazy with gifts and eat good food and play with stuff. I just like that my family and friends are here all the time.
my favorite holiday thing is my book of lifesavers that i have gotten every year from my mother since a little kid. i just love them!
I love getting together with people!
I love the holidays because of the festive atmosphere all over the city, and it gives me time to stay home and be with my family. I also love it because it's just about the only time my workaholic fiance will take time off work!
The fabric is so cute!!!!
opening presents please
My favorite thing to do during Christmas is to make English Toffee. I don't have a recipe though! I love making Candy!
Thank you for doing this give away!
nmommy02@gmail.com
Nice giveaway...thanks!
My favorite thing is baking cookies with the kids!
My favorite thing about the holiday season is the foods that you can only get now... like eggnog, those little tiny oranges, hot apple cider, and of course pumpkin pie (and there is even pumpkin icecream and pumpkin lattes...)
I love putting up the Christmas tree while enjoying cookies and eggnog! That really starts my holiday season! Thanks for the great giveaway!
kikisdeals@hotmail.com
my favourite thing at christmas is a horse drawn sleigh ride through the lights in our town
My favorite thing about the holiday season is going home to the snow to see my whole family. I miss them all so much the rest of the year!
Although I complain a lot about it, my true favorite thing about the holiday season is the Canadian snow. Nothing makes me pine for mom's kitchen and a Christmas tree more.
cynsaw2@hotmail.com
awesome giveaway! i'm looking forward to the annual family candy making day. sometimes it seems too hard to get in on the schedule, but it is always worth it to work with mom, dad and sis to turn out some beautiful handmade candies for all of our friends!
my favorite part of the Holidays is just spending time with family.
My favourite thing about the holiday season is the snow! Good thing I live in Winnipeg eh? hehe
I love all of the holiday baking, cooking and sewing! I especially enjoy making gifts for my family (My nephews have come to expect their PJs on Christmas morning!). Here is a link to one of my family's favourite Christmas cookie recipes: http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/006186almond_crescent_cookies.php
My favorite thing about the holidays...I think that would have to be seeing the season through my daughter's eyes. She is four years old, so Christmas is absolutely magical to her.
I love getting together with family thanks for the giveaway.
Family and the giving spirit that people have. I also love to see Christmas though the eyes of my children
I'm not a HUGE fan of the holidays, but I do love fall and Halloween - I guess that's my answer! Thanks for the wonderful giveaway!
My favorite thing about the holidays is spending time with family.
shannon.mangerchine@gmail.com
My favorite thing about the holidays is turning on the Xmas music and taking things a bit slower with the family.
My favorite thing about the holidays is getting together with family!
My favourite thing about the holiday season is that it's summer here and they kids are home on their long holidays.
My favourite thing about the holidays is getting to rekindle with old friends (either through christmas cards or holiday parties).
curry.jessica@gmai.com
Thanks for the giveaway!
My 2-year-old start his advent calendar this week, and it's so fun to watch him open a little gift each morning.
I love being with my family and church family celebrating Jesus birth!
hi. nice giveaway ;)
i love holidays by sea coz i love sea, i am like fish :))
I love gingerbread cookies and eggnog. :)
Thanks for the giveaway.
Driving around (so not green, I know!) looking at light displays; baking peanut butter blossoms (sugar cookies with Hershey's kisses on top); drinking eggnog. Fun! Thanks for your generosity.
Half price candy.
My favorite thing about this season is selecting and bringing home our christmas tree.
My fave thing during the holidays is opening presents!
shou.milk@gmail.com
I love everything about the holidays, but seeing my parents who live 4 hours away is my favourite part. I may not have always gotten along with them when I was young but now that I'm grown I appreciate how fun and interesting they are and I truly enjoy spending time with them (plus they're amazing grandparents to my children)
My favorite is a White Christmas.
Ohh I love the holidays because I makes me grateful for what we do have. I always seem to forget and get whingy during the year.
Lovely fabrics to make a few tea wallets with and with adorable matching buttons! We decorate cookies every year with fam and friends. Much laughter, creativity and fun for an afternoon.
I love the time with family & now getting to see the excitement in my son's face (especially since he doesn't just associate it all with presents, yet).
celtic.seeker(at)hotmail.com
I love celebrating the birth of Christ with family and friends!
One of my favorite holiday recipes is English Toffee. I limit myself to making it only once a year, because I usually end up eating most of it myself!! :o)
I lvoe spending xmas eve with my family...we attend church then hit chili's for a family dinner out.
We've started a new tradition at our house in the past few years. We buy each other 1 or 2 small gifts but the rest of the money is donated to the charity of our choice. Some times we pool our money, sometimes we all pick our own.
Thanks for the give away.
christmas music, family time, and all the beautiful decorations. I love the holiday season. mikechelley@hotmail.com
I love the lights...yes all the lights outside and inside!
My favorite thing about the holiday, besides spending time with family, is listening to Nat King Cole sing Christmas songs. What a crooner!
ehutchinson@wlu.edu
Christmas caroles and church concerts I truly love! BUt the best is our tradition of waiting until Christmas Day night to open our tree. It makes the Holiday last for 30 hours and is peaceful and wonderful. No stress.
Thanks for hosting this giveaway. Happy Holidays.
Jane
I love putting up the Christams tree and decorating it! And also my church's Carols by Candlelight concert...so beautiful and so much fun.
As I've gotten older the Holidays have gotten more... fraught, but there's just an ineffable feeling that I love.
My favorite holiday tradition is spending time with my family. I love waking up on Christmas morning, eat cinnamon rolls, and just being together.
Hi there
I also dislike the major darkness when i get home from work :( UGH
Thanks for the opportunity to win
Our favorite holiday activity is choosing a family from the tree at churh and making sure that they have some funfor Christmas
Cheers
Catie
cathycurrie@comcast.net
The best thing has to be getting together with my family, we live quite a long way apart but one a year we meet up and spend a week together reading, playing games and talking.
My favorite thing about the holidays is rediscovering them all over again with my 3yr old. This year we are doing a count down to Christmas tree with lots of fun activities. I can't wait to try the stain glass cookies and lollipop recipe I found on SMS blog for the Nov ideas. Thanks for the giveaway
lovely! Thanks for the chance!
what a cute little collection you are giving away there
Very pretty! My favorite thing is taking my son the see santa. We get hot chocolate and go ice skating, maybe a little shopping thrown in--we make a day of it--very fun tradition that i will miss when he discovers that I am Santa!
I make monkey bread for Christmas morning. Easy recipe from google using refridgerator biscuits. I love eating it, I love the smell too!
The colors, the lights, the music and decorating. All my favorite things about Christmas.
I love to make handmade chrismad presents and decorations. even with my gardener club we make it
My giveawy is here
http://busybeefree.blogspot.com/
My favorite thing about the holiday is just getting together with the family! I love that time that others take to get together and wish that they would do this more than just once a year! Thanks for the chance to win!
My favorite thing about the holidays is handmade gifts.
I love being in a warm house surrounded by snow listening to Christmas music. kellysmith89@hotmail.com
Great giveaway! I think family times is the best for me. Thanks for participating in the Giveaway Day.
what i love is making crafts with my kids
specialy window decorations
i think its so cute!
thanks!
I love decorating for the holiday and listening to music. If we had cable we would also be watching the christmas shows. My kids are waiting on baited breath for Christmas. :)
Thank you for the generous giveaway!
my favorite things about the holidays is the lights. Love christmas lights (not sure why they are not up all year round?)
My favorite things about the holidays is FOOD!! I love all the cookies and goodies.
Happy Holidays!
h_freund@Hotmail.com
I love creating with my kids. I love making crafts, cookies, or traditions. What I love most is making memories of happy holidays that they will hold on to forever!
kelli
kellbell_6@hotmail.com
My favorite part of the holidays is buying gifts, or making them. I just really enjoy finding the PERFECT gift for people. Always something a little unexpected and original.
I love our snack night dinner (Christmas Eve) summer sausage, crackers, cheese, and anything else that sounds good and watching White Christmas!!
Putting out the santa sacks and leaving things for santa and the reindeer!
Checking out the Christmas decorations and then going to have a cup of hot cocoa.
nhsarab at yahoo dot com
My favorite christmas thing is to go looking for lights. Every one enjoys it and the kids are always so excited.
Thanks
~kelly
My favorite thing is spending time with my parents and eating my mom's food. It always tastes so much better than mine!!
I enjoying going to the woods to cut a Christmas tree. Thank you for the giveaway. alusco(at)centurytel(dot)net
I love spending time with my grand kids, we do a lot of baking. ladycolmn@aol.com
I love my mother-in-laws cheeseball. I can't make it because she always changes the recipe. It is a kitchen sink recipe, whatever she has on hand gets put in, so it never tastes the same. But after 19 years, I love it and it only comes out at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Thanks for the chance!!!!
My favorite thing is drinking coffee in the early morning, looking at the christmas lights shining in through the windows. Silly, but I love it. :-)
I love the chocolate covered cherries (dark chocolate, please!) that are available during the holiday season. And oh, in Canada I love the kidney-bean shaped chocolates filled with rum (my MIL calls them "rum bonen"). Unfortunately these chocolates were not in the stores yet last weekend when we were in Canada, so I must suffer without this year!
how fun! happy giveaway day! here's mine http://www.simplymodernmom.com/2009/12/the-gift-box-a-giveaway/
I like watching someone open a present that I picked out or made especially for them. It brings me joy.
Thanks for the great giveaway.
My favorite things this year is relaxing and enjoying the holiday season! My husband and I used to for KB Toys(they closed in February) and this is the first year we have been able to really relax and enjoy it all!
I love the excitement of the children as Christmas and their birthdays approach most, and having my husband home more. I love your baby clothes. Wish I had your skill for my wee ones :)
Beautiful fabric!! I enjoy the togetherness the holiday always brings. Thanks.
Julie - jaaverill@aol.com
My favorite thing about the holidays is baking, I love trying to replicate treats that my mom and grandmother used to make. This year is fruitcake and peanut brittle.
Good Food and lots of it. I love shortbread cookies.
My favorite thing about the holidays is the singing. I love carols and the music. By the end of the season, I may think I never want to hear them again, but I get excited each year when the carols come back!
(realsimple.com also has a ton of excellent cookie recipes. You could check it out!)
My favorite thing is hanging the Chritmas stocking my Mom made for me when I was little. It is knit, a Santa's face wit the beard and mustache knit of Angora yarn. There is still a chocolate stain in the toe from 1964!
My Mom knit unique stocking for everyone in the family. I took over when she could knit anymore, I have 4 kids and 9 grandkids so I have been busy.
Sue Cahill (sbonetsue at yahoo dot com)
Fantastic giveaway!! My favorite thing about the season is seeing my parents and my brother. My parents have been divorced for 9 years now, and Christmas for the first few years was very hard and I didn't enjoy it. Now that everything has worked itself out, I just love it. I always decorate for my Dad, I spend Christmas Eve and Christmas morning with him and my brother. Then I go to my moms house after lunch and spend the rest of the day with her and her new hubby! It's a blast, FINALLY!
Lovely, thank you! I love going to the zoo after Christmas to check out their light show with my family - fave holiday tradition!
I love going to my mom's on New Year's Day and find my parents dancing waltzes in the living room to the sound of the New Year's Day concert in Vienna, which we watch every year, playing on the TV AND the stereo (for better sound).
The fabrics look great. Thanks for such a generous offer, and cheers from Barcelona :-)
Contact:librosfera(at)gmail(dot)com
I love that the cold winter weather drives people indoors and makes life slow down a little bit - giving us more time together as a family
The holiday season is the only time my aunt makes apple dumplings and pie; and she uses fresh apples instead of canned, which I love!
My favourite cookie recipe for the past few years is to add red candied cherries to shortbread dough.
My favorite part of the holidays has to be tourtiere... (meat pie). I've never made it though.
Thanks for the giveaway!
I love going driving after the Christmas eve Service to look at everyone's Christmas lights. That is one of our family's favorite things about the holidays.
nikki.rainey@us.army.mil
Thank you for this wonderful giveaway. Thank you for the opportunity to win.
I am a homeschooling mom of 16 years. I have five children from ages 21 months to 21 years.
I am also having a giveaway; so be sure and stop by my blogs. I have two, one for sewing and one for art. www.sewingwithtrudy.blogspot.com and www.artisticcreationswithtrudy.blogspot.com
My 9 year old daughter is also having a giveaway on her sewing blog. Hers is www.sewingsister.blogspot.com
Trudy
trudy dot callan at gmail dot com
My favorite thing is lobster for Christmas Eve dinner. Okay, my not so shallow favorite thing is seeing my daughter use money from her piggy bank to buy gifts to fill a shoebox for Operation Christmas Child. We do this every year and she loves it.
Thanks for the giveaway!
My favorite part of the holidays is getting together with friends more. I seem to see everyone more often whether it is shopping together, a party, dinners.... Just lots more time and fun. That is my fave. Thanks for the great giveaway!
My favorite thing about the holiday season is spending more time with my family! My husband gets a couple of weeks off of school so we get to have him around little more! Thanks for the great giveaway!
Lovely prizes ! thank you for the giveaway!
My favorite thing about the Holidays is just gather with my family, have a nice dinner and toast, I just love Christmas !!
And my all time favorite thing is the previous decorating of the house, I love that part also!
what a nice giveaway! One of my favorite things that my family does is that we all swap names & fill each others stockings! It's so much better than Mom knowing what everyone is getting!
My favorite holiday tradition is eating breakfast at my grandmother's house. She always makes delicious buttermilk pancakes.
My favorite things about the holiday season is the general good-will that people share with one another (when we're not too busy being stressed out, that is!). Happy Holidays and thanks for the giveaway!
I love Christmas lights! Thanks for the giveaway!
I love the joy of watching someone unwrap the "perfect thing" I found or made for them, the good smalls and tastes of favorite foods, the sounds of laughter and family stories...
avdh[at]sover[dot]net
My favorite thing about the holidays is the parties! And food! And calories don't count if you are celebrating a holiday, right?
Thanks for the chance to enter!
We like to take the kids to all the Christmas light displays :)
My favorite thing about the holiday season is the festive food and drink - the eggnog, the Christmas dinner (we eat Thanksgiving foods again at Christmas), cookies, spiced tea, and so forth. Yummy! And of course, I love the people that I get to sit at table and eat with!
Lovely fabrics - thanks for the giveaway!
Our favorite tradition is going to the Christmas Eve service at church. Thanks for the chance to win!
I wish I could give it to you, but my favourite recipe is all from memory and look - but it's my grandma's shortbreads. She started teaching me how to make them when I was really young, and I continue to make them 25 years later :)
I love the tinsel and twinkle but I love celebrating Jesus' birth! Thanks for a great giveaway.
I love family get togethers, especially acting out the nativity together on Christmas Eve
For each of the four advent Sundays leading up to Christmas, we rotate visiting a different house in my husband's family: ours, his sister's, his brother's and his parents. We talk, laugh, play cards and eat sugared waffles and clementines. Yum!
Love your fabrics, thanks for the chance to win!
susanne dot ruder at gmail dot com
I love seeing everyone's house decorated for Christmas! I even enjoy running errands and driving home when it's dark out and everyone's lights are on. Beautiful!
My favorite things about the holidays is stuffing the stockings!! And seeing everyone I love and the snow outside with the tree inside. I LOVE Christmas!!!
Thanks for the great giveaway! Happy holidays!
misszucchini at yahoo dot ca
I love sharing in the children's excitement each holiday season! Thanks so much for the chance!
I like that the whole family gathers.
I love the smells of Christmas!!!
My favorite thing is that feeling in the air that it is CHRISTMAS! I really love that feeling! And I love the extra time I get to spend with family, too!
jinglesells at gmail dot com
My favorite part of the holidays is decorating and spending time with my family. I just love decorating the house! Inside and out!
thelifeofthegirlnextdoor (at) gmail (dot) com
My favorite part of the holidays is seeing all my kids and just seeing all the wonderful decorations. Bringing traditions back from my childhood and making new ones is very much a part of my holidays. And the one thing I always do each holiday season is to buy thoe cinnamon pine cones in the bag and toss them into the back end of my van so that anytime I have to go do errands I have my favorite calming smell of cinnamon making my van smell wonderful
I love the lights during the holidays, they make me happy. great giveaway - can't wait to see who wins!
please check out my giveaway if you get the chance! http://crissybell.blogspot.com
What a great giveaway -- especially like the looks of that limegreen fabric!
My fave part of the holiday season this year is my daughters' excitement. The 4-year-old is super-excited about Santa, and my 2-year-old just can't get over the directions, yelling "kismas!" at every opportunity.
My fave part of the holiday season's the food!!!!!!!!, we eat tamales here (they're made from corn flour, vegetables, meat, rice, etc) you cover it with plaintain leaves and then you cook it, for a little while (2 hours or so), we also eat queque de navidad (christmas cake), the cake is full on raisins, dehidrated fruit, with rum, I can give you a piece if you pick me, lol!, well it's worth it! (I'm not blackmailing you)
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