I hope you all had a jolly holly weekend! I got some new furniture and went to Holiday in the park at Six Flags, so mine was a very busy one indeed. Now that I am done with school for a month or so, things will start to slow down and I can have more of a relaxing holiday! Well, fingers crossed ;-)
For those of you who are wanting to order any Close To My Heart as Christmas presents for yourself or someone else, orders will need to be placed by today to get it delivered before Christmas. Orders placed after today will not be guaranteed for delivery before the Christmas holiday.
Today I am starting a week of giveaways just in time for Christmas! Make sure you check in with me everyday this week to see what I am giving away! I will be drawing winners on Sunday.
The first giveaway of the week is a Sweater Weather cartridge.
To win:
1) Leave a comment below telling me of your favorite Holiday traditions. 2) Subscribe or follow the blog.
That's it! Winner to be announced on Sunday, December 18, 2011.
Now it is time to check out Joy's blog because she is also having a week of giveaways! Click here ==> Obsessed with Scrapbooking
December Close To My Heart special
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Sounds like a great weekend! Enjoy your holiday. The kids in our area go until the 23rd. Good for busy mommies...tough on teachers and bus drivers!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite tradition is the weekend before Christmas when my brothers and their families and my family all get together for a big potluck meal, usually the last Sunday before. It really starts Christmas off for me.
Thanks for sharing your toys! :)
Oh how fun!
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite traditions is after we decorate the Christmas Tree early in the season we have hot chocolate and talk about our hopes for the holiday season, parties we may have planned, what we want for Christmas, who is on our list for Christmas and we also talk about memorable Christmas moments from the past.
Thanks for the chance to win.
Glad you have some down time and sounds like you've already gotten a start on enjoyin' it...good 4 U!!
ReplyDelete"Tis the Season to be Jolly and Joyous" and you've gotten a head start!!
I wanted to leave this comment even tho I already have Sweater Weather.
Sounds like a fun weekend!
ReplyDeleteThis is such a fun and crazy time of year but my favorite for sure! We love decorating the tree together and writing out our letters to Santa
Thanks for the chance to win :)
jessica
chick-n-scrap.blogspot.com
eschfamily@yahoo.com
My favorite tradition is when the kids put out cookies and milk for Santa...they write him a thank you note...how cute is that?!
ReplyDeleteOh my isn't that sweet.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is go to church with the hole family on dec 24th, and after that, watch All you need is Love. It brings man or woman from all over the world to their loved onces in the Netherlands. Just love that :)
My favorite tradition is each year I do some special one-on-one time with each daughter. With the oldest daughter we always made Christmas fudge together. Now that she is 26 and lives in far away Chicago that tradition is done and gone. My next daughter and I now make Christmas cookies together. She will be turning 16 next year so I only have a few more seasons to share our one-on-one. Treasure those times.
ReplyDeleteWe have several holiday traditions, but my favorite has to be cookie and candy making with our cousins. We spend one whole day together creating Christmas masterpieces!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite memories of the holidays are of making homemade egg nogg and visiting with family and friends. Love that cartridge. Reminds me of cross stitching! Thanks for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteOne of my fav traditions is the GNO Potluck Holiday Party. Eat great food, libations and great friends! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is Christmas eve. We have an all white Swedish meal. Even when I can't make it home, I make it for the people I'm with.
ReplyDeletemy favorite tradition is on a night around the holidays just driving around town and looking at everyone's outside decorations. Some are elaborate, some are simple, but all are a joy to see
ReplyDeleteThis cartridge reminds me of my moms cross stitching!! Would love to win it!! My favourite holiday tradition is putting up the tree together and my daughter putting the star on the tree(she is three so she gets alittle help).Thanks for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteKristan
My favorite tradition is all of it! Putting out the decorations, sitting in the glow of the tree lights with my husband, seeing my childrens' excitement when they open their stockings (and they are 40, 38, and 30!) and now most of all it's seeing the glow on my only granddaughter's face and being in the presence of her excitement! It's all wonderful!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday tradition is shopping (one day from a.m. to p.m.) with my wonderful hubbie of 48 years. We start early, have a nice lunch and dinner out, and return home exhausted. It is always a special day for us together! Have done it for years.
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Mstgane
Ann
Favorite holiday traditions. Well, my favorite is when we all sit down together, EVERY evening the month of December, on the couch and read some sort of Christmas story and then sing carols together. This started when my kiddos were little and much to my surprise is still going on now that my kids are 24, 20 and 12. I LOVE IT!! :D
ReplyDeleteHave a great time! My fave tradition is the family getting together and spending the whole day eating and being merry :)
ReplyDeleteSo fun! What a great time you must have had! Our family tradition is one we atarted once the family got too big! We all gather at my parents home on the Saturday before Christmas...this year there will be over 54 people. We have a huge potluck and Santa drops by for a visit with the children (those under 18 get a gift from Santa), then those over 18 have a White Elephant give exchange...This has been a fun way to gather, share a meal, and celebrate the holiday. Thanks for letting me share a family tradition with you. Much love and happiness through the holidays and a prosperous New Year!
ReplyDeleteA tradition started when we moved to Florida is to go to the beach on Christmas day. It's especially fun if we have visitors from up north who left cold and snow to see them walking in the sand barefoot on Dec. 25th!!!
ReplyDeleteWe always have Christmas Eve at my in-laws and open presents there before having our Christmas morning with just our kids. That's not even counting St. Nick's Day where the kids find treats in their stockings. They might be spoiled!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your down time. And the new furniture! My favorite holiday tradition is decorating gingerbread houses with the grandchildren. It has been amazing to see how their creations have developed and changed over the years. Then we take pictures and a new scrapbook page is created!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas!
My fave tradition is making Christmas cookies! When we were little, my cousin did the amount of sugar in salt when we made sugar cookies! Funny still! Now, my daughter and I make them!
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is Christmas Eve. I make us all new jammies, get a new holiday movie, we have a junk food dinner (the kids love this, we get everyones favorite finger foods - pizza rolls, cheese sticks, little smokies, candy coated popcorn). I started making new jammies, not intending it to become a tradition but I overheard my 12 year old son tell someone that it was the best part of Christmas so I guess I will be doing this for a long time :)
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Happy Holidays!
Christi
fillhardfarm at ymail dot com
Our favorite tradition is decorating the Christmas tree together. Thanks so much for the chance to win!!
ReplyDeleteDonna Wilson
dailygracecreations.blogspot.com
My favorite Christmas tradition is baking Christmas cookies with my grandniece. We bake sugar cookies in holiday shapes and decorate them with sprinkles.
ReplyDeleteWe used to have some fun holiday traditions growing up but as we got older they got semi-lost. My husband and I are rying to find some great holiday traditions for my 9 month old son so I can't wait to see other comments! Thanks for the giveaway! :)
ReplyDeleteI have two favorite traditions: The first, and most treasured, is helping my 5 year old granddaughter make cookies for Santa and his reindeer. The second is the time I spend with my closest friends at my annual cookie exchange. It has become a tradition over the 9 years I've been having it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the opportunity to win this cartridge!
The last few years, when weare at home, we have a fondu and cooking stone night on Christmas Eve.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance!
Spending the entire day at home--there are some years when the kids haven't even changed out of their pajamas! Our families are spread throughout the state so we do quite a bit of traveling before and after Christmas so it is always nice to take a break and enjoy the day at home.
ReplyDeleteMy new favorite Holiday tradition is going to the Gaylord for Christmas Brunch with my Dad. He takes all 3 of us daughters and our families. And we go see the ICE display! Fun Fun!!
ReplyDeleteI don't have the sweater cartridge,so I'm excited. Today I'll be Christmas shopping with my son for my new daughter-in-law. He's building her ascrapping room, she will be soooo excited and I'm excited to have another scrapper in the family!!!
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Sounds like you had a fun weekend! My favorite holiday tradition is our church's Christmas Eve Candlelight service! So special and fun!
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My favorite tradition is my family going to a tree farm and cutting a tree and then going home and decorating it.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday tradition is staying up late cooking and getting all the gifts out of the car trunk, storage room and other random places where I've hid them from the kids. I think this is my favorite because its exactly what my parents did when we were young. Thanks for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your month off! Holiday tradition is spending time with family and giving. This cartridge looks like fun. Thanks for the chance to win.
ReplyDeleteWe love to watch 24 hours of A Christmas Story. We never tire in Ralphy's quest for the Red Ryder BB Gun! Thanks for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteWell, I typed a long posting and when I entered it up came a message to hit the back button and try again. Of course that made me loose the comment. So here goes again.
ReplyDeleteI am a follower. :)
When our boys were small, our favorite tradition was to have a birthday party for Jesus on Christmas Eve. The boys would love to act out the Navity Story. They would play every part.
Thank you for the chance of winning another wonderful cart.
Merry Christmas
Marjorie from TX
My favorite holiday tradition is making cookies. My grandma taught me how when I was little and making cookies make me think of her.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday tradition would have to be our cousin sleepover that happens every Dec. 23.
ReplyDeleteThanks you for the chance to win you are always so generous!
Oh a week of giveaways I just love it.
ReplyDeleteMy familys favorite tradition on Christmas is to open one gift on Christmas Eve and to have hot chocolate.
Thanks for the chance to win.
Luria
Thanks for this opportunity, I've been eyeing this cart since it came out.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is spending time with the family on Christmas Eve day and then having ham and oyster stuffing on Christmas day. I love all of Christmas and also love driving around and seeing all the lights. I'm a kid at heart and enjoy all of it.
Cathy D
We love to take the children shopping for gifts for family members. We try to let the older ones help the youunger ones, that some how always gives a hint of what is suppose to be a secret. We all end up at my in-laws for dinner on Christmas. Thanks for a chance to win.
ReplyDeleteI love to bake Christmas cookies! This was something I did with my aunt Clara, who raised me and it brings back such pleasant memories to remember her this way.
ReplyDeletesounds like so much fun thanks Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday
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My favorite tradition is making Christmas greeting cards while watching "Christmas Vacation." What could be better than being covered in glitter and bright colored papers!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite tradition is when me and my daughter crawl under a blancket in front of the TV with a big bowl of strawberries on christmas eve to watch "Three nuts for Cinderella". It airs about 1300, so while we enjoy strawberries and the film, we can smell the delicious first smells of christmas dinnner getting started in the kitchen where DH makes the traditional dinner.
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A fun week I hope I don't get called into sub. LOL
ReplyDeleteLove that cartridge!
I wish I had $50 to spend on me this year. I would love to place an order with you. I really love CTMH.
See you tomorrow.
And I thought I was busy. :) Thanks for the great giveaways, you're awesome!
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Sounds like your weekend was a lot of fun!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is Christmas Eve. when we let the kids open their new Christmas pajamas and then we have family time. We usually end up playing around and having a good time before all of the Christmas hoopla starts!
So cool!! Thanks for the awesome giveaways this week!!
ReplyDeleteI know you are so happy to be finished with school so you can do lots of fun holiday stuff!! I
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is getting out the ornaments and decorations and thinking about the past Christmases and memories we've created!
Happy Holidays!
My favorite tradition is the Christmas Eve Candlelight church service at 11 p.m. Thanks
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday tradition is trimming the tree and putting some of the ornaments in the same place every year. I have ornaments that were my mom's when she was a little girl, and they always go in the same spot that they were in on her tree. I also have some ornaments of mine own that I hang in the same place every year.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you had a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is when we open packages Christmas morning, we each open one package at a time while taking turns. By doing this, everyone gets to enjoy the expression on each other's faces.
Thanks for the opportunity to win.
scrapbooknut67114 at gmail dot com
My favorite tradition is getting together with family. We make recipes that were Grandma's such as her wonderful sugar cookies, her punch and her green jello salad. We talk about Christmas's past and the dumb things we used to do as kids...this always brings on the laughter. Have a fun weekend and God Bless!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is going out to breakfast with my family before we go cut down our Christmas tree
ReplyDeleteSince I just received a new Cricut for my birthday on the 4th from my husband (who, by the way, just passed away last Thursday), I would just love having some additional cartridges for it. And I absolutely love the "Sweater Weather" one. Thanks for the opportunity to win this. Hugs, Lynn
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is spending time with both sides of our family. And now that I have grandchildren, it is even more special. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day is a nice way to destress from all the going and comings leading up to these 2 days. Thanks for the chance to win an awesome prize.
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Our tradition is an Italian Christmas Eve dinner with the whole family. How comfy does this cartridge look.....
ReplyDeleteHappy Holidays
My Mom and sisters get together a few weekends before Christmas at one of our houses (travel is involved so planning is needed) and have our annual cookie bake. We each make two kinds of cookies, one baked before we get there and one baked at the host home with the help of the other ladies. It has beeen expanded over the years to also include our daughters and even some of the granddaughters. This was our eleventh year of doing this and we all look forward to it. Thanks for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteHave a great time!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is on Christmas Eve when my family and my husband's family get together---playing cards, games, eating and visiting. This year will be different because my husband passed away in October---had a very rate autoimmune disease. We are going to light a candle in his memory.
Enjoy your holiday.. I am a follower and have been for a long time.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is on Christmas Eve we have family over and cook a large breakfast feast.
Thanks for the chance to win this great cart!!
My favorite holiday tradition is our familin reading the story of the Christmas Orange and sharing a chocolate orange.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite christmas tradition is the entire family getting together. We all sit down and eat together and eat although the kids get antsy because after eating it's time for presents. It's the only time the kids willing help with dishes. Thanks for your inspiration. Enjoy your time off.
ReplyDeleteFun cartridge! Thanks for the chance to win it. My favorite holiday tradition is going to my mom's house for Christmas eve with my family, and my husbands dad's house for Christmas dinner.
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Smiles Sher
ShersL84bed@aol.com
my favorite tradition is making cookies with my sons...although it's getting harder to do as they are getting older...I still try though.
ReplyDeleteI grew up on a Christmas tree farm, so my favorite tradition is going back home to the farm with my kids, taking a hayride to the field, drinking hot cider, and cutting down our tree. Thanks for you ideas and the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteBeth T.
My favorite thing at Christmas is to have all my kids home and I make them make me a new ornament for the tree. That way I can pass them on later in life to each on. Thank You for a chance to win. brians@tds.net
ReplyDeleteThere are several holiday things I like but the most is on Christmas Eve, we all hop in the car and we travel along the river and look at all the holiday decorations at the houses. Then we end going to midnight mass at church. It's quality family time! Thanks for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradation, not even a tradation is watching the great-grand kids opening one Christmas present at our Family gathering. It reminds me of when my kids were sitting on the floor opening there gifts.
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Long time follower and look forward to your emails so that I can be inspired to do things as well as you do. Since my daughter, her husband and my granddaughter moved away, my favorite tradition is when they come for Christmas eve day and we celebrate together.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite family tradition is for each person in the family to open one gift on Christmas eve. Then the little ones (grandkids now) are allowed to stay up as long as they can keep their eyes open to play with their new toy. Kinda cuts down a little bit on the Christmas morning frenzy at well!
ReplyDeleteI guess I have lots of favorites - but the best is just being together and watching my grown kids enjoy being with each other.
ReplyDeleteI am afraid our traditions no longer exist since all our family is scattered all over. But when I was younger the part of Christmas I liked best was right after dinner we all sat around talking and getting caught up on everyones lives. Also later in the evening, turkey buns. lol
ReplyDeleteI am a follower.
Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Lovely give away, by the way.
Myrna
My favorite tradition is christmas eve pjs for the kiddos and hubby reading " A Visit From Saint Nicholas"
ReplyDeleteMy favorite traditon is getting together at moms house. I wont get to do it this year because I live far away. But I miss it. Would love to win this cart.
ReplyDeleteOne of our favorite traditions is to drive around on Christmas Eve to see the christmas lights.
ReplyDeleteSince I moved away from home by states not miles, I miss the family gatherings when all my sisters and brothers got together with my Mom for a meal and gifts. Great fun. We use to do the same thing with my Mom's extended family and there is nothing like it.
Thanks for sharing,
Syoung
My favorite Christmas tradition is our family schedules house to house meat pie and goodie parties,so much fun sampling everybody's goodies, worry about dieting in the new year:)))
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Making sugar cookies with the grandkids!!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday tradition is decorating! We have a "Magic" fireplace that we put up every year so Santa can come. It is a quilt my friend made me that looks just like a fireplace! Thanks for your great blog! :) Kelly
ReplyDeleteSounds fun! We have a huge dinner on Christmas Eve and then all the little ones open one gift, new jammies of course.
ReplyDeleteI would love to win!
ReplyDeleteI like to prepared a delicious carrot cake. I love this cake and my family loves too. In the Christmas eve at 11:00 pm, we make a hot cocoa and every member of the family have a piece of carrot cake and chocolate waiting the 12:00 pm to open the gifts, haha. I love Christmas!!! Thanks for the opportunity and Happy Holidays!
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My favorite holiday tradition is our Hanging of the Greens at church because we all gather to decorate the church & then have soup & sandwiches afterwards.
ReplyDeleteA newer tradition for us is having 3 of our grandaughters (now 8,9, & 10) decorate our tree. It fun to see how much higher the ornaments are getting each year. We have a tall tree, so it will be a while before we have decorations all the way to the top.
ReplyDeleteOhhh what a great giveaway
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Holiday/Christmas tradition is going over to my mom's (she is 79) and helping her make tamales and empanditataes (meal turnovers) Yum.
perderg(at)q(dot)com
Thanks for giving us the chance to win this cart. One of my favorite traditions is making gingerbread houses out of graham crackers with my children, and now grand children. We have been doing this for over 30 years.
ReplyDeleteSix Flags! That sounds like fun. I have never been there :) Every year we spend Christmas Eve at my in-laws home. We have a big dinner complete with china and crystal. My hubby's brother and sister (not married) and his 101 yo grandmother come and we all stay the night. The next morning we have coffee and breakfast and open presents. Then we go to my parents' home and meet up with all my brothers and sisters (there are 7 of us all with families so it is a much bigger party). If there is snow, we go sledding on the hills around my parents' home. These are traditions I will always treasure.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance to win this cute cartridge - I don't own any winter carts!
rebeccadunham at hotmail dot com
My favorite Holiday Tradition is when we all get together and make cookies and candies for trays we give away to friends and family.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for sharing your talent with us and for the chance to win!
lindagk23ataoldotcom
Our tradition is to have a fondue dinner before opening gifts on Christmas Eve. Thanks for a chance to win.
ReplyDeleteThis is such a cute cartridge,,,,
ReplyDeleteNancy
nkmedar56@gmail.com
Such a cute cartridge! My favorite holiday tradition is going over to my mothers house Christmas day and we always watch A Christmas Story!
ReplyDeleteLove to win!! My fav holiday tradition is making an ornament for every person at my Christmas dinner. I've been doing this for probably 12 years. It's getting hard to come up with new ideas...Lee-Ann :)
ReplyDeleteOne of my Christmas traditions is getting together with my sister and cousin and having our picture taken with Santa. We are now in our 40's and have been doing it for 20+ years. It is a good way to chart hair styles! The 80's were the best!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is having the grandchildren in to bake cookies.
ReplyDeletePhyl
Preifel@aol.com
one of my favorite holiday traditions is going to chicago on the bus to enjoy michigan av with the shopping and the lights.my children (grown) go and usually my sister comes over from indiana and joins us.cgreer
ReplyDeleteDrinking cocoa & Eating the xmas cookies I bake is my favorite holiday tradition! Ha! Thanks for a chance to win! Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite traditions growing up was attending Midnight Mass. I always thought Baby Jesus was born at midnight and couldn't wait to go see him after the service in the life size creche set the church had. Today my favorite tradition is getting together with family for a wonderful meal and lots of laughter.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance to win this great cartridge!
This is an awesome cartridge! You ladies are just wonderful for all you do to make everyone's day a little brighter!
ReplyDeleteWe have a wonderful bakery in town called Ed's Bakery, and we look so forward to ordering a few dozen of their too delicious Christmas cookies every year! Happy holidays!
ReplyDeleteKayla
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My favourite tradition is making the gingerbread houses and cookies with the grands. It is a messy fun time
ReplyDeleteTFS and love the cart
I've so been wanting this cartridge! My favorite tradition is making homemade padaha with my mom and aunt. It's pretty much Ukranian pierogies. We make saurkraut stuffed ones and cheesy potato. Yummy!!
ReplyDeleteWe like to buy christmas crackers...the tubes with a silly gift that pop when you pull them. We started getting them when we were stationed in England and have continued since.
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Sounds like you had a great weekend one o my favorite traditions is getting together with family on Christmas Eve and eating and playing games
ReplyDeleteWe have all of the children and grandchildren together on Christmas Eve and then with my sister and her family on Christmas Day. I love everything about Christmas. I follow your blog and would love to win the cartridge.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite memories of Christmas long ago was Christimas Eve because my grandparents visited - always a perfect day when they visited. Now, as an adult with a fireman son, we make memories on whatever day he is available! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!
ReplyDeleteA long time tradition at our house is to draw a picture and write a note for Santa. Each child then attaches his picture and note to his own Christmas stocking. As the children got older, the notes and pictures became more interesting for sure!
ReplyDeleteThe sweater Weather cartridge is really nice, and I would love to receive it as a Christmas gift.
Thanks
Great give away! Can't wait to see everything!
ReplyDeleteFavorite tradition is decorating the tree together.
My favorite tradition is getting together every Christmas Eve with family and friends at my sisters.... we have homemade lasagnas,, meat pies,, candies and just a wonderful time... :) lindaplusthree at yahoo dot com
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite traditions is spending Christmas Eve morning with my best friend and her family for brunch. We are more sisters than friends and it is always a nice time!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is decorating the tree with my two girls. We play Christmas music and have fun. I am already a follower. thanks for the chance to win.
ReplyDeleteI keep the photos from the cards we are sent and have a special scrapbook for those photos. It is neat to look back each year and see how our friends and family's children have grown so much over the years.
ReplyDeleteLori
Bloggin The Crafts
lori at true dungeon dot com
This cartridge reminds me of my other favorite pastime, cross stitch. Would love to win.
ReplyDeleteFavorite tradition is family gatherings.
Kathy
We get together with family that we haven't seen all year. It's our chance to catch up and visit. We eat way too much and open one present each. I loved this as a child and now my children can't wait.
ReplyDeleteI love making Santa and his reindeers their plate of goodies, my daughter always makes sure to check the plate before the tree to see if he came yet!
ReplyDeleteHave a very Merry Christmas!
Karen dkolopez@msn.com
My favorite holiday tradition was making christmas cookies with the kids. As they grew older - they helped and we made even more and gave to the single soldiers in the barracks. Now that they are grown and left home and we are no longer near a military post, we celebrate by watching a christmas movie with the childs family we are with and opening only 1 present on Christmas eve.
ReplyDeletebeen a follower :), my favorite tradition we have been doing for years... every Christmas Eve the whole family aunts, uncles and thier children go to my mom's now (use to be grandmas, until she passed) we all just have fun and remember our loved ones that have passed. we all take lots of photos!!!
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www.scraplovingminis.blogspot.com
My favorite Christmas tradition is having a yummy brunch on Christmas day with family!
ReplyDeleteI love Six Flags!!! We go all the time here in California. My favorite family tradition...we celebrate Chritmas Eve (open gifts) then Christmas Day we lounge ALL day in our pjs playing with our new gifts. My whole immediate family is in town and we just enjoy our time together at our parents. I cant wait!!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the chance to win.
scrappin.diva.girl@gmail.com
I love Six Flags!!! We go all the time here in California. My favorite family tradition...we celebrate Chritmas Eve (open gifts) then Christmas Day we lounge ALL day in our pjs playing with our new gifts. My whole immediate family is in town and we just enjoy our time together at our parents. I cant wait!!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the chance to win.
scrappin.diva.girl@gmail.com
My favorite holiday traditions would be the Christmas eve party that we attend with a bunch of friends!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is cookie baking with my sisters!!! Linda Harris lsunflower58@aol.com
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is decorating the tree with ornaments my children made as well as ones I made as a child. Jane T
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday tradition is getting together with my extended family on Christmas Eve to update the family Bible of the years events, singing carols and opening gifts. Thank you for the chance!
ReplyDeleteI love Christmas eve baking my mom, sister, sister in law and I do
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite traditions is going to my husband's parent's house every Christmas Eve. The whole family is there from the oldest to the youngest member.
ReplyDeleteWould love this cart. Looks like a great one for all of my skiing LOs.
Thank you for this great giveaway! :)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is hanging up all the Christmas cards we receive. I try to find new and inventive ways to do it each year. This year I am taping them to blocks and placing them all around the open space above our kitchen cabinets. I love it! :)
One of my favorite traditions is making christmas projects with my 6yr old son, he loves craft type things and this weekend we made some 3-d paper snowflakes to hang around the house and from his ceiling!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great giveaway!! Thanks so much!!
ReplyDeleteGreat giveaway!! Thanks so much for a chance to win!!
ReplyDeleteOoh, I love that Sweater Weather cartridge! One of our favorite holiday traditions is decorating the Christmas tree and then having a sweet treat of cookies and eggnog in the antique red glasses my grandmother gave me.
ReplyDeleteYour weekend sounds fun! I JUST (as in minutes ago!) submitted my final essay of the term so I'm on holiday too! Woo hoo! Enjoy your break!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite tradition occurs on Christmas Eve. When I make my gingerbread, I always bake cuts for the children to make their own houses - and on Christmas Eve, the children assemble and decorate them! It's so much fun - and a yummy tradition too!
Every year we shop for "wish" kids. I love doing this.
ReplyDeleteHoliday crafting! We trade off days learning and sharing a new crafty idea at a friends home, then ours. This weekend, we are making Christmas cards using the Cricut :-) my crafty friend has never used one and I can't wait to get her hooked!
ReplyDeleteMichele
Wow I so want this cart!
ReplyDeleteMy Favourite Tradition is putting our tree and then looking a old cartoons with my girls.!
Love Christmas and then Halloween and Thanksgiving takes a close third. We will be in Chicago, brrrrrrr for a week at Christmas with our family.
ReplyDeleteDianne Bell - Sewpro02@Aol.com
I love Christmas! My favorite tradition is making Christmas cookies with my grandsons!! We have so much fun they just love to roll out and cut the dough in their favorite shapes. These truly are holiday memories to cherish.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the opportunity to win a cartridge! My favorite Christmas tradition, typically, is decorating. I love making new ornaments and holiday crafts to pair with the old ones!
ReplyDeleteI love CTMH and cricut. For 19 years my granddaughter and family have spent every Christmas Eve together. We get up Christmas morning for santa Clause and chocolate and biscuits. My husband does the cooking. I love traditions. Crafty2 Sandra Keel
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition would be everyone in the family loading up and going to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at my Grandparent's house! We open gifts and then the cooking begins! I love sitting around sharing stories and laughs all day long!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas :)
What a fun weekend!
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite traditions is going up to my grandparents' house for breakfast and gifts on Christmas morning. Now that we have four (soon to be five sometime today) great-grandchildren, it is even more wonderful.
That for the opportunity to win a fabulous cart! Merry Christmas!
Enjoy your "slow down" time! My favorite tradition started 8yrs ago. My family and I cook and deliver hot Christmas meals to the elderly, disabled and in need on Christmas day. We also deliver gifts to the families that are in need. This tradition started because an elderly woman came into the local deli looking for a hot meal. She was told "we do not serve hot meals on the holidays". From that moment on we started to form a plan on how to feed people and 8yrs later we have grown to 250+ meals and 80+ children to buy gifts for. It truly is a blessing to be able to do this for those in need.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance to win this cartridge. I think it looks really fun to use. My favorite holiday tradition is to have friends and family over for a big cookie baking party. After we have baked and ate, everyone takes goodies home for their families.
ReplyDeleteMegan H.
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We decided to do a Christmas Pickle this year. It is a German tradition. You hide the pickle on Christmas eve and the first child to find it in the morning gets an extra treat. They also said they get an extra blessing, but I can't pray to bless one kid over the other. We cut our pickle out of a green foam sheet using the Cricut and the Bags, Tags, Boxes and more cartridge that came loaded in the Gypsy. It was a tag that was oval but skinnier on one end. Then gave it spots with stickles.
ReplyDeleteI would have to say the family get together is my favorite tradition. I so look forward to it!
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite holiday traditions is when we all pile in the car and drive around looking at all the Christmas lights.
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Cindy
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My favorite tradition is to have the kids each pick their favorite ornament off the tree and I take a picture of them with it. It's fun to see how they change from year to year.
ReplyDeleteUp until my son was diagnosed with high blood pressure, we always went out to eat at a Chinese restaurant!! We still have many fond memories of eating out and seeing friends as well.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is that we all meet at my parents house and eat Popeyes fried chicken and then we pile into the truck and go look at christmas lights. We can't all go in one truck now due to marriages but at least half of us go together.
ReplyDeleteOur favorite family Christmas tradition is stockings on Christmas morning! They ate always filled with the traditional stuff like fruit & nuts, small fun gifts, but the toe always holds something special. Last year I got diamond earrings & my husband got the fancy watch he'd been wanting. Isn't Santa a good ol' fella?? I love your sight!
ReplyDeleteI have seen some great cards made with this cartridge. I'd love to have it in my collection!!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is the Christmas dinner after church and presents have been opened. Love to sit and talk with my family!
ReplyDeleteI used to have some traditions but when DS married those went out the window. Would love this cart!
ReplyDeleteTraditions have changed a bit now that our son is grown & married. I guess my favorite now is making the family breakfast Christmas morning. It always has to include Eggs Benedict with champagne & cranberry juice. Next Christmas we will see the start of new traditions as our first Grandchild will be celebrating his/her first Christmas. :)
ReplyDeleteAwesome giveaway! My favorite holiday tradition is making the giant pancake on Christmas morning!
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Love this cartridge!!
ReplyDeleteMy very favorite Christmas tradition with my family is going to our local Chinese restaurant on the 23rd of December. We have been going to the Chinese Restaurant since I was born, approximately 26 years and counting:) There have been very few years where we have not gone. The staff is like family and they always request that my parents sing a Christmas song before they leave. Now I am married and have incorporated my husband into the tradition and hope to one day pass it down to my children. I know, it sounds like the "Christmas Story" movie, but it's something we have always always done. This is my very favorite Christmas Tradition.Thanks for the chance to win:)
My favorite tradition is decorating the tree! I LOVE the lights that dance to the music! (even if they give me a headache!)
ReplyDeleteWe have two holiday traditions that we do decorate the outside of the house with the colored mini lights and we have an almost life size nativity set and we divide it with shepard and sheep on a hill and the manger sceen in the lower yard with all the bushes different solid colors around the yard and inside he does a hugh Dept 56 Dickens village. Thanks for the chance to win a cartridge
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is singing Christmas songs in the car!
ReplyDeleteTeresa
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My favorite tradition is having my granddaughter sprinkle raindeer dust up the driveway to the front door. We leave carrot out for them to eat and the raindeer leave "hoof prints" from the front door to the carrots. She just loves it.
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How fun did you get chairs????? Oh it is so frosty this morning. Blue sky and white frost everywhere what a beautiful day. That sweater cart looks so warm and comfy with the cold morning.
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Linda in Stanwood
Sounds like a fun weekend!My favorite tradition is my christmas dinner party with all my friends
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Our favorite family tradition is sprinkling reindeer food in the snow. The kids would then come in for some hot peppermint hot chocolate. On Christmas Day, we go toboganning. This year so excited as we bought them new snow riders and helmets. I'm already following your blog by email and google reader. Thanks for the giveaway. Merry Christmas!!
ReplyDeletehave a great weekend. are tradition is when we dec. our tree we save the angle for my older son and he puts her on top. we've done this sents he was able to hold things. well great cart. and thanks for all you do and share, god bless you and you'rs. 1205love@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is when we all decorate the Christmas tree. It gets harder to do since the kids are older but they do make time for it. I'm already a follower. Thanks for such a giveaway.
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My favorite tradition is the Christmas eve candle light service
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is the reading of Christ's birth from the Bible on Christmas morning. It use to be my Dad reading it, but now it is my husband since my Dad passed. We gather everyone together on Christmas morning before we open the gifts, and he reads the story of why we are celebrating!
ReplyDeletemy favorite holiday tradition with my kids who are now 22, 17 and 14 is when we pile in my SUV and go around and look at lights! we have always done that since they were really little! love it!
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My favorite Christmas tradition is decorating the tree with my daughters. When it is time for the ornaments, I take each one out of the boxes and usually have a special story to go with it. I am sure they have heard the stories about ornaments my grandma made or the ones they made way back in pre-k a dozen times, but they still listen and smile with each story. It may take us a little longer to decorate the tree, but there are no plain ball ornaments... every single thing hanging on the tree has a special meaning. Finally, my husband and my youngest daughter put on the angel topper. In a few short years, she'll be tall enough that she won't need him to lift her to reach the top of the tree, but I am hoping they still keep the tradition of doing it together.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the opportunity to win this great cartridge! Our traditions are centered on family mostly--what we eat, games to play, the way we open gifts together (one at a time in order to enjoy each one!). One of my favorite traditions was with my husband's family in southern Ohio where several family family members lived near one another. On Christmas night we would go from house to house to see each other's gifts. It was always a lot of fun!
ReplyDeleteWe love driving around the neighborhood looking at Christmas lights! L
ReplyDeleteLove this cart...thanks for the opportunity to win it!
love this cartridge.. it's so warm !!
ReplyDeletemy favorite tradition....
while decorating.. when we put down the little stable with baby Jesus... it always gives me a oppurtunity.. to share what christmas is al about!!
i love it when my kids stand in front of it with the little lights staring at the scene..
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Sounds like you had an awesome weekend.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is our whole family goes to my nieces house Christmas day. She has 3 boys and there is nothing like seeing Christmas through childrens eyes. It is so much fun!
My favourite holiday tradition is when all our family gets together on Christmas Day and for dinner. Each year our family grows bringing more excitement, laughter and love. I love all your giveaways!
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Unwraping presents Christmas day is our family tradition. We sit in a circle and a designated grandchild is Santa and hands out gifts one by one. We take turns opening them and showing what we got before the next person gets to open one. We traditionally take two to three hours to open gifts. We pause half way through for food and beverages. When the kids were little they used to get so excited waiting for their turn.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is making Christmas cookies. We always make spritz cookies and I try not to eat all of them!
ReplyDeleteMy new tradition is making homemade Christmas cards for all my friends and family. My old tradition is making Candy for my co-workers, friends and family. Thank you for a chance to win.
ReplyDeleteOur family has a few fun Christmas traditions. We like to decorate early, sometimes a week or so before Thanksgiving even. I also spend a lot of time making crafts for gifts and decorations. On Christmas Eve we have a big dinner with family at our house, and then we spend Christmas Day with just our immediate family. It makes for a special time of year!
ReplyDeleteYay how fun! My favorite tradition is the wonderful Christmas Eve we always have - crazy fun day, late evening church, a wonderfully traditional late night meal then we each can open one gift then bed super late, up early to enjoy Santa!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition has been meeting all my brothers and their families at our step-moms house each year and playing the Chinese Christmas gift exchange game (with tons of laughs). This will be our first year without our dear step-mom and we are beginning a new tradition of meeting at one of my brothers house. Life goes on and we can all look back and smile when we remember our children growing up having Christmas each year with their grammy.
ReplyDeleteThings are mad crazy,I cant believe Christmas is 13 days away.I had tons of ideas and stuff I wished to be done, but I forget my disabilities and every thing just sits undone. At least all my shopping is done ... Hopefully someone will help get it wrapped for me. Ill just sit back and enjoy what happens, at least my grand children bring me tons of joy and happieness.
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Thanks for the chance. Lets see, a tradition is making.g these Christmas treesugar cookies
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is our annual Christmas morning breakfast! It is always filled with yumminess!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance 2 win! My fav has 2 b baking Christmas cookies; which we still do my son is 23 & daughter is 14!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is when all of our family gathers at my mom's house on Christmas evening. Everything looks so pretty. We all bring food and we spend time relaxing and enjoying each others company.
ReplyDeleteOur longest traditions , when I was a child, is on Christmas morning to have homemade waffles with strawberries with whip cream. Yummy.
ReplyDeleteWow what a great prize to win. My weekend was filled with work (tis the season for retail!)
ReplyDeleteProbably the only tradition I have is that my side of the family is spent together on Christmas eve. This was carried on from my Mother who had her family over on Christmas eve. It's a nice tradition and the only time of the year that we are all together at the same time.
My favorite tradition is making tamales. We made 248 this year. I lot of work, but it's a great time with the family and we love eating them : )
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ReplyDeleteOne of our traditions, after everyone has opened their gifts, we all sit down and watch movies!
Thanks for the chance to win!
My favorite tradition is just spending time with my family and relaxing!
ReplyDeleteTracy
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Ooooooooooh, I would really LOVE to get this cartridge... It looks like alot of fun! (it's on my wish list, but haven't gotten it yet!) My favorite tradition is really listening to Christmas Music, the older stuff.. Bing Crosby, Nat King~Cole, Dean Martin.. ohhhhh I just love Christmas in all it's glory!!! Thanks for the chance and the opportunity to win this neat prize! I'm Weezie13 on the Cricut.com Message Boards!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun week this will be!!! My favorite, is decorating the tree, and decorating sugar cookies, even though my kids are all grown, we have so much fun cutting them out and decorating them and of course eating them too!
ReplyDeleteKimberly
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My favorite tradition is going to see lights. That always puts me in the Christmas mood.
ReplyDeletei'm waiting for this cartridge...i so hope to win it. thanks for the chance.
ReplyDeleteplaying christmas music when all the kids and their kids are home. then we all singalong with the tunes we know. it's so much fun!
Our holiday traditions include going driving to see Christmas lights several times during the season!
ReplyDeleteWe have a tradition that started the first year we were married and this is our17th Christmas to do it. Every year we pick out an ornament as a couple that is symbolic of something specific that has happened that year, we sharpie a date on it if it is not engraved and we put it on our tree. When our children were born we started adding one each year for each of them and of course our animal babies get one too. It is so much fun to open the box of these when decorating and go through and remember what each one stood for. The kids love it and it brings back so many wonderful memories. We now have enough for a completely separate tree of just these ornaments. We call it our "family" tree. When Our children get older and have families of their own they can choose to take their ornaments and continue the tradition on their own trees or leave it at our house to continue until we no longer can.
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ReplyDeleteI am just getting started with my Cricut and this cartridge reminds me so much of my grandma's knitting. I would love to have it.
ReplyDeleteWe have several traditions. One is the annual tree hunt with all our kids and now their kids and then after we have dinner in an old family-style Italian restaurant. And then there is baking day. I spend a whole day baking all the Christmas cookies and goodies and whoever is available comes to help decorate. We have Christmas music playing and it is always a fun day.
Happy holidays to all!
I just love the inspiration that I get from you! My favorite tradition is opening up ONE gift on Christmas Eve, and then seeing the eager little faces on my little ones as they anticipate what might be waiting the next morning under the tree!
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