Welcome to our Fourth day of
FABULOUS
Holiday Giveaways!
Today we are featuring:
Christy Tomlinson~Scarlet Lime
Ellie Inspired
Kaari Meng
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Patty Young
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Christy Tomlinson
I have been paper crafting and scrapbooking for over 10 years and still love it today! I had the great opportunity to work for Chatterbox as their Educational and Marketing Director for 3 years and then left to pursue other adventures in my life (including being a stay at home mom to my 6 kids and wife to hubby Ben. When I left Chatterbox, I started a new adventure working for Making Memories as a book and project designer, and also accepted a position as a Contributing Editor for Scrapbooks Etc, Better Homes and Gardens Magazine. In the Fall of 2007, with the encouragement of my husband, I decided to venture out on my own and start Scarlet Lime. Over the course of a year, Scarlet Lime grew much more than we expected and now that is what we both do full time. We love our job! In 2009, we also started a sister company called Scarlet Lime BeadArt! Our BeadArt website carries Jewelry supplies including fun unique beads and charms and DIY kits as well!
And why the name Scarlet Lime? Well to be honest, it’s simple. My favorite color is and always has been red, scarlet red, and lime flavored anything is my absolutely my favorite treat. The idea behind the kit club was to bring together all sort of patterns, textures, and styles; mix modern with vintage, funky with chic. So Scarlet and Lime, two things you normally wouldn’t put together,( but two things I love), just seemed to be the perfect fit!
I also love to blog and teach online! I tried to post daily inspiration on my personal blog and am currently teaching online e-course about Mixed media on my blog as well! Check it out as www.christytomlinson.typepad.com Well, I hope you enjoy our monthly kits, ad-ons, paper-crafting kits, and all the other fun things we have in store too! I would love to hear comments or suggestions you may have (good or bad.. I can take it, I have 6 kids remember?). So please feel free to e-mail me ANYTIME at [email protected]
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Christy is giving away $50 to spend in her Scarlet Lime Shop, plus a spot in her
Mixed Media Workshop.
*Christy has also offered 4 more spots in this workshop. I will draw the additional winners after the day 4 winner has been picked.
Ellie Inspired
Hi, I’m Laura Johnson and this is my Elisabeth, whom Ellie Inspired is named after. I am a pattern designer, a mom to four great kids, and married to my best friend. Ellie Inspired has been a wonderful venue for me to share my creativity and form great friendships. Ellie Inspired patterns are classicly styled with a bit of a modern flair. They include patterns for girls sizes 1-12 and I am just beginning to offer patterns for boys also sizes 1-12. My patterns include everything from smocked and embroidered heirloom clothing to casual knits to sleepwear. Thank you for visiting me, for your encouragement and support, and sharing your lives with me as well. I hope that I have inspired you to create something beautiful for a special little blessing in your life!
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Laura has offered this GREAT giveaway … Perfect for sewing up Holiday PJ’s
Kaari Meng
Kaari Meng has been designing vintage glass jewelry for more than 20 years. After moving to New York City in 1988, Kaari began exhibiting at trade shows and designing for specialty shops, including Anthropologie. Armed with experience in all facets of jewelry manufacturing, she began teaching jewelry making out of her shop, French General. In 2003, French General moved to Los Angeles, where it continues to offer workshops and creative kits to people who enjoy working with vintage materials.
Kaari is the author of several books, including French-Inspired Jewelry: Creating with Vintage Beads, Buttons & Baubles (Lark/Sterling, 2007) and Treasured Notions (Chronicle Books, 2010).
Please visit her at: https://www.frenchgeneral.com/
Her blog: http://frenchgeneral.blogspot.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/French-General/
And Join The Art of Craft at: http://www.the-art-of-craft.com/
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Kaari is giving away 17 fat quarters from her new Christmas fabric collection Fa la la
Patty Young
Patty Young grew up in San Jose, Costa Rica, in an environment where she was encouraged to express her creativity freely. Both of her parents dabbled in the arts so it was only natural that she would inherit their creative genes. They moved to the United States in 1987 and Patty attended The University of Central Florida from ’89 to ’93 where she received her Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design and Photography. Over the next 12 years, Patty honed her graphic design skills at a number of marketing agencies before deciding to leave her corporate job in 2005 to stay home with her children and pursue her own creative endeavors. Patty is a licensed textile designer for Michael Miller Fabrics and recently released her seventh collection. Her fabrics include quilting cottons and knits. She is currently working on her eighth collection which will debut Spring 2012 along with her debut book, “Sewing Modkid Style”, published by Wiley. Patty along with her husband, Jon, also owns and operates MODKID LLC and serves in the role of Lead Designer. MODKID, LLC specializes in high quality boutique-style sewing patterns which include children’s clothes, doll outfits, purses and other assorted accessories and home furnishings. To learn more about Patty and what she’s cooking up next, please visit us at our blog and feel free to leave a comment. We’d love to hear from you!
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Patty is giving away this DARLING ”Megan” Bag
Custom made in the Modkid Studio by Patty’s assistant Emalee using Grand Bazaar fabrics.
WOW!
All you need to do to enter to win all FOUR of these prizes is comment below with your answer to this question …
What is your favorite holiday activity and why?
Thanks so much to our FOUR FABULOUS artists!
~We’ll see you tomorrow~
We’ve had so many over the years, some still around, some have since faded since my grandparents are both now gone but out most recent holiday tradition, well at least since The Polar Express came out on DVD is to gather at my moms house before Christmas (hopefully a snowy evening to add to the excitement) and watch the movie together. My mom makes a tray of cookies, my nephew always wants popcorn, we have such a wonderful time and when the hot chocolate scene comes up my nephew and I always get up and try and imitate, lots of laughter and joy that evening and I look forward to it every year.
My favorite holiday activity is driving around on Friday nights (our date night) and looking at Christmas lights with my husband and 4-year old son. Wow! What a wonderful prize pack. Thanks for the chance to win.
My favorite holiday activity is driving around to look at Christmas lights as a family while listening to Christmas music on the radio. The lights make me so happy, but the best part is spending time w/ my family. We come home and drink hot chocolate. LOVE it!
My favorite holiday activity is baking cookies with my kids and it used to be when my older kids were little I liked to bring them sledding when I was much younger, but where we live there aren’t many hills that you can just sled down, so they like pulling each other around the yard.
My favorite thing to do is shop for presents – of course, this is much more fun when I’ve got some great gift ideas!
My favorite activity is getting together with family. We’re a bit scattered around the country so it’s always wonderful when we can all be together. And it’s especially wonderful at Christmas. Thanks for the chance to win.
I love Christmas music, and one of my favorite Christmas activities is to work on a pretty quilt while listening to the music. Very peaceful.
What beautiful giveaways! My favorite Christmas activity is wrapping presents! I spread everything out on the living room floor, turn on my Christmas music and go to town! I love the creativity I can use in wrapping and the excitement I get about how everyone will like their gifts!
My favorite Christmas activity is spending time every Thanksgiving with my girls making new ornaments for our tree. I have a box for each girl to take with them – MANY MANY years from now :) – when they move away for a tree in their home.
We live in Louisiana. On the levee along the Mississippi River there is a tradition of building bon fires. The bon fires help show Papa Noel the way on Christmas Eve to all the little boys and girls homes. The traditional bon fire was just a pyramid style. Over the years however some bonfires havebecome very elaborate. I’ve seen them made in all types of shapes such as log cabins,sleigh, LSU sign, etc. When my boyfriend(now husband) and I started going 30+ yrs. ago the bon fires were easy to drive up to and view. Now a days you have to park and walk quite a ways to see them but it is still a lot of fun especially if it is a cold night.
At Christmas it is always making my gifts and cards for everyone. This year with my new part-time job it will be more rewarding as I watch a 97 year old dear woman. In many ways she reminds me of my grandmother who taught me so much in sewing, creating from what you have sharing what you have and southern cooking.
She can not see very well but I have been working with her in painting cards.
I feel there is always something people of any age can do…it is only called “challenged”. In this activity the true joy of giving each other laughter during the process is priceless.
She is also my official counter when I am making my own things. Hey everyone needs one.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS Y’ALL!
All these lovely, talented women… nice to discover new people to follow.
My favorite holiday activity… there are so many! But I do get a thrill when driving around town with my family, nibbling cookies, tracking down the best lit houses and singing along to Christmas carols! (I sort of cheated by throwing in several favorites into one!) Being all together and absorbing the sights, sounds, and flavors of the season makes me feel comforted and joyful.
My favorite thing to do during the holidays is to go to the family Christmas eve party. Each child is allowed to open just one gift. Sometimes you got a really good one… sometimes you got one that needed to go with another… sometimes you just got socks or underwear. As I got older I thought I knew how to pick the package to open… but my parents were always a step ahead of me and learnd how to wrap the surprises to keep me guessing.
Our favorite holiday tradition is driving around town looking at lights. We take a van and have snacks. The kids love it too.
Every year around this time I start making my orange dark chocolate truffles (which is an old family recipe that has been passed down). We make them for gifts and also so we have a nice big batch of them for ourselves all through out the month! I always look forward to making them because I try to only make them around Christmas…mainly because I can’t stop eating them if they are in the fridge! lol
definitely making gingerbread houses! i didn’t do it a lot as a kid, so i’m catching up on my creations! and the odd sneaky m&m that goes straight in my mouth is a bonus… :)
My favorite holiday activity is reading the 25+ Christmas themed books we have to my children. We only bring them out for the holidays and they sit in a basket by the fireplace. My kids look forward to this every year. Each year supplement the Christmas library by purchasing new books and this year I’m going to inscribe the books with the date and year.
My favorite holiday activity is our Christmas Tree Party. All of my sisters and their families get together to go to a tree farm and cut trees. We then come to our house for a wonderful brunch, make ornaments around the table and have an ornament exchange. It is a great time to see all of the family in the area during the holiday season.
My favorite holiday activity is making Christmas cookies and candy to wrap up and share with others. We almost always decorate silly gingerbread people.
My favorite holiday activity is napping when it is all done…no, just kidding. I really like Christmas parties. it allows me to see people I don’t get to see the rest of the year. A great time to relax and enjoy the holiday.
It’s got to be decorating the Christmas tree :)
I’m able to decorated with my families and we are so happy with the result.
Thx.
Mine is baking christmas cookies with my lovely daughter.I remember one year i was really sick and her boyfriend who she just started dating had to help her he did just a great job they have been together ever since its been 8 yrs this christmas & last july he finally proposed to her so we are now planning a big wedding in june!!!! I’am so happy cant wait!!!
So hard! I love Christmas Morning Breakfast, our little family enjoys a special breakfast together Christmas Morning!
My dear niece who is now 12, told me years ago that her favorite activity is when my daughter and I go to her house and we make and decorate sugar cookies…. this is so refreshing since most kids like getting all the gifts the most… it was always my daughters favorite activity so I am glad it is now a favorite family tradition
My favorite Christmas memory and activity is going to see the local Christmas plays, programs around whereever I live. I am a military spouse, and often Christmas is spent away from my biological family, but always with a “new” family and many new traditions are added to mine.
I live in New Orleans area where there are a couple of beautiful parks. Every Christmas season, City Park celebrates the season with Celebration of the Oaks. The entire park is decorated with lights and figures from the huge Oak trees. Area schools decorate trees with special themes and these line the walkways. It became our family tradition every year to walk through (rather than drive) and spend the evening with local artists and musicians. After that we would go back to the house and start decorating. My children loved it and now , even though the children are grown, we still celebrate. It doesn’t seem like Christmas until the walk through the park!
As a child we used to drive down Christmas Tree Lane where every house was wonderfully decorated. We oohed and awed as we watched all the twinkling lights and colorful displays. It’s still my favorite thing to do today.
Although I must admit sitting on Santa’s lap was pretty fun too.
So much fun!!! My favorite holiday activity is family, we all get together and it is so cozy and fun with everyone around. Oh and a new favorite is making gifts i have had so much fun this year making special gifts for friends and family. You all inspire me so much!!
My favorite Christmas activity is picking a name off the Angel tree each year. It feels good to be able to give a child a Christmas that might not otherwise have one. We’ve been through hard times and had strangers pull through to provide our children a Christmas and every year its a wonderful remind of the goodness of mankind and we always use this activity to remember all we have been blessed with.
Advent calendars are my favorite thing to give and to make for Christmas. This year I numbered small popcorn bags, filled them with treats and strung them on several suspended “clotheslines” in my nieces bedroom.
There are so many! But one of my most favorites happens on Christmas Eve. Every year on this night we let our two boys open one present. In that package every year is a pair of pajamas. They pretend they have no idea what’s in the package. Ha After the gifts are opened we all put our p.j.s on, get in the car with hot chocolate and go look at Christmas lights. I asked me oldest son when he might get too old for that and he responded, “Probably never Mom”.
Probably “opening” my stocking. :-) It is just a small stocking and it is the same one my mother made me as a child. My husband always fills it with little stuff — not even stuff I care about that much. It’s just the fun of it all!
I’ve always loved going Christmas shopping. It’s so much fun buying or making something that is just perfect for one of my family members or close friends! :)
I love the search for the perfect gift for each and every family member……. The joy of that one special moment when you realize that those who love you really know you! Love is the reason for this season!
My favorite holiday activity is my annual shopping day out with my husband. He always takes off the second Friday of December and we spend the whole day together, shopping, eating and just enjoying the time together. We usually have the kids sleep over at grandma’s so we aren’t in any rush to get home in the evening. We do get a lot done but the highlight of the day is the fun we have together.
My favorite holiday activity is taking pictures of my family when we have all gathered together……when all my kids and their significant others come home for Christmas and usually after all the presents have been opened and the breakfast is all cleaned up,….all the kids (ages 20-26) gather around the dining room table and start playing card games that make them all laugh so hard,…there’s nothing like the laughter of your children no matter how old they get…..that’s when the camera comes out and I’m shooting picture after picture. Memories are the best when you can see a picture of them.
My favorite Christmas activity is going caroling!!! I love to sing and love to harmonize and being with other people who share that love is fantastic!!
My favorite activity is baking Christmas cookies!! They don’t last long around here but I love to do it!
My favorite holiday activity has only been going on for the past five years. My son is in the Army and he only gets to come home during December. He is now 25, but we have always loved playing Super Mario World on Super Ninetendo, a really old game system, which I have managed to preserve! My son, his wife, and my other son all gather in the living room and stay up all night playing that game. We laugh, we play punch each other, we marvel at my son’s skill, but most of all we have a blast. The only time we have not been able to do this with my oldest son was the year he was in Iraq, but his wife and my youngest son carried on the new tradition in his honor, lol.
I know we had other traditions before he left for the Army, but I think they have fallen by the wayside in terms of importance and fun. My son and his wife will be home in a couple of weeks and that is the one thing they have mentioned wishing to do. It will be lovely, and we will enjoy it all the more knowing we won’t be able to do it next year because he will be deploying to Afghanistan a couple of months after the holidays.
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My favorite holiday activity is spending time with my parents, brother and his daughter. I live in NYC – they live in WI. I love going home for Christmas. My Mom decorates her house with tons of decorations and it is so much fun to go home and discover something new. Our family gets together Christmas Eve for food, family fun and to make memories. Why? Obvious I miss them terribly every day so I cherish the times I do get to spend with them.
Getting together with family and friends and making memories. My sister-in-law just passed away 11/30/11 from cancer at the age of 57. Even tho we didn’t live in the same state, we still got together as often as we could and made memories. I hold and cherish those times. I continue to make memories with my family and friends, because that is what keeps you together when everything is falling apart…
My favorite holiday activity is any of the family gatherings that we have— usually at least 3 different ones, and sometimes more. Even though, most of my family live close and we have gatherings frequently (probably once every month or two), the Christmas gatherings are just special. We always have the most delicious meals, sing Christmas carols together, exchange gifts — including a round of “Dirty Santa” with $10 gifts that are frequently silly, fun type things, and watch DVD slide shows, which are sometimes just a recap in pictures of the previous year’s happenings, a stroll down memory lane with images from the past, or a trip to Fantasy Land where Grandpa has miraculously became SuperMan, Granny is now Marilyn Monroe, and the whole family is now the cast of Little House on the Prairie… even the family dogs get in on the act! FUN times! :-)
Favorite holiday activity is tough because my daughter in only 2 and just starting to understand. I am hoping to make some memories and traditions as she gets older.
Wonderful artists and a great giveaway. Thanks for the chance to win.
Shannon C
This question makes me realize all the holiday activities I hold dear…the feast of the seven fishes on Christmas Eve, our big family cookie making day, advent gifts, watching the Polar Express (even though my kids are teens) and pretty bad Lifetime Holiday movies. Oh, but my absolute favorite activity of the season is finding a way to spread the cheer…some years we’ve sponsored a family, some years we picked a wish off a giving tree, some years we invited someone to dinner who didn’t have family nearby. Last year we had some children over for cookie decorating so the parents could have a couple hours to themselves. Even in lean years, I’ve tried to count my blessings and remember what the holiday is really about, and hopefully teach my kids it really is better to give than receive (jury’s still out on that one!)
My favorite holiday activity is baking (and indulging eating) all the yummy treats that have been a tradition in our family
My favorite holiday activity is our Christmas Eve celebration. All the excitement and anticipation of Christmas. It’s my favorite.
My favorite activity is once the tree is all decorated, to sit that night with the fireplace going, and only the tree lights on….and just soak it all in! I get so excited for that first night of Christmas Magic – it transforms my LR, and kicks off the season for me!
I like picking out the Christmas tree because it is always our first activity of the season.
My favorite holiday activity is when all the family, from my mother through great grand kids, visit for a family meal and present exchange. It is wonderful to see my mother’s face when all are here to be with her. Thanks for the giveaway.
My favorite memory is sitting on the sofa with my three siblings listening to our late father read
TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. He managed a Sears store, so he always worked late on Christmas Eve, but once he was home & we were in our pajamas, the book magically appeared! My five children are the oldest of twelve grandchildren and each at least once had the magical story read to them by my father. My husband read story for all the other years. In 2010, we became grandparents — two grandsons, a mere six months apart! Imagine my surprise when one of my daughters insisted that I read this story to her son. It was an honor! And I look forward to knowing that my two son-in-laws and three sons will continue this family tradition started by their children’s great-grandfather.
My favorite holiday tradition is a new one to me….It is getting a Christmas tree with my new grandson, Elijah and his parents….during these holidays when I wish for just ONE more day to have my kids little again…I realize I am being given that chance with my grandchildren and realize what a gift they are and what a gift this life is…many blessings to you all!!!!
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My favorite holiday activity is still watching our our children (now married) decorate our tree … this family tradition is so important and valued by them (and now their spouses) that we wait until my daughter and her family return home for Christmas (they live 1,000 miles away). My husband and I view this time honored family tradition a gift to ourselves as we watch our son and daughter unwrap each ornament and recall the fond memories of Christmases past , and so we don’t mind living with an undecorated tree for a week or two.
I love decorating with my husband. If I am not in the ‘spikit’ his enthusiasm pulls me in and it is magical! xoxo Thank you for this opportunity – I only know of Christy and adore her and can not wait to learn more about these other lovely artists! xo
My favorite Holiday activity is driving around looking at the lighted houses in the evening. Then it’s perfect timing for some hot chocolate and a Christmas show (of which we have over 50 of them recorded). It’s about the only time I don’t have to fight to get my teenager to join us!
My favorite holiday activity is driving at night with my daughter and looking at the lights. I loved this as a kid and my 4 year old love it too. It gets us all in the mood for the season.
I have to say trimming the tree is my very favorite, bringing out the collection year after year is always a wonderful surprise…but….the white elephant exchange with my extended family on Christmas Eve is wild and hilarious! I look forward to it every year now, and no one spends any money which is even better! Happy Holidays Jo! Thank you for the opportunity!
Wow – very hard to narrow down to one activity! I love Christmas soooo …. ok, my favorite activity is waking up Christmas morning and watching my kids and hubby open their gifts – no one has brushed their teeth or hair yet we take pictures – we are all bleary eyed but totally immersed in our small little family’s moment of sharing! A very close second is the day to day excitement of the Advent calendars for my kids ;-)
Cooking….and eating. And driving around looking at lights. and then going out for dessert! :)
My favorite activity is doing the advent calendar with my daughter. It gets better every year as she understands the season more, and it’s a great time at the end of the day to slow down and reflect on the true meaning of Christmas
During the holidays is usually when all of our grown kids are back together. We have hot chocolate while playing the games we used to play when they were all at home or putting together the Christmas jigsaw puzzles we’ve collected over the years!
I just love all of these ladies and the prizes are fabulous! My favorite part of the Holidays is for everyone to get together. I really enjoy seeing everyone and visiting with them.
Hugs XX
Barbara
one of my favorite things to do is go downtown to see the lights. I live in Salt Lake City, and the city center is lit for blocks with thousands of lights.
Being in Utah near the beautiful Mormon temple, our favorite tradition is to walk around the grounds to see the amazing light show. Every tree and bush is covered in Christmas glow, and there are millions of other people there, feeling the same Christmas spirit, and the whole place becomes a magical wonderland. So lovely!
wow what gorgeous offerings! my favorite activity? that is hard, we really don’t have anything because we are childless so we my not even put up a tree this year. Maybe it is opening our stockings on Christmas morning, that’s always fun
Oh gosh where do I start. A favorite activity- all of the Christmas Season! Decorating and baking while listening to all my favorite holiday songs! Making gifts! Why? It’s just so much fun! I guess since it’s something we look forward to every year since we were children. A timeless tradition!
And thank you so much for sharing all these talented women with us! It’s only day 4 and I have had so much fun reading about and browsing all of their websites and blogs. I have several online classes I now want to take and just ordered a few things!
Wow I have another fun thing to look forward to at Christmas time next year!
My favourite holiday activity is writing my Christmas cards. I love either choosing them or making them, and then the time spent thinking of the special people in my life as I write their card. Music is playing, cookies baking (I always multi-task) and a lovely evening is spent….
My favorite holiday activity is going to local Christmas Crafts shows and supporting all the artists and crafters offering handmade Goodness!!! I love the festive mood everyone is in at these shows and it really puts me in the mood for gift giving!!! xoxo-diana
Love decorating the tree with the kids, christmas tunes playing & drinking hot chocolate! Thanks for the giveaway.
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Taking the kids and letting them pick out the perfect tree to cut down. Then decorating it while listening to Christmas music. And lots of baking, cocoa, hot cider and Christmas movies!
So many amazing prizes!! Thanks for the chance!
My favorite holiday activity is trying to make each Xmas for my partner Hayden better than the least. He had a terrible foster home so he has none of the awesome Xmas memories I have, but somehow still maintains his childlike love of the season. I try to give him a new Xmas memory or tradition each year. I love seeing his reactions.
My favorite holiday activity is having Christmas afternoon tea with my girls. After that we bake and make candy for a Cookie Exchange.
Driving around and looking at Christmas lights. We all go get hot cocoa or cappuccino and spend hours driving around singing Christmas carols and laughing. It is “us” time without the distractions of tv, internet, or phone. We even take the dog – it’s fun for all of us.
My favorite holiday tradition is Christmas Breakfast with our children and now with the grandchildren also. We have a breakfast buffet with casseroles, breads, maple sausage and other yummy things. Afterwards we read the Christmas Story, sing a carol and open gifts. There are 21 of us now that the greatgrandparents are no longer with us. This has been practiced for over 40 years.
Have a God Filled Day
SHirley
I love picking out a tree because it’s the only time of the year I drink hit cocoa.
Cookie baking and decorating. I definitely fall under the enthusiastic rather than talented category when it comes to decorating, but it’s just so much fun to bring a tin of homemade cookies to friends at the holidays.
Christmas Eve… We are retired so as everyone else is working or out doing their last minute shopping I cook. I set out the food in chafing dishes around 5:30p and about 6p they all start wandering in. I usually do several hot italian dishes, an antipasto platter & garlic bread. For sweets I set out Christmas cookies, green pistachio cake & pink strawberry cake cut in bite size squares. Once everyone is here and has eaten we settle in and open our gifts. If it’s been a lucrative year, lol, we also play the white elephant gift game just for fun. We treasure this time with our children and all our grandchildren. This year we’ll be missing one very loved part of the family as one of our grandsons, his wife and their beautiful little daughter won’t make it home from San Diego (Navy). I am thrilled to host our family on Christmas Eve as our children’s families grow and each starts making their own family traditions… I hope to carry on this tradition for many years to come.
Umm, I’d have to say eating…especially trying things which are special in other households but which are new to me!
I love driving around looking at Christmas lights. Popcorn and hot chocolate are a must.
My favorite Christmas activity is baking cookies while the music is going, sitting by a fire sharing storys and eating our cookies. Ice skating on a frosty day..a sleigh ride thru the beautiful woods and being with family. Merry Christmas!
Mu favorite tradition is walking Candy Cane Lane! That’s a street in our small town that goes crazy decorating every year. They serve hot chocolate and play music and it’s so romantic to stroll along ;)
My favourite activity is taking the kids and driving to the big light displays in town. The best ones get listed in our local paper, and they have walk-through displays, hot chocolate, and choreographed music with the lights. The kids are always so well behaved because they’re so busy looking at everything, and it’s a great family night out! And we bring canned food or donation money because most of them collect for the local food bank.
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I love baking cookies for the holidays. Bringing out my grandmother’s cookie press and the colored sugars immediately puts me in the holiday spirit.
My favorite Christmas activity is to attend a Christmas play performed by children or teens. Nothing gets me in the spirit more than watching the kids sing and dance and act. I just attended our high school’s Christmas production, and I am now officially in the holiday spirit.
my favorite holiday activity is a tie….between driving around and looking at holiday lights, and decorating the tree.
My favorite activity is to make Christmas cards and a new ornament for everyone’s tree. I hand stamp about 75 cards each year and then make ornaments for my family and very close friends! Last year I made paper birdhouses and this year, I made decorated birdcages – also out of paper! I also love making gifts and creating with yarn, paper and fabric.
A few years ago, we moved far away from family and friends. So, many of our holiday traditions were left behind. I have sweet memories of gathering with people I love, doing the same thing year after year, but now we’re creating new holiday traditions. One of my favorite new traditions is taking Christmas cookies and breads to people in our tiny little town. I visit the Post Office, the vet, the utility company, as well as our neighbors. It feels great.
My favorite holiday activity is the day after Christmas. My Mom (80), my Aunt (79), SIL, and I go to the craft store and small shops in their small town. Then we come home and create. What we create doesn’t matter. It is sitting around the kitchen table laughing, eating Christmas cookies, and being together. The stress of the holidays is gone, we are together for a brief bit to just enjoy each other.
There are so many things, but I think my two equal favorites are these: I love to read all my different versions of “The Night Before Christmas” that I have collected – it’s my favorite! And the other is…wrapping, wrapping, wrapping! And a Christmas movie on in the background is part of the ritual!
My favorite holiday activity is cookie baking. I always used to get right in there and help my mom with making all of the Christmas cookies.. and she called me her little cookie baker. I then got my kids involved in making all of the Christmas cookies and candies and expanded on our traditional selection and added a few extras. Our neighborhood treat is to make up a boxed selection of all of our traditional treats and share the wealth.. otherwise we would be eating WAAAAAAAAAY too many goodies all by ourselves. Especially now that most of my kids have grown up and moved out on their own :(
My favorite holiday activity is wrapping gifts. I love getting everything set up for the family and making things look pretty.
My favorite activity is baking.
My favorite holiday activity is making cookies and other special treats with my children. We listen to Christmas music and just have fun. And best of all we share these treats with friends and family!
My favorite holiday activity is going to brunch with Santa and Mrs. Claus. We go to the same hotel every year & my kids love it! Thanks for the chance!
Love driving through a light display at a state park near us. I’ve always loved Christmas lights, and thoroughly enjoy this display. It’s become a tradition for us.
Driving around town and seeing the lights. Some houses have a radio frequency that plays music in synch with the lights flashing!! It’s exciting and beautiful and wonderful!!
On Christmas Eve we have soups at our house and open gifts. I love seeing the grand kids get so excited!
Our favorite holiday activity is simply watching a Christmas movie with the kids in the living room while drinking hot chocolate. We move frequently and this is one thing we can count on doing whether we are stateside or overseas.
My favourite Holiday activity has to be pulling out my collection of Christmas books every year. I have a huge box of them, mostly kids books and stories, and I add to them every year by shopping at the thrift store looking for old ones. I scored 10 of the little golden books a week ago that I bought with the intent of sending them to my 3 year old niece who lives in Japan, but I just may be to keep them for myself, we will see. My kids (now 13 and 19) love seeing them every year.
My favorite activity is holiday baking with the women in my family. I love hearing their stories and laughter!
I love Christmas…I love shopping and finding that perfect little unexpected gift for family and friends. I also love seeing my grandson light the advent candle like I did this morning at church.
The best part of the holidays to me… Is trimming the tree with my kiddos. We have a blast selecting the colors and themes to use every ear. Plus I love snuggling afterwards on the couch with some hot chocolate!
Making gift baskets for friends- so many wonderful things to chose from, how can you go wrrong!
I love coming here and seeing others crafts. You all inspire me to be better and to grow. I thank you for all you do!!
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My Favorite holiday activity is GIFT SHOPPING!!! I take time to think up the best gifts for everyone on my list. To see the faces of people I love and care about when they open my gifts is the best part:D
My favourite holiday activity is playing board or card games with my four kids. It is one of the only times through the year that we are all home together because they are almost 13, 15, 17 and 20. We laugh alot!
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I love to play Christmas music while I decorate the tree and the house. And i usually do it the week after thanksgiving so i can enjoy the decorations all month!
Our Favorite Holiday activity would be making up our treat bundles for neighbors and friends and being together in the kitchen with Christmas music playing!
My favorite activity would have to be crafting Christmas decor.The next best thing would be the cooking.Hoping everyone has wonderful Holidays filled with love and peace.
My favorite holiday activity is getting together with family and friends to share a meal. All through the holiday season, opportunities to get together with other folks is something that I love.
My favorite holiday activity is putting up the Christmas lights outside, both multi colored and clear, and don’t forget some that are blinking. Along with the outside lights I place a candle light in each window. Then I wait for it to snow…
For me, it brings back child hood memories to see the beautiful lights glowing all bright and twinkly against the snow. And just after it has snowed, there is that peacefulness and quiet – you can hear a pin drop, a twig crackle and everything just looks crisp and clean.
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my favorite holiday activity is on Christmas Eve when I go outside & light the luminaries……its so quiet and still in the cold. One of my new favorites is going to the creche display (there were over 500) in Pleasant View, Utah….awe inspiring…..
Oh & don’t forget the aerosol whipped cream on cocoa!
My favorite holiday activity is getting together with my mother and daughters and baking cookies and making candy. We try to schedule a day in December and we bake for several hours. I just love the time spent together and the memories we have made doing this!
“What is your favorite holiday activity and why?” So many to choose from……..I think going to Walt Disney World with my guys and enjoying all the Lights, Sounds and Festivities!
My favorite holiday activity is dancing in our living room with my husband and our little girl Lily, (who will be 21 months on the 16th)… to old Christmas songs. We love Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin and all the old greats. My husband and are are 35 years old.. there are not many younger people still listening to the old time music.. but we just love it! There is nothing more memorable for me then when it’s snowing outside, the music is playing and we’re all dancing around the Christmas tree..
Driving around looking at Christmas Lights, we started doing it when our Girls were little (they are now 28 & 27) My Husband passed away last year and the Girls and their Husbands came over and we all drove around to look at Christmas lights and commented on how Roger (My Husband) was surely watching down and smiling as we looked at all the lights and were together as a family, just like old times, plus 3 Husbands and Minus 1 Husband and Father. I am sure we will do the same thing this year. :) Sad but a old/new tradition that means alot to the WHOLE FAMILY.
My favorite holiday activity is spending Christmas with the people that I love. We are all entertained by the little ones, have lots of laughs playing games and enjoy a belly full of the biggest turkey that can be found.
Having a sleep over with all the grandkids and making crafts for gifts, movies, hot tub, breakfast fun times!
I love making Christmas cookies with my girls. This year, we’re also going to make handmade books with our favorite Christmas cookie recipes so that we’ll have our favorite recipes all together in one book. We’re making one copy for each of us so they’ll each have their copy when they leave home.
Every year my extended family goes bowling on Christmas afternoon. Its fun and it focuses on being together not just presents!
My favorite holiday activity is going to our local Christmas tree farm, picking out our tree together which my husband then cuts down and taking it home to decorate. The kids have a blast going through all the trees to find just the right one. Christmas is bar far my favorite holiday.
The friendliness of the people you meet, the sales clerk who catch the Spirit, the fellowship that flows forth …. if only this would last the year through… so, the best part is that Christmas Spirit… which I wish was a year round feeling.
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Probably putting the ornaments on the tree is my favorite. More like helping since my mom is the one that lovingly puts each one on… My dad used to work at Hallmark when we were kids, so we have THOUSANDS of ornaments & still always find something new each year as they go on the tree.
Baking cookies with my children, and letting them decorate.
Christmastime brings so many wonderful things to do! One of my favorite holiday activities is making cookies while listening/singing to Christmas music!
My husband and I enjoy riding around the neighborhoods and looking at Christmas lights. We just bought a brand new Toyota SUV, so this year, it will be even more fun.
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Hands down, I love decorating the house for Christmas. I could do without most of the rest of it, but I love doing up the tree.
My favorite holiday activity is simply being with friends. My family lives all over the country, so I usually don’t see them at the holidays, but it’s nice to spend the time with good friends and enjoying the food and libations that the holidays bring!
My favorite holiday activity is probably making gifts for friends and family.
Favorite holiday activity is to get as many of the extended family together for a Christmas -Eve -Eve breakfast out at a local eatery and relax together, coordinate activities and last minute gotta-do’s and gotta-get’s. It is a breath of fresh air and an opportunity to enjoy each other’s company before we all rush off to shop/cook/clean/wrap/etc. Truly a respite during the hyper activity of the week before Christmas.
My favorite holiday activity is getting and decorating a Christmas tree. I put on holiday music, and we have cocoa and cookies too.
Baking Cookies!!! I love to bake, and I make all kinds of cookies for Christmas. My kids love to help, and we have a good time making a big mess in the kitchen!
Seeking out those super decorated neighborhoods, strolling through with a hot cocoa.
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My favorite holiday activity is putting up Christmas ornaments. I kind of collect them so when we unpack the boxes (and I mean LOTS of boxes) it is like a trip down memory lane. We have ornaments made by my Mom, ornaments from places we have visited, ornaments representing friends and pets – it is always an activity filled with gratitude for our wonderful love filled lives.
Christmas combines so many activities that we all love– baking, shopping for the perfect presents, singing carols, decorating,… One family favorite is choosing an Advent activity to do together over the weekend. We used to do an activity each night when the children were younger, but schedules, homework, etc., has necessitated scaling back. It’s still a special tradition we all treasure!
My favorite holiday is decorating,especially the tree. We bought ornaments as souvenirs on many of our vacations plus a. Special one for our daughter and for us as a couple. It is so much fun to get these out every year. They bring beack such great memories. Conversely, my least favorite activity is putting it all away in January.
I love making christmas cookies – it reminds me of christmas at my grandmother’s house!
activity? making Christmas anything with kids (crafts, presents, cookies, etc.!)
My favorite holiday activity is going out to see decorations! I love spending time with family and friends doing this, and the lights just add to the magical feeling.
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I LOVE Christmas morning when all 5 boys come around the corner into the room to see the gifts under the tree. The smiles on their faces and big ones carrying little ones…….makes the hours of wrapping with their dad the night before worth every minute!
(And I still have my fingers crossed! lol!)
My favorite Christmas activity is opening presents on Christmas morning!
My favorite holiday activity is to have craft workshops for my friends kids. I supply all of the materials and a few projects for inspiration, the kids supply the energy and creativity! Favorite projects are always gifts for parents/grandparents and ornaments. I love having the workshops because it’s a great opportunity to share my own creativity while nurturing the creative spark in younger people. I didn’t have anyone to learn crafts/art from while growing up, most of the kids haven’t either – so it’s a double joy!
My favorite part of Christmas is putting on the Christmas music and decorating! I love finding new ornaments and decorations, coming up with a theme and making wonderful little displays in the house! I try to make most of my decorations – this year I’m making pillows and tree banners! Jamie V in MT
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I love our family get togethers, just spending time with family! This year our 2 1/2 year old granddaughter is old enough to ‘help’ with decorating the tree. She carefully carried fragile ornaments from her grandfather to me to put on the tree. That is a good memory!
My favorite holiday activity is the 24 hours of A Christmas Story on TBS on Christmas Eve/Day. I have the TV on that channel for those 24 hours while we hang out as a family and celebrate Christmas. It’s my favorite holiday movie!
We have a couple, baking, the kids still like to help I love doing things together. And checking out the Christmas lights in the neighborhood. :)
I love baking and doing Christmas crafts together as a family.
Baking! It is so much fun to gather everyone together in the kitchen to make something yummy!
I actually love the process of gift wrapping.. It’s fun to come up with a new twist for each package…. and I make the tags as well…
With so many things to love about Christmas, I would say my favorite thing is shopping for nutcrackers to add to my collection of 80+… I’ve lost count! I love to find ones that remind us of something that has happened during the year, or one that is different than our army of soldiers, numerous Santas & snowmen… and I box them up and send them to my (grown) children to decorate their homes with during the holidays. ☆¨(✿◠‿◠)❀♫❤ ☼ ☯~Hobby
My favorite holiday activity is opening presents! No really, on Christmas Eve we were always allowed to pick and open one present. It was probably more anticipated than Christmas Day. I love that I can share that tradition with my kids.
Wonderful, creative ladies. I paint and teach painting but these ladies must be left brain to be this creative. Wish I was born left brain. Thanks for sharing their info.
Noreen
My favorite holiday activity is decorating the house & tree for Chirstmas. I have so many things we’ve collected over the years from vacations & business trips. Each one brings back a memory that is a part of lives. I look forward to it each year.
I love decorating the tree with my husband and kids! Our daughter’s are always so excited and it makes for a great family time memories!
My other favorite holiday activity is baking Christmas cookies! It’s just fun, relaxing and the end result is shared with our family and friends!
My favorite holiday activity is anything my family is doing together! We have both teenagers & toddlers and it’s hard to coordinate everyone’s schedules sometimes. This year we are trying to spend time together everynight to do an Advent activity- so far we have toured Christmas lights, gone out to dinner & shared some sweet treats!
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I guess the most fun part for me is unpacking the ornaments that I have collected over the years. Very old glass ones, painted ones, Hallmark ones and ones that have been in the family for years. They bring back wonderful memories that my Mom created, decorated and baked for Christmas. She and Dad loved the Season.
Once all of the hustle and bustle of decoration, shopping, wrapping, writing cards, & baking is done, I love to just sit in the evening with the Christmas lights on, candles flickering and either listen to Christmas music or read a book. Just to relax with my family and enjoy the season.
Wow! This has got to be the best day so far!! My favorite holiday activity is decorating the tree while listening to Christmas music. j-j-s AT juno DOT com
I love decorating for Christmas – sometimes it stresses me out too but when I get going i love attempting something new in the house each year!
Seeing all of the houses decorated for the holidays. I love packing the kids up and heading out for an adventure!
Wow, another amazing set of giveaways!! My favorite Holiday activity is going to look at Christmas lights. It always puts us in such a happy mood!
- April W
Our Christmas season begins with watching the original A Charlie Brown Christmas often followed by A Muppet Christmas Carol. Very often we fill in the lines as they are said. My personal favorite is “Light the lamp, not the rat!” After that, some libations with a rollicking game of Apples to Apples rounds out the evening. The tree will be decorated, presents wrapped, etc.before hand but officially, the evening of the 21st will begin our family Christmas, when all the kids are home for the holidays.
I love ice skating on the frozen lake, then warming up with a mug of hot chocolate! Simply the best!
Decorating is my all time favorite thing, but putting on some Christmas music, sipping a nice cup of coffee and writing out my holiday cards is the greatest. Preferrably there is some snow on the ground and a fire in the fireplace too.
I love Christmas baking. Making biscuits and other goodies to make up plates of goodness to give to neighbours and friends. I also love decorating the tree, setting it up, putting on the decorations and the anticipation of putting presents under it. It is all so exciting and fun and as my children get older it becomes even better as they get into it.
My one year old calls everything related to Christmas, a Christmas tree so Father Christmas is a tree, all the decorations are trees. I love it, and she is very excited by it all too.
The past decade or so, I’ve lived far from my family, usually in small NYC apartments. So I’ve often not decorated because I was traveling to different places for the holiday. But one thing I love doing every year is choosing a kid from a “Letters to Santa” or “Angel Tree” program to make sure they have a good holiday. Sometimes I go in with friends or co-workers to do a family, but it always makes me happy to shop for someone who might not have much to look forward to.
Cutting down the Christmas tree. It always brings our family closer together.
Decorating the tree. I have so many ornaments that mean a lot to me – like photos of the grand kids in little ornament frames. I make new ones each year for each of my three grand children.
I have other great ornaments that were gifts from loved ones or just different in some special way.
I enjoy watching my favorite Christmas movies while I decorate the tree each year.
My favorite holiday activity is actually unpacking everything! Having a December birthday, I get Christmas related gifts for my birthday. Since I have had more than 60 birthdays, I have many memories packed away with the ornaments and decorations. Now days I cannot for the life of me remember why I walked upstairs but I can remember and see in my minds eye, the person who gave me every single ornament! That is the silly and sentimental reason I love to unpack! Thank you for the opportunity to win one of these giveaways.
Making and eating Christmas cookies!
My favourite holiday activity is decorating the xmas tree because there are so many memories attached to all the ornaments.
My favorite holiday activity is the performances put on by my church bell choir. I love the sound of bells and the enjoyment of the nursing home residents that we perform for. Best holiday wishes, Kathie L in Allentown
It’s so hard to choose just one activity! My daughter’s birthday is December 7–we chose that as the day to take her to see Santa! She’s still little, but I think the excitement and wonder in her eyes is a thing to behold. I also love the Advent Lessons and Carols service at our church. Singing the beautiful music while listening to the lessons and seeing my husband out in the congregation (daughter still in the nursery) really brings the spirit of the season home. I also dearly love Christmas Eve Midnight Mass. The still, quiet singing of “Silent Night” while the church is lighted only by candles held by everyone brings tears to my eyes every time.
Mine is not so much an activity but a tradition i tried to keep going from Germany.On Dec.6 th we put out our clean polished shoes in front of the door, and if we were good St.Nicholas will put a candy or fruit in it,which means we will get a christmas present.If we find a piece of coal in it,there will be no presents.Even now with just my husband and i, i still continue and he always finds candy in his boot.
My favorite holiday activity is hanging out during my kids’ winter break – great family time because my husband is able to take time off too. The BEST time is just hanging out all day in our pj’s on Christmas day. Makes the hustle and bustle all worth it!
I love to give. It gives me so much joy to give the the perfect well thought out gift. I have often said the job I would love to have is gving helium ballons away to children at fairs. I really enjoy making gifts, and surprising friends and family and even strangers with handmade creations. There is really not anything I would reather do all year round than give……………………..
My favorite holiday activity is working with my children on advent projects. we do special coloring pages, Bible study, and crafts.
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I love decorating the tree with my hubby. It is fun to pull out all the dated ornaments and reminisce.
Hands down baking is my favorite activity! love the smell in the house-being able to give personal gifts to so many.
My whole family (like 20 of us) gets together Christmas day and play that Dirt yBingo game. It has different names, but the game where everyone brings a wrapped present and puts it under the tree. Numbers are drawn and #1 picks a present, #2 can pick a new present or take what #1 got. We have so much fun fighting over the good ones or trying to get rid of the duds. I love my family and our laughter warms me from my heart ouywards!
My favorite holiday activity is Christmas Eve candlelight service at church. It’s the time when I can say, it’s done. All the holiday shopping, gift wrapping, baking, and running around has come to stop and now it’s time to enjoy my family, wind down, and feel the peacefulness of the season (if only for the evening). And if it’s snows, it’s like icing on a cake.
Once again, it is so hard to narrow it down to one. I think for me, preparing and rehearsing for Christmas services and productions is my favorite. I sew and cook for others, and that gives me great joy, but when I get to sing Christmas music with a band or orchestra! OH WOW! Gives me chills and makes me cry in a very good way. I just love it.
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I have so many but one in particular is making candy christmas trains! When my sister and I were young my mom let us invite a few friends and we made Christmas candy trains with candy bars, cinnamon bears, red licorice, m&m’s and lots more. I remember one year my friend had broken her leg and had to have a half body cast on and was in a rolling bed (like a wheelchair) , but she still came over to make her candy train!
I love traditions that occur every year. Adverts, cutting down aour own tree at the same Christmas tree farm, and church on Christmas Eve.
My favorite holiday activity is doing advent caldendars with my children. We do several, some where they get a toy and others where we read different Christmas stories and do different Christmas activities every day. It is a tradition the children love and keeps us focused on all parts of the Christmas season from Caroling to the neighbors, giving to charity, baking cookies to give away.
Baking! I love all the treats! I don’t even care if I gain some pounds. I love the warmth of baking and the joy of endulging. It’s been a tradition with the women in my family since I can remember and I am going to get my son involved!
Getting together with friends and family.
My favorite holiday activity is baking cookies with my family! We all enjoy it and it is fun tasting them fresh out of the oven!
My favorite Holiday activity when it happens to snow in Texas is to run around in the snow with my daughter. She absolutely gets a kick out of it and to see her happiness is what makes it special.
My favorite holiday activity is the annual cookie decorating gathering at my bff’s house! There’s always much laughter !
One of my favorite traditions is baking cookies with my kids. I have an old Betty Crocker Cooky Book that my Mom used with me when I was a kid. We chose a different variety every year, but also have some old stand-bys. We like to give them to friends, eat them, and of course leave some out for Santa and the Reindeer on Christmas Eve.
I love baking christams cookies and goodies with my girls. we are alreay tring to decide what to make this year.. so many yummy things to choose from… can’t wait to get started baking.
My favorite thing is to get together with relatives and visit. The cousins love to see each other and the adults get more of a chance to talk than during the rest of the year.
Baking w/ mom!
We have great fun baking, decorating and giving cookies away for the holidays. I am now the grandma and the tradition has changed little. First we all have to help mix, roll and cut out cookies. Making a mess is inevitable. Then the fun – decorating. Everyone pitches in. Of course, dividing the cookies up and taking them to neighbors, old folk’s homes, schools and the dr’s office.
My favorite holiday activity is putting the ornaments on the Christmas tree with my three boys. They each have their own ornaments that have been collected for them that they put on the tree themselves after we put up the strings of lights.
I love going to go pick out and cut down our Christmas Tree :) My favorite way to kick off the holiday season!
Our favorite activity is getting the tree up and decorating it the day after Thanksgiving. Once that’s done, we start checking the naughty/nice lists!
My favorite activity is singing Christmas carols. It just makes it feel more like Christmas. We always used to go to my grandparents for Christmas and sing carols on Christmas eve.
My fav holiday activity is after Christmas shopping!!
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My favorite holiday activity is baking and decorating Christmas cookies with my daughter. This is a tradition that I started with her when she was 2 years old and now she is 19. Last year I thought that since she was a freshman in college she would not want to bake the cookies, but she said, “Mom aren’t we going to bake Christmas cookies this year?” I was thrilled that she wanted to continue the tradtion. So I am looking forward to when she is home this year for Christmas break to bake our usual batches of cookies.
My favorite activity is definitely putting up the Christmas tree and decorations. I love pulling them out every year, reliving memories, and making my house look so beautiful and festive.
My favourite holiday activity is sewing gifts for family and friends. I just finished a Christmas dress for my 3 year old granddaughter who tells everyone that Santa is bringing her a new dress and new shoes! My next project is embroidering some pillowcases for my mother. I love to create one of a kind gifts for my favourite people!
My favorite holiday activity is baking! I love to try new holiday cookie recipes every year! It’s great fun to give them to my family, friends and neighbors!
My favorite holiday activity is wrapping presents. I love to get a little crazy and make the wrapping as special as what’s inside. Every year I pick new themes and colors. I love piling up all of the gifts and celebrating their abundance, even if they are recycled or from the dollar store, they are wrapped as if gold.
My favorite activity is decorating the tree as a family, pulling out the ornaments and remember ing why each one is special.
My favorite holiday activity is to get all of my children and their partners and make my mothers famous cookies. Neither my kids or I can remember a Christmas without them. She made three kinds– almond lace cookies, a apricot filled cookie, and a little tart cookie filled with raisins, nuts and lots of butter and sugar. My mom has been gone 3 years now but her cookies live on and so do the memories.
Christmas eve we go to candlelight service and then come back t o my home and the whole family brings appetizers and we play games and eat then brunch Christmas morning
My favourite holiday activity is going to see the Christmas light show at a botanical garden park near my daughter’s home. The lights are synced with the music and the decorations all over the gardens are beautiful.
My favorite holiday activity is cooking christmas dinner with my mom. She handed over the thanksgiving reins a while back. But we still get together to make our traditional Christmas dinner.
My favorite holiday activity is opening Christmas stockings on Christmas morning. When I was a child we used to run and get the stockings from the hearth and then all sit on my parent’s bed. We’d take turns, one item at a time until the stockings were empty.
Now, with adult children and in-laws, etc., we can’t all fit on my parent’s bed! So we sit in the living room in our pajamas, taking turns and exclaiming over what everyone got. It’s so much fun, such a nice way to start the day. :)
my favorite holiday activity is driving around looking at the Christmas lights. I’ve always loved to do this every year & now I get to share the fun with my daughter, she was so excited when she saw the first house & they had a huge reindeer in their yard…..she loves Santas’ reindeer!
Baking, decorating, shopping, making decorations, wrapping gifts, anything I do in the company of my daughter is my favorite Christmas activity.
My favorite holiday activity is easy – putting the star on the tree. Having a star on the tree is important to me because as a child I always drew stars on the top of Christmas trees. Not angels, not ribbons, not anything other than stars. It is undoubtedly the part of the holiday that brings me into my child-like mind and helps me capture a bit of what I think our children feel.
One of our favorite holiday activities is to make cookies and watch our collection of Christmas movies. We try to do this on a Saturday and make a marathon of all our favorites!
Decorating the tree with my children. Wonderful to see the pure joy in their eyes.
My favourite holiday activity is eating with my friends and family. There are a few which I don’t see much during the year and I cherish those moments with them.
This is the easiest question so far! My favourite activity is the eating. The turkey, ham, potatoes, and the pudding!! Since it’s summer in Australia we also eat lots of prawns, oysters, cherries, and mangos at Christmas time, it’s awesome.
Favorite holiday was when my father was sick with cancer and he had a hard time eating. So to lighten things up we made gingerbread cookies and my sister and I were being silly and we added female boobs. When my dad came out and saw the finished cookies he laughed so hard he said he had to try one. He finished the whole cookie and a glass of milk. Two days laters he went into a coma and never recovered. So even though he passed away this is my favorite memory as we made Dad smile and laugh at a time which was stressful. It was a great day and a great memory!
It takes my breath away to see such talented women online. Thanks for the inspiration. I am so excited each year to cut our own Christmas tree. We have 20 acres in the Sierra foothills and my tree is waiting for me. We have cut our own since our kids were young, very young. We usually began the day with a yummy breakfast together on the road and then headed out with rhe dog to find that perfect tree. Everyone took turns with the saw. The tree stays up in our home until the 12 days of Christmas are over … epiphany.
My favorite holiday activity is decorating the house. My daughter likes to help and it is so much fun to add our favorite things each year. The lights make everything look so special and cozy.
I love hosting my Annual Ornament Exchange – girlfriends, food & laughter around my Christmas Tree – wonderful!!!
My favorite holiday activity is going to Fellowship Church for their Christmas program. It’s just like going to a rock concert. The music, the singing, the lights – it’s all fabulous. Best part? We go on our anniversary (December 23) and finish off the evening with a nice dinner.
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My favorite holiday activity is anything that involves being creative – making my Christmas cards, baking or papercrafting. Any stress that tries to overwhelm me just melts away. By the way – I’ve taken one of Christy’s classes. She’s amazing!
Decorating the tree; it’s like traveling through time. Ornaments from my childhood and my children. Good memories.
I love the 6 o’clock mass on Christmas Eve. Lots of carols and it sets you up for Christmas Day.
I love to window shop during the holidays. I don’t like the crowds or the long waits at the cash registers so generally have my holiday shopping done well in advance.
What a fabulous giveaway!!! I have so many Christmas activities that I love to do with my family. One of my favorites is riding around looking at Christmas lights while listening to Christmas music.
My favorite Christmas activity is Christmas caroling. Both my parents were in a nursing home over the Christmas holidays and there was an organized Christmas caroling that I attended. I still go even tho both my parents are gone now. It is a wonderful program.
My family gets together around the holidays for a huge southern feast. I have 6 siblings and this is the only time that we are all together. Everyone brings their favorite dish and the guys sit around the grill cooking. After eating, we play with the children outside – riding horses, 4 wheelers, throwing the football, and other outside games. When it starts getting dark outside, we go inside and play video games, cards, and board games or watch whatever sporting event the guys find on tv.
My favorite holiday activity is looking at Christmas lights! We drive around and gawk at all the pretty decorations on Christmas Eve every year.
Mary
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My favorite holiday activity is hanging out with family!
Oh I have so many to choose from, but my daughter and I have our Christmas baking evenings. She is now 14 and I know there may come a time where she won’t want to do that with me, so cherishing every thing we do together!!
I love decorating for the holidays! I start by putting away all our everyday stuff, clean and then start decking the halls! I love unpacking all our holiday treasures.
My favorite thing is making all the yummy Christmas cookies!
My favorite Christmas joy is two-fold. I LOVE putting the tree up after Thanksgiving with all 5 children-which is difficult now that they are almost grown and out of the house. I love looking athte ornaments they have made over the years-some patched each year to stay in shape. My seconc joy is attending candlelight service o Christmas Eve with the family. I am truly blessed to have such wonderful children and husband-and they las all year!!
Teri
That first night after putting up the Xmas Tree – with pine smell in the air and it’s dark with the lights twinkling away. Love that.
My favorite holiday activity is decorating the christmas tree — as a child we always always got our tree on Christmas Eve and spent the evening decorating, listening to carols and eating cookies. What fun!
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Going around and looking at the Xmas lights. Some houses are amazing to look at
my very favorite thing to do at xmas is sing… whether it’s at my piano, in my car blasting xmas tunes, or caroling out in the streets! followed closely by walking around xmas light displays…
My very favorite Christmas activity is going to Christmas Eve or Midnight Mass. This really brings the culmination of Christsmas into my heart and makes me realize the love of family and friends is really what it is all about.
My favorite holiday activity is the candlelight Christmas eve service which puts my heart in the right frame after all the hustle and bustle.
My absolute favorite activity is making my light bulb angels. Each one is hand crafted and has her very own personality, and sometimes it is difficult to part with them when I sell them. However, hubby always reminds me we can’t keep all of them! LOL!
One of my favorite Christmas activities is baking holiday treats. I have my traditional goodies that I bake at Christmas time and my family looks forward to the treats.
It has to be putting up the Christmas tree. Each ornament has its own story, so when the lights are turned down and you are sitting in front of the tree with all its tiny lights sparkling on all the hanging memories of years gone by, its magical.
I love wrapping presents. There’s something about getting all of the gifts organized under the tree (before transporting them to our family’s Christmas) that I just love!
A family in our neighborhood screens Christmas movies on their garage door every weekend evening in december. We love to visit them!
My favorite Christmas activity is baking cookies with grandchildren. They are so much fun to have around! And when all is said and done and I’m tired, I send them home. Perfect!
love love love this! loveeee Kaari’s necklace patterns immensly! My favorite Christmas activity? Is putting my Christmas baskets together when I decide to do them. Love to create the good things of Christmas along with heart gifts for that person. Bliss!
There are many things I did as a kid that became my favorites – some of which don’t even live any more, except in my memories. One of those was looking at the Harzfeld’s animated windows every year on the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri. Harzfeld’s is long gone now, but I remember the delight of seeing the dolls and all the sparkling decorations in the window. I also loved going to the Cakebox Bakery’s gift shop, behind the bakery. They had the most wonderful little German wooden toys in mesh bags at Christmas time.
It is true as you age, memories that were once sweet are even sweeter in your mind’s eye!
It has to be seeing my childrens eyes on Christmas morning when they see all the presents and rush to open them. It reminds me of when I was a child and just makes my year.
Definitely seeing the kids open their presents Christmas morning.
I love wrapping presents,making decorations and baking! Everything really!
I love to sit and look at the tree lit up with a cup of hot anything… Christmas music playing in the background.
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My favorite holiday activity is doing the advent calendar with my kids. They get so excited and I remember doing it as a kid with my parents and siblings.
I love baking Italian cookies with my un-laws. It takes all day but is a great bonding experience.
Baking cookies for Santa (and gifts)
why? Because I do this with my son!
My favorite holiday activity is walking around on weekends evening and looking at Christmas lights with my famaly) Thanks for the chance to win!
Watching grandkids open presents! And I hope they believe in Santa forever!
My favorite holiday activity is sledding with our grandsons because we laugh and laugh and laugh!
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The very frigid night that my husband and I stand outside making the ice rink in our back yard for our 1 and 4 yr. old kids. It’s so fun to see them wake up the next morning and the expressions on their faces.
I love baking squares…
Love all of these women. :) My favorite holiday activity is to drive through our town looking at Christmas lights in people’s yards. There are so many of them who go all out for the holiday and it’s fabulous!
We go to “The Grotto”, the beautifully decorated grounds of a church in Portland, Oregon, every year. Strolling the grounds looking at lights, watching the Christmas story being reenacted, listening to the local choirs sing, and of course visiting the petting zoo. A gorgeous family tradition we all look forward too– calm and quiet and best of all non- commercial.
I just love everything about Christmas! I’d say my favorite activity is decorating the house. Pulling out my decorations is like being reacquainted with a new friend. They truly are treasures. A close second would be spending Christmas Eve with my in-laws. It’s a 3-hour trip each way, but my family enjoys spending that time in the car, just being together, and singing Christmas carols. We top off the evening on the way home with a trip through a local company who puts up a beautiful light display each year. I think the key thing is being with family. :-)
My favorite holiday activities are changing now that we have two small girls and are developing traditions of our own. I think watching them enjoy new experiences like hot chocolate and putting ornaments on the tree are my favorites right now.
Taking my daughter around town to look at all the decorations and watching her face light up at each one.
I love making Christmas presents for my family and friends every year! Thanks for the chance to win!
Mine would have to be baking the goodies because I have been able to do that since I was a young child and we make something different each year and give them to friends and family as presents.
For me, there is nothing better than sitting in front of the lit Christmas tree with my family. It is so pretty and peaceful. Thanks!
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Favorite Holiday avtivity – getting the tree! Years ago when my husband and son were cutting down the tree in the rain – it fell over on me as I was trying to hold the umbrella over them to keep them dry! Since that day I vowed to never go to get the tree but to proudly proclaim it as “the most beautifyul tree I have ever seen” when the family brought it home! Some 30 yrs later – I have managed to stay warm and dry and have had “the most beautiful trees” every Christmas. And hot chocolate with whipped cream waiting for my hard working crew ;-)
Having our gift exchange with the family. From when we were young it was always a family thing where we get to eat good food and then get together for lots of fun.
All year long I find children’s toys & school supplies to make up Christmas shoe boxes full of gifts for Operation Christmas Child- a program run by non-profit organization Samaritan’s Purse. One decides the age group and sex of the child they’d like to make a shoebox for and then fills the box with fun and useful items for that child; balls, paper & pencils, dolls, toothpaste & toothbrush, hair ribbons, etc. The donor can include a photo and a card and their address if they wish- sometimes the children who receive the boxes write back. Samaritan’s purse collects the boxes and then ships them to needy children all over the world- Eastern Europe to Africa to South America. I love being part of blessing a needy child far away and reminding them what Christmas is all about!
Listening to Christmas carols. Thanks for the great giveaway!
Oh I love getting out all my old favorite Christmas decorations, putting Christmas music on full blast and decorating the tree. Ho Ho Ho
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My favorite holiday activity is hanging up my stocking.
You see, my Great Aunt Jan made a stocking for me and my brothers when we were born. the pattern of Santa and a chimney is the same, but the colors are different (one has a red toe, one a white toe..one has a red band around the top, one is green, etc.
They have our name and the year we were born knitted into them. Santa’s beard is made of rabbit fur (I think) and they are lined and they have been treasured for years (42 to 54 years, respectively).
When we were small, we could fit a foot into them, and even though I cannot wear it anymore, I always think back to those xmas hollidays in the 70s when I hang it up each year…
Decorating the gingerbread house with my girls. We have so much fun coming up with how to arrange it and where to put everything.
Our favorite holiday tradition started a couple of years ago. Our second daughter was born a few days after Christmas and passed away before she was a month old. We honor her during the season of giving by going to the hospital where she was born and giving Christmas gifts to babies in the special care nursery.
My favorite holiday activity is sitting down on Christmas Day, when gifts have been given and bellies are full and my heart is happy with the joy of the season. THEN I sit and cast on for a sweater I’ve purchased yarn for, a sweater that will be knit during the weeks after Christmas and remembered long after as my Holiday Sweater.
My favorite holiday activities are when we set up our Christmas tree as a family. We always eat cookies, drink hot chocolate and have the video camera going during this fun time. It’s always fun to go back and see what we caught on video afterwards and amazing to see how much our kids have grown in the previous years videos.
My absolute favorite holiday activity is spending more time together with my sons and husband.
My husband and I love to have our morning coffee by the Christmas tree. It’s my favorite time of day, very peaceful!
I love making cookies. It’s such a fun thing to do during the holidays!!
opening presents -because i love seeing people react to what i made them!
In the community where I grew up, there still is a veterans retirement home. we always called it (still do!) the Old soldiers home. They have a barber’s shop on the facilities and my Angel Momma would take us kids there to get our bowl haircuts. we all ended up looking the same! Anyway these old men always looked so sad to me during the holidays, and had no families to visit them, so we started a tradition to go and sing christmas carols to the veterans, and take the time to talk with them. As we sang their faces just lit up and I could tell even at a young age this was an important moment not only in their lives but my own as well. So my favorite christmas activity is singing to the veterans at the Old Soldier’s home.
going for a walk and checking out all the Christmas lights on nice evenings… but only if it’s snowed! The lights just don;t look pretty without a bit of snow ;) The town where I love hosts a winter light festival every year and the river is lined with lighted decorations for about a month and a half. My mom will come up and visit and we’ll go out and enjoy them all :)
Taking the grandchildren on a hike. They love it.
My all time favorite holiday activity is trimming the tree. It has been a family activity since I was little and I have carried that on with my family. Tree trimming night I give my husband and my kids a new ornament, we put on Christmas music and trim the tree together.
My favorite would have to be driving around to see all the Christmas lights! It’s something we’ve done even since I was little! Or maybe it’s decorating the tree! Especially since I’ve become “Mommy”! The kids and I decorate together every year. Each year the kids have gotten their own ornament. I put the lights on, and . They get to put their own ornaments on. They have such a good time. My tree always looks a bit “fuller” on one side (and closer to the bottom), but it’s so beautiful! Christmas is my favorite time of the year.
listening to Christmas music!!!
I love family gatherings, but my favorite activity is driving around with our van full looking at lights and eating Krispy Kreme donuts! :)
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I enjoy helping my mom put up Christmas decorations at her house. Every year we drink some wine and listen to Neil Diamond’s Christmas CD. It’s a nice way to spend time with my mom and reminds me of when i was young :)
I love driving around town looking at all of the beautiful Christmas lights, and I love putting up the tree and going through all the ornaments we have collected over the years. Christmas is such a fun season!
My favorite Holiday activity is going to see Christmas movies in theaters, then doing our Christmas shopping and out to lunch with my husband. We have always made a date of it and I love seeing all the people and how the stores have been decorated
My favorite holiday activity is putting up the tree. Each ornament has its own special meaning and I like to get reminded of each one as its placed on the tree.
My favorite part of the holidays: trimming the living room tree with my husband. He’s not into decorating, leaving me to do the house myself…and he doesn’t have the most Christmas spirit – but – he enjoys trimming the tree as a team, and we take our time looking at ornaments from our childhoods, ornaments we’ve received as gifts, or purchased in our travels…we put on holiday music, he dons his Santa hat, we have some egg nog, and it is just perfect! (We will be trimming the tree this coming weekend!) Thanks for the opportunity to win such an amazing prize package. And the word “amazing” is an understatement!
Ice Skating! I met my husband of 31 years at the local rink- skating is usually the closest we get to ice in Texas in December!
May favorite holiday activity is probably gathering around the kitchen table with family and hand rolling/wrapping the from scratch caramels that my dad makes. He and his father worked on the recipe for decades and my dad now says, “I think I have it just perfect.” Mmmm, yep. Has spoiled me to all others.
I’ve admired these wonderful folks through other blogs and seen their art to purchase and now I get to know more about them? Yes please. Be still my heart, French General, I love everything about the fabric and am happy to learn more about the maker. Bazaar bag from a line of fabric that I also have been admiring from afar and making jewelry and paper crafts would be a dream. What a great way to learn about all of these fantastically creative people!
One of my most cherished holiday traditions is gathering around the piano while my mother plays beautiful carols and our family sings along!
My favorite holiday activity is decorating the tree and reminiscing about the ornaments as we put them on the tree.
I have to say making gifts for family with my girls. They love to see their loved ones face light up when they open a present that was made with care. Thank you for the chance to win.
My absolute favorite holiday is Christmas! I love all the baking involved in this holiday as well as all the time and energy I put into making as many gifts as I can for family and friends. Thanks so much for offering such wonderful prizes!
My favorite holiday activity is getting all of the kids together, getting all bundled up and going out to choose the tree. Everyone has their own idea of what they want the tree to look like, however we all seem to agree when we see the right tree. Having the family all together, laughing and excited makes my heart overflow.
My favorite activity is definitely shopping for gifts! I love giving things to people. :)
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I love going riding around town in our pajamas looking at Christmas lights. It’s our family tradition !!!
My favorite holiday activity is our family gathering on Christmas Eve. It started at my grandparents (who are now deceased) and has moved to my house. The whole extended family, mom, dad, brother, sisters, sons, daughters, grandchildren, aunts, uncles and cousins gather for food and fun. We listen to the Christmas story from the Bible so every knows the reason for our celebration. Santa comes and everyone is given a gift and a hug. There are usually 40+ people. It is crazy and fun. I hope we get to keep hosting for many years to come.
My most favorite holiday activity is reading the Night before Christmas to my kids on Christmas Eve in front of the tree while sipping cocoa and eating cookies because this reminds m of my childhood and how we would celebrate with my Dad.
One of my favorite activity is cooking. It the one time of the year I make all of my fancy desserts for friends and family. From cookies to pies to cake to cheesecake, the house is filled with the smell of baked goods during the holidays.
For years we have made donuts during the holidays. My kids love this and I do too. My hips not so much but is is way fun. The uneaten ones get coated with peanut butter and birdseed and hung out for the birds! Sarah
Probably sounds silly, but my favorite holiday activity is driving around looking at lights in neighborhoods. Just love to crank up the Christmas music, grab a latte and peer out the window at all the festive lighting and get small glimpses of indoor decor/trees in homes. All the while, my dear hubby will be driving! heehee
The only family I have here is my sister.
Spending time with her during the holidays , which will be xmas eve , this year, is very important for me. My niece, whom I haven’t seen for awhile will be there as well.
Just being with family is nice;-)
Baking cookies by the 1000′s to share with the special people in my life! A tradition my Grandma and Mom instilled in me!
the day of Christmas decorating! Decorations, eggnog break, decorations, and Christmas Vacation with hot chocolate! So many great moments of laughter!
I love Christmas and all the traditions that go with it like making cookies and sweet treats, wrapping presents, driving to look at the lights, decorating the house and even shopping! I have always especially loved this time of year as a time to cozy up in the house and create things! I have been creating by sewing, cross stitching and scrapbooking and whatever else I can find since I was a little girl and would watch and help my grandma and my mother doing the same things!
My favorite holiday activity – making handmade gifts and decorations! (Especially with my kiddos!)
snuggling up by the woodstove to read!
I enjoy all the different activities leading up to Christmas day but my favorite is Christmas Eve. We spend time with my family, go to Christmas Eve Candlelight service at church, and drive around looking at light displays. I love spending time with my family, eating and playing games.
I love picking out a tree and decorating it. I love that the whole family helps and that the kids ooh and ah over each ornament we pull out. I love being with my family!
My favorite holiday activity is the day we set aside to bake all sorts of goodies. These giveaway gifts are fantastic! Thank you for promoting these talented artists/
Our annual tradition is loading up the kids (we have 5) in the van, sometimes in their jammies, and driving around chatting and listening to Christmas music as we look at all the Christmas lights! We go every sunday evening in december! Thanks so much and Merry Christmas!
my favorite holiday activity is decorating the tree! I love pulling all the decorations out and deciding where to put them – and adding new ones to the pile – and this year my daughter helped us set up it was sooo cute! she kept signing and saying ‘more” when I was putting tinsel on the tree – and then she just decided to help!
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Decorating the tree with my boys. This year, they are doing a majority of it, with a little help from Mom. So much fun. Thanks for another great chance to win.
This is a hard question because there is SO much I love. But, one of my favorite holiday activities is our annual Gingerbread House party. We get together with family & friends to decorate like crazy. It is so festive and fun!
My favorite holiday activity is decorating the house – that moment when you have the holiday music playing, the family is all together, and the holiday spirit carries you away, and then when everything is in place we turn all of the lights off, sit on the couch, and just take it in. I love that!
Reading Christmas stories to the children every night. Nothing beats sitting in the light of the Christmas tree with your children piled all around you, Christmas quilts on top of us, quietly reading treasured stories that make the true meaning of Christmas permeate our hearts.
I love walking with the family. After any kind of big meal or get-together we always go for a walk along the coast. There can be up to 15 of us on any one day straggled along the path chatting.
With 7 children, baking Christmas cookies has always been a huge part of the holiday celebration in our family. It wouldn’t be Christmas if we didn’t spend a day making a huge mess and baking up a ton of iced sugar cookies and a whole lot more treats!
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My favorite holiday activity is trimming the tree with my boys. They’re old enough now to help and do a pretty good job of getting the ornaments on the tree. I think we only broke a couple this year…cheapy ones, luckily! I don’t care that most of them are hung at my chest level or lower…it’s just so fun to do it together! Thanks for the chance!
I love baking and decorating Christmas cookies with the kids! Although I usually regret the sugar high they get later on, it’s so fun to see them go crazy with frosting and sprinkles!
Sewing and baking! Because I don’t have to go out in the snow.
Every year my hubby and I put on a huge Christmas program for our church with actors, choir, full orchestra and all the joy we can pack in. It’s our gift to the community and is a packed audience every night, every year!
Love putting the tree up. Lots of memories with each ornament I put on.
I LOVE to drive around looking at Christmas lights! You’re in the car with the people you love most looking at twinkle-y lights. I love seeing the creativity of people more creative then I, so that’s about every house!:)
Baking for friends and family has to be my favorite activity. Seems like so few of my friends and family bake anymore, so it is a much appreciated gift! Thanks for the chance.
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My favorite activity would be spending time with my family and especially my 3 year old niece. Thanks
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What fun is this! I would be thrilled with any of the nice gifts that have been offered. I think my favorite holiday activity is actually wrapping the presents. I prefer boxes over bags, and we have a wonderful box factory in our town which opens to the public from Thanksgiving to Christmas. The boxes are gorgeous and make finishing them off very easy.
My favorite holiday activity is going to the square in a local town with my family and walking around looking at christmas lights. My son loves to ride the ponies and then we always get hot choco and cotton candy. We may do a horse drawn carriage ride this year if they are there when we go.
My favorite holiday activity would be spending New Year’s Eve with my family, playing board games and eating all kinds of appetizers and junk food while we watch the shows and wait for the ball to drop
that would have to be driving around and looking at all the beautiful Christmas lights.
Our most favourite holiday activity would have to be going to the greenhouse to pick out our Christmas tree. I just love the smell of all the fresh pine needles and the kids have so much fun wondering among all of the trees, searching for our “perfect” Christmas tree!
Every year on Christmas eve we drive around and look at all the decorations and do a mad dash to find stocking stuffers. I never shop for them before then, it makes it more fun.
My favorite holiday activity is to drive to the mountains to a choose and cut Christmas tree farm.
We have done that just about every year for the last 25 years. Now we are taking our grown children and their spouses who had not been to a farm.
Every year we take a carriage ride and look at all of the Christmas lights in town. It’s beautiful and cozy!
I love decorating my Christmas tree, especially now that my kids are old enough to help.
Baking goodies. I went way overboard on the fudge last year, but it allowed my hubby to share some with coworkers. My kiddos are still a bit too young, but am going to try to get my almost 2 year old involved with some cookies this year.
My favorite holiday activity is going into our downtown on the first Friday evening in December. There is a parade and that is when Santa arrives and the lights on all the downtown building are lit. Then when we get home we have a family game night with hot chocolate and other Christmas treats.
Making and decorating cookies with the kids because it creates such great memories.
My favorite holiday activity is spending time with my family. It is one of the only times during the year that my whole family gets together. I enjoy talking over a wonderful, Christmas dinner followed by watching everyone open their presents!
I enjoy baking Christmas cookies and passing them out to family, friends, neighbors, etc. Some people tell me they look forward to them every year. That makes me happy.
My favorite holiday activity is when my family comes over on Christmas Day. There’s something about having everyone in one place, sharing one moment, when everyone is amazingly happy, the food is delicious, and the conversations do not stop. I can’t think of any activity I like as much as that one, there’s nothing that means more to me than that. Close seconds are the trip to Leavenworth, a snowy little german town outside of Seattle we visit every year – its like stepping into a Christmas Globe. Shopping in Downtown Seattle, pictures with Santa, Frango Mint Chocolates, Baking with my children, sending out Christmas cards are all part of Christmas for me. But when my family walks through the door, Christmas really begins.
Baking Christmas cookies is my favortie holiday thing to do. I start right after Thaksgiving as it It puts me in the Christmas spirit. Have to have Christmas music playing while I bake! Great giveaway – thanks for the chance to win.
I love drive through lights displays. When we lived in Georgia, we loved to go to Callaway Gardens. Now that we live in SC, we enjoy the Holiday Lights at James Island.
Riding around and looking at the Christmas lights. It reminds me of when our kids were young and we did this as a family.
I love going for long walks in the snow at night with my husband. Our first Christmas married was spent at his home in Vermont. The last night there, it snowed over a foot. His house is on a mountain, far away from civilization. It was so beautiful to take that walk with no cars or others around – the only ones leaving footprints in the snow. Now it is a tradition every year to go on an evening snow walk the first snow of each winter.
We attend Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, go to my parent’s house for Pesole(Mexican Soup), read The Night Before Christmas and open presents!
I hope it’s something that we can continue to do throughout the years!
Baking and listening to Christmas carols. I also the gift swaps where we can steal each others gifts. I always laugh so hard. thanks, kathy
The best part is the food. As long as I don’t overindulge I would say that turkey dinner takes the cake!
Decorating… bringing down the umpteen crates… mixing it with the everyday… using some and maybe not all… every year a new look and never the same year after year… adding a little new to the collection…. I like the arranging and the mixing… but, not the packing and unpacking…. it brings new life to the home and makes it feel like Christmas…
I just love all these gals! What an exciting giveaway!!! My favorite holiday activity is wrapping the
gifts. I am all about the details and sometimes the packaging is better than the gift inside!!!
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My friends have a Cookies and Carols party, we put our kids in PJs and go over for dessert and singing around the piano. Best night of the year.
Getting together with family at the holidays and decorating the tree is so much fun! We seem to spend time talking about past Christmas trees and the fun we had decorating. Great giveaway!
Getting up early. Because I don’t have to!
My favorite holiday activity is attending a Christmas party that a friend gives each year. There are over 100 people who attend in her beautiful home. Lots of wonderful conversation and yummy food. Everyone dresses up too.
Making christmas presents with the kids for all of the family, teachers and friends. It is what I did with my grandmother when we were little too!
Watching everyone open the presents I give them. MY joy comes from seeing how much
they like the gift I give them.
An activity we all enjoy during the holidays is to go ice fishing. We make a fire, bring hot chocolate and cook bannock on a stick while we wait for the kokanee to bite!
Making shortbread biscuits with the kids and “helping” them decorate them. We always laugh so much :)
Seeing the lights- just very relaxing.
I love baking gifts for people! Putting on some Christmas music and spending a day in the kitchen is a lot of fun for me :)
Now that I live 500+ miles away. My favorite part of the holidays is sitting around talking with my family. I miss so much being so far away.
Going to a restaurant, they have holiday menu’s they are all decorated I love that;
The Christmas hymns at church. They have been a favorite of mine since I was little.
Advent calendars! Fun to make, fun to give, fun to open each day!
My favorite holiday activity is a friend’s Christmas Brunch that she has right before the kids get out of school. It is a great time for all of the moms to get together and really enjoy each other’s company before the crash of holiday madness really takes over. Thanks for the chance to win!
i love holiday baking with my best friend!
My favorite holiday activity in December is buying a “whole mess” of $5 and $10 Starbucks gift cards and passing them out to people who do something nice for me when they don’t have to, or to the policemen and firemen in my neighborhood. It’s always fun to see the look on their faces when they realize what it is. One girl even cried, she said no one had ever done anything nice for her. Just my way of spreading a little happiness…
My favorite holiday activity in October is dressing up for Halloween!! I love to play dress-up, I have never outgrown it!
We used to always have a horse drawn sleigh ride, but we’ve moved and Papa sold the horse :( We like to watch “A Christmas Story” with Ralphie and Randy and always have some good laughs at how our life seemed to be so much like theirs. We just like talking about what happened in the year, other Christmases and remembering the Baby Jesus.
My favorite holiday activity is enjoying a special annual dinner prepared by my family and myself, and opening presents after the dinner. Why? Dinner – Yummy, delicious and happens only once a year, presents – full of surprises and delight!
My favorite holiday activity is decorating the tree! The house just doesn’t feel like Christmas till that glistening green jewel is sparkling in the living room!
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Favorite holiday activity was always Christmas Eve at my parent’s house. We would have a small gathering, go to a Christmas Eve service, come home and sing a few carols, drink some delicious cider and then my sister and I would open one gift a piece. Loved it! And of course waking up at the crack of dawn, running down the stairs and begging my parents to GET UP! Now I get to start all of these memories with my little ones!
For years my kids, hubby and I have piled into our mini-van and driven to a local park. We bring hot cocoa and cookies and munch and sip as we drive through a holiday light show our local electrical union workers put on! It’s so festive and even at 19 & 17, my kids insist on going and wouldn’t dream of doing it without the goodies! :)
I love picking out a Christmas tree. It’s such an exciting decision every time! Plus, the whole family gets involved.
I love shopping when the windows are all done up in festive christmas decorations and the decorations line the city walks. I love bundling up, thinking about what gifts will please the people I love, and wrapping treats.
Making cookies. It reminds me of childhood. : )
I love watching all of the CHristmas shows and bake new treats with my girls. We have so much fun and it makes holiday memories to last a lifetime
I love to bake around the holidays,so everyone can have a bit of sweets.
Love playing board games with all of my cousins… still… after all these years. I dream of having a gathering place where we can have Christmas gatherings like we did when we were kids!
I have so many wonderful memories of spending the day with my family searching for the perfect Christmas tree, cutting it down, and then setting it up and decorating it with all of our special glass ornaments while listening to Christmas carols. That is definitely my favorite holiday activity.
We decorate cookies every year…I’ve done it for nearly 45 yrs! First with my mom and now with my grandchildren! We have the traditional German Crisp recipe that mellows as it ages with lemony goodness. Put on a little Christmas music, cover the table with newspaper and have at it!
I love decorating the tree while listening to Messiah. The past few years as my siblings and I all have children now – we go sledding on Christmas and then come home for pizza and presents at night. That is swiftly becoming my new favorite activity.
Having a ‘slow’ day with my family. In the midst of busy season we make a plan to do nothing, to watch a holiday movie (or holiday cartoons nowdays), to snuggle, read books or play games and just enjoy each others company :).
My favorite holiday activity is spending time with family and friends and seeing the meaning of Christmas through the eyes of my grandchildren.
It’s a tie: baking and using any excuse to put glitter on random stuff.
My favorite holiday activity takes place after the gifts, after the dinner, when everyone is gathered round, playing games, visiting, laughing, and generally mellow. It’s then that my heart overflows with gratitude and joy.
Now that the kids are grown and have families of their own, I look forward to Christmas Eve. It is just myself and the hubby, quiet, romantic and peaceful. In my mind, just what Christmas Eve should be.
I love sitting in front of the lit tree at night with all of the other lights off and singing carols. I really don’t know why, but I think it’s because it dims the bustle and helps to highlight the most important part of the holidays.
Any and all time spent with my kids,grandsons,and sweet husband. We might be eating,cooking,watching football just being together is awesome.
My favorite holiday activity is baking. I donate the pies/cookies to fundraisers to help the less fortunate during the cold holiday season.
The decorating of the tree…. I absolutely love tromping through the woods to find a perfect tree, cutting it down, and decorating it while listening to Christmas tunes.
Cuddling my grandkids because we don’t get to see them very much since their father my son is in the Army and they live so far away.
My favorite holiday activity is our Christmas Elf- Elfie. He comes right after Thanksgiving and each night we do an Elfie activitiy–sometimes they are big activities like going to see a movie. Each night is something different- for example: making Elfie a new bed, doing a Christmas cross word puzzle, or making Christmas ornaments. Elfie is a lot of fun and we really get into it.
My favourite holiday activity is decorating up the Xmas tree at my parents-in-law’s place. They leave it up to us kids (all in our late 20′s by now) and we all become 10-year-olds again – it’s loads of fun :)
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Breakfast with Santa…why…hello pancakes :)
I just love singing Christmas carols — it never gets old to me — I wish I had more reason to do it! I need to join a choir or something!
Making Tamales cause all the family gets together and makes dozens for the holidays. Makes life a lot easier not having to figure out what to cook while trying to get all the other stuff done too.
I just love riding around looking at all the light displays. But my all time favorite is to attend a living Nativity Scene and service on Christmas Eve with all my family surrounding me. It just puts the real meaning of the season in my heart. Then we go home (Chuck’s house) and make a birthday cake to celebrate Jesus’ birthday.
playing games with family sitting around the fire because it warms your heart and soul….and tons of giggles too!!
Baking and delivering cookies to neighbors – its always a nice thing. But I also hang 80 or so stockings at work (mini size) and find dollar store toys and candy to fill them with. Isn’t that the best way to give – not expect anything in return? Same with the cookies!
My favorite activity is cookie baking.
I love being in the kitchen with the kids. Plus as they’ve gotten older it’s fun to see how much more they can do. Pretty soon I can sit back and just eat! lol
I love to decorate the tree and house with the kids. They like to make new projects every year! It’s fun to do an activity with the kids on a wintery day, and it’s really fun to look at the projects from years past.
My favorite holiday activity is getting together with family and watching the kids open up their Christmas presents. The look and excitement on there faces is what Christmas is all about…for the kids.
Giving gifts!!! I love to see their faces!
My favorite activity 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 can look back on the years’ worth of ornaments and see how the kids have progressed and grown. Such a neat keepsake!
decorating the Christmas tree. unwrapping each onament and remembering the year and circumstances it was bought under. so many memories.
Favorite holiday activity is making beeswax candles with my boys. The smell, the golden wax, and the joy! We give them as gifts and enjoy using them in our own home all year.
My favorite holiday activity is attending the holiday parties with family and friends. There’s much to enjoy – good food, lots of laughter, and the joy of the holiday season!
I love baking and decorating cookies. Last year I did this with my niece – we never did finish because we tried to be too artistic and experimental, but we had a lot of fun!
My favorite holiday activity is our family New Year’s Eve party. We get together with our extended family at my uncle’s house without the pressure of gifts or other places we have to be.
My favorite holiday activity is to get outside with the little ones in the snow…making angels, sliding or skiing…just playing in the snow.
Gingerbread house making. It pleases my creative side! Thanks and Happy Holidays!
I love making special cookies for special people. It wouldn’t be Christmas without these sweet deliveries!
Curling up by the wood stove with yummy things and watching snow fall! Doing a little hand sewing… So relaxing! Thanks for the great giveaway!
I love to decorate with my grandaughter!
Decorating the Christmas tree! Very nostalgic.
Decorating the tree with my husband and daughters!
Favorite holiday activity would be Christmas caroling to neighbors and having hot chocolate afterwards!
My favorite holiday activity is going to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve with my children.
When extended family visits, we bring out the old board games /cards(or play one that someone has gotten for Christmas). After the big christmas meal, it’s nice to just munch on veggies and figure out who just dealt you a bad hand!
My favorite holiday activity is to spend with my family and exchange gifts!
I have lived in Kansas nearly all of my life and our Christmas celebrations are always centered around family and spending time together. Every year my 3 sisters’ and their families come and stay and we gather to play games, eat wonderful meals, visit and shop together. My most favorite time though is when mom will read a book to all of us. She is a great storyteller and none of us have ever tired of hearing a story. Last year she read a story called, “Trouble River” by Betsy Byars. What a great time we had snuggled up on the couch, scattered around the family room listening to mom read. I hope everyone has at least one special moment with their family that warms their heart. We have been blessed with so many moments and this is a tradition that makes me smile and I look forward to it every year. Thanks for the opportunity to share this and enter the drawing. I just love the Megan bag with the gorgeous blue fabric and the dragonflies down the side are wonderful. Thanks, Jan
My favorite activity is going to the Plaza to see the lights and ride in a horse drawn carriage with my husband.
favorite holiday activity would be Christmas dinner at my parents’ house where all the family is gathered together. they live only an hour and a half away, but I hardly ever get to see them.
My favorite Holiday activity is to take my grandson out to see the Christmas lights and decorations. It’s so much fun to see his reactions and shouts of glee.
This is a great giveaway. I would love to win.
I love decorating the tree with the family while listening to holiday music! Such a nice time. :)