Today we are featuring the
Holiday Traditions
and
great GIVEAWAYS
of
Heather Jones
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Melody Ross
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Monica Solorio-Snow
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Heather shares …
"Every Christmas my grandma would make nearly a dozen varieties of handmade candies from scratch. All kinds of fudge, divinity, pralines, and so on, but my favorite by far was her peanut butter fudge. She always made sure to make a lot of that because it was on the top of many of her grandchildren
The one I am most interested in today is the fabric giveaway as I love to quilt! Thank you for sharing so much generosity with us all.
oh man Heathers story hits home for sure.
I can remember every year my grandmother in the kitchen making cookies and candy for every family to get oversized plates full to bring home. Grandma is 95 and no longer able to do this but the memories are there…
Loving the random acts of kindness, sometimes all it takes is a kind word from a stranger to turn our lives around.
These are wonderful things to carry on or start new
Thanks for sharing
AMy
Another set of wonderful items. Thanks for sharing
I love learning about new blogs!
Another day of beautiful things, lovely stories, and amazingly creative women. Love it! Happy Holidays & Thanks Where Women Create for making Christmastime even brighter!
Again this is a wonderful giveaway in the spirit of Christmas. Thank you Queenie
Chris Gerke
What sweet stories – traditions weave such a beautiful fabric of our lives, don’t they? Thanks for great giveaways!
The WWC holiday button is on the sidebar of my blog!
What a great start to the day, reading the inspiring traditions. Thanks for sharing.
I understand about grandma’s candy. My grandmother made the best divinity and try as I might I can’t get it right.
I love the RAK ideas, I hope that really made people start to think in a different direction.
Thank you so much for sharing such wonderful memories.
I love to read about the holiday traditions, and especially Monica’s Germexican Christmas made me smile this morning! :)
Thanks for the chance to win one of these wonderful prizes!
Button is on my blog. :)
what wonderful prizes! thank you so much for the
chance to win.
hugs and more,
peggy
http://www.pinkheartsandpolkadots.blogspot.com
what an awesome give away too cool!Don’t ya just love Christmas and tradition.
Such fun traditions.
Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Wonderful! Thanks for the opportunity!
what amazingly talented women!
Amazing women – amazing stories and traditions.
A group of women and I are creating an eco-friendly tree for a local nature center contest, and I MUST incorporate the RWOK somehow! It fits perfectly with our theme and the decorations we are making! Doesn’t an interactive tree sound like fun? Wonderful offers and stories today!
Holy Cow … love reading all of these Christmas family traditions. And, don’t you know, I will be passing out some of those RAKs this season. Thank you for such wonderful ideas.
Had to blog about this one! http://misspproductions.blogspot.com/2010/12/seasonal-spirit.html
What wonderful memories; old and new! I have the 12 Days of Christmas button on my sidebar.
Sherry @ A Happy Valentine
I would love to win anything from any of theses three ladies!!
Thanks for such a wonderful giveaway… love it all..
Just goes to show that traditions spring forth from the well within. Our past feeds our present.
I love Christmas– I love decorating the house, hanging the lights, preparing the food. I love rememberng how excited I was as a child wondering about Santa coming on Christmas eve and trying to stay awake to hear him on the roof.
The fabric bundle would be awesome to win!
I tweeted :-)
http://twitter.com/dlk3265/status/11056772060020737
The video was awesome! Thanks for the giveaways!
Incredible talent – would be thrilled to win! Thanks so much for the chance!
Would love to win one of these GREAT prizes!!
Thank you all for sharing your Christmas memories. I love learning how families get together and share traditions from different countries.
I especially loved Monica’s story about having so many family members together. It must have been such a special moment to be Santa’s Helper to her Dad that year.
I would love to win!!
Waking up and reading these Christmas memories first thing in the morning sets the mood for my whole day. Thank you for doing this.
This is just SO exciting! I’m enjoying meeting new artists and hearing wonderful memories! Thanks for the FUN! ?
I have the button on my sidebar to share with everyone! Hugs! ?
I would love to win also!
I enjoyed reading about the familty traditions each artist shared. Lots of inspiration here. Thanks for the chance to win one of these great give aways.
I look forward to reading the daily traditions you are sharing each day. Love it!! Melody, I especially loved your tradition that you wrote about. Random Acts of Kindness are such a delightful thing to do. You have really given me something to think about! :) Thank you to all 3 of today’s artists for their generousity.
Beautiful traditions girls! Love hearing them…thanks for the smiles!
I would love to win Heather’s GC!
Thanks!
Thanks for the generous opportunity to win!
Loved reading this blog post.
Another great day of holiday traditions – love it – give aways are amazing! Thanks!
Oooooooh love the sites on this! Olive and Ollie is adorable!
Brave Girl Club rocks!!!!!
And Monica’s fabrics are so life filling!!! Loveeeee it! Wish i could sew but one day i will do it by hand – its a goal! I love the quilts on her site!!!!
I love Melody Ross!!
CHeryl
Oh what lovely traditions. Heather’s probably hits home the most. My family is all about the candy and the candy-making. With us, the peanut butter fudge is also a favorite! In fact, this year my mom wants to get a couple of my girlfriends to come over and have a candy-making night so that we all have a little of this and that to take home or share with friends. It should be fun.
What nice traditions and now I want to make some candy for my children like Heather.
I’m loving all of these traditions I am reading about here. I will definitely be adopting a couple new traditions for our family :-) Have a wonderful holiday!
I’m enjoying reading these traditions so much!! Thanks for the chance to win!
Love reading these warm Christmas stories.
thanks for sharing
tweeted your wonderful stories
http://twitter.com/?status=The%20Fourth%20Day%20of%20Holiday%20Traditions%20…%20http://bit.ly/fAonrS
I also have your sweet blog button on my blog.
I fell in love with Happy Zombie!
Wonderful stories and great giveaways. I have your button on my blog. susan
Wonderful memories! Each of these memories bring back many for me. I love the way traditions begin and continue through the years.
~Adrienne~
I love what each of the ladies had to say! This time of year certainly brings out the best in people!
Dec 4th already…oh my time does fly…love all the new blogs and info on such great creative people!
Thank you
c
The Brave Girls are awesome!!! I love that idea! All of these traditions are so fun. :)
Oh, I love the random acts of kindness and the story about helping the folks whose house burned down! This happened to me and I realize what a gift like that would mean. Wonderful.
Oh dear, Heather’s got me wanting divinity! I need to learn to make it how my local candy store makes it….so good!
I love the “word” gifts Melody and family gave out. That is such a cool idea!
And I’m like Monica! Come from a HUGE family (9 kids growing up) and live in wonderful Oregon!
Hugs to all these great ladies!
~Heidi
LOVE TO HEAR OF ALL THESE CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS!
WE’RE A MONTANA FAMILY CELEBRATING A ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHRISTMAS AROUND THE FIRE! THANKS FOR SHARING!
those random notes of kindness really touched my heart.
it makes me think of the tradition my husband started himself.
every Christmas morning we drag ourselves outta bed and hop in the car to go to whatever local Wafflehouse is around, for some breakfast. we order and sit there in anticipation of knowing that when we are done, my husband is going to leave a $100 tip to our waitress.
its sooo much FUN engaging our waitress in conversation during the meal~last year we had a pregnant young gal that was due anyday and took the Christmas day hours of work to get ahead on the cost of the season. she wasnt the best waitress, being a little “cold” to us in the beginning, but we took our time to draw her out and show her that someone cared for her~ God.
she was SO SHOCKED over her tip and everyone exclaimed over it for her. i cannot WAIT til we do it again this year!!! Merry Christmas!
So nice of these girls to share their lives with us. Thanks for introducing us.
What a great idea to pass out words of kindness to strangers. It is important to make someone feel special if even for a moment.
Thanks Melody for sharing your idea of passing out the “random notes of kindness”. Our family is looking for unusual ways to share ourselves this year. I pick this one! Thank you!
And, I have a quilting sister that would love the fat quarters!
I wanna win & shop too!!
i am *loving* all you girls are doing!! *thank you* for bringing {joy} to this prairie girl!!
hugs,
kristin
What fun to read! LOved Melody’s comments!
thank you for introducing me to these lovely blogs!
I also follow on twitter
@hndmdegiftguide
What wonderful stories and gifts. I’d love to win Monica’s fabric.
Thanks for even more things to be excited about for Christmas. Monica’s fabrics look so HAPPY!
Reading other traditions is such fun. In my own family I’ve tried to create traditions and memories for my own children as well hoping they will carry those on to their own children. I’ve always been a huge baker and before my knees got so bad, every year as long as I can remember I made every kind of cookie each year I could possibly make and then too tons of candy too. I spent about $300 each year on ingredients and while that sounds like a lot it also made about 30 huge trays of gifts for family and many friends leaving a very large amount of each for hubby to take to work too.
I LOVE the idea of going to the mall and passing out those words/phrases the way they did. The holidays are always so stressful with so many putting huge pressures on themselves when really it should be about so much more than gifts. So many they gave those slips of paper to probably felt so good because it made them stop to think for a second. Great job girls.
And mixing different cultures is fun to do as well. You can combine the best from both and carry those on into your own family.
How fun to hear about different traditions around the world!
Oh what a wonderful giveaway, I love meeting the artists, its wonderful. Have a great weekend. Terri
I am also a follower, love your blog. Terri
I also have your giveaway button on my sidebar, thanks so much. Terri
Nice giveaways but I especially love Monica’s fabric. Thanks for the sweet post!
What wonderful traditions! Reminds me of some of my own, and ideas for what I might carry into a family of my own someday…
I love seeing my children create new traditions with the grands!
great holiday memories! I have many but I will share with yall my favorite with my son. My sonwas born dec 29th. rough time to be born, right after christmas. I started 2 traditions with him. I decorate the house the weekend of Tday. a tad early but it all comes down by dec27th. that way the 2 hoildays wont mix. 2nd tradition is we celebrate and still do, even though he will be 29 this year, is his 1/2 birthday in June. it made a huge difference for him when was growing up. he looked forward more to his 1/2 birthday than his reg birthday. (mauh) Liz
Oh that was such a fun post! Thank you to everyone for sharling!
How wonderful that these ladies are sharing their holiday joy with us! Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas!
Loving all the generous giveaways!
Billie
I love it! That video was so special and Monica just cracks me up. Thanks so much you guys.
Love reading the holiday traditions of everyone. Would love to win the fabric. Diane
I love Monica’s traditions. It sounds a lot like my family
Love the stories! Thanks for sharing.
Loved the video! Thanks for the opportunity to see it and read the other traditions. We are starting some new traditions this year, so wish us luck!
Three lovely and special traditions.
I too am German and my family celebrates at midnight much like Monica’s. I have very fond memories of the same thing (without the pinata!) My grandmother would bake all day Christmas eve and we would have a feast and games and music all night. Our family would come from hours away to celebrate with us! There were decorations everywhere, even ornaments Hung from the ceiling! We had so many families that the presents would literally be piled up 5 feet high across the whole living room with people sitting on stairs and scrunched into one room. It was lovely to be near everyone and eat wonderful foods like German games and tunips and turkey or sometimes even lasagna. What excitement and memories.. thank you for reminding me.
Its a lovely thing despite our differences that we can celebrate the holidays together.
I am absolutely in love with Happy Zombie! What fun!!
Olive & Ollie is a darling Etsy shop–Heather is very creative!
And of course, random words of kindness was such a thoughtful, loving thing to do (and share).
thank you,Jo, for the opportunity to meet all these artists.
We dont have a huge family, most of our Family is in the UK (we are in Australia) I have 6 relatives in Australia and they are a long way away from here, so not so much on traditions for us.. but I love spending the day with my kids and hubby and prefer to spend it in my PJ’s…
Wow, love the traditions!!!
Thank you for so many words of ideas, love and encouragement!
I just love reading about other’s holiday traditions. My kids are growing up so quickly and it seems like many of our traditions are fading away, but also new ones are being made.
Thanks so much to the artists for sharing!
I posted the button on our blog.
All 3 artists have heartwarming and great traditions. Not mention their generosity!
Button is on my sidebar!
Wow – I love all three artist’s works. Such creativity in all of them.
Growin up, we (my Mom and I) made dozens upon dozens of cookies at holiday time in our house, plus lefse, krumkake and holubtsi (cabbage rolls),then when I got older, I found wonderful recipes for sour cream fudge and peanut brittle! We spent countless hours in the kitchen, but the rewards sure were yummy!
I added your button to my blog linked back to this blog.
ooooh. please pick me. this is awesome… thanks!
What wonderful traditions and memories! Thanks for the new artists and a chance to win!
What wonderful traditions and memories! Thanks for the new artists and a chance to win!
What wonderful memories and traditions! Thank you for introducing these women to us!
Of all the above ideas, my favorite one was the giving of hot chocolate along with the messages. I have decided that I want to get my 14 year old daughter over the holidays and take a few of her friends and have them give messages out at the mall here in Al. What a wonderful idea. There are so many people out there just waiting for an incouraging word.
Thank you for all of the inspiration!!
Karen in Breezy Point
Thank you Thank you for doing this… I love reading about Holiday traditions as well as finding other blogs to check out!!
Thanks for sharing your traditions (and the great giveaways).
I love the messages given out. I had my girls look at the video and they are excited about doing this. They have already been thinking of messages to print out along with the ones that are printable. This is the most exciting thing. Just thinking of giving people an encouraging word. Awesome!
I’m loving this holiday cheer! Thanks for the great giveaways…
They all look so lovely.
Super-cute giveaways! Love ‘em.
All the stories are great. In this case women are creating great hope and wonderful ideas for Christmases to come.
Love hearing about holiday traditions. Make one want to try something different every year. Thanks so much!!
love those fabrics!
Such lovely stories.. I feel so happy to be friends with Monica and to have met Heather!!!
I love hearing other people’s stories about their Christmas.
I love traditions! My family is VERY unique and doesn’t do a whole lot of traditional things. The only thing that has been passed down is the annual lefse fest where we make lefse for the holidays.
What a great site and giveaways. Love Happy Zombies fabric! Thanks for creating and sharing
Love the stories !
Love hearing about Monica’s Germexican celebrations. Sounds like fun!
All three are great artists. I’ve followed Happy Zombie for a while and it’s great to see her featured on your fourth day. The fabrics are so very pretty. Thanks for the giveaway. alternate email mlwright29 (at) hotmail (dot) com
Enjoyed reading everyone’s stories! Happy Holidays to all!
Thank you for sharing, I love the holidays and all the traditions. My family usually plays cards for 4-5 hours to celebrate!
Thank you for the inspiring stories- they are really getting me into the Christmas spirit. Thank you, too, for the great giveaway!
I follow WWC on Twitter.
I tweeted about this giveaway.
My grandma’s fudge and Danish cookies are a special holiday memory. Oh, how I miss her deep, dark fudge and her Danish kringler cookies! And, every Christmas, she made chocolate walnut pie–just for me.
Great giveaways and I love reading about the traditions…gets me in the mood for the holidays quicker than anything else! Thank you
Hi, I have been enjoying all the memories. Thanks so much for sharing. I love the fabrics. Helen
I love reading about the traditions, both old and new, of all these wonderful women. The prizes are great too but just a bonus when the real treat is the stories.
I tweeted about these great holiday traditions. . .
Lovely posts! Our traditions like Monica’s have changed over the years as family scatters and the kids start their own families not always as near as we like but the one thing that always happens, even with FB, texting, blogs and emails, I call my brothers and cousin Christmas Eve or Christmas day and remember our childhood celebrations growing up. I have to hear their voices. Gosh I wish we would have had a pinata though! Thanks for the give aways!
What a fabulous amazing giveaway. What wonderful traditions.
For some reason my comment didn’t update. Please enter me into your giveaway for these 3 wonderful artists. I’ve followed Happy Zombie for a while and love her fabrics. Thanks for this series of bios of artists that are due recognition. alternate email mlwright29 (at) hotmail (dot) com
Enjoyed reading about their traditions!
I LOVED reading about the holiday traditions of these artists. How very fun! Thank you for the chance to win. I am dying to get my hands on some of Monica’s fabrics so I really would love to win.
Love love these blogs… they cheer me up, keep me inspired, and fire up the holiday-sewing-giving spirit!
I’m really enjoying everyone’s stories!
I tweeted this
Posted button to my blog
So nice to read about everyone’s traditions.
Must be something about grandmothers and fudge….mine used to make it at Christmas also. Mmm, you’ve brought back some wonderful memories.
I love reading about the cultural holiday and traditions. We experienced a different kind of Christmas when we lived in Mexico for two years. It was wonderful!
what a great giveaway!
I love to hear about others’ traditions, thank you so much. I especially love the video…it kind of made me all weepy, knowing how beautiful some people in this world are! Thank you for this…
Wow, I love these stories. More wonderfully talent women and their great blogs. Thank again for sharing. Merry, merry Christmas
Thanks for sharing these wonderful stories of family and tradition during the holiday season!
Love reading about holiday traditions… great stories!
Love Happy Zombie!
Thanks for the giveaway and such cute Christmas fabric..Lisa in Texas
Reading about Heathers peanut butter fudge reminded me that I used to get a box of peanut brittle under the tree at Christmas (along with a LifeSaver candy book). Hmm…I might just have to go & get some peanut brittle!!
What lovely Giveaways!!!!
I love reading about family traditions – thanks for sharing these!
Thanks for sharing……Happy Holidays!!
What wonderful traditions and what wonderful giveaways! ‘Tis the season. Thanks so much!
The fun traditions they all shared were a blessing. It is obvious that traditions in a family are so important.
Love to read all the wonderful stories.
I have a twelve days button on my sidebar.
Wow, those are all wonderful ways to spend time with family and enjoy the seasons… I can relate to the candy story. I have taken over my grandmother’s candy making in the last few years, myself. It isn’t super hard to do, but, boy, does it take a lot of time! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone! And thanks for the great giveaways! :)
WOW! A Happy Zombie giveaway–Hooo-weee!
Seriously—– how can there be more holiday goodness than this? Really. re.ally. I followed/tweeted, blogged/posted and feature an image. Re.Ally…. a threefer! Thank you!
Wow,these are fantastic giveaways. I just learned about the giveaway from the Happy Zombie and now it looks like I have another blog to follow! Thanks for hosting this.
Wonderful ideas and a Merry Christmas to everyone!
Such nice traditions and wonderful giveaway!!
I would LOVE the chisel set – ALL the giveaways are AWESOME today! Thanks for sharing!
I posted this on facebook!
I tweeted this fantastic giveaway!
I follow WWC on Twitter
I have a WWC button on my blog – http://sewnso.blogspot.com
Love this blog and love the ideas for all the family traditions.
My Grandma made all kinds of candy too. My favorites were her caramels and her popcorn balls.
The RAK video is really wonderful!
Germexican, huh? Sounds terrifically loud, fun, and joyous.
Wonderful giveaways. I really love the holidays.
Oh I’m feeling the need to put the “It’s a Small World After All” while visiting the blog! :)
Pattie ;)
I have a WWC button on my side bar!
Pattie ;)
What great stories and great giveaway! Thanks so much :)
Your holiday button is on my sidebar :)
I love the look of that fabric too, and what a delightful way to celebrate Christmas.
Have a happy day, Margaret P.
So many amazing designers, stories to read and projects to try. Thanks for the great time!
What lovely holiday traditions! I can definitely relate with Monica having family in California and living in Oregon. There are certain things I still feel compelled to do during the holidays that keep wonderful memories and traditions alive. Thanks to all for sharing.
I am enjoying this so much!! Lovely stories!!
Cocoa, candy, and tamales…maybe not all together,
Such sweet give aways.
Such an awesome give away.
All these wonderful stories and it’s snowing in Cincinnati ! …. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
More wonderful traditions! Another of our traditions was the Christmas day buffet that was out for the whole extended family dropping by our grandparent’s house – all the aunts and uncles and great aunts and great uncles and cousins. Sandwiches from the leftover ham and turkey, lots of Christmas cookies, fudge, chips – everyone snacked and talked and then went on their way to enjoy the Christmas day!
I have the WWC 12 Days button on my blog!
I tweeted about the contest!
I love reading about others holiday traditions. Thanks for sharing.
I love reading about each person’s holiday traditions!
I have the Twelve Days button on my blog.
I love all the wonderful memories.
Thank you for sharing with us…both your products and your memories.
What wonderful giveaways! Love the kindness words. Truly this was fun to watch.
12 days of blogging fun!
I truly enjoyed reading about all the different holiday traditions especially the one from Monica! I am from Germany and her story made me miss both my parents even more.
A big thank you to all for sharing their inspiring stories and for the generous give-away(love that fabric!!!!)
so blessed to have found your blogs… todays sponsors all have a special gift to share. I especially love Heathers Custom Appliqued Rocket Lounge Set for Little Boys with Pants and Appliqued Tee by Olive and Ollie. And was really touched by Melody’s gift of the chip-art set consisting of a Chip art Bluebird Alphabet and Chip Art Block, Mallet and spray bottle all in blue… I love the possibilities that owning this set could open up… I have not used it before, but the artist & creative side of me, would love to learn how to use it to bless many around me! I loved her idea and have bookmarked the pdf and the video of here experience with the random notes.
i am very much enjoying reading these traditions.
What a wonderful giveaway! Thank you all so much.
Germexican holidays sounds like fun! Anything with tamales, really.
Follow where women create on twitter @freritcinge.
Another great day of reading three different Christmas family traditions. I also love going to everyone’s blog and learn more about them, and what they create. It is very inspirational to me.
Love givaways! have a great weekend Pat!
Love the stories and the sharing of traditions….I make surprize balls for my grandkids….its harder to find things to put in them when they get older…the little ones are much easier and cheaper too!!
I enjoyed reading the stories! I love Monica’s fabric too!
Love the quilts with your fabrics. Would love to win!!
My husband is half Mexican, so I can relate to Monica’s story about Mexican celebrations.
How fun it is to read everyone’s different traditions! Santa use to just bring us one gift one gift on Christmas morn (tough times for Santa!) and one year he brought me and my two brothers, each a tractor. It was big and heavy and wonder, ‘what the heck was Santa, thinkin’, bringin’ me a tractor????’
Great traditions! Monica, I can’t believe your family would stay up that late and then get all rowdy and whack a pinata! Wow! Loved the Random Words of Kindness Video. Thanks for sharing, girls!
Love it!
Love the giveaways!! Thanks!!
Monica always makes me feel better! And I loved the Brave Girls Club video. It made me cry. Thanks.
I love Melody’s idea and plan to download the list of messages. Instead of passing them out, I think I will roll them and tie them with ribbon and drop them around some local stores. Hopefully, the person that needs to receive one will be the one who picks it up.
~elaine~
What great stories! I love to hear about other people’s traditions and memories.
OMGosh – how gorgeous do those fat quarters look!!! Thanks to Heather, Melody & Monica for the fab giveaways and holiday traditions!
I have the 12 Days of Christmas WWC image on my blog too :)
Just tweeted this!
love love the monica & the happy zombie
melody gives off a wonderful spirit & I TOTALLY am in LOVE with the Cip art kit…and
Heather’s memories with the recipes are like mine..but I have few recipes as I lived next door to my grandma & it never occured to me that she would ever be gone..
we did everything together my whole life… she never went off a recipe…
What a great TRIO…Thanks for sharing..
thank you all so much for sharing your stories…!
and wow! awesome prizes…thanks for that, too :)
Love these stories. Great to hear about holiday traditions and what makes the season so special
I just love these 3. I have seen Monica’s quilting at the happy zombie & I love her colors & fabrics. she is so `happy’& has such an inspiration. Melody seems to have such kindness & the alphabet set is something I would so love to have.
Heather & her recipe & candy traditions has my heart for being able to save & carry forth such a special `moment’that will forever be special in the heart of her family & children.
what a wonderful way to bring in the Christmas season..
I LOVE THIS…
thanks for this taking time to share holiday memories.
I loved reading the stories and all of them touched me in different ways. The first story reminded me of when I was little and a family friend would make dozens of different Christmas cookies and my sisters and I would help her bake them and package them up and if there was any left which there was we could eat them. The second story hits home with me about how I am starting to teach my children about being kind to others and giving to those who would have nothing if we didn’t. We have been putting together shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child for the past two Christmas’s. My children are 4 and 5 this year and for them to get excited and pick out items to give is heart warming to me and my husband. And the last story reminds me of again being little and gathering at my grandparents home on Christmas Eve and we too would exchange gifts and we always had to wait until after the kitchen was cleaned which felt like it took forever. Then my grandfather would ask one of us to be the elf and pass out the gifts then one by one we got to open them and if there were clothes in there we had to model them. I would love to win Monica’s fabric I have been wanting it for awhile now and I have even looked for it in my local Quilt shop’s here in Georgia but can’t find it. Thank you ladies for sharing your stories.
These are great as well! LOVE the random acts of kindness!
Love all three of these artists. Melody’s chip board pounding is a wonderful holiday stress reliever.
Such fun in blog land! I am enjoying discovering all the wonderful blogs out there. Thanks to all who are participating and making this holiday season enjoyable.
Holiday chills, ya’ll!
What great stories-even in the comments. I love the comment from the couple that gives out an extra special tip. I love to tip generously and unexpectedly but I’ve never tipped that much!!!!!!!!!!!
What wonderful traditions! I love this time of year!
Thanks for the sites to view and the lovely giveaways from everyone! Happy Holidays!
What a super idea of the brave girl’s. Thanks for this generous giveaway. Lovely stories!!!!
I have the button on my blog
I blogged about the giveaway.
Thanks for the great giveaways.
I am already a subscriber to your blog.
Such talented artisans. I am so delighted to be part of these beautiful memories. Thanks for a chance to win.
Great giveaways…Enjoy reading the different traditions.
Wow! Great giveaways! So many interesting traditions in these posts!
I have the Twelve Days of Christmas button on my blog sidebar.
I am so touched by the Words of Kindness – love, love, love the video! The recipients just glowed when they read their message – thanks for sharing! Merry Christmas everyone!
So cute. Thanks for the giveaway!
That Monica always makes me laugh, I love her blog!
I printed out those random words to not only pass out but to put on my wall to see everyday! Thanks!
I love all these traditions! I read the Brave Girls Club and love their postitive, loving attitude!!! I eat tamales around Christmas every year just because I was born and raised in Calif. and so many people have that traditiion that I love to share in…Hmmmmm….maybe I need to stuff a pinata!!!
:) karen….
I am lucky in that all my family live within 20 miles so get togethers are easy!
Thanks for the giveaways
Gill
what a wonderful give away! All three are very creative. Thanks for sharing with us!
Thank you so much for the great opportunity!
Giveaways are always fun and festive, but I must say that fabric giveaways are my favorite! Yeah artists!
What a great way to start the holidays! Love the different posts and reading about the traditions:) I came by way of The Happy Zombie!
Thanks for the opportunity to participate in this great give-a-way!
Laura T
I tweeted!
Laura T
I have blogged about the 12 Days of Holidays on my blog:aquiltersnest.blogspot.com
Laura T
I posted a button on my blog as well:)
Laura T
With my kids and grandkids living out of state, our holiday is pretty quiet, but I enjoy decorating with my Wee Forest Folk mouse collection and Mary Engelbreit items. My husband’s family is Swedish, so we have gnomes around.
I loved reading about Monica’s Christmas with her big family. This, to me, is what Christmas is all about. Lots of family, lots of food, lots of fun. I would love to win her fabric giveaway. Thanks for the chance to win.
The video brought me to tears, it was very touching.
Tamales at Christmastime is a gift in itself. I love to know that people have family- and charity-based traditions. With all the frenzy, it’s so easy to forget the simplicity of the holiday.
So glad I just found your website. Reading about all the traditions is helping me to remember all of ours.
I’m especially looking forward to Christmas this year as my daughter, son-in-law and three grandchildren will be visiting from Alaska. They are looking forward to Christmas in the US as they have been overseas for the last 7 years as my son-in-law is in the Air Force. I’ve made each of these grandchildren a quilt for Christmas so they can stay warm in Alaska.
great traditions, all! Thanks for the giveaway – I’d love the fabric!
I cut my finger this morning so I am having trouble posting. Enjoy reading the entries and all the comments.
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I cut my finger this morning so I am having trouble posting. Enjoy reading the entries and all the comments.
I found my way here thru Happy Zombie/ pam
pamroever at yahoo dot com
Thanks for sharing ladies. There are some amazing holiday traditions. I’m a quilter and would be tickled pink if I were to win Monica’s Holiday Happy FQ bundle. Thanks for the chance.
Awesome traditions! Thanks for the givaway! Polly
Love all the stories!
Wonderful traditions and wonderful prizes.
Interesting traditions! The video was fun to see.
Everyone’s holiday traditions are so fun to hear about. I would be honored to win any one of the prizes. Happy Holidays to all.
These women are not only creative but inspirational. This Christmas I plan on taking my kids to the armoury to help pack Christmas baskets for the needy.
I’ve posted the WWC badge on my blog
I Love reading all about Family and triditions. Really brighten my day! Brings back such good memories of when my sons were little.
Love Melody’s tradition of the Random Acts of Kindness!! What a great way to celebrate the season!
And that fabric is just too cute!! Thank you for the giveaway!
What fun traditions! I love making candy at Christmas!
These ladies’ stories were wonderful to read :).
I have to admit I really miss the sound of church bells. particularly the ones that announce the new year.
WOnderful giveaways too,
Hugs, Sharon
I’m a follower.
I loved reading about your Christmas traditions, old and new. As former Southern Californians now living in Oregon, we, too, look forward to tamales on Christmas Eve…and I’ll never forget the sight of my childhood best friend’s Christmas tree alight with real candles, courtesy of her Berlin-born mother.
Thanks for the generous giveaways!
love love love Monica’s fabric… it’s Da Bomb Dot Com!
It’s interesting reading about people’s different traditions. Thanks for offereing the great giveaways!
Love the idea of the words of kindness.Also, Monica….love love love the Santa Gnomes….please design more more more!!! Merry Xmas!
I think the story of Random Acts of Kindness, is just what Christmas is all about! A great idea!!
Blessings,Becky
Thanks for the chance :)
Love this! I just discovered Happy Zombie and I think she’s terrific. Yowsa!
What great memories, and great giveaways too! Happy Holly-daze to you all!
These are three fabulous women! Thank you fro sharing your family traditions. :)
Great giveaway!
Love reading all these traditions!
Love the random acts of kindness and espcially the Happy Zombie’s fabrics…her blog is so darn cute ;)
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I love to hear what people do for the holidays! I really like the fabrics too!!!
Love all of these!!! Brave girls rock!!!!
What a generosity! Wish you happy holiday :)
dafna
Wonderful stories. I love reading these!
I hope I win. I want to make your pattern from quilts and more winter 2010!
More great stories and giveaways. Thanks for the chance to win.
what a lovely give away. I love hearing other traditions. Heather’s story reminds me of my mother always making a platter of cookies to give everybody. But candy making can be a long process!
I’m stalking Monica for her fabulous fabric! But I’m so glad to have found a new and inspiring blog. It’s lovely to hear of others’ Christmas traditions.
I love the random words of kindness! Merry Christmas everyone.
great stories, I was sent here by the “Happy Zombie” Monica, I’d love to hold her goodies!
Wow…wonderful traditions…Esp Melody…I would like to do that. How nice to bring a positive hope to everyone.
Louise
Such wonderful creative ladies! Thanks for the giveaways
I tweeted the giveaways
I love hearing other traditions. I’ve never eaten a tamale . . maybe, I’ve never even seen one, but I want to and I love her fabric . . . I’d love to win it as I am beginning to learn quilting and just purchased a 1963 sewing machine off of Craigslist and just got it going.
Grace and Peace,
Amy
What a great giveaway, thanks for posting such loveliness!
I loved all three of the christmas stories. I just love to hear about other traditions – thanks for sharing.
Great traditions!
What great prizes!!
cute!!
Thank you for sharing your holiday traditions. I enjoy reading how others celebrate this wonderful season.
thank you :)
Thanks for the great giveaways.
Love to hear other’s traditions and stories of Christmas! Thanks for sharing and for the giveaways!!
Thanks for introducing me to some great people! I love Monica’s Holiday Happy!! Would love to win some.
We are having or first family christmas at home with our daughters, i hope we make some memories like you that last a lifetime.
Thankyou for sharing.
The prizes today are just beyond words. I’m in awe. And I love Melody’s video, what a lovely idea!
Tweeted about this lovely giveaway day @knititall (and still following of course)
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Wow, so many great prizes! Thank you for the opportunity . They are all beautiful.
I am loving reading all about the holiday traditions of everyone! Something to look forward to every day – and giveaways, too!
Susan
Ooooo I love the Holiday Happy fabric!!
i love the ideas here :)
How sweet to learn more about the melting pot that is blogland…..what lovely ladies and lovely gifts.
thanks so much for a chance to win.
and also for sharing about their Christmas’s…….
Merry Merry Merry…….very fun :0)
Happy Sewing
I would love to win the fabric most of all! Laura x
love the christmas stories and inspirtation. thank you
Thanks for sharing with us! There’s nothing like helping others to put you in the spirit of Christmas!
Monica you made me laugh with the Germexican Christmas, 80+ people packed into a house we have more like 12 and that is it….still we are all together.
I love the message idea, seems better than a christmas cracker, and yummy home made sweets now I could really enjoy that. So many things that make the occasion, and I have never really thought about it….it’s never too late I guess, thank you ladies, very inspiring.
thank you for a chance to win. I came over from Monica’s blog, but will have to bookmark this one and come back often.
Amazing women, so inspiring. Thanks for introducing us!
I love the idea of random acts of kindness. Whacking a pinata on Christmas Eve sounds like fun too!
Wonderful stuff!
Monica ,
I loved your Christmas Tradition! My childhood experiences of Christmas were very similar to yours. We are trying to keep those wonderful memories going for our daughter by gathering ever Christmas with family and sharing a tamale or two. :). Abuelita is our head Tamale elf but we get in there to spread! Hope your tamales are yummy this year! Merry Christmas!
I love reading these fun traditions! I’ll be back!
I love hearing about other family holiday traditions.
I love reading about what traditions other families have. When my Grandparents died at a young age, so did all of our family traditions. So, now that I have a family of my own I am excited to have our own traditions that we can enjoy and pass down to my children.
Thx for the chance to win – I’m always amazed at the creativity of these wonderful women!
I have fallin in love at first sight with the happy holiday fabric I love it and am now desperate for it. I really hope I win it, Oh please oh please random generator please pick me.
Great stories. I can relate to Monica and those tamales!!! Family is wonderful.
I’ve put the “Twelve Days of Christmas” WWC image on my blog. http://knittingitall.blogspot.com/
Oh my, any of these would make a merry Christmas indeed!
What a fun post with all the holiday traditions. I’m in love with the Holiday Happy fabric too – so cute!
Love the random acts of kindness! How awesome. Thanks for the chance to win!
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I would LOVE to win the pile of fabric! CUTE! Also, the German/Mexican Christmas story is pretty cool.
Brave girls, indeed. Thank you so much for sharing that incredible idea, and for these wonderful giveaways!
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Wonderful prizes! I especially love Happy Zombie’s fabrics! Thank you for the giveaway!
Oh this is so much fun! Please include me. Thank you for sharing these heartfelt traditions, ladies.
ahhh the candy making reminded me sooo much of my grandpa! He used to make rock candy for all of us every year. Sniff… what great memories!
I have the WWC button on my sidebar too
Another set of wonderful Christmas traditions and prizes. All are wonderful but especailly love fabric *^-^*
I love the holiday memories!
More great traditions. I’m really enjoying reading them all. Of course, I started at Day 8 and am working backwards, but hey, that counts too:) Thanks for the chance.
What a wonderful, beautiful idea from Melody. During these times, just a “random notes of kindness” is what people need. You girls are awesome!
I would love to have that fabric, awesome giveaways!
I love the idea of random acts of kindness — gotta go watch the vid now!
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I’m following you on Twitter and tweeted about the giveaway.
What wonderful stories! They were so fun to read. I adore Melody. A little kindness goes a long way.
I have a button on my blog.
Great idea! Great stories! Happy Holidays! Ana
One Christmas tradition we have begun is our family weekend. We go to Santa Barbara for a weekend of “family time” the weekend before Christmas. We join the Christmas Caroling at the Mission, we shop, we eat, we watch holiday movies, but being away from home means we only concentrate on each other….not the million things on our holiday “to do” lists!!!!
Great giveaways! Thanks for the opportunity!
Can’t wait to visit these new blogs.
Could I be so lucky to win the chip art set! That would be so cool.
Love reading their stories, thank you!
I love my Grandma’s recipe- I cherish them- thanks for the chance to win such an awesome giveaway
Second Entry “Cover Votes:
Thanks, Chris Gerke
I really enjoyed hearing the stories!
Wonderful traditions!! Thanks for sharing them with us! Happy Holidays!!!
Thanks for the great giveaways!
Lovely traditions and fabulous artists!!
Voted on spring cover!
Neat stories.
Oh boy! Another chance to win so fabulous prizes! You girls are super!
xo
jeanne
I love the random words of kindness!! The people were so surprised. It was a true blessing!!
I love the random christmas spirit video – watching their faces light up as they read them was so touching -
I just love the idea of the random words of wisdom. I think that would work no matter the time of the year! Thanks for sharing!
Enjoy the day!
Erin
Great giveaways. Thank you to the generous donors!
Three more great givaways.
A wonderful giveaway! Thanks!
love these stories and creative women
ava
cottagerca
I love all these ladies and would love to win any of this stuff!!!
I’m a new Brave Girl. Thanks Melody. Great gifts.
VictorianGypsy
I love the idea of handing out random notes of kindness – especially wonderful because she is involving her children in this activity. My Grandmother also made unbelievable amounts of holiday treats every Christmas and now my Mom continues the tradition. I’m not sure I’ll ever be organized or efficient enough to continue on for them, but I am learning all the recipes and will someday inherit the VERY well-seasoned Pizelle iron. I did, however, start the new holiday tradition of Pomegranate Martinis and am determined to finally teach my Mom how to use the ISI cream whipper I bought her years ago so she doesn’t spend so much time making whipped cream. Traditions are absolutely wonderful and necessary, but a little update never hurts on occasion.
OMG I need to find a money tree somewhere so I can go to Brave girls club, and purchase those awesome fabrics :)
Thank you so much,
Maggie
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a great read and thanks for the chance to win………
a great read and thanks for the chance to win…….
I follow you on twitter
I voted for the Spring Cover
Love reading the traditions!
Thanks!
Simply lovely stories and ideas ladies! Great giveaways!
I love the women you spotlight thanks for chance to win
Thanks for the chance!! Beautiful!
It’s always fun to learn about others special traditions at the holidays. Two years ago we started having The 4 weeks of Christmas. We get together once a week in December and eat or go to a concert or movie or play a game of monopoly and at each meeting exchange a gift each. This was my idea to get to see more of my kids after they left me with an empty nest. Of course, the gift at each meeting, was the bait for the kids and we have had so much fun doing this. Thanks so much for the giveaway. ms.cheryl
Love the work of these talented artists. Thanks for sharing your memories and traditions and for being an inspiration to me. Merry Christmas!
How wonderful these Holiday Traditions are! We must keep them alive in our hearts, create new ones, share, laugh & create!
That video made me cry. Such a great idea! Thank you for the chance to win!
Yes please, count me in!
everything is so wonderful – great giveaway!!
I just love holiday traditions…even though you can’t spend the holidays with love ones you can have a tamale in their honor. Love that. Thanks for the chance to win.
The chip art set looks so fun!
Melody Ross tools, gift certificate, and material!!! I am so in this drawing!!!
Such amazing, giving traditions! Loving the Black Friday one.
I love the fabric from Monica!!! Would love to put that into a quilt.
I love these giveaways! Merry Christmas!
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I love these giveaways! Merry Christmas!
lanzaelizabeth77 at gmail dot com
Grandmas always bake the best goodies!
Random acts of kindness are AWESOME!
I love that is German until Christmas!
Love all of these!
Thanks for sharing them with us!
Reading about the different customs/traditions is fun!
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I tweeted about the giveaway
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Liz
Love fabric! Thanks for the wonderful giveaways and stories.
Great traditions shared on here and thanks for the giveaways
These contests are well written and I enjoyed reading all the stories. Beautiful. Thank you and god bless.
xo
Love the german/mexican traditions — as my children’s father is from Spain, we used to celebrate el Dia de los Reyes (the Epiphany) — here’s to a Happy Holiday
Wonderful stories! Love to read about everyone’s tradtions.
More fabulous women sharing…LOVE this holiday gift!!!
A favorite tradition of mine started after we moved to the house we live in now… At our old home we had a nice sized blue spruce in our front yard, and I had purchased ornaments for it. We used to decorate it every Christmas. The house we live in now, has lots of pretty trees in the landscape, but no evergreens. So we decided we would decorate the magnolia tree on the street side of our yard… It looks a little “Charlie Brown-ish”, without it’s leaves and with ornaments and lights hanging from it’s bare branches, but that also gives it a certain charm.
Added your button to my blog!
Melody, what a fantastic way to bring people back to what Christmas is all about! Love it!
Melody Ross = the most amazing woman! Thanks for having her on today. Great giveaways all around. WOW! Thanks…
Crystal McC
oooh the fat quarters look fun!