Giveaway Day with Sew Mama Sew – hooray!!! If this is your first visit or you’re here often – welcome!! My item is this Moroccan Mirage tablerunner. It would look awesome in your home!! Leave me a comment about a favorite tradition you do. I enjoy baking with my girls during the holidays.
The giveaway is open to any one, anywhere. I will draw a winner late Friday, December 16. I will do a post on Saturday announcing the winner.
Hope you enjoy this fun way to celebrate the Holiday Season!! Enjoy!!
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Hi, it’s my first time visiting your blog! Love the colors of the table runner 🙂
My favorite tradition is putting up a nativity scene in the days before christmas.
love your blog!
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My favorite family tradition is buying each other an ornament to open on Christmas Eve. It’s especially fun if the ornament captures an event from the year…this year my son went to college so we got him an ornament from his university! Happy Holidays!
Very pretty table runner. I like to decorate cookies with my boys.
Holly
I just love remembering traditions from when I was little. Now that I have my own family we’ve started a tradition of putting up the tree together and decorating a gingerbread house.
love the runner! a tradition we do in my family is have a yearly festival called Bublitchki Fest! we made it up and it’s fantastic. basically a family reunion of sorts with costumes, ethnic food, and silliness involved. 🙂
oh, that’s beautiful… it would be perfect in my dining room! traditions? our entire december is full of traditions – we love ’em. pierogi are one of my favorites, though!
I buy ornaments throughout the year to commemorate big events. I also love to make a special gingerbread house every year. So far, we’ve made several traditional ones, a creche, and a pink cottage. A castle has been requested for this year. (EEek!)
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Beautiful table runner!! My favorite tradition is our cookie decorating party – a table-full of kids to go crazy with the frosting and decorations (not for the germophobes, many spoons get licked) – and some Moscato for the Moms – such a fun day!!
I agree with you on the baking. My son and I make and decorate cookies every year. In fact, he asked me just last night if we would do it again this year!
I make a gingerbread house (or some other gingerbread structure, this year it was a train) with the kids every year. They ever look great, but the kids have fun.
My favorite tradition…Advent calendar. My oldest daughter gets excited each year. The little one is almost 2 and looking forward to it now each day!
My favorite tradition is watching Christmas specials with my husband and kids. Our favorite is A Christmas Carol – almost any version will do!
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Stockings are hung by the chimney with care filled with stuff and a quarter–usually one from the state where they were born.
I also love baking with my mom! The obscene number of cookies we wind up with is probably the best part.
My favorite tradition is having the traditional Chrismas Eve dinner – either Italian or Slovak – as I remember and honor my parents and grandparents traditions.
We love making Irish Cream every Christmas(leaving out the liquor for the kids portions).
Our favorite family tradition is on Christmas eve we let out children open one gift and we read the nativity story with them so that they remember what we are actually celebrating the next morning!!
LOVE those colors!!!
Thanks for the giveaway! I follow your blog!
One tradition that we have is to put up our tree the weekend after Thanksgiving. =) Thanks for a chance to win your beautiful runner!
lovely runner. my favourite tradition is walking through the woods with my family + dog to collect greenery to make festive arrangements and wreaths.
I like to make sugar cookie cutouts with my son.
My kitchen is blue! Love the table runner. I also like doing a cookie bake with my school girl-friends!
first time visitor. Baking is also my favorite thing to do as tradition, this past weekend was baking weekend – 25 dozen cookies done 🙂
My favorite tradition is putting up ornaments on Christmas trees.Thanks for the giveaway!
What a pretty table runner. Thanks for the chance to win. One of our favorite holiday traditions is to drive through the nearby neighborhoods on Christmas Eve and look at all the luminaries that have been lit to welcome Christmas.
I love to make gingerbread houses!
The kids and I are in our church’s live nativity every year. It doesn’t feel like Christmas until we’ve done that! Luckily we did it this weekend, so Christmas can now begin!
My favorite tradition is getting the kids a new “special” ornament each year, commemorating an important event in their life for that year. Last year was soccer balls for their first year playing soccer. This year will be a piano and a school themed ornament. One just started piano lessons and the other kindergarten
We always take the kids to see Santa at Bass Pro Shop. They have the best Santa and they also have free crafts for the kids to make afterwards 🙂
My favourite tradition is Christmas dinner with my in-laws
We decorate gingerbread houses and make hot chocolate with homemade marshmallows!
What great colors on the table runner! Every year, my mom buys each of us kids a new christmas ornament. She usually gives it to us while we are decorating together!
daughter & i love making up gift bags of pretzel chocolate treats and giving them to random people we see every day.
I love when we make small lights with mandarines… And when we used to throw coton balls on the Xmas tree to simulate snow
My favorite tradition is when our family does the 12 days of Christmas for a family in the neighborhood. My kids love putting the present on the doorstep and running fast!!!
Reading a Christmas story with our children on Christmas eve is one of our traditions.
beautiful table runner. my favorite tradition is the order of how we celebrate. first santa, then stockings, then breakfast, than the rest of the presents. it makes the day last.
watching the School Nativity play. “Away in a manger” sung beautifully out of tune by school children, always puts a tear in my eye & a lump in my throat!
We each put an ornament on the tree every night from Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve. Thank you for a beautiful giveaway!
I love buying the christmas tree with my hubby. I am not so sure if my hubby would say the same, it usually takes hours 😉
Lovely table runner. I like making ornaments with my girls. Crafty fun!
I love the colors in your table runner! Beautiful, and fun.
I hope you get a million responses to your contest. 🙂
Thanks!
Gorgeous! We always bake cookies together, too. 🙂
My Mum always stays with me and after a day of running around we sit down with a bottle of champagne and watch the soap operas that were on earlier in the day. Nice and peaceful.
Beautiful runner – I always buy my grandchildren a new, dated ornament so they’ll have a collection of their own when they grow up!
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What a gorgeous tablerunner – I love all the colours 🙂 You are right – this will fit perfectly in my home. Thank you for a great giveaway.
This is my first time visiting your blog, so heading off to see your quilty goodness.
Marilize
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My favorite tradition is taking the girls for a car ride on Christmas Eve to look for Santa and his reindeer in the sky. There’s almost always some light twinkling in the sky that the girls are sure is Santa.
My first time here–thanks so much! We love taking a walk on Christmas morning, right after stockings are opened. kaseymgm (at) gmail (dot) com
My favorite tradition is making fudge; it doesn’t always set up, but my family says “spoon fudge” is just as good, and goes great as cookie frosting!
Hi, first timer here. My favorite tradition is listening to Trans Siberian Orchestra while decorating the tree.
We always did a Christmas morning treasure hunt when my son was young. Now that’s he’s outgrown it, we will wait to do it with grandchildren someday.
Baking apple pie and lots of Christmas cookies 🙂
we love the christmas eve dinner & gift opening with the inlaws!
ON the morning of Christmas ever we go to the zoo, let the kids and grown ups run around, then when everyone is cold enough, we come home have hot chocolate and make cookies for Santa while listening to Christmas music.
I put up/out all my snowman decorations. My daughters do not live close 🙁
We enjoy a fancy, sit down, full course dinner on Christmas Eve, then open and watch a new family movie, then have brunch on Christmas morning, after opening our presents, and save our stocking till Christmas night.
My traditions have changed over the years and now that my kids are young adults out on their own, I try and find and create time for me to be creative and have balance in my life and then, setting up times to share with my kids, fitting into their lives so we stay connected. Every moment is a gift.
I’d love to win the table runner to have it as a welcoming art piece when I can share a meal with my children.
It’s gorgeous. I love trimming my tree – all of my ornaments are from my husband’s and my travels over 30 years of marriage so it’s like a memory book of our life together.
thank you
kaiminani at gmail dot com
Wherever we are in the world we make a gingerbread house on Christmas Eve. Sometimes we buy kits, sometimes I make the gingerbread from scratch, and one year we just used graham crackers! It’s fun seeing the photos of our houses over the years and gives us a focus on family time instead of presents.
I love those colors!
One of my favorite traditions actually takes place after Christmas. My mom and I get together and spend a day cutting up the Christmas cards we received that year and make our own cards out of them. Those are the cards I mail out to family and friends the next year! 🙂
I love decorating the tree and going through the stories that each ornament has behind it.
my favorite Christmas tradition is watching the kids decorate the tree and then sitting around it while the oldest reads Luke chapter 2 about JEsus’ birth.
lisa.otis6 at gmail dot com
I love watching holiday tv specials with my kids.
My favorite part of the holidays is writing and receiving the Christmas cards.
That is just darling! I love our tradition of baking cookies with the grandchildren.
My favorite tradition is watching “the Muppet Christmas Carol” movie every Christmas Eve with my family 🙂
my favourite christmas tradition starts in November by sending out and reciveving post card size advent calendars – lots of windows to open all december
We always put together a puzzle over the holidays. Nice to go low tech in the high tech world. Love the blues and greens together.
My favorite tradition is decorating our Christmas tree 🙂
This table runner is gorgeous!
Best, Michelle
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My favourite tradition is decorating the tree and listening to It’s Raining Men by the Weathergirls. Nobody has any idea why we do it, but we always have!
My favorite tradition is decorating the house, inside and out.
Baking and decorating frosted sugar cookies!
What a gorgeous work of art your tablerunner is!
Let’s see, a tradition we do is attend a local Christmas concert. I just love hearing choirs sing.
Carol (NJ)
A few years ago I took over yearly cookie duty. My grandmother used to make dozens of cookies for everyone in the family but she’s 95 now so I took up the tradition instead. Now they all look forward to MY cookies instead! 🙂
That runner could not have been more tailor made for my kitchen table. Beautiful. The favorite holiday tradition around here is frosting sugar cookies. I think there’s more frosting eaten than cookies frosted but that’s all the fun, right?
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I love listening to Amy Grant’s Christmas Album while we drink wassail and decorate the tree!
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My favorite holiday tradition is walking around the neighborhood to see all the Christmas lights.
Our family tradition is to cut down the saddest little tree we can find, then make it pretty.
My favorite holiday tradition is driving around at night looking at all of the decorations.
Beautiful runner! Thanks for the chance to win. My favorite holiday tradition is our annual cookie exchange party. We gather at my mom’s house with all of our girlfriends and catch up on the season while indulging our sweet tooth!
We do candy day the Saturday before Christmas. Thanks for the giveaway! robyn(dot)geddes(at)gmail(dot)com
So pretty! I love that color combo. We get egg nog shakes and drive around the neighborhoods to look at the lights.
I think going out a picking out a Christmas tree is my favorite tradition. We’ve been losing family members due to them starting their own family traditions or laziness, but I absolutely love going with atleast my dad.
I love going Christmas caroling in our neighborhood!!
I love decorating a christmas tree with my husband!
I love making a Christmas cake with my family, letting each one take turns in stirring and making a Christmas wish.
My favorite tradition is all the holiday baking leading up to Christmas. Yum! Beautiful table runner!
I follow your blog.
My favorite tradition is cutting down a tree, drinking hot chocolate or apple cider and decorating it with my family!
We always wait until after dinner on Christmas day to open our gifts! Sounds crazy, but we love the anticipation more!
We love to keep things low-key on Christmas Eve before the excitement of Christmas. We watch a family movie, drink homemade hot cocoa and eat popcorn.
Thanks for the chance to win!
On Christmas Eve, I give my kids a new pair of pajamas. After they get their pjs on, we read the Christmas story and the kids go to be early. Even now that the oldest are teenagers.
love the table runner! it’d look great in my Mom’s house! my favorite tradition is putting up the Christmas tree with my Mom and brother. its a great way to start out the season:)
Does it count as a tradition if you have only done it for a year? Well, mine and my boyfriend’s anniversary is at the beginning of December so we each get each other an ornament on that day and go pick out our tree. (We started it this year so our tree only has 2 ornaments on it so far, but we decided we want to do this every year from now on)!
Your runner is a beauty and I have a thing about runners but usually the ones I make are given away as gifts! Thanks for the chance.
I also enjoy baking with my children over the holidays.
Our tradition is to cut a tree the day after Thanksgiving. There’s never any doubt what we’re doing on Friday. It’s an all day event for us as we stop for lunch and browse the tree farm’s ornament shop and play with their puppies.
I enjoy cooking and baking for everyone. I love being able to make things for people and have them enjoy them.
Love the runner – some of my favorite colors. My favorite thing to do during the holiday season is bake and give the baking away to my friends. Thanks. KatheGTN at aol dot com
Our family always makes wreaths of braided Finish cardamon bread to take to the neighbors
We make bark in new flavours every year -yummy 🙂
We have just started celebrating Hanukah as well as Christmas – to embrace all the wonderful blessings of the season. It is quickly becoming our favourite.
Favourite tradition is making my grandmother’s fudge recipe… it reminds us all of her.
Now that we live 3000 miles away from family DH and I are starting new custons of our own. I totally enjoy getting on the web cam with the grands and seeing what they got for gifts and having them tell me about their Christmas. It is not like being there but thank heavens for computers on Christmas!
I make caramels! Tons of stirring but they’re so tasty.
My sister, mom, and I have an ornament exchange every year. Lots of memories when I get out the decorations each year.
Christmas caroling. Thank you for the opportunity to win the lovely runner.
I love acting out the Nativity with my kids.
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Thanks for the chance to win! I think it’s awesome that bloggers show such generosity….Our tradition is to celebrate the Dutch Sinterklaas festivities with my husband’s relatives.
Love this, thanks for the chance to win.
Favorite tradition, coming home from the Japanese Steakhouse every Christmas Eve and handing out the kids their new pj’s, they go put them on, I take a pic of them all around the tree and then read ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas and that marks time for the little ones to go to bed. This years pic will be especially sweet now that we have a 1 month old to add to the mix 🙂
beautiful table runner!
one of my favorite holiday traditions is sending out a photo card of the kids each year…they love to look at them all over the years.
lisadpope@yahoo.com
my favorite christmas tradition is eating peppermint cookies with my grandpa!
karli
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I enjoy Christmas morning breakfast with my family. We wake up, make a pot of coffee, have a nice relaxing breakfast, then go for presents.
abigail.lee {at} gmail.com
here the 23rd is a national holiday so we always have a party with our bilingual playgroup
pretty! i love driving about to look at the lights with the kiddos.
On this first evening snow each Winter, my husband and I go for a snow walk on some quiet back roads. It is so peaceful and wonderful to only hear the crunching snow under our feet. Definitely my favorite winter tradition.
What a beautiful table runner. I love Moroccan inspired housewares! My favourite traditions are Carols by Candlelight and taking the kids to see all the Christmas lights at night. Thanks for the chance at a beautiful giveaway!
I love the baking and sending out holiday cards! thanks!
Hooray, this would look perfect on my table as I drink Moroccan Mint tea!
I love this runner! My favorite tradition is giving my boys their own ornaments on Christmas Eve. They really look forward to it. I will never forget the year that I didn’t check the hallmark box and we had an empty box. There were many tears because they thought someone stole it. =)
Hello! My parents always host a Christmas Eve gathering for the immediate family. We exchange gifts and eats lots of delicious food. I love it! Your table runner is beautiful!
Our fave tradition is baking Christmas cookies and watching fireworks display on Christmas Day!
Thanks for the giveaway. Happy holidays!
So pretty. Love all of the blues. My fav holiday tradition is baking stuff with my loved ones.
My favorite tradition is on Christmas Eve my family gets together to have an appetizer meal. We all bring different appetizers so there are many different things to try. Thanks for a chance to win your beautiful table runner – I love that fabric! 🙂
I love the patterns and colours in this table runner! I’m enamoured with Morocco.
My favorite tradition is going to this little Albertan small town named Fort MacLeod. My mother lives there now and they embrace the Christmas spirit big time. Tree lightings, craft shows and the most mazing Santa parade I have ever seen.
Even though I’m almost 27, I still love getting new jammies on Christmas eve!
Beautiful runner! I love driving around to look at lights on Christmas Eve, then coming home for hot cocoa!
Great, colorful blog! Our family of four tries to guess how many Christmas cards we’ll receive each day (in the morning) then we take turns each day opening them after dinner together. Everyone has to be present to open the cards.
Beautiful table runner!
Every Christmas I made my daughter a tree ornament. Most are cross-stitched but a couple of years I tried something different. She’s 19 this year and has a whole collection, enough to decorate her own tree if she wanted.
Every year the kids and my husband decorate the tree, and while they do, I make super-yummy homemade mint hot chocolate and bake cookies. Perfect.
barzi10091(at)aol.com
What a beautiful table runner!
I love our traditions of singing carols and making cookies!
Thanks,
Christy
chrstylynn@gmail.com
My favourite tradition is opening new christmas pjs before going to bed on christmas eve
What a lovely table runner. Now that we have a son, my husband is continuing the tradition of dad reading ‘The Night Before Christmas’ to him right before bed on Christmas Eve. Turns out our families used the same version of the book when we were kids, and we’re still using one of those now.
Our family loves a good movie marathon during the holidays. 3-4 movies which all 5 of us enjoy with homemade goodies like pop corn, ice cream , biscuits. We love our movies!!
xo Steph
I enjoy swimming with my kids over the Christmas holidays. It’s Summer here in NZ
What a wonderful table runner! Every year we bundle up Christmas Eve and go look at the displays of animated window decorations.
It would be beautiful in my dining room. The colors are perfect. Thank you for the giveaway.
My husband and I are celebrating our first Christmas as a married couple this year. We began a new tradition together of buying a fresh Christmas every year at the end of our Thanksgiving weekend. This is my first real tree and it was such an exciting experience picking it out, and getting it home, to finally decorating it with our pretty ornaments! So much fun :)Can’t wait to make more memories!
Stockings (for pets too) , turkey, mince tarts,plum pudding family and friends, tree,
i love to bake gingerbread with my kids, and decorate the house with it. thanks for the chance!
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i like the colours. thanks
ivyworis@yahoo.com
This is beautiful!
We started an advent this year, and my daughter loves counting down the days each morning.
Desi
weeshareblog@gmail.com
My favorite tradition is the whole family gathering for Christmas breakfast. We then go to other family gatherings and meals. Wonderful to see everyone! Beautiful table runner! the blues and greens!
singing Christmas carols along with the radio. Thanks for the giveaway! Merry Christmas!
putting up the christmas tree and visiting lights
My favorite tradition is Black Friday shopping with my mom!
I love all the Christmas carols. So many memories!
I love the Christmas PJs for Christmas Eve. I always make matching ones for my kids. carrie dot hare @gmail.com
Love the table runner.
My fave thing is to decorate a gingerbread house with my kids.
My favorite thing to do is decorate the tree and the house with my kids. My youngest has always loved the nativity set and for the past 2 years I’ve let him set it up all by himself. Everyday when he gets home from Kindergarten he rearranges all the figurines.
Thanks for the chance to win the beautiful table runner!
Very pretty table runner. One thing we do at Christmas is go to church on Christmas Eve. The candlelit service is beautiful, and when we sing Silent Night, I always get a little teary-eyed.
I love the colors in the table runner – just my style
One of my favorite traditions is to send real Christmas cards. I hand write them and hand address them. Currently I’m only using store bought as my roommate left hundreds of unused Christmas cards when she moved and this year I finally used the last of them. She moved out over 7 years ago!! So next year I hope to hand make my cards instead of relying on store bought cards. Thanks for the great giveaway!
Katina
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sledding the day after Christmas.
my favorite tradition is to spend christmas eve with the entire family letting the kids tire themselves out, eating and sharing memories.
Ah, your table runner is in all my favorite colors!
My favorite tradition is putting up the nativity set, and adding all the animals.
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Love the colors in your table runner. My favorite thing is decorating the tree. I love getting out all the special ornaments I have collected over the years.
We have several traditions, but my favorite is waiting until the Epiphany to give gifts to my children, to celebrate the day the Christ Child received His gifts from the three wise men.
Gooing to the ZOO and taking X-mass cookies with us:-)
our family makes polish bowtie cookies Chrusciki every year 🙂 raineoc@yahoo.com
I love driving around with my husband and seeing everyone’s Christmas lights! I love seeing what’s the same as last year and who came up with a new idea!
I love our advent calendar filled with chocolates. Thanks.
One of our new holiday traditions since living near NYC is driving into the city to look at the Rockefeller tree, go to FAO Schwarz, and see Macy’s. Thanks for the nice giveaway, and Happy Holidays!
We go to church on christmas eve for the children’s program with the whole family. thanks.
Beautiful table runner!
Our tradition is to open the presents on Christmas eve, after checking if Santa has been using the Norad tracker.
I love snuggling under a warm blanket on the sofa with a mug of cocoa and watching christmas movies with the lights off and the tree sparkling!! So relaxing andnlovely!
I love the way the house feels after the decorations are up. Just sitting with a cup of tea looking at the tree.
That table runner is lovely. I love decorating each and every room in my home with ornaments of the season.
Hi,
We have Santas little helper…he comes Dec 1 and goes home with Santa on Christmas Eve. He is a little wooden elf that moves around the house everynight and watches to make sure everyone is behaving well.
My kids are now grown but still look for the elf every morning.
Those colours are stunning! Beautiful work. One of my favourite traditions is a cinnamon bun bundt cake for breakfast on Christmas day before opening gifts. It’s never quite the same without!
We don’t really have any traditions but I do love decorating the tree it makes me so happy 🙂
Katy
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We wrap every single item in the stockings.
I love the first Sunday of advent and attending a special evening service to decorate the church as Hanging of the Greens.
I love baking lots and lots of cookies!
I love your table runner! My favorite Christmas tradition is waking up early in the morning and going to my grandparents for Christmas breakfast!
We light our advent candles every night during dinner, and we bake and decorate cookies.
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One of the things we do every year is have the kids decorate Gramma and Grampa’s Christmas tree and then bake sugar cookies to bring home. They’ve been doing this since they were so little they had to stand on chairs to reach the counters! Now they’re almost grown and out of the house so it’s been going on a long time, and I hope they do it forever. 🙂
Thank you for the chance to win the table runner!
Great colour combination! My favourite tradition is making handmake chocolate and eat them too!AriadnefromGreece
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I love the cozy December evenings with the family – with candles lit and a warm meal on the table.
Thanks for the giveaway!
My favorite tradition during the Christmas holidays is riding around the neighborhoods at night looking at all the beautiful Christmas lights. We have a new car, so this year will be even more enjoyable.
Thanks,
Peggy
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http://keepmeinstitches-peggy.blogspot.com
This is one of my minor traditions … after all the preparations are completed (or crossed off the list anyway), i sit down at night to watch an old old movie on TV, with the house quiet & the Christmas lights glowing.
What a beautiful blog you have … it makes me itch to stitch !!
Laurie
http://threeoldkeys.blogspot.com
OOOO!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE the colors!! My favorite holiday tradition is helping my mom assemble our breakfast quiches…it started when I had to stand on a chair to help, and now I’m just trying to get mine to taste as good as hers!
Cute table runner!
My boys are young and we don’t have any traditions yet with our immediate family. We’ve been trying to do Christmas-y things together this year so we can start our own traditions. We’re planning to make gingerbread later this week together.
I’m Sarah
My family’s latest tradition (3 years) is walking to the abandoned quarry, and cutting down a ‘weed’ cedar tree for our family room. We always disagree about which tree is the best but we alway choose one.
Love the colors of the table runner!
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Make snowcream when it snows
Love the colors! My favorite tradition is our various advent/countdown items.
My favorite tradition is baking and then assembling and decorating a gingerbread house. Thanks for the chance.
Hello, Lovely giveaway. We always make a ton of Christmas cookies, drive around looking at all the lights and watch a Live Nativity presentation at a local church. Thanks for the chance to win. Linda
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Our tradition is going to the movie theatre on Christmas Day. It is a treat since we don’t do it very often with the whole family.
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I love getting christmas pictures done every year. We all have a love hate relationship with those couple hours. Then we all go home and get into our comfy clothes and say thank goodness we only do that once a year. It is just hard to all the kids to look straight ahead, not cry, and keeping their tongues in. Tina M. yelowrozen at yahoo dot com
One of my favourite traditions is making fresh, homemade pasta (an homage to our Italian roots).. we traditionally serve it 2 ways: Lasagne (with homemade bolognese, of course!) and as Pasta Piselli e Funghi (Fettuccine with cream, peas, mushroom & parmesan) which is my absolute favourite. For some reason I only make it at Christmas though (even though I make lasagne through the year).
I love to decorate the tree while listening to Handel’s Messiah. 😀
What a beautiful runner!
For traditions, I’ll have to go with cooking in general. My son, almost four, loves to help out, especially with baking.
Thank you for taking part in Giveaway Day and for offering up such a lovely goodie!
Every year when the running around is done, my husband and I snuggle up on the couch and watch Love Actually. (I”m only allowed to watch that movie at Christmas.) It’s a moment of quiet wonderfulness that I look forward to every year.
Our very non-musical family loves to play the pipe chimes and sing christmas carols.
It is our tradition for the family to get together for the decorating of the Christmas tree.
Elaine R
emrosser@shaw.ca
My son and I have always gone to the Nutcracker together. Hei’s at school and will miss it this year- we’ll have to make a new tradition now.
My favourite tradition is to sing a special song every morning.
The table runner is beautiful! My favorite tradition is decorating the tree, and enjoying all of the memories of our family. Especially those ornaments made by children a long time ago.
Thanks for the great giveaway! My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the tree together 🙂
My favorite tradition is reading Yes Virginia on Christmas Eve and then tucking the kids into bed.
We give each other gifts.
I love the color on this table runner. Looks lovely
My favorite tradition is the Christmas tree. We are moving next Tuesday so we don’t have a tree in either house. Maybe I’ll run out at the last minute and get the last left over charlie brown tree on the lot!
We bake and read lots of books together. THANKS!
We lOve to make lots of treats to give away to friends!!
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My favorite tradition is decorating the tree. My siblings and I are older and don’t act at all interested until we start going. Then we are decorating machines!
We all go to the church service at midnight on Christmas Eve then have mince pies and mulled wine after!
i enjoy baking and making ornaments with my son.
thanks!
Beautiful handmade. We loves decorating Christmas tree.
Thanks for the chance to win ^^v
My favourite tradition is baking gingerbread cookies with my sons!
Thanks for sharing and HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Ase
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My favorite tradition is going to Disneyland (once all the holiday decor is up). I have many fond memories of doing this as a kid with my family and get to share it with our children now.
One of my favorite traditions is going on a Christmas ‘Shop ’til You Drop’ bus trip with my mom and sisters to a large shopping mall a few hours away. Thanks for the chance to win such a pretty table runner.
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I love watching old balck and white Christmas movies and making cookies.
The colors of the runner are gorgeous! I think my favorite traditions are getting together with family and friends and decorating cookies. Thanks for the giveaway!
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With my girls grown and moved away, we’ve had to leave behind many traditions. One we’ve kept is the burning of the Christmas candle. It’s a white taper with 24 trees painted on it. You burn one tree a night until Christmas Eve. My grandmother painted them first, then my Dad, and now I do it for my grandchildren. I hope they continue the tradition!
My favourite tradition is to take my first cup of tea in the morning to the garden and pull a few weeds, or simply cut a beautiful bunch of flowers for the home or office.
Merry Christmas and thank you for the giveaway
The table runner is gorgeous! I just love the extra time spent with family!
We love to decorate cookies together, would love to win your beautiful runner, thanks!
We go to the Christmas eve service at church, then come home and watch “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Merry Christmas!
We watch National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation each year as we decorate the tree!
we love to read an advent book together. my kids are just getting big enough to enjoy it and my husband and I love sharing it too!
One of my favorite traditions is to do my Christmas baking. I always make cinnamon pecans, chex mix and toffee.
We always make cookies on Thanksgiving day, and we’ve started doing gingerbread houses too, which our kids really enjoy!
Shawna
My kids get a Christmas story to unwrap on Christmas eve to read at bedtime. We are getting quite the collection!
Our favorite tradition is to do a Bible study each night starting at Thanksgiving and going through Christmas that is an overview of the whole Bible – we do a Jesse tree filled with ornaments representing each reading.
Love watching White Christmas with the family!
My favourite tradition is baking with my girls. They love it and so do I.
I love doing some kiddie craft with my toddler.
Leena
Baking with my grandma! 🙂 Since 29 years.
The tablerunner is very pretty! Thank you for offering a giveaway!!! My favorite tradition this time of year is having bonfires and doing fireworks on Christmas Eve. Candy cane hunts and hot chocolate covered with marshmallows!
Thanks Brooke for your generous giveaway offer. As Christmas falls in mid summer here in Australia we have a laid back holiday attitude, but it is still a family celebration. My favourite tradition is listening to traditional carols from Kings College Choir.
Happy Christmas to yohy and yours
Marion
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Correction Brooke –
That should be
Happy Christmas to you and yours!
My favorite tradition is making and decorating Christmas cookies with my family!
My favorite tradition is the graham cracker square buildings (so much easier than ginger bread) that we make with a bunch of friends. We are creative, and often destructive, and then we get to eat yummy stuff too!
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I love going for a walk on Christmas Eve and looking at the lights. 🙂 Very pretty table runner!
My favorite tradition is lighting of our advent wreath every week. Thank you for the giveaway!
We love listening to the NPR broadcast of the service of Lessons and Carols from England on Christmas Eve.
Thanks and Merry Christmas!
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My kid’s favorite is eating out at Denny’s or IHOP for Christmas breakfast.
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I love the colors of your table runner, beautiful. My absolute favorite holiday tradition is giving handmade gifts to all of my friends.
Those are beautiful fabrics! Our family tradition is oyster stew on Christmas Eve (modified from having it for breakfast on Christmas day).
Chinese buffet before Christmas Eve church – works for us!
Our favorite tradition is to play Monopoly the night before Christmas.
A tradition that we had done for over 15 years was to have the grandkids and neighbor kids all over 3 weeks before Christmas to make and decorate Christmas Cookies. It was so much fun. Now they are all too big/old to want to do that any longer.
Our favorite is getting in the car with the kids and driving through the Madison WI, Holiday lights. This is set up in a large park by one of the lakes on the isthmus. The electricians Union pays for all the large wired displays. They take a donation at the end and handout miniature candy canes. Come to Madison it is a great hip metropolitan city. susanasaw@yahoo.com
I love to bake with my daughter.
We started an accidental tradition last year – I made Johnnycake for breakfast and our 2 year old said, “cake – for Jesus’ birthday!” so that’s our new tradition.
I love baking cookies and trimming the tree!
I always bake a tin of cookies 2 weeks before Christmas. The idea is to have something to eat on Christmas eve night but it never last that long. Thanks for the giveaway.
Ann
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Definitely Orange Rolls on Christmas morning. :o) Beautiful runner!
What great colors! It would look great in my home! My fav tradition is making cookies with my kids and delivering them to neighbors!
My favorite tradition is driving around the neighborhoods with my dad and sister and looking at christmas lights, singing along to christmas music.
Love the colors. My favorite Christmas tradition is getting together with daughters and attending community and church craft fairs, then lunch out and shopping. We usually don’t buy much but it’s a fun day
Our favourite thing to do in the holidays is reading books together next to the tree. It’s a douglas fir and smells so fragrant when the lights are on!
Our favorite tradition is putting up the tree and going out to pick out our yearly ornaments
I enjoy baking different cookies with my sister. WE then put together baskets and plates to give to family and friends. We’ve done it for years
please may I join in?
I love making christmas biscuits with the children, with star and tree cutters
Making cookies with my mom and my kids.
Beautiful colors on the tablerunner! Well done!
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I love decorating the tree while watching old Christmas movies. I lrave the bottom branches bare for the grandchildren to decorate.
Beautiful runner!!