Sew Mama Sew is hosting Giveaway Day 2010 on December 13th. You can visit their blog on that Monday morning for a list of all participating blogs and shops. Thank you to Sew Mama Sew for organizing this and to all the other participants.
I am thrilled to announce that I am a participant. Though I've entered lots of giveaways, this is my first time offering one. I thought this would be an exciting way to meet new people. Browse around and if you like my blog, you're welcome to sign up as a follower. I don't have a shop, nor do I sew for profit. I'm just a gal that likes to sew and I hope you like the handbag I've made just for you.
The pattern is a tutorial I found at Rebeka Lambert's, Artsy-Crafty Babe. On her right sidebar, you'll find a list of her tutorials and this is her Phoebe Bag.
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| A simple handbag, with a magnetic closure on the flap. |
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| Here's one of the inner pockets, trimmed with ribbon. |
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| The pattern did not include this, but I've added a zippered pocket....to me, it's a necessity in a handbag. |
Great Purse -- My favorite Christmas Tradition is making a handmade item for everyone on my Christmas list. I love the making and they seem to enjoy the receiving. It truly is better to give than receive.
ReplyDeleteCool giveaway, and cool blog! My favorite tradition is decorating the house and making cookies with my husband and my sister and her boyfriend. Such a fun day!
ReplyDeletekennedycraft (at) aol (dot) com
My favourite christmas tradition is giving my kids a new christmas tree decoration each year, they get put away in separate boxes and will be given to them when they leave home.
ReplyDeleteFavourite Christmas tradition here - new pjs for the kids on Christmas Eve as well as all the baking before Christmas! Great giveaway - my email is jstanfield at xtra dot co dot nz :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for this lovely giveaway! My favourite Christmas tradition ... hm, that would be opening presents with family, and only one person is allowed to open one present at the time. So everybody gets a share of the wonder and the joy of the recipient ;-))
ReplyDeleteHi, love your blog! My fave Christmas tradition is probably a bit different, since I'm based down in NZ. ;-) My family and I go for a long walk after Christmas lunch, often along the beach and enjoy the summer sunshine! Makes for a nice, relaxing afternoon.
ReplyDeleteoh its beautiful!! absolutely beautiful :D
ReplyDeletemy favourite christmas tradition are my brothers christmas cards, which are always made out of gumtree bark, and eating our family box of cherries after opening presents at 2am on christmas morning after carols by candle light on christmas eve.
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My favorite tradition is decorating the christmas tree - we do a sea theme every year and each year it gets better and better as we collect more ocean oriented ornaments.
ReplyDeleteI love Rebekah's stuff - she's amazingly talented!! My favorite tradition (I never realized we had so many until I thought about it!) my son draws a picture for Santa and that's what we use as our tree topper. When Santa delievers the gifts he takes the picture and replaces it with something -- his hat, a bell, a letter from the Mrs. Something Santa-y. My son loves it. And I get to keep the pictures each year (hidden. Very well hidden. lol) I think in a few years I will frame them and hang them in the house each Christmas. He's in 2nd grade now I hope he keeps believing for a long time!! :) And this year I found a Faith Cake I want to make. I hope it will be a fun surprise for everyone that I can do each year! Because it's the reason for the season!!! Thanks for the giveaway!
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Amanda
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Hi from Italy ;)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition has to be sitting down with friends for a meal on Christmas Eve before the madness of family related travel that lasts about a week. It gets my sanity reserves nice and high!
ReplyDeleteYour bag looks lovely and you're very generous to offer it as a giveawy. There are lots of lovely christmas traditions but I like going to midnight mass on christmas eve for a relaxing hour after the manic preparations.
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My favorite tradition is eating waffles with strawberries and whipped cream Christmas morning before we open presents. :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a pretty handbag! My favorite tradition is going to our local zoo which does a "Festival of Lights" that has over 2 million lights. We walk the kids around then stop and have hot chocolate and gingerbread. I don't like anyone's gingerbread so far other than theirs so the kids really enjoy sharing the treat with me. I'm not sure how the google account thing really works so my email is mmcgowan at zoomtown dot com
ReplyDeleteHi think my favourite tradition is filling the children's stockings and anticipating their excitement1
ReplyDeleteThat's a beautiful bag and I love the zippered pocket feature. My favorite tradition? Reading the Christmas story, hanging up handprints from my three children that we cut out every year when they were young, baking Christmas cookies, listening to Christmas music. There are too many to name just one!!
ReplyDeleteLove purses! My daughters write, make, draw, and video a Christmas tale every year. One year everyone (12) got t-shirts with their first job logos on them. Next, it was "The night before Christmas" told from an incident that had happen that year, complete with drawings. Each year it is something new and always a winner.
ReplyDeletethanks for stopping by-it is a fun way to find new blogs!
ReplyDeleteone of my favorite traditions is the advent calender-which unfortunately we didn't get around to this year...
great purse!
Your purse is so awesome!!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is making garland for the tree using popcorn and cranberries!
thanks!
I will try my luck :) Thanks for the giveaway! My favourite Christmas tradition was going to my grandma - same like the rest of a huge family - and spend Christmas eve there. With everybody :)
ReplyDeleteI also have a giveaway on my blog if you like to visit :)
Best regards
Kirie
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Visiting family out of state.
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my favourite christmas tradition is making christmas cake with my grandmother! it's not often we get to spend christmas together, so when we do it's extra special.
ReplyDeletethanks for this lovely giveaway! that purse is super cute :)
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Gorgeous bag! The colors are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteMy fave Christmas tradition is baking gingerbread men and women from a family recipe.
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Cute handbag! My favorite tradition is decorating the tree. My Mom bought or made a personalized ornament for her kids each year, and each represented something that happened or was accomplished that year. I love sharing stories and reminiscing every year!
ReplyDeleteCute bag!! My favorite tradition is cmas shopping with my mom and going for lunch. We always spend a day doing that before cmas every year.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the great giveaway!
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I enjoy going Christmas caroling!
ReplyDeleteVery pretty purse! My favorite Christmas tradition is a new one-I'm sewing a new felt ornament for our tree every year. My favorite old tradition is watching the Christmas VHS my mom has and plays nonstop after Thanksgiving. It has Charlie Brown's Christmas special and several odd things, like a Smurf's Christmas and Mickey's Christmas Carol. We usually make cookies while we laugh at the 80's commercials in between each special.
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great giveaway! Favorite tradition is getting together with my family, my brothers family and sisters family on Christmas morning for my mom to make a breakfast of fried mush and sausage gravy and biscuits - a tradition started by my Grandmother over 40 years ago - and we carry it on even though she's been gone for over 10 years.
ReplyDeleteLovely bag! I love going to look at Christmas lights!
ReplyDeleteAhh thats a tough one...We just decorated our tree so I think that might be one of the top 3 anyway..We have such a memory filled collection of ornaments...as we pull them out one by one..the kids remember things about them:) Merry Christmas and thank you!
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Christmas Stockings. Mom and Dad would always let us get up and open them before anyone was awake. So smart to stall us from waking them!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd I love that the entire family just stays home all day puts on some new PJ's and hangs out with each other!
melaniesenko@yahoo.ca
Thanks for the pretty giveaway...Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeletethat fabric is beautiful!
ReplyDeletechristmas traditions? currently, having breakfast with my grandmother. i hope to start some new ones with my niece, though!
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Favorite tradition is our advent calendar. Each child gets a turn daily opening a tiny door and revealing a tiny ornament and then hanging it on the little doorknob. It's very sweet. The children love it. : ) Thanks!!! Lovely bag!!! espmax(at)gmail(dot)com
ReplyDeletegingerbread men, well gingerbread anything, that's about it. Thanks for the giveaway!!
ReplyDeletewe always go on a horse drawn carriage ride to see the lights in our town.
ReplyDeleteI think this is a GREAT giveaway!
Merry Christmas!
When I was growing up my father would always get a big box of chocolates for the Holidays. Every time I see a piece with a small bite out of it I think of him.
ReplyDeleteI love baking Christmas cookies and other things that I only make during the holidays! It's always fun and enjoyable - especially since my kids are getting old enough to help out as well!
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I love that bag! My favorite tradition is buying a glass angel Christmas ornament every year. My Grandpa carved me a wooden angel for my first Christmas and I've been getting one every year since then!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas Tradition:
ReplyDeleteWell, every year, my Mom and I would make chocolate covered pretzels and homemade chex-mix. This year will be different; I lost her to cancer in August. It's going to be so hard. But, I think I will invite someone to make the pretzels with me.
Very lovely bag and site, our favorite tradition is taking the first Sunday in December and decorating the Christmas tree, we heat some apple cider and put on the Christmas music.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas Tradition is the tradition it's self. I love the time of year, the whole Christimas Season atmosphere, the colors, the family get togethers, the trees, and the Reason for the Season. I love it ALL. BTW congrats on the 1st time give away I am having my first too. This is fun isn't it?
ReplyDeleteAnd Sarah I am so sorry you lost your Mom. I think it is a great thing to invite someone to make the pretzels with you. I am sure your Mom would have encouraged that. Mom's love to see their kids enjoy the things they have passed on to them.
I love the purse! howdoweboilwater.email@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteGood question! I've got lots . . . I love making handmade ornaments for my kids each year (my mom used to do it for my sisters and I when we were younger) and I still love listening to my dad read the Night Before Christmas. We spend a fair amount of Christmas Eve's with them still and I love it. :)
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LOVE the purse - super cute! Fave Christmas memory has to be loading up in the van with the whole family and driving around looking at Christmas lights - good times!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite christmas tradition is the reading of the christmas story on christmas eve!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is after the tree is put up we enjoy a cup of hot chocolate sitting under the lights of the tree and playing Christmas I Spy....all while the Christmas music is playing loudly for the first time of the season!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great bag! My favorite Christmas tradition is tromping out through the snow with my husband and dogs to cut down our Christmas tree.
ReplyDeleteThat's gorgeous! Thanks for the chance!
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous purse! Now that the kids are scattered across the world, we keep simplifying and simplifying. The only "rule" we still have (okay *I* still have) is to have pumpkin pie on Christmas afternoon.
ReplyDeleteHi Kelly, your bag is lovely! I think a zipper pocket is a must too! My favourite tradition is something We do with the kids every year. All year long we all save our change in a bucket then at Christmas the kids count it and roll it and I call Children's Aid and ask for the initials and ages of two children who may not be recieving anything or are in serious need of anything, they we take the kids shopping for those two children. They chose what is purchased and it is so inspiring how they address each and every need and a few wants just as though these children were ours! Warms my heart every year! Thanks....
ReplyDeleteBeautiful bag. I'm also having a giveaway.
ReplyDeleteLove the bag - especially the zipper pocket.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is spending an afternoon catching up with old friends.
my grandmother left me her recipe for christmas sugar cookies...you know, the kind you decorate with frosting and little edible embellishments? well, the recipe was never "right" and she always tweaked it. she passed away several years ago without ever telling anyone how she tweaked it.
ReplyDeletemy christmas tradition for years since her passing has been to make the recipe once...only once...each year trying to find her final outcome; tweaking it how i think she did. it's not been completely productive yet...i remember the taste, vividly, and i base my success on that remembrance.
merry christmas!
-missy
I love the tradition of looking at Christmas lights - the kids love it too!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite christmas tradition is watching all our favorite holiday movies before Santa shows up. Elf. Holiday Inn. White Christmas. Love Actually. Bad Santa (adults only).
ReplyDeletethanks for the chance to win!
Cute purse! My favorite tradition is getting together with my mother and sister and spending a weekend baking. We bake hundreds and hundreds of cookies and give them to neighbors, co-workers, and friends.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous purse! My favorite tradition is baking treats for our neighbors and walking around looking at Christmas lights (but only when we're in San Diego). :)
ReplyDeleteLove the purse! Thanks for participating. My favorite Christmas tradition started years ago when I bought new pajamas for my grandchildren to open on Christmas Eve. I did this for a couple years and didn't think much of it.(They live 2000 miles away.) So, one year I almost didn't do it. My grandchildren were appauled! So, the tradition has continued for many years. Even the 21 year old expects pajamas, whether he receives anything else or not!
ReplyDeleteThat is a beautiful handbag. The colors are delightful!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is lighting the Advent candles with my husband and sons, telling the Christmas story, and singing songs. It's such a precious time with my little boys.
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The kids and I sing Happy Birthday to Jesus every year. I love hearing them sing. texhelena(at)aol(dot)com
ReplyDeleteThe bag is beautiful. My holiday tradition getting new ornaments for our kids each year and we love going to dinner on Christmas Eve.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite tradition is to watch " Carols by Candlelight" on tv on Christmas Eve, My favourite is " O Holy Night" :-)
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I love having my kids off from school, lots of family time, and driving around together looking at Christmas light displays :)
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My favorite tradition is eating french toast for breakfast on Christmas morning. Yum!
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Oh, How pretty! My favorite Christmas tradition is making cookies with my son to leave out for Santa.
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This is a lovely Phoebe bag! I made one, too, as my first bag ever. It's a little skyoowampie, but I love the tute! Yours is very nice indeed!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday tradition is making a nativity with my family every year. One year we made gingerbread cookie nativity figures, another we colored pictures, and another I had a newborn baby. :D So our nativities vary quite a bit, but they are always FUN!
ammieloris at hotmail dot com
You had me at "magnetic closure on the flap." Yes!
ReplyDeleteOne holiday tradition (not very unique, I know), is driving around looking at holiday light displays. I absolutely love seeing people's trees through their front windows. :)
Beautiful purse! And fun and festive blog! :-) My favorite Christmas Tradition occurs on Christmas Eve. My family lights all the candles around the house and then after my dad reads from Luke 2, we all get to choose a carol to sing going in age order from youngest to oldest. I used to be the second to choose but with the blessing of all the grandkids now, my time to choose Joy to the World is closer to the end!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
KissaJoy (at) gmail (dot) com
Thanks for the giveaway! Favorite Holiday tradition....my maternal grandmother (the one who taught me to sew) makes a felt stocking for each family member (aunts, uncles, cousins) and hangs them every year. I think this year we are close to 60 stockings! It is quite the sight to see! Thanks again!
ReplyDeleteoh wow! that purse is so nice! my favorite holiday tradition is all the kids of the family (well, even when i'm much older now - 23 - I'm still considered a kid) go out for a huge snowball fight! we end up coming in soaking wet, drink hot chocolate in front of the fire :)
ReplyDeleteOur favorite tradition is going to mass together on Christmas Eve. Thanks for this giveaway. avennett AT verizon DOT net
ReplyDeleteWe make Nissua bread on Christmas Eve. It's a yummy sweet bread, which is good because one recipe makes 12 loaves! Thanks for offering such a great giveaway.
ReplyDeleteI love making Christmas goodies. And we've been doing Advent for the first time this year and I've been loving that!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite christmas tradition is baking and decorating gingerbread and sugar cookies with my girls.
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I love the Phoebe Bag! I've made them as gifts but I have yet to keep one for myself! And I love your addition of the zippered pocket. My favorite Christmas tradition is driving around after church on Christmas Even to look at Christmas lights and then coming home to warm corn chowder that's ready in the crockpot.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is getting together with family. No matter the location that is always my favorite part! I love your bag and your blog :)
ReplyDeleteLOVE your blog & bag!!! Our favorite Christmas tradition is eating rummagrut (Norwegian rice mush) and opening stockings on Christmas morning.
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My favorite Christmas tradition is sitting around the Christmas tree drinking hot chocolate while we read Luke 2. The we also read The Night Before Christmas.
ReplyDeleteWatching Christmas movies and eating finger foods on Christmas eve is one of my favorite traditions. :)
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Love the bag. We go each year for dinner in a typical French auberge de pays.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the kind comments on my blog! that purse is fabulous!! I wish I could make handmade gifts for everyone on my list, but alas - time always seems to run out. I try to keep it memorable if nothing else, things I know will 'mean something' to that person. Good luck with your giveaway, I am keeping my fingers crossed :)
ReplyDeleteOne of my all time favorite traditions which we did with our parents and I did with my children, sadly to far to do with the grand boys was to string popcorn and cranberries while we watched "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer". I still make a string of these to hang on the bird feeder. Thank you for a lovely give away!
ReplyDeleteLovely purse! Thanks for stopping by my giveaway too.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite Christmas/holiday tradition is decorating the tree with ornaments from our own childhoods, especially now that we can share the experience with our three year old.
Favourite Christmas tradition ... hm ... hard one as I have several traditions that I like.
ReplyDeleteI am going to pick to celebrate Advent! This might sound strange but as I have lived abroad I realized that here in Germany we celebrate Advent much more than other countries. I love the anticipation, Advent calenders, Advent markets (the small ones), making presents, singing, baking cookies, decorating ...
I have a tutorial for making strawstars on my blog which I love!
http://muffinsnmore.blogspot.com/2010/12/strawstar-tutorial.html
Thanks for your giveaway! Come by my blog and enter mine if you like!
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Trimming the tree!
ReplyDeleteI'm participating in the Sew, Mama, Sew Giveaway Day! I hope you have time to stop over and enter my giveaway at homemakerhoney.com
Merry Christmas!
Deborah
Homemaker Honey
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Beautiful! Definitely decorating the tree. thurbs8(at)yahoo(dot)com
ReplyDeleteMy favourite Christmas tradition comes from the south east of France, an area called Provence. On December 4th, you plant wheat or lentils (on wet cotton, it works just fine !) and if your plants have grown well and are great on Christmas eve, it's good for the year to come !
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance, and merry Christmas !
I love making Christmas gifts!
ReplyDeleteOh, I LOVE bags...and this looks like 'my' color! We love to decorate our house inside and out and then drive around and see all the Christmas lights! A new tradition...I posted about Santa and our visit with him this weekend! Thanks! ♥
ReplyDeletePretty! My favorite Christmas tradition is reading the Christmas story before opening gifts on Christmas morning. It is such a cozy, quite time together before the madness that has become Christmas gets underway! Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeletenice purse love the color! My tradition is putting up the ornaments and letting my dd know what each one means.
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Thanks for doing a giveaway! I don't know if we have a favorite tradition yet. This is my daughters 2nd Christmas and we're also military. Last year we were in AZ and this year we're in Italy. We hope to create some traditions this year.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition, although exhusting, is "candy day" with my sister and step-mom. We bake and chocolate coat sweets from 8am to usually past midnight. We usually go through 10 pounds of butter and 15 pounds of sugar in the one day (among many other ingredients!)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway!
I just love your blog and your purse is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is sitting with my kids reading the story of Jesus' birth and drinking homemade eggnog on Christmas eve night.
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Stacey
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My favorite tradition is making homemade caramels! It's always scary working with molten sugar...but somehow the christmas music makes it ok to get burned by popping bubbles of sweetness. (Easiest recipe, too...only four ingredients!)
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I like your craftsmanship!
ReplyDeleteThe bag is beautiful.
lovely bag
ReplyDeletelovely bag! i love our annual cookie exchange!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition has always been reading the Christmas Story and singing Happy Birthday to Jesus on Christmas Eve. It's something I hope my children will always remember.
ReplyDeleteThank you for giving away such a beautiful bag!
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Beautiful handbag! My favorite tradition is decorating the tree, which we always do on my birthday, December 11th!
ReplyDeleteLovely bag!!! My favourite tradition is driving around looking at all of the christmas lights!
ReplyDeletemaking and receiving handmade presents
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is my family gathers at my Mom and Dads on Christmas Eve to eat and exchange gifts.
My favorite tradition is Christmas tree 'hunting' :)
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I love the presents- making or choosing gifts is one of my talents, and it's fun to see the reactions- when they are good!
ReplyDeleteDecorating the Christmas tree. I just love the warmth of the lights and remembering where each ornament came from.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely bag! my favorite family tradition is getting together with family and telling stories from Christmas' past. Thanks for a chance to win!
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My favorite tradition is an unusual gift exchange. We didn't have a budget for luxuries, when I was growing up, but my mom would always get us a jar of green olives as a treat. Weird, huh? Even though we're all adults, now, we still exchange jars of green olives. It's my very favorite tradition.
ReplyDeleteWow!! Ms.Kelly you do AMAZING Work, What a nice giveaway,
ReplyDeleteWe have a cricket match after lunch, oldies v youngies. always very fun.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is sitting quietly in front of the Christmas tree in the last hours of Christmas Eve. It is my lull in the chaos, a time for reflection of the past year.
ReplyDeleteMe and my mom watch White Christmas together every year. We sing along at the top of our voices and act like goofballs. It isn't Christmas if we don't sing the song "Sisters" together. I plan on sharing it with my daughters if I ever have any!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite traditon is our big extended family party which is usually the 4th sunday in advent. This year it's at my house. We are going to have sports (lacrosse for the youngsters, flag football for most of us, and sudoku for the old-timers), a bonfire, lots of food and the highlight is The Game. We have one of those crazy gift exchanges where you take turns picking a gift or swiping one from someone else. The competition gets heated and strategies abound. I love that purse, it's beautiful and the ribbon trim on the pocket is precious! I'm glad I found your blog.
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is making buckeyes with my granddaughter. We have been doing this since she was 5 and will be turning 21 in a few months.
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ReplyDeleteOops, I deleted my previous comment because I forgot to tell you my favorite tradition.
ReplyDeleteSuper cute bag. I love the colors you picked! Glad you decided to participate, just for the love of it! :)My favorite Christmas tradition is driving around the neighborhoods on Christmas Eve and checking out all the beautiful lights.
Gorgeous gorgeous bag, thanks for the giveaway! My favourite chistmas tradition is also going on a light drive the night before xmas :)
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Love the bag! My favorite Christmas tradition is setting up our decorations.
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My favorite Christmas tradition is making Christmas card with my two sons. I love to see what they come up with!
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We just started this year hiding a puppy that holds a Hershey kiss, and I think that is going to be a favorite for me. The girls are so excited to come downstairs every morning and find it!
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I always go out for a special dinner on Christmas Eve - it's always to a fancy restaurant we'd never dream of going to the rest of the year. I look forward to that dinner all year long! :)
ReplyDeleteIn the past, my favorite Christmas tradition was when my mom, brothers, aunt, cousins and grandma would all get together to make sooo many batches of hard candy to give away as small gifts. My favorite tradition with my husband is just the filling and opening of gifts that are in our stockings.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is watching "The Muppet Christmas Carol" with my family on Christmas Eve :)
ReplyDeleteMy family always has sausage, biscuits, and gravy for our Christmas meal. I look forward to it all year!
ReplyDeleteThat is a beautiful bag! While I have a sewing machine and know how to use it, I'm a rank novice.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition growing up was that my siblings and I could open a single gift on Christmas Eve. We would always open one of the gifts from a sibling. It was always cool seeing what they had thought was a good gift and gave us something to play with before our parents woke up!
Beautiful bag. Thank you so much for the giveaway. I love your blog and look forward to being a new follower.
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my favorite christmas tradition is our christmas brunch every morning. its one massive massive meal that even though we are done eating by 10am lasts u until 6pm or later :)
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite traditions that died around the time I was a teenager is one I hope to revive next year once my family is in a permanent home: hunting down the perfect Christmas tree! For the last 10 years of my life I've lived with fake trees and it's time to bring the real stuff back!
ReplyDeleteWe have lots of traditions in our family - we buy an ornament for our son each year so that someday he'll have a good start for his own tree. We pick out and cut down our own tree each year. We have an amazing Christmas dinner with our entire family at my mom's house each year. There are so many! It's my favorite time of year. :)
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Favorite tradition is reading the Christmas story on Christmas morning ... reminding us why we celebrate
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My favorite tradition is going with my entire family to get a christmas tree, and then decorating it while eating candy canes and drinking hot chocolate.
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My favourite Christmas tradition is making an ornament for my daughter every year. She's 18 now and nearly has enough to trim her own tree ;)
ReplyDeleteThis is gorgeous!! My fav Christmas tradition is sitting with my family Christmas Eve next to the fire and listening to the Christmas Story as my dad reads it.
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous bag. I love it!! My favorite Christmas tradition is decorated the tree together as a family. I love going through all the ornaments and talking with the kids. Remembering when they were made. It's just a great moment that we share every year. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway! Hugs Ariane
ReplyDeleteGreat purse! My fav Christmas tradition is driving around to see Christmas lights as a family, it is a fun thing we can all enjoy together.
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ReplyDeleteI love opening one small gift on Christmas Eve. It's fun to start out the gift giving and have family close by.
What a great looking purse! Since this is our daughter's second Christmas, we get to make all new traditions. So far the one that is sticking is watching Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas. She doesn't get it yet, but I love it!
ReplyDeleteChurch on Christmas Eve -- candles and carols and comfort.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance!
My fave tradition is filling everyone's stockings; I try to mix half handmades with half old fashioned traditions like vintage pennies and oranges. I like to think Laura Ingalls would have been thrilled to open a stocking from me :)
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My tradition is to give each person one handmade item, sometimes not as difficult as it sounds.
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My fave tradition is gifting quilts to the kids teachers, they love it! And going to the beach on Christmas Day, fun!! Thanks for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is an ugly ornament I made in grade one that my sister hates, his name is Raisin pig. Read all about him on my blog if you have the time! http://envirocraftiness.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-favorite-traditionraisin-pig.html
ReplyDeleteI just saw your comment on my blog about our tablerunners being in the same contest. Your snowman runner was so cute - I love the applique!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is our family's trip to WI to see my Grandma at Christmas. It has been a tradition since I was little and we'd have 20-some people in her old farmhouse staying up and talking all night. Oh the memories!
Ours starts several months before Christmas with the picking of pears and the making of perry which we drink with our Christmas lunch!
ReplyDeleteI love the bag by the way!
Gill
Our family tradition is quite traditonal: family getting together for dinner.
ReplyDeleteI love your giveaway bag!!
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Oh, a sweet purse!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite Christmas tradition is to attend a "Carols by candlelight" event at our church every Christmas eve. It is fantastic singing Christmas carols together and waving candles and glo-sticks. :)
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Thanks for the giveaway. My favorite tradition is the exchange of ornaments on Christmas Eve. Much thought and sometimes craftsmanship goes into these exchanges. They can be hilarious.
ReplyDeleteEvery Christmas morning since I was a little girl, we would cuddle up on the couch and read the Christmas story form Luke. Now the tradition is carried on with my husband and our four children.
ReplyDeleteSonja
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What a wonderful idea!
ReplyDeleteNothing better than a handmade gift!
God bless you.
Kind regards from Germany.
Claudia
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Our Christmas tradition is inviting a person in need...this year it will be a neighbor who has lost his beloved wife in November.
Our Christmas tradition is that the kids get to open one present on Christmas Eve and it's always new snuggly pajamas to wear that night. They love it and I'm sure they're wearing cute pj's for pictures in the morning!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is just spending time with my family. I love them!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is decorating the tree while Christmas music is playing and watching the movie Love Actually, my favorite at this time of year. My e-mail is aefdonner@yahoo.com.
ReplyDeleteDecorating Christmas cookies is a big favorite. My adult children still love to do it when they come home at Christmas.
ReplyDeleteYou did such a great job on this bag! I am so impressed, and I totally agree, you need a zippered section!
Thanks for the chance to win your wonderful bag!
Cute little purse! You did a great job!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite family tradition is going over the Christmas story in Luke on Christmas Eve, I don't think it would feel like Christmas without it! :D
Very cute bag! :)
ReplyDeleteI LOVE our CHristmas Eve tradition! Read the Christmas story from Luke 2, "Twas the night before Christmas", and opening our stocking! :)
My favorite family tradition is when all of the older folks (from tweens on up) get together after the little ones are in bed and we play a game. We try to play a different game each year - charades, Trivia Pursuit (remember that one?), Scrabble, the list goes on. We have such a blast and laugh and hoot so loud we're always afraid we're going to wake the little ones up. So much fun! dmj53(at)hotmail(dot)com
ReplyDeleteHi Kelly. I would love to win your gorgeous bag. I do not have a tradition to share, as we do not recognize the holiday. mom at coxville dot com
ReplyDeleteWhat a pretty bag! My favorite tradition was inherited from my husbands family. We celebrate advent by reading stories of our Savior the 4 Sundays before Christmas. It's a great way to keep the meaning of Christmas in our minds... especially for our kids.
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On Christmas morning, I make a triple batch of sausage biscuits and we watch movies all day while never changing out of our pajamas. We eat candy, pies, and biscuits all day long:)
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting and offering such a beautiful bag!
Merry Christmas!!!
I look forward to bringing home a fresh frasier fir tree and decorating it with cherished ornaments. Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeletelovely purse!
ReplyDeletethis year i am looking forward to taking my daughter to see the Nutcracker performace downtown. We need some mama-daughter time!
Your bag is just beautiful and I would love to win it. My favorite tradition is our family Christmas tree farm and brunch and ornament making day. It is a great tradition and a great way to start out the holiday season.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is going to my BFF's house for Christmas. We spend it with all her relatives that are like family :D
ReplyDeleteI love doing advent activities for the month of Dec. We've been doing it 5 years now and it is a firm family tradition.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite family tradition is Christmas eve dinner with all the family
ReplyDeleteOne of our favorite traditions is lighting our advent wreath and talking about what each candle means and singing.
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How nice to partner with Sew Mama Sew. My fav. tradition is playing bingo with the family and choosing wrapped gifts. It is fun and that way we don't feel like everyone has to get so many gifts because bingo gives you little ones.
ReplyDeletebeautiful purse. my favorite Christmas tradition is wrapping gifts Christmas eve with my husband. Love that special time with him. And our Christmas eve candle-light service at church is great too.
ReplyDeletesinging at Midnight Mass... there's something about going to church when the air is so crisp you can taste it, and the stars are out in abundance...
ReplyDeleteI love all the first time giveawayers this time :) Welcome to such a great thing - Ii have done this for the past three or four times :) I love it. My favorite tradition is making a Birthday Cake for Jesus and singing happy birthday. Thank you for the chance to win!
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I'm your newest follower{{{grin}}}Thanks for the great giveaway! I could def. use a new bag:) Congrats on your 1st win, as well! I have so many things I love about Christmas it's hard to narrow it down! With an almost 4 year old I'm trying to focus on the GIVING of Christmas....Lots of handmade gifts! Celebrating THE Savior
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My favorite new tradition is making sugar cookie cut outs with my 4 year old. THis is the 2nd year we've done it and I'm making it a tradition by getting a new cookie cutter every year.
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What a beautiful bag. Our favorite holiday tradition is reading the night before Christmas. The children are all older now but still have to hear it. Thanks for the chance to win in your giveaway.
ReplyDeleteLove the bag! My favorite tradtion is opening the stockings with the kids in bed on christmas morning!
ReplyDeleteMy fave tradition is singing Christmas carols.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful bag -- thanks for the chance!
ReplyDeleteOn Christmas I always visit my father's grave. He passed away when I was little, but that way he is still part of the family.
It's hard to think of one favourite tradition, I love the whole thing really! However, Christmas day starts with tea and biscuits in bed opening presents!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance of winning your gorgeous bag and also for the link to the tutorial.
Sherry from England, UK
I love the potluck dinner on Christmas Eve with our neighbors. We also light all the streets with luminaria.
ReplyDeleteOur whole family gets together on Christmas Eve. There are some that we see only once a year. We have a pot luck dinner, sing Christmas Carols, and watch some of the little children open gifts. My in laws are in their 90's so I don't know how much longer this will happen, but it has been a wonderful Christmas tradition.
ReplyDeleteWhat a sweet bag! Thanks for a great giveaway! One of my favorite Christmas traditions is that my husband and I watch "White Christmas" on the Friday after Thanksgiving--it's like our kick-off to the Christmas season.
ReplyDeleteI love creating our Christmas Newsletter!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is that we make homemade pizza for Christmas Eve dinner!
ReplyDeleteLovely bag and the zipper pocket is a must have in my book too.
amanda dot haynes at gmail dot com
Midnight Christmas Eve Service is my favorite tradition. With two toddlers, we can't do that any more, but it is such a lovely way to welcome Christmas Day. Thank you so much for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteOur favorite Christmas tradition has always been to go see the live nativity pageant at our church, but this year we went one step better by actually being in it! So wonderful, and a new tradition!
ReplyDeleteOur fav Christmas tradition is walking around checking out the chrissy lights during our hot summer evening with a beer in our hands!! Perfect!!
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My favorite tradition would be decorating the tree. Now that my oldest is old enough to help and enjoy it, it makes it extra special!
ReplyDeleteMy old school favorite tradition was making clove oranges, my new one is unraveling and stringing lights all over the house...I get a kick seeing all the pretty colors over doorways! Beautifully made purse, thanks for chance to win and for entering my blog giveaway ;)
ReplyDeleteThat is a gorgeous bag! Thanks for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday tradition is decorating the tree - every ornament holds special memories and takes me back in time.
Love that fabric!
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Thanks for sharing that Phoebe bag tutorial! It looks really cute, and I love how your bag turned out (I also saw the Christmas one and it's awesome!). Thanks for the generous giveaway...my favorite holiday tradition is going to my parents' house for Christmas Eve.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful bag, love the colors!! My favorite thing is to go home and make Christmas Chocolates with my mom :)
ReplyDeleteOur favorite Christmas tradition here, is to hike up deep in the mountains looking for that "perfect" christmas tree. We bundle the kids up in layers apon layers of clothing. I pack lots of snacks and make thermus's full of hot coco, we eat and drink listening to old time Christmas music, enjoying our trip up into the mountains. After trekking miles thru the snow we find that perfect tree, head back to the truck, strip the kids down to their long johns and head back down the mountain, repeating the process from when we came up. Its always an adventure for us, we've been in blizzards, frigid temps, to, no snow, warm and sunny days. Making memories to hopefully tell our grand children (when that day comes) :0)
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Candle light service and Christmas Eve Tamales!! Warms your heart all the way around!
ReplyDeleteLovely bag! I love the time spent together with my family, enjoying boardgames and eachother
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorites is that we get together every year as a family (Aunts and Uncles and cousins and friends) and volunteer at the underlprivileged kids christmas party that the firefighter association puts on. (my Dad is a retired firefighter) We've been doing it over 20 years!
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My favorite Christmas tradition is our Christmas eve Mexican Fiesta. My dad makes a ridiculous amount of authentic Mexican food and we eat until we can eat no more. The best part is, we live in Canada, and we aren't even Mexican. Dad lived there for 2 years before he married mom.
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ReplyDeleteThere's so many traditions! I always like decorating the tree and remembering the significance of different ornaments, and singing the Christmas hymns at church.
ReplyDeleteMy kids are small (4 and 2) and we all love hunting for Christmas lights. They get so excited. Oooo! Look at that one! My side! Look on my side! Wow!
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