oh! the little deer is killing me! ours is a life filled with christmas ritual but one of our favorites is also one of the most mundane: whenever we go out at night, we take the time to drive down at least one residential street to look at christmas lights. it never, ever fails to make me smile

My favorite holiday tradition is going to my grandmother’s house on Christmas Eve for dinner. After dinner, my Grandma would go into another room, put on a red dress & Santa hat, then come out to the living room ringing this big bell while singing, “Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas!” She’d be carrying a big sack that had one gift for all of us to open a day early. The funny thing about all of this is that it was my Jewish grandmother that did all of this.

I love this set! My favorite holiday ritual is everyone going over to my grandparents on Christmas day. There is always a fury of wrapping paper, cookies, and cardboard. The noise is extreme, and unless you are sitting next to someone you can barely hear each other. That is until after lunch, then there is a quiet that settles that is the happiest silence in the world!

My fave tradition is a bit greedy – I like playing ‘Santa’ on Christmas day! This is taken directly from the film, ‘A Christmas Story’ where Ralphie plays Santa. You get the feeling that a different family member each year plays Santa. But for the past 10 or 15 years, in my family, I’ve played Santa. And I love it! Plus, I think my family members do like receiving their gifts. :-)

Such a cutie set! I am always amazed by your incredible ability to make all kinds of things in plush and have them look fabulous and very recognizable as your work! My favourite tradition is dressing up the tree and making a crib (presepio) with my mom’s vintage ornaments and little clay statuettes, and real moss that we gathered ages ago as the “grass”. We even have a little pizzeria (the set was bought in Southern Italy in the 60s).

So cute! My favorite holiday tradition is the whole family singing “12 Days of Christmas” during our Christmas party. My dad usually sings real loud!

Ever since I can remember, my mom makes Bisquik cinnamon rolls every Christmas morning…It’s so minor, but it’s my favorite part of the morning.

This kit is so great! I’m loving the new tradition with my husband’s grandmother, making a special kind of Swedish Christmas cookie.

Oh my gosh! Those are so cute! Let’s see, my favorite Christmas tradition is that on Christmas Eve we all get to open one gift each. Me and my sister usually get a book, pajamas and socks. It helps stretch the fun. Thanks for entering me in your giveaway. ^-^

Oh my gosh! I like it so much! I’m so stoked you are doing this! I hope I win, but if I don’t I’ll be back on the 15th to get one of those and the tictoc clocks ;)

Our tradition is Farley Family Cookie Day – note the capitalizations – this is my most favorite time, the ENTIRE family and any close friends get together and make a zillion cookies. It’s soooooo much fun and we eat all day and listen to elvis christmas music!

I love them! They’re all wonderful!

My favorite holiday tradition is celebrating winter solstice. We still celebrate Christmas, but Solstice is more spiritual and special to me. Our little family makes one gift for each family member and we make a special dinner and stay up as late as possible burning our Yule log. We write wishes on paper and then make a chain with them to wrap around the log before we light it- so our wishes can go out in to the universe. Sometimes we go to a bonfire a friend of ours hosts. I love every bit of it!

Wow! Cute! My favourite Christmas tradition has to be all of the baking. However many batches of mince pies i make in a day, they all seem to have dissapeared by the evening!

games! we always seem to play games since it’s cold outside last year I got bananagrams and this has to be our newest favorite.

i always enjoy cooking for the holidays – makes me happy :)

my favorite holiday tradition is from my childhood and my husband and i have adopted it to continue on, appetizers on christmas eve after the candlelight service. Its the best thing ever, we look forward to it starting pretty much now!

Oh there are soo many..one tradition is going out to the local christmas swim to watch all the mad people just into freezing water!..some sporting head to toe santa suits..another favourite tradition is watching any random eighties movie that comes on with my family..Teen Wolf always reminds me of christmas..heh:)

I have SO MANY favorite traditions. But I think my very favoritest is Christmas Eve. My husband and I have always opened our presents for each other on Christmas Eve, and now it’s become the family present time. Christmas morning is for presents from grandparents and Santa. Christmas Eve is for us. We open presents, listen to the Mercury Theatre’s radio play of A Christmas Carol (Orson Welles!) and after the children are in bed we set out the rest of the presents, decorate a second tree (we have small tinsel trees), and set up the nativity (which is Playmobil so would never stay up if we set it up sooner).

SO adorable! We have a big sleepover at my dad’s with all the kids on X-mas eve. We always put out cookies and milk for Santa and carrots for the reindeer and have the kids write a note. Santa writes back and we read it to the kids in the morning before opening anything. Then, we attack our stockings :)

Holy Moly! Those are some darn cute li’l guys! I’d have to say one of my family’s favorite traditons is my grandmas ‘grab bags’. We all joke about it but seriously, I think everyone loves digging through them to see what kind of hokey stuff Grandma has found to fill them with. Every thing from her hand knitted wash cloths (everyone’s favorite) to Christmas ornaments with ‘Baby’s First Christmas 2003′ printed on it.

Am a big fan of your work! My holiday tradition includes participating in an annual tree ornament swap. Here is what I made last year:
http://run-parallel.blogspot.com/2008/11/nekkid-marshmallows.html
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I also bake an apple pie to share with friends and family. It’s a recipe I’ve been perfecting for the past couple years :)

I love all your work….you constantly amaze me, the way you manage to make adorable, and fun plush, plus being an amazing mom, and always doing fun and meaningful things with your kids. Totally inspirational. My favorite Holiday tradition….would probably be decorating the tree….As a kid, I loved pulling out all the handmade ornaments, and remembering making them, or admiring my siblings lovely work. Store bought ornaments, never have that same glow.

How cute!!! My favorite tradition is watching A Christmas Story with my family over and over and over again on TNT on christmas day. I also love bundling up and driving around to look at all the pretty decorated houses.

what a great giveaway! and i love that the felt is vegan! perfect for me! <3

my favorite holiday tradition growing up, was staying up late with my older sister, and sleeping with her in her top bunk bed. we would take turns tickling each others arms and drawing images on each others backs with our fingers, until we fell asleep.
my favorite tradition with my own family, is my husband buys a cheesy christmas dvd, and then all of us watch it before the holidays. so far our favorite is ernest saves christmas!

p.s. heidi, i'd love it if you would check out my sons halloween costume from this year, i think you will really get a kick out of it! haha :)

http://malcolmsmom.blogspot.com/2009/11/halloween-2009.html

There are so many I love…but I’d have to say baking a coffee cake (my great-grandmother’s recipe!) on Christmas Eve. We all frost it together on Christmas morning and eat it with scrambled eggs and coffee after opening gifts.

These are so cute! I love your blog, BTW. My favorite tradition was Christmas Eve dinner with my family. It was the same every year until my mom died: Shrimp and rice, walnut salad with mandarin oranges and crescent rolls. Almost every single year, my dad’s and brothers’ fire pagers would go off right as we were about to sit down and they’d have to leave to go on a fire call. It became almost a tradition itself.

My Favorite Holiday tradition is decorating the tree to Christmas music…hot chocolate (well…rice milk) to go with and dancing around and having a blast. I also love taking the kids to get Santa photos, making Christmas cookies, wrapping gifts, seeing my family, playing loads and loads of Christmas music, advent calendars, bundling up by the fire…oh heck I love it all…until it gets to be too much and then I long for next year. Thanks for this chance and what an amazing kit. I LOVE it. xo

Getting eggnog for my guy is my favorite tradition.

My favorite holiday tradition would be baking with my parents and watching Christmas movies. Even though I moved out to PA about 3 years ago they always manage to land on my doorstep for Christmas.

Every Xmas we drive the kids into London to see the Regent Street lights. Every Xmas Lucy falls asleep less than five minutes before we reach our destination.Without fail!

This is such a cute idea! My favorite holiday tradition is the Christmas play my sisters and I do for our family every year. Even though we’re now in our twenties, we’re still expected to produce and perform the nativity story each Christmas Eve!

Eep – I need this, if only for the deer and the own, which are both unbelievably cute!! This will be the first christmas that we will celebrate with our four year old (he was too young to get the gist of it before), he’d love helping mummy to make these, I’m sure.

my fave tradition is that you must still be wearing pj’s to be able to open your presents. as we have a baby daughter now may be time to start a few more :)

My favorite holiday tradition is watching all of the oldschool animation videos, like Rudolph and Jack Frost!

My favorite holiday tradition is getting up at the crack of dawn with my sister and dropping marbles on the floor (my parents room was downstairs)until they would drowsily come up the stairs to officially start Christmas :) I can’t wait to get this kit, I have been searching for the perfect Christmas craft for a few weeks!

What a great kit! Thanks for the chance =)
One of my favorite Christmas traditions is watching Home Alone and Home Alone 2 with my son ;) what can I say, he loves those movies!

I think that my favorite tradition would have to be decorating the tree with my family. It’s great to relive memories attached to each ornament.

I love getting together (and EATING!) with family! =)

I love the lights. We pull ours out the day after Thanksgiving and keep adding more and more until Christmas.

My favourite traditions is decorating the tree with the whole family on the evening before christmas. Including the argument about the ugly bows which my mum wants to add to the tree every year. Damn, they’re sooo ugly. But she irons them.

okay, this kit is just too darn adorable.

I really love our family’s tradition of opening 1 gift on Christmas eve. I love the indecision involved in picking the perfect gift to open first. so suspenseful.

I espacially love watching others unwrapping their presents and examining their faces – unless they don’t like what I got them… ;)

My favorite holiday tradition includes getting the whole family together and eating until we need to unbutton the top button of our pants and then hanging out talking and laughing (and sometimes napping after all that eating)! :)

By the way, the kits are such a fun and adorable idea! I love the thought of making them into ornaments.

We celebrate the Solstice. Every year on the night of the Solstice we have a fire (in the fireplace) and throw wishes into it – wishes written on paper or leaves. My oldest has really enjoyed this tradition and I look forward to sharing it with the younger children in the coming years.

Ooooh I would love to win this kit! My favorite holiday tradition happens on Thanksgiving. My husband and I exchange ornaments. Ornaments are my favorite part of Christmas decorating and I think it is really special that we start the holiday season with tiny gifts.

At my parents we always start with the youngest to oldest and each person opens one present and then back around to the youngest again, so we can see what everyone gets. I used to be the youngest! Now my husband joined the family.

Adorable kits, I love them as little plush pins.

I have been searching everywhere for soft ornament kits!

Hmm…I think my favorite family tradition is the super…slow…opening of presents. People will stop by in the late afternoon, and my family is still in pjs with unopened boxes under the tree. I love how we take our time and delight in each person’s experience of the holiday.

Those are super cute :)

All of my favorite holiday traditions involve working in a warm kitchen: For Christmas, I love to bake tons of cookies, and for Hanukkah I love to make latkes!

I love decorating the tree. We have three of them in our house!

I adore this! Being so far away from our families my husband and I have started new traditions for our holiday celebrations. My favorite is when we make spiced apple cider in the crock-pot and add a bit of pear brandy in our cups. Adds an extra warm fuzzy to the tummy ;)

So cute! I love baking with my family! :)

My favorite is Christmas Eve dinner on the floor with the lights off and lots of candles, and pajamas to open that night and wear to bed!

I have lots of favorite traditions!! Like Nachos for dinner Christmas eve! But, I think even better is Inviting EVERYONE to Thanksgiving! We never have to choose whose parents to spend it with because everyone is there! So fun to visit with people we see once or twice a year! Most years my in-laws rent a place because there are too many people to fit in a house (This is our biggest year yet–we’re creaping close to 50 people!)

I think mine would have to be putting the tree up and looking at the decorations. Not decorating it, just relishing in the amount of decor we have acquired through the years!

this tradition will only be two years old this december, but i know it’s here to stay!
my family and i are pretty crafty, in a post-modern, avant garde way, not country crafts. so last year i decided we should have an ornament exchange party, however, all ornaments must be handmade. all ornaments are to be wrapped and upon arrival they are tagged with a number. later, each person draws a number out of a bowl and you get to unwrap your new keepsake while everyone watches with baited breath to see the creation.
all of our goods stay within the family, and we have one new addition to the tree every year, a family piece, and a fun memory behind it. :)

my favorite tradition is to have a big holiday shindig for all my friends on a saturday in december. We have huge gift exchange and the invitation usually consists of some sort of craft item to decorate…this year is photo cubes. We all start with the same item i mail out, and everyone has around a month to complete. Everyone votes and the top two receive fun prizeds and trophies!

My favorite tradition is sitting together, watching the tree twinkle, while we eat all the cookies & candy- and of course opening the Christmas Eve present- love that!

Love these — they remind me of the old LeeWards kits!
Favorite tradition? We’ve recently started bundling up, making cocoa and driving around the nearby neighborhoods to look at all the christmas decorations.

my favorite tradition is making a really bad looking gingerbread house with my twin! :)

My favorite holiday tradition is that Santa comes and fills our stockings while we are at church on Christmas Eve. We come home make delicious appetizers, drink champagne and open our stockings.

This set rocks! Our favorite holiday tradition is “the Elf on the Shelf”. My DD can’t wait to find him every morning, and DH and I have a lot of fun coming up with novel and unusual hiding places for him.

The day after thanksgiving the ‘elves’ move into my grandma’s sewing room. They put a sign on the door to let us know they’re working- apparently the North Pole is too crowded so Santa had to rent out other workshops. You can hear the radio and construction sounds coming from the room. My brother and I used to love writing them notes and sliding cookies and cards under the door. We would get a note from them every Sunday asking us if we were good and what we wanted for Christmas. On christmas day they would leave us a special elf present by our stocking- an elf hat, or shoes, or a sock monkey. Even though my brother and I are much older now, we still play along with the elves every year- it’s a nice tradition we have with our grandparents and it just wouldn’t be the holidays without the elves working upstairs.

My favorite holiday tradition is shopping with my aunt at 4:00 am on Black Friday!

I LOVE reading the christmas traditions everyone has posted! It really makes me smile with each one!
Mine is that we celebrate St. Nicholas Day (dec 6th). We put out our shoes the night before and in the morning they are filled with goodies. No matter what day of the week it is everyone in the family gets that day off work and we go get the christmas tree! We then spend the day decorating it, listening to christmas music, doing a puzzle, and have take out.

I love those little sets!
My brother, who’s a baker by trade, and I get together every year for an entire day of baking- we’re talking 50 lb. bags of flour- and then we make huge trays of amazing cookies to take to our jobs and friends and church. We won’t be doing it this year as he is in Utah and I am in Florida. =( But maybe next year.

My favorite tradition is putting up and decorating the tree. And going to church on Christmas Eve… This time our drama group is going to be doing The Gift of the Magi! Exciting!

I LOVE the little deer; SO CUTE!

How adorable! My favorite tradition is the “tree baby”, which I found out my mom totally made up. Basically, we put a sleeping baby doll inside the tree as a reminder to be quiet! Looking back at it, I should’ve guessed it was made up. Still, she was fun to look for, and I grew attached to the little doll I only saw during Christmas. We did accidentally throw her out with the tree once, but she was successfully rescued. I remember embroidering a little felt blanket that said “Noel” for her.

My favourite tradition is listening to the Norwegian Boys’ Choir as we have Christmas dinner. When we’re with my parents, we always eat at the exact time the concert starts, and the the TV is on in the background with the boys’ choir singing Christmas carols. It’s part of the atmosphere!
(I really can’t believe December is just around the corner already!)

My favorite holiday tradition is hanging with my mom shopping, collecting Nick-knacks (or anything Bethany Lowe) and making holiday popcorn balls! You are so talented, I enjoy visiting your blog for inspiration! You’re a true artist! XOXO

i love those new kits! how adorable!!

my favorite christmas tradition is, a few nights before christmas, we sneak to my grandparents house in the middle of the night and fill their yard with tacky decorations. usually 8 of those big blow up things (they have a really small yard) dancing plastic santas and moving light up reindeer. my grandma acts annoyed but she really loves it :) last year she surprised us by catching us in the act and having us in for cocoa and cookies.

These kits are too cute! :) My favorite tradition is opening one gift on the evening before Christmas. My mom would always steer my sister and me to the package with the new pajamas in it, so we’d have nice new jammies in all the Christmas morning photos!

This is too cute! My favorite holiday tradition is going to the movies on Christmas. My family doesn’t really celebrate Christmas, so that’s what we do while everyone else is opening presents.

Hmm I would say good ol family gatherings. I also love giving presents and watching peoples faces when they get them.

Thanks for the give away!

I grew up in DC, and we used to go to the National Botanical Gardens every Christmas Eve both for warmth and to see their decorations. And then we’d drive around for an hour or so looking at lights. I feel all cozy just thinking about it.

Sooo cuuute! My tradition is to drive around to all of my grandparents house to visit them. I have quite a few since they are all divorced and remarried, so it takes all day, but is my favorite way to spend christmas.

Those are adorable!!

My favorite tradition is decorating the tree with my kids. I love watching there faces going through the old ornaments.

My favorite holiday tradition has been the spending Christmas Eve at my moms. We have a drink together and I do all her gift wrapping that she manages to put off EVERY year.

This year i’m most excited for starting all new traditions with my husband and our son. It’s his first Christmas!

I am loving these! My favorite holiday tradition is pretty new. My sisters live (relatively) far away and we’ve got our own families and stuff now, so we all get together about a week before Christmas and exchange gifts. We do a potluck and get to see aunts & cousins that we don’t see very often. It’s so nice to have the family time early without feeling any pressure to travel on the actual holiday.

my favorite tradition is opening up warm and adorable pjs the day before christmas.

My favorite holiday tradition is putting up the Christmas tree with my mom and watching the same vhs tape of TV specials I’ve had since I was a baby. Sesame street xmas, Charlie Brown, the Grinch… so good! I also equally love spending Christmas Day night at my Sister’s house. She always has a big party with all of our familes and friends <3 Merry (early) Christmas Heidi!

OMG, Want!!!

My favorite inviolate holiday tradition is reading gory christmas murder mysteries. Really helps get through those excruciating airport experiences.

my family’s tradition is to watch our favorite christmas movies, usually there is mulled cider on the stove making the house smell lovely, and my mom hangs our homemade stockings. i love the holidays!

Every year our stockings are are favorite tradition. Each adult (and sometimes the kids) spend a bit of time all year picking up very small tokens of love, trinkets of the unique, and glorious goodies for our taste buds. After dinner we sit back at the table with coffee, dessert and fruit while we slowly unwrap the tightly packed stockings, making sure to show off every little glorious thing!

oh I love the little deer!! My favorite tradition is decorating the Christmas tree with my mom. We have a ginormous tree and a bajillion ornaments. It takes at least 6 hours to decorate the tree (like I said…TONS of ornaments). It’s a busy day but it is fun hanging out with my mom and we usually drink hot chocolate and play Christmas music while we decorate.

Every year there is that one crisp late fall/early winter day when my family and I spend the whole day outside putting up our Christmas decorations. Wreaths, lights, bows, etc. It’s always a lot of work, but the end result is always worth it!

I live in Germany and my favorite thing is the Christmas markets. Everyone stands around outside in the cold drinking mulled wine and eating sausages – there’s really nothing quite like it in the US!

I love your woodland creature kits! They look so much fun to try.

My favorite family tradition is that even though I’m married with kids, we all sleep over at my parents’ house Christmas Eve and celebrate first thing in the morning with all the presents under their tree! I feel like a kid myself and my kids get to enjoy being around their grandparents and auntie.

Our favorite tradition is decorating our little 2 foot christmas tree on our dinning room table with all of our vinyl toys & trinkets picked up from craft fairs.

we collect nutcrackers and listen to charlie brown christmas….then i get grumpy and complain about the tree….and then my beautiful wife looks at me and i remember why i ever married her…she is amazing and would be super stoked about this kit….they are made super well…anyone would be proud of them…as you should be

I didn’t know it was possible to be so consistently adorable. When I was younger my grandfather would always buy my grandma a box of Whitman’s chocolates. Just when everyone was finished opening their gifts he would whisper in my ear to go give grandma her chocolates. I would go get the hidden box and dramatically present them to my grandma. She would look at me and then my grandpa and smile with the cutest little twinkle in her eye. Then I’d walk around the room letting everyone take their favorite piece of candy. Ah, I loved being a part of that. My grandparents are no longer around, but I think of them around the holidays especially, and I can’t help but tear up and smile.

My favorite Christmas tradition is getting together with siblings, parents, cousins, aunts, and uncles and eating delicious food like Swedish meatballs and buttery, sugary lefse.

So cute! I love leaving cookies and coffee out for Santa on Christmas eve with my daughter. Somehow my husband convinced her that Santa would be full up on milk and would prefer coffee to help him finish his journey so we leave coffee every year!

These are darling!

My favorite holiday tradition is making breakfast with my entire family Christmas morning, after we have opened up our gifts. It’s the one time of year that my brother and father get in on the cooking action too!

we go out and look at christmas lights while we sing our favorite carols. then we come home and sit by the fire with new pj’s and hot chocolate and let the kids open one present. it always seems so magical!

that is SO cute! Ok…let’s see…holiday traditions: my absolute favourite is drinking eggnogg while watching all the best holiday movies–christmas story, rudolf, year without a santa claus (well, ALL the Rankin Bass specials), a christmas carol, it’s a wonderful life, etc. all cuddled up with my husband and our cats :D

I love mayking garlands for the christmas tree with popcorn :)

My favorite holiday tradition is having romantic Christmas eve dinner with my husband and opening our presents to each other and then watching Scrooged and A Christmas Story.

HEIDI. This kid is ADORABLE!!!! Plus I think the Munny turned out great with all the accoutrement!

My fave holiday tradition is that my BFF and I used to always write and perform a short Christmas-related play for our families on Christmas day, after everyone ate. Eventually, I refused to participate because I felt I had become too old to do it, but we still joke about it every year!!

what a fantastic give away!

my favorite holiday tradition hasn’t been done in my family since my grandmother passed away. I have a huge southern family and each part wanted their own christmas day festivities so the night before, our whole family would gather at my grandmothers for a huge dinner buffet/potluck and we would exchange the family gifts that didn’t come from Santa Claus. Kids everywhere and a huge pile of presents for everyone was so fantastic!

My favorite new tradition is our friends’ Annual Holiday Cocktail Party. Being late 20’s to early 30’s and maybe married, but without kids (one friend has one the way), and most of our families live far away- this annual get together is just like having a big crazy family party. We exchange names for gifts with the one rule that NO gift certificates are allowed. We dress up, we drink, we eat, we dance and are reminded how lucky we are to have our big friend family.

So Cute!

My favorite tradition has to be just having good food and good family & friends around. That’s the best.

it would have to be cookie baking/decorating, tied with waking up REALLY early and sitting around the tree on christmas morning…wrapping paper flying everywhere!

My favourite tradition would have to be putting up the tree and decorating it on December 1st every year with my family – every year the tree always looks different (the way it’s decorated and what’s put on it) and every year we have new additions to the family. It then makes it really feel like Christmas!

I find craft kits so appealing and yours are especially cute.

My favorite Xmas tradition is the Xmas Eve gift. Each child gets to pick out one gift to open the night before Xmas. When I was a kid, we took ages to choose the one we wanted to open. (mostly because my mom had a hard time remembering which packages contained toys and which contained boring stuff like socks.) Now, I have a little boy the tradition is going strong!

Gah, so cute!!! You did such a great job! :)

This is adorable! I just stumbled onto your blog today, and I look forward to following it in the future! So many great ideas! One favorite tradition is to drive around looking at Christmas lights after church on Christmas Eve. Another favorite tradition with my 4 year old daughter is coming up with a special craft to make as a gift for the grandparents.

oh, so cute! we don’t have any particularly unique traditions, but going home to help my mom bake the christmas cookies every year is definitely something i always love. spritz (sugar cookies like the kind in the blue tin – the round ones with a hole in the middle), peanut butter cookies w/ the hersheys kiss in the middle, and chocolate truffle cookies! she also makes some kind of hard candy with a chocolate layer that you break up later and give out, but i hide so i don’t get stuck stirring the sugar forever, i hate that job, lol!

Every year my sister and I come home to find that my mother has once again bought us matching Christmas pajamas (even though I’m 25 & my sister is 23). On Christmas Eve, we put them on & mom proceeds to take about 300 photos of us under the tree and pretending to hang our stockings. Last year I told mom I would only allow it if she bought us adult footie pajamas. She did. It was hilarious.

It’s silly and embarrassing, but it makes my mom happy.

That’s too cute! One of my fave traditions is baking with my aunt. Treats for the family and for “santa.”

Awwww, this is so adorable!

I have three traditions that I love equally. Two are old, one is new!

First, christmas crackers! A residual tradition from my mom’s English side of the family. Every Christmas and New Years we open Christmas crackers before dinner, read the jokes and wear our crowns.

Second, Christmas pickle! This from my dad’s German side of the family. My mom hides the pickle in the tree and then, when it’s been well hidden, we all go hunting for it! First one to find it gets a sweet treat!

Third, our family has gone from 6 to THIRTEEN! So, to help keep the cost of gifts down we hand make all our gifts, making sure to recycle old shirts and socks and sweaters. This is a newer tradition, but we love it and plan to keep it going for, I hope, generations!

Thanks so much!

My favorite holiday tradition is Christmas Eve ~ my family has a big fondue party! Each one of us has a fondue pot of our own and we make delicious food from cheese fondue to dessert to oil for frying :D

The happy mushroom makes me smile, I love it!

My favorite Holiday Tradition before my grandmama passed away was setting up this massive christmas tree that would touch the ceiling. The best part of setting up the tree was the displays my grandmama made for the tree skirt. My grandmama hand painted ceramic houses and people for us to set up. I always loved setting up the displays and creating my own little town beneath the tree. After it was all completed I loved to just lay on the carpet and look at the whole town I created.

My favorite holiday tradition is Christmas morning brunch. We have a big extended family get-together and we scramble roughly 5 dozen eggs in a big giant wok, plus there’s loads of bacon and sausage and ham, a billion (or close to) different kinds of breads, and of course dessert. Yum!
Your kits are absolutely adorable. Thanks so much for the chance at your giveaway.

I think my favourite tradition was after opening our stockings in the morning we would sit and eat mince pies and drink ginger wine whilst my Mum prepared the meal and then we could attack the “sack” that Santa had left under tree. The wait was endless, as she seemed to take forever to get everything ready and we sat looking at the sack and prodding it and trying to work out what was inside.

We’re Danish, so we have our festivities on Christmas Eve, which means we can just chill on the day and eat left overs and not fuss.

OMG they are so cute (and now I sound like a 12 year old). I want to make a whole row of Happy Mushrooms.

As for my Christmas tradition….It’s recent for me but hopefully will last a long time. My husband’s family does Kris Kringle because there is so many of us so we only have to get one present. Each year we have a theme and it is common for many of us to make the present, so it’s become a bit of an unofficial “most creative idea” opportunity. I wouldn’t say competition because they are all awesome and none is every declared the “best”.

It’s a chance to bring our your most creative (and sometimes ridiculous) ideas. This year’s theme is “More than meets the eye” so your gift has to transform in some way, or have dual purpose. I’m making a quilt which is also a large chess/checkers board on one side and a backgammon board on the other side, plus screen printed pieces to go with it.

In previous years my husband has made a 80cm tall scale model of a lego man, and a hand carved wooden jack in the box.

My favorite holiday tradition occurs on Christmas Eve when my entire family eats ris ala mande (Danish rice pudding) made by my Danish grandmother. We look for the hidden almond in our pudding and whoever finds the almond gets a marzipan pig…for whatever reason I seem to always get the almond and I don’t cheat either!)

Ok so, im really at the other side of the planet and theres no way a giveaway would reach that far so im only writing to share with you some fun family moments. Sooooo im from Greece, and Greece is all about traditions -ridiculously. For every little moment, event or celebration. I guess its in our DNA lol.

On topic, first thing is we dont decorate a christmas tree! We have some really cool looking wooden ships which we decorate. The reason? Easy to guess… Its cause we are surrounded by sea -almost, and i guess its a part of our life, with all these little islands scattered everywhere in the Aegean.

On Christmas eve, all the women of the family get in the kitchen and start making some delicious cookies, 2 types of em. One with honey and nuts topping and the other with powder sugar and almond paste.
The same day, kids go from house to house singing Christmas carols and getting treats from the morning till the afternoon.
The night before Christmas, we make the so-called Christmas bread which is to be used the next day at dinner.
On Christmas day, after the church, all the women of the family again enter the kitchen for the ultimate battle -cooking! Tons and tons of food, all kinds… Roasted lamb, pies, stuffed cabbage balls and so on. Then all family gathers around the huge table -and im saying huge cause it can end up with like 20+ ppl being there, and thats just the first grade relatives haha :). Once done, its time to cut a special christmas cake we make with a hidden coin in it. Everyone gets his piece and the one that finds the coin supposed to be good luck and of course lots of extra presents -mostly money lol And of course theres alot of dancing and singing and lots of funny story telling from the elders :)

Uhm i guess thats all, sorry for the long essay lol :)
It would definitely be better if you experienced all that and if you ever get the chance, dont miss it!

Take care

Thats such a cute idea. My favorite tradition is the stockings because everyone fills a stocking for eachother and just buting all the little treats and tinker toys is just a delight specially when someone throws in a gag gift :D

My favorite thing about any holiday are the great smells that start coming out of my oven. Every year I bake cookies and apple bread and big cinnamon rolls.

My favorite holiday tradtion is baking cookies all day with my friends on the Sat. before Christmas.

Instead of a Christmas tree I use a bucket of sticks, no waste!

My favorite holiday tradition is watching The Star Wars Holiday Special (a la RiffTrax)

Ok, this is def. my fave: so my hubby and I have a 3 1/2 son, we are both in college (Im an art major and hes a physics major) and we both work. So we are usually kinda broke from buying all the gifts for the fam & our lil guy that we usually dont have money to buy eachother anything..So we started this tradition of putting some money away slowly through out the holiday season to put towards a cheap lil night out sometime around the holidays. $12 for a taxi for the night, check out a local band, art show, a drink or two, appetizers.Anything we dont usually get to do that sounds fun..my mom usually babysits for free..and we get a night out to let loose, even if we do end up talking about our son all night and all the funny things he says! the last 2 holiday nights out have been so fun and we are so looking forward to this years night out! we figure by this time we’ve earned it;) thats our lil tradition..hope I win..lol

So, my dad’s family is French-Canadian. Every year, my cousin dresses up as Santa and another cousin dresses up as his reindeer helper (sometimes that’s me if I’m visiting during the white elephant family party that is before Xmas). Everyone has to sit on Santa’s lap to get their gift (or the reindeer occasionally) and give Santa a kiss – hey, we’re a kissy group! It’s hysterical!

hmm…well, my family lives fairly far away, so I haven’t done much “family” christmas stuff for a few years, my new favorite christmas tradition is going out with my jew friend, and seeking out yummy restaurants (usually chinese) that might be open. It’s a challenge, but it usually ends with a full belly :)

i LOVE your blog and all the cute stuff you make! :)

my favorite holiday tradition is going back to my parents house and having our trim-a-tree party with all my siblings and their families. we all get together, christmas music is playing, good food is eaten and we decorate the tree. :) time spent with family is the best!!!

this is so awesome . my favorite thing to do around the holiday time .. is to make awesome handmade gifts .. but its better to make them them ,then too give them because I can knit right with out a yummy winter fest beer ..!! I’m weird sorry

Love the kits! Something I have done every year and now do with my son while out holiday shopping(Which is a tradition I love in itself!) is Adopt an Angel thru the Make-a-Wish foundation – my son looks forward to “adopting” a friend and hanging the angel ornament on the tree! – During this giving and magical holiday it feels great to help grant a child’s wish at christmas.

making candies I usually would just buy the rest of the year. So much fun!

My favorite holiday tradition is waking up Christmas morning to see what Santa has left. And I’m 30. I’m all about the magic ;)

Love this! So crute.

My fave Holiday tradition is decorating! I love the lights and little trees. I have a big bay window I decorate like a store front. Makes me fuzzy inside. Thanks!

My new favorite Christmas tradition is Cookie Bake with all of my girls!

aw, these are so adorable and would be so fun to make/give as presents! my favourite holiday tradition is probably baking shortbread cookies with my gramma!

My favorite holiday tradition is baking pumpkin bread and decorating the apricot tree in my front yard. My mom and I do these things every year, and even though I’m 25, I still look forward to them with excitement and anticipation! :)

My favorite holiday tradition is now lighting the Hannukah candles with my boyfriend. He isn’t Jewish, but he helps remind me what I love about it. He is a better Jew than I am! I LOVE your ornaments… (we will have a xmas tree, he is christian after all)

I love food. Therefore, my favorite holiday tradition is stuffing my fat face with food on Thanksgiving! Oh, and the 2 weeks worth of turkey sandwiches afterward. :)

I love your new kit. I love christmas and this reminds me so much of it and it has also my favourite colors in it!!!!! Just awesome….

Greetings from Germany…
Bea

My favourite tradition would just have to be having lunch with all the family – it is great to catch up over some good food :)

My favorite tradition is exchanging one (or more) handmade gifts and one store bought gift with my sister every year :)

oh so cute!!!

baking is definitely a favorite tradition around the holidays..but since K and I have been together.. our “girls”(the 4 legged kind)and Mr Enzo all get on the couch and open out stockings and gifts..it is so much fun seeing them all get so excited about a new toy to play with..it’s always been my favorite part..except, of course, when the girls gramma gets them super squeaky toys!!

I love gift shopping and decorating the tree, but I really love wrapping the kids up in blankets and driving around different neighborhoods to look at their light displays. Instead of doing 8 days of gifts for Hanukkah, we will do activities like that. So much fun.

My sons first Christmas my mother bought him this hugh stocking to fill with goodys. One christmas we even took picture with him in the stocking. My son is now 18 and I still fill the stocking for him. That is my favorite Christmas tradition it brings back wonderful memories.

My favorite holiday tradition would have to be seeing my family for the holidays. I rarely get to see them and its just so heartwarming to see everybody and just spend quality time with them.

=D

My favorite holiday tradition is lighting the menorah. Its so “enlightening”

At my place, we have gingerbread house decorating contests. They usually end in sabotage of some sorts but its so much fun to see everyone’s decorating skills.

My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the christmas tree with my Mom and Sister. When you stand back and see it twinkle with the little lights and you feel the love of your family, thats christmas.

Best holiday tradition is holiday ornament swap. I’ve got an awesome ornament collection from just three years of swapping handmade treasures!

since last year i’ve been learning and creating handmade christmas cards. this is my new tradition. my old tradition is spending time with my bf’s mom and bake christmas goodies during a weekend:)

OMG… so cute!!!

Our holiday tradition is to come up with some elaborate non-traditional menu and to spend all day cooking and lounging. This year, however, we’re pregnant with our first child, and I’ll probably spend most of the time trying to think up new kid-friendly ideas to begin next year.

My favorite holiday tradition is on Christmas. When I was 3 I told my mom I wanted Santa to come to my house. She made the costume for my dad and since then he has been coming to my parent’s house every Christmas Eve. Now my kids get to enjoy a tradition that I enjoyed as a child.

My favorite holiday tradition is making ornaments with my boyfriends mom, everyone comes over and we all get crafty, it is a great time!

I just recently found your blog and I LOVE it! One of our favorite Christmas traditions as a family is getting everyone involved in filling a large basket with special items (from cards and craft items made by our children to special gifts for each family member to non-perishable food items)for a family in need from our church. It has been a great way to get our focus on GIVING rather than RECEIVING and our kids love it, too!

my favorite tradition has always been driving around looking at christmas lights. when my brother and i were younger, my mom would surprise us on our way home from the store or a friend’s house and just start turning down random streets to look at the lights. she always knows the best places!

That is way cute! :D

Favorite holiday tradition, you ask?
My big ole family (aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.) has a yearly tradition around the first week of December. We have a tree-decorating party and every person brings an ornament that represents them. The ornaments usually have a theme and each family hangs their ornaments at the same time while everyone else takes a bajillion pictures. The tree is usually full by the end of the night. Who gets the tree? Well, when we started the tradition it was decided that the eldest sister or brother (my dad’s side), would get the tree and the younger sibling would get it the following year (not the same tree, o’course, ha!). Last year there was about 150 or so ornaments. It’s quite awesome and there’s lots of food!

My goodness! The kit is so fun–I love them all, but the packaging takes the cake. :)

My favorite tradition as a kid was being paraded down the stairs and around the living room by my grandma with our eyes covered so we wouldn’t sneak a peek at the tree and all the presents below it! Now my favorite tradition is the hand-made cinnamon buns my dad makes on Christmas morning. Nom nom!

Love these! One of my favorite holiday tradition is putting up our outside Christmas lights the weekend of Thanksgiving. Thanks for the chance to win!

Since we’ve been married, my husband and I always set up a train to go around the Christmas tree. A few years ago we finally splurged and got us a Lionel train – The Polar Express. It’s a fun tradition for us as a family. My husband lays out the track and the boys and I get to set up the people along the train, then we take turns tooting the horn! LOL!

On New Year’s Day all of my cousins get together at our great aunt’s house for dinner. Every year she makes a gingerbread man for each relative, decorated with their name and wearing an icing bikini. I made her recipe for gingerbread last year and I was astounded at how much I associate the flavor of that gingerbread with the holidays!

I love fondue & lobster bisque on Christmas Eve whilst opening stocking stuffers!

& I love the gnome & owl!!

my most favorite holiday tradition is when my family all gets together to decorate the house. we take out the tree right after thanksgiving and we all stay home to decorate the christmas tree. ITS MY FAVORITE!!

my favorite holiday tradition is that my husband and I exchange socks as gifts. Our little boy will be nearly two at Christmastime, so I believe we will be giving him some socks too. I am sure he will be thrilled :-)

Gluhwien (glowing wine), German mulled spiced wine – I look forward to holiday gatherings just to share this treat with friends and family on cold days!!

Seriously? How cute are you! Love, love, love the kit!

One of my Favorite Traditions (impossible to pick just one): Letting my kids open one present on Christmas Eve. It is always new fuzzy pj’s and a new bedtime book. Then we get to snuggle up together and read.

Fingers crossed…

My favourite is probably that my dad gives me a pair of socks every year, big thick warm ones (it’s bloody cold here) stuffed with candy and little treats.

My step-dad is Sicilian, so every Christmas, he makes a huuuuge Italian/Sicilian meal, with sausage and peppers, baked ziti, shrimp, chestnuts, and a bunch of other dishes. Starting around 1 p.m., my house has a sort of open-door policy, and people just flow in and out all day long eating and hanging out for the holiday :)

making handmade ornaments!

Wow. That santa is so cute. As always, the amount of cute stuff banging about inside your head materializes in wonderful ways. As for holiday traditions- I had a great one of having my friends (who happen to be Jewish) come visit every year and then decorate our tree with us (this fell by the wayside as one is now on the west coast and one is across the ocean). I love decorating the tree the most. I always make sure there is a present tucked away in the branches. and of course i’m in again for the 4th round of the Annual Holiday Ornament swap hosted by freshly blended. being santa tho for me is the best, it’s not necessarily about the getting, it’s about the giving. sorta like having a bouquet of flowers and giving them randomly to people on the street. fun and occasionally perplexing. right. well i’ve done my usual ramble, I’d be happy as a clam if I win because getting is fun too.

my favorite holiday tradition is making christmas presents for everyone i love. Just the creating process is so much cute. This year I’m making little adorable ornaments with felt. yay!!

My favorite holiday tradition my mom started with my sister and I when we were babies. She always bought us a new pair of pjs (matching in some cases), wrapped them, and had us open them on Christmas eve. Last year was our first christmas without mom (she passed away July 2008) and we couldn’t bare to have the other suffer through Christmas with new pj’s and ended up sending each other pjs.

When my parents got divorced my mom attempted to take us to Christmas mass by herself the first year. It was an absolute disaster; the 3 year old twins crawled away under the pews before my mom could catch them and grabbed on to peoples’ legs, as a 9 year old I kept sticking a string of gum from my mouth to the seat in front of me, etc. The last straw was when everyone stood up to sing a Christmas carol and my 6 year old brother dropped his toy car on the pew in front of us. When the lady sat down on the sharp Matchbox car she screamed. We were (somewhat politely) asked to please leave Christmas Mass!! My mom drove around furiously with the 4 of us in the car, spouting out things like, “SANTA IS NOT COMING THIS YEAR. NOT AFTER THIS.” I think we drove around for at least an hour and a half. As time went by my mom began to calm down and focused on the lights on peoples’ houses and in the windows. Every year after that my family would pile into the car to look at Christmas lights. We’re not a religious bunch; looking at the lights was enough for us. And one of the most peaceful times I can remember growing up.

Ps. Santa still came that first year.

Oh yeah, the mass was on Christmas Eve. I’m 27 now. Can’t wait to look at the lights when I go home this year.

Making spiced pecans! I love the holidays!

When I was little I would stay in bed as long as possible on Christmas morning because I thought the more I slept the better the chances of snow on the ground when I woke up. Despite being an early riser as a (semi-)grownup, I still make a point of sleeping late on Christmas morning.

In Holland we have a holiday called Sinterklaas on December 5th. That day kids get presents from our Dutch version of Santa. I love everything that comes with it. The “Pepernoten” (small yummie cookielike things), the chocolate letters, the atmosphere… :)

One of my favorite holiday traditions is making Date Nut Pinwheel cookies with my Grandma!

My favorite holiday tradition began when I turned 21. This is really the only time of year that my parents and I get drunk together. Seeing my parents relaxed and smiling, feeling as light hearted as me and my stomach full of rum is both hilarious and heart warming. Sad to say, but there is nothing better than 2 giggling parents helping you decorate the tree. And that, hands down, is my favorite tradition.

WOW!!! This kit is adorable!

My favourite holiday tradition is having dinner with my entire family on Christmas eve, eating every kind of Christmas sweets while we wait for the midnight for opening up our gifts in a total mess!

oh sweetness, how cute! they’re adorable!

i’m not gonna lie, what i love the most about xmas is the presents. i love making wishlists and thinking up amazing stuff to make for my friends and family, and i love giving someone i love something cute and make them happy.

My absolute favorite? Actually, I think it’s picking out the tree. It’s one of the few things that can get my family all together and concentrating on the same thing. And I just love wandering around all that greeny goodness in the fresh pine-scented air.

omg, i so wanna win the kits!!

my favorite holiday tradition is throwing Christmas party and exchanging gifts!

Thank you for this giveaway!!! I love everything that involves Christmas! making the tree, dinner with family… but I really love making the nativity scene, with all these little figures, moss…!

My favourite holiday tradition is singing christmas carols round the tree in the middle of our village, we do this every year on christmas eve. after this my family go home to warm up, have a nice buffet tea and open 1 present each. It really is what i look forward to the most!

One of our fav Christmastime traditions is to go to a place near our home, Crossroads Village, and ride the train. You get to look at all the lights during the ride and listen to carols. It is beautiful

My favourite holiday tradition is celebrating cookie day. My great uncle loved cookies but passed away at an untimely early age. In his memory, each year on December 20th my family will spend the day baking cookies in memory of him.

Our family tradition is kind of silly. The week before Christmas, all of us kids and our dad would start pestering our mom to let us open a present early. We would drive her absolutely crazy until Christmas Eve when she would finally give in and let us open one present. And dad would always find ways to peek at his presents. It became a challenge every year to keep his gifts a surprise. He was very sneaky and was not above accidently ripping the wrapping paper or picking locks when you were trying to wrap the gifts. Now that I am grown I miss those little things that made the holiday memorable.

One of my favorite traditions is getting out the Christmas decorations and putting the tree up. This was always my Mom’s job when we were kids and after she died I continued to do it at my Dad’s house and now I put it up at my house. The kids get so excited and we re-remember all the ornaments and argue over which ones will make the tree this year and which ones won’t (usually too commercial ones that were given as gifts). I like all the handmade ones the kids have made over the years or that we’ve made together. I try to incorporate some craft in the holiday season and we always make cut-out cookies. Even though my youngest doesn’t believe in Santa anymore, we still put out the milk and cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve and there is always one present left unwrapped under the tree with a Santa tag from Santa. All the rest of the presents are wrapped from Mom and Dad.

There are too many traditions to choose from! I love to bake Christmas cookies with my mom and decorate them with the whole family! another favorite is the Candlelight service at church on Christmas Eve. It helps me reflect on Jesus’ birth, the real reason for celebrating Christmas!

My favorite holiday tradition is watching White Christmas with my family!

Since we don’t get to see my brother and his family on Christmas or Christmas Eve I like having them over on Christmas Eve Eve. We decorate either gingerbread houses or cookies…eat cookies…listen to Christmas music and exchange gifts. it makes the holidays last that much longer!

Whoa, that kit is so cute!
My new favorite tradition, has been, since we moved to Chicago,attending the Krist Kindle Market downtown. They have a giant Christmas tree, booths full of awesome German goods, and of course the pretzels, and hot chocolate and on and on.
So far, it has been bitterly cold, each time we have gone…but that’s also part of the fun!

Hi Heidi! I love the kit – it is so cute! Especially the deer! My favourite holiday tradition is making a gingerbread house (as of last year this has been made using the Moomin House cookie cutters I brought back from Moomin World in Finland). We make it on New Year’s Eve, and after the buzz of Christmas has passed, it’s nice for my mum, sister and I to sit at the kitchen table and make and decorate something festive.

Favorite holiday tradition is having Christmas morning mimosas with my Mum and Dad while we open presents – complete with ‘A Christmas Story’ on the telly (on mute!) and a Christmas Oldies CD playing in the background.

Absolutely love the kits!

My favorite holiday tradition? Hiding the Christmas Pickle, of course! I’ll hide it somewhere on the tree on Christmas Eve and my husband has to find it on Christmas Day!

At hour house my grandma, mom and aunts get together to make tamales. My grandma has a strange supersition where she can not leave the kitchen during the first hour while the tamales are cooking, otherwise they will not cook.

I loved playing Santa for my younger brother, I thought it was more exhilarating than actually waiting for Santa to arrive. There was so much espionage involved, at least in my house. You had to be so quiet and careful to not make any noise while laying presents out, baking cakes, leaving reindeer footprints…it was quite a production but always more fun to surprise and treat others!

My favorite holiday tradition would be sipping hot chocolate and baking so many fun goodies! Beautiful kit… SOOOOO cute!

watching The Muppet Christmas Carol while eating Toll House cookies! Then my brother and I used to listen to all of our family’s Christmas records (real records, on vinyl), like John Denver and the Muppets, the Sesame Street Christmas one from the 70s, Elvis Christmas albums, Burl Ives, the list goes on…

The tradition I love most for the holidays is my mom making a Filipino soup that my grandma used to make when we were small. We always had the soup every Christmas!

these are so adorable! in my family, the christmas eve dinner couldn’t start until the oldest member of the family went outside with the youngest and found the first star. some nights it was cloudy and we had to make a star to find, but that just added to the fun.

Thanks for having a giveaway! I love your creations and this set looks fun and adorable~

My favorite tradition would be opening presents at 12AM Christmas morning. Nothing like having presents under the tree to make you feel like a kid again :D

What a cute kit!!! My favorite tradition is decorating the house while listening to christmas music. I’ve somewhat started decorating this year, but I can’t wait for the big decorating day of fun!

I think my favorite Holiday tradition would have to be Christmas Eve. That’s when the whole family gets together and we have a big informal party. I love it, the laughter, the mild intoxication, and the family love!!!!
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MY favorite tradition is watching all the same Christmas movies over and over every year. Every year a new one gets added to list as they come out. So now it starts with old-skool Frosty and Rudolph and ends with Elf!

oh, i love it!

These are so cute! I always love and am inspired by your creations. :) My favorite holiday tradition from my parents was having a birthday cake and singing happy birthday to Jesus every Christmas morning. Yum!
Now that I’m all grown up and have a family of my own with less Christian leanings, we do a Winter Solstice celebration/dinner every year that is my favorite thing of the entire year. We turn out all the lights as the sun goes out and we talk to the children about how it must have felt before people had electricity and how hard and scary life must have been with such short days. Then we light a whole bunch of candles and have a really great meal with our friends and family. We open a special Solstice gift (usually something to do with the sun) and go outside to light sparklers. I have even kept the birthday cake tradition from my parents, though now it is a birthday cake for the SUN instead of the SON. :)

Thanks for the opportunity to share my family tradition and for the chance to win your crafty prize!

Emily

My favorite holiday tradition is our Christmas Eve Party. Every year we get dressed up, eat until we can’t even move, listen to my mom’s favorite christmas cd like a thousand times(one that she’s had since we were like 7- Kenny G Christmas), and exchange gifts. All great fun!

My favorite holiday tradition is watching “Home Alone” and holiday tea or cocoa. I also LOVE christmas music and decorations. Last year I was living in Germany for Christmas and it was the best. The Germans love Christmas as much as I do!! I’m going to really miss the christmas markets this year, but I’m going to make some gluwein and drink it out of my Heidelberg christmas market mug. That’s going to be a new tradition in my house.

Cheese souffle on Christmas Eve. Oh, and opening just one present before bed.

I love waking up in the morning with my kid sister and ringing every bell in the house to wake up the rest of the family. It is so much fun to be loud and crazy in the morning.

My favorite tradition is hanging and then filling the stockings!

My favorite holiday tradition is hanging out with family… and eating cookies… and putting up decorations. I love it all! :)

(love your new kits! they are adorable!)

My boys (big and little) always follow Santa’s progress around the globe on the NORAD website on Christmas Eve. It so much fun to eavesdrop on their conversation and they are both super cute and excited!

hi, love the kits, my favorite is the santa, one of my favorite holiday traditions is going down to the festival of lights that is held all through december on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, I love the pretty colors as they sparkle; then we go have hot chocolate to warm up!

Oh my your felt creations are just darling!! And my wee one and I have a thing for owls and mushrooms!!

Our favorite tradition is putting on Christmas music to dance to while we decorate our tree. We drink cocoa or eggnog and get excited as we pull out each ornament; that of course has a story to it; and find the perfect spot for it. We have an eclectic assortment so it is as much fun for us as it is for them!

Thanks for the chance to win one of your fabulous kits!
Denise

Too cute!!
My favorite holiday tradition is gathering with my entire extended family christmas eve, to eat my Gram’s Greens ‘n Beans and to play board games (usually Scategory). And eat lots and lots of cookies. :)

HOLYCUTE!!!! OMG! I looove GNOMES, and this set is to DIE for!

OH whoops! And my favorite holiday tradition is definitely baking cookies. I’m a baking fanatic!

My favorite tradition is gathering on Christmas Eve with you and your family and opening gifts, eating dinner and spending quality time. Plus I love being the Santa that passes the gifts out. I’m sad that out tradition has gotten fewer people to share it with since Mom and Dad moved but I am so glad that our two families can still carry it on. Love ya!

Let’s see :3 Our Family Tradition is hiding the presents.Each person takes someone elses presents and hides theirs someplace around the house, and who takes the longest to find all the presents then, well it just take a little longer until they are opened :P

My favorite? Turnips and peas.

We eat them every new year, to symbolize luck and money.

We squeeze our presents into a leg of Mum’s old nylon pantyhose – a Christmas stocking. When we were kids it was really exciting having these weird shaped brown (or black) lumps on the end of our beds in the morning, and we would tug the presents out one by one. There was always an orange and a fifty-cent piece at the end. So exciting!

This kit is awesome!!!

When I was little, we used to sing Hanukkah songs, and eat potato latkes on each of the eight days of the holiday. It was great.

Beautiful!

Our family tradition is baking gingerbread (400 + cookies) My mum hands out tins of these at Christmas time. The biscuits take about 6 weeks to cure. My mum, younger brother, and I then sit and decorate them.. this year my 2 and a half year old son has helped roll out the dough,and with using the cookie cutters and will be helping with the decorating at the end of this month.

My favorite holiday tradition growing up was getting new pajamas every Christmas Eve. It was the one gift we could all open up early and go to bed in our cozy new pj’s.

my favorite christmas tradition is hanging the ornaments on the tree the night we get our tree. My mum is always saying that the branches won’t have fallen enough but we always bug her into letting us do it that night. we also get to hang the new ornament we get from our grandmother on the tree every year as well. this is always so much fun!

I was probably one of the oldest kids to believe in Santa Claus because up until I was 11 or 12, my parents hired a man to come to our house dressed as Santa Claus every Christmas Eve. He had a bag of toys and the full get up. Once he stopped coming to our house, my parents started leaving presents on the front porch of our house and would ring reindeer bells that signified Santa had visited and dropped off a couple gifts. My parents still do it to this day. We also have the exact same dinner every year, hors d’oeuvres on Christmas Eve and ham with all the sides on Christmas Day.

Love the gnome! I would hide them in my tree so they could peak out and watch the animals on the tree :)

my family tradition is to make turkey on thanksgiving with my dad. Every year we have to make chicken while my mom sleeps till noon. !e are the worst cooks and most of the time, we always burn the outside of the turkey while the inside is still raw. After taking a part of the turkey we give the rest of the turkey to a go club my dad goes to. the usually lie that its good and tell my mom that it talk strange. During Christmas we leave the TV on to the yule log and watch the fake fire.

Soooo cute!!!! my favorite tradition is decorating and putting up all the cute christmas stuff while listening to elvis. We also always get a little frustrated at each other while putting the xmas lights up every year and we always make tamales!!!
*fingers double crossed*

Every Christmas morning I go to my memaws house to have breakfast with my family. After we all eat, we all open our gifts starting with all the kids. The only year I missed it was the year before last when I was in the hospital giving birth to my son.Which was a total surprise because he was not due for another two months.

Oh Lordy… too cute. My favorite tradition is the Newport Beach boat parade.

Rice pudding on Christmas Eve!

So lovely! My favorite tradition is putting out cookies for Santa and apples for the reindeer on Christmas Eve. My brother and I are both in our thirties, and my mother still makes my dad take bites from the goodies left out for Santa and Rudolph!

We love all of your stuff. Every year we make our decorations all together. When we pack up we choose a few key pcs to keep from year to year and send off the rest to the different family members :O) We all love doing this and they love to get them :O)

too cute! gingerbread houses w/ the kids!

my fav tradition is making cookies and putting up the christmas tree!!!
gahhh i wanna start already!!!
:)

So cute!!! My favorite holiday tradition is traveling to the Middle East to visit my father’s family! I stumble through the language, but we communicate through gestures! It’s like a 2 week game of charades!

this set is adorable. my favorite xmas time tradition is making bourbon balls with my mom. they sound gross (and maybe they are!) but ive been eating them since i was a little kid and wanted (and insisted and begged) to bring them into my preschool class when i was little around the holiday season! i was a goof. anyway, my mom and i still make them every year and have a great time doing so.

So cute!
My favorite holiday tradition is eating sauerkraut at Thanksgiving and Christmas. This apparently comes from my great-grandfather, who was Czech.

Can I have two favourite traditions???
1. I always watch all the old Rankin Bass Animations leading up the Christmas to get in the mood. Year with Santa, Town that Santa forgot, Rudolph, Frosty etc etc (I bought them all years ago!)
2. Because I’m in Australia and its usually stinking hot on Christmas Day my family picks a different cocktail every year to have as our ‘theme’. Last year it was dacquiris, this year it will be Bellinis

favorite tradition is probably getting the xmas tree, my whole family always go pick out the tree together and when we bring it home everyone starts decorating it, mom pout on the lights and dad places a huge start on the top. we always make our decorations, that way it is more personal

sausages wrapped in bacon! Although now my mum doesn’t like to eat too much meat so we wrap bacon around veggie sausages :D which people find rather odd. It’s nice that certain food is reserved for once a year, it makes it more special.

I’m at a point right now where I’m trying to start reviving traditional christmas things that my family doesn’t do. we are norwegian/german and there is such a rich christmas history there, and we don’t really speak to much of it at all, except with some of our food (we make pfefferneussen and other kinds of cookies that are german or norwegian). My goal in the future is for all my decorations to be pretty ethnically interesting, and I love handmade things at christmas, when they seem the most loved.

one of my favorite traditions is decorating the house with my sister and mother. we are always listening to christmas music as loud as we can and it’s just nice to bring the family together. (:

My family doesn’t really have a tradition except getting together and having dinner. It’s the best feeling in the world to have everyone talking over each other in one room. This year will be an emotional Christmas since we will be missing my cousin who is away in Afghanistan. So we will be celebrating for him in honor of his bravery.

I love it! My fav holdiday tradition involves Christmas day going to my dad’s really boring side of the family where we just sit around very quietly talking. After that we go to my mom’s side of the family which are Italian and we eat a ton, drink too much, and sing Frank Sinatra (as best as we can).

I guess my favorite holiday tradition is waking my parents up and 5 in the morning on christmas… and then waiting four hours for them to actually wake up. haha.

My favorite holiday tradition is the day before Thanksgiving when my mom and I spend the day cutting and prepping all the food for the next day. It’s nice to be able to bond with my over cooking.

I’ve got my fingers crossed – these are too cute for words.
My favorite Christmas tradition is chopping down our tree – my daughter & I choose the perfect tree and my husband wields the axe. When we get it home and set it up Christmas begins!

A favorite Christmas tradition for me is making rice mush, as my step dad called it, for breakfast on Christmas morning. It reminds me of my step dad and helps me feel as though he is still here with us.

Having a vegan cookie swap with all my veggie friends!

Thanks for doing this giveaway!! I hope I win…My favorite holiday tradition is to watch Christmas movies with my family, especially the Little Drummer BOy, Miracle on 34th Street, White Christmas, The Grinch, and It’s a Wonderful Life. We all get curled up on the couch and drink eggnog and have pumpkin pie and it is wonderful!! :D I always enjoy spending time with them the most.

Cute, cute, cute!! My favorite holiday traditions is watching old Christmas cartoons and eating chocolate chip cookies while we decorate our tree.

I love reading all of these, especially since my husband and I are having our first baby right around Christmas! I can’t wait to pass on my favorite traditions and start new ones. Something my sister and I still do is beg our parents to open one present on Christmas Eve. Haha. We love Christmas so much, I still spend the night before Christmas with my parents, and we all wake up on Christmas morning and eat a huge breakfast together after we open presents. I just love being with my family on the holidays, and I am so excited to be adding a new member to our clan.

Wow, those plushies are so kawaii! I think that one of my favorite holiday traditions is my family’s annual New Year’s wish cake. We make a cake every New Year’s, decorate it together, and then make a wish on a candle for the coming year. It’s so fun! We’ve been doing it for the past 11 years, and we haven’t missed a single year. There have been times when we’ve not had the all the ingredients and had to make a Jiffy cake, but we’ve stayed happy and had our cake. Om nom nom nom!

Mine would definitely be decorating the tree with my kids and reminiscing about where each ornament came from and its meaning to us.

these are super cute! i am a stocking girl! I love making them, filling them with all sorts of small special gifts and watching everyone open them. and there’s always an orange..just like my mommmy used to add!

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This kit is wonderful!

My favorite holiday tradition is a week before christmas all my cousins and aunties and all our little kids that we all have now get together and have “Cookie making Day”. we bake christmas cookies, fudge, other delicious cookies and the kids have a ball :) They also all receive a special letter from Santa that one of my antie’s types out for each of them and then puts in the mailbox at the cubby house :) It’s gorgeous and always a great day.

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As I was growing up, my dad wore the same reindeer sweater to Christmas every year for quite a few years. Then our extended family started to notice and it was the long running family joke. Eventually my dad wrapped it up and gave it as a gift to someone. The next year that person would wrap it as a gift and pass it along to someone else. So everyone has had a chance to wear the ugly 70s reindeer sweater. Another family tradition for the my dad and uncles were to lift up their shirts and point to one of their nipples (very weird family).

Oh dear, I forgot to mention they were showing their nips to the camcorder……I guess that doesn’t really make it any less weird. hahaha

every christmas i love to make a gingerbread house and every year i make it different. the decoration is so fun and festive.
p.s. I LOVE YOUR PLUSH!!!! it’s so cute!

It’s all about the food for me – parsnips with every meal! Plus, making the festive gumdrop wreath is the only crafty activity my other half and I do together all year round. Oh! How could I forget? Every year, my sister and I spend all year hoarding up trinkets for one another and then we make each other an advent calendar. 24 little parcels to open in the run up to Christmas is so much fun. The one I’ve made for her this year is a beauty :) That’s got to be the best family tradition for me, even though we only started it once we were both grown ups.

Probably too late now, but just in case….our favourite family tradition is all tramping up to the woods to collect holly and ivy to make a wreath for the front door.

Such a cute kit…I’d love it for myself, but I have also have a niece who’d be over the moon!