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One of our traditions is to get up early on Christmas morning, get all wrapped up and go for a walk. Then come back and have hot choc and bacon butties while opening our christmas presents.ReplyCancel

One of my favorite Christmas traditions is going to Zoolights every year. Our local zoo does up a few million lights at the zoo, including some animated moving animals. They have cocoa and snacks. It is fun to get all bundled up and walk through the lit up zoo.ReplyCancel

We so enjoy taking the grandchildren all around as many neighborhoods as possible at night to see the lights on the homes. They love it and you get to see them all again….through a child’s eyes.
Merry Christmas to you and your family,
DebiReplyCancel

Becca,
Congratulations, I do not have a bit of trouble believing your number of hits to your blog site!!! Your work is truly amazing, and what is even more amazing to me is that you so freely share your talent and resources with us “fledglings”. I am truly thankful that you do. I really can’t say that we have any Holiday traditions in our house. We just enjoy the day together and appreciate our love for each other.
Linda S.ReplyCancel

We go to the mountains for a family sleigh ride!
Enjoy your artwork, thanks for all you share!ReplyCancel

Hi Becca,

What do you mean, thanking people for checking your site once in a while, I am so hooked I have to come and check out your site everyday! You have so inspired me to try new things, I just adore your cards.

I have two favorite traditions, our yearly Christmas party get together with my parents, 5 sisters, two brothers, spouses and children. And the other tradition is getting Chinese food on Christmas eve and going to Midnight Mass.

Thanks for the chance to win the nesties, I love them too!

JeanneReplyCancel

I actually do not celebrate Christmas therefore no traditions but I hope you will let me enter anyway. Thanks!ReplyCancel

What a brilliant candy and many congratulations on all those hits! We sing while preparing xmas dinner in our house and it’s so fun to hear who puts their own wording in the songs and of course the tradition is to try and go for a long walk to burn off those calories after the big meal! Happy Christmas!!!ReplyCancel

Christmas truly starts for me at 3.00 p.m. GMT on Christmas Eve….I turn on BBC radio 4 and will hear a lone choir boy sing the first verse of ‘Once in Royal David’s City…..’ as he and the choir process up the aisle of King’s College Cambridge Chapel. It sends the chill up my spine, it is so emotive. I am usually in the kitchen preparing for the next day but this for me is a lovely time when I listen to old and new carols. I am sure you could tune in if you so wished and share with me the wonder of the Festival of 9 Lessons and Carols. Hope you and all of your readers enjoy a meaningful Christian Christmas this year. Thank you so much for the encouragement and the enjoyment you give all year to those of us who read your blog.ReplyCancel

Wow, congratulations on 900k hits, that is just amazing!
I am actually from Germany and we celebrate a little differently. One thing is that we exchange presents on christmas eve and our tradition is to go to church for the christmas service and carols on christmas eve at 6pm. It’s always a wonderful service with lots of children involved. The we go home for a nice meal and then the door to the living room is opened after a little bell rings in there. And that is the first time we see the decorated christmas tree! It’s breathtaking every time.
I now live in the UK and don’t have that same experience anymore but we keep it as close to that as we can!
Merry christmas to everyone!
AlexandraReplyCancel

When my children and grandchildren were growing up I kept up a family tradition of having small toys on the trees so that any child visiting our home could pick one from the tree. It was such fun when there were “dime stores” with such good little toys. WIth the dollar stores around
it would be a good thing to do again, but I don’t have little children around any more.

Absolutely love your site, In my Top five.ReplyCancel

Well I’m not at all surprised that your blog has had this many hits Becca, you’ve been on my favourite blog lists since I first found you and I really enjoy visiting each day to see your latest work of art.
I don’t know that we have a ‘tradition’ now that our children are grown, but I love knowing that even if they can’t make Christmas lunch with us and their grandmother, they will still find time to pop in and visit us at some point on that special day.ReplyCancel

What wonderful blog candy and congrats on the 900k mark!!
There really is no special tradition for the holidays. Our family just enjoys being together and spending time with each other.ReplyCancel

Congrats on your 900K!!! That is quite an accomplishment. It speaks highly on your blog.

My favorite Christmas tradition is getting together with my family and having our family picture taken. Christmas is the only time of the year that everyone can get together. I treasure each family picture that we have. I lost my grandfather 2 years ago right after Christmas so I think that Christmas picture is my favorite because he looked so happy and healthy. We all need to be thankful each day for our family because you never know how long you will have them.

Thanks for the chance at the awesome blog candy. I love my nestabilities!!!ReplyCancel

Happy for your success. Without children and grandchildren close, our traditions ended; but they have begun their own. Even though the holidays are different, we enjoy our quiet home; though we’d love to have our grandson closer.ReplyCancel

We decorate the tree on oldest son’s birthday (Dec 11) and take it down on middle son’s birthday (Jan 5).ReplyCancel

Love the inspiration you bring to me thru this site – I’m grateful. My family tradition is one that my father began in 1936, handmaking our holiday cards … that’s 72 years of hand made cards from Dad and now from me. Sort of like a Natalie & Nat King Cole of the art world. Dad started with taking photos, then went to hand drawing and lettering a design. He did get them printed tho, where I’m like most of you (I suppose) handmaking each and every one. It’s a labor of love. Can’t imagine buying a “store bought” card. Cheers,ReplyCancel

Congratulations on your fabulous blog! Your artwork is such an inspiration.
My most treasured memory of and Christmas tradition began when I was a child and one that we passed to my children. Each Christmas eve the children of the family would present to parents and grandparents the story of the nativity, reading scripture and singing carols. The children always wrote up and little program as well as played their own instruments and wrote their “scripts.” It is a treasured Christmas memory of my children as well as remembering how my siblings and I did the same as children.ReplyCancel

here in Poland we have a plenty of Christmas traditions, my favourite is special Supper at Christmas Eve called Wigilia, it’s very yummy and we eat it with all family, then we sing Christmas carols, some are very old (like 400-500 years) and than we find our presents under the tree, presents are not from Santa but from Newborn Baby JesusReplyCancel

Becca ~

Congratulations on your 900K! I am not surprised one bit!!

It may sound corny, but my favorite Christmas tradition is to finally relax after a year of constant hustle and bustle and enjoy the special time with my family.

JudyReplyCancel

Our Christmas tradition is the gathering together of my family for a huge Christmas Dinner! We usually end up eating too much, but it is day filled with fun and happiness!

Thanks for the enjoyment and inspiration your blog brings to many paper-crafters Becca! Merry Christmas to you and your family!ReplyCancel

One of my favorite traditions is having my kids pick out their Christmas ornaments every year. When the day comes that they move on their own, they’ll have a nice stash of Christmas decorations.ReplyCancel

One of my favourite traditions is making my Grandma’s peanut brittle. I make quite a bit because so many people love it and I like to include some with their gifts. My Grandma has been gone for years now but when I make it I can see her smiling as she did whenever she gave it away. Thanks for offering such a great prize.
KarenReplyCancel

First let me thank you for blogging,i have only one friend that crafts so reading blogs online gives me inspiration and product reviews:)
As for christmas traditions ..i think my favourite is making sugar cutout cookies and then making runny icing that the kids can use pastry brushes to paint on they then finish them off with a selection of sprinkles and candy shapes.They love it!ReplyCancel

Congrats on reaching the 900,000 mark. I enjoy reading your blog and seeing your lovely work.
My favorite Christmas tradition is giving the kids their Christmas pajamas on Christmas Eve. They are in their 20’s and still want their pajamas.ReplyCancel

Wow this is a hard to narrow down as my family has so many traditions. We all just love Christmas. On Christmas eve we all go to church. When we return the grandchildren get to open one present and then we have a magnificent dinner including individual beef wellingtons with our initial on top and white chocolate cheesecake for dessert. Then on Christmas morning we eat suasage casserole and open presents one at a time for hours. It is a great family time.ReplyCancel

My favorite Christmas tratidition is on Christmas Eve, my dad always read the Christmas Story from Luke 2 out of the Bible while we sat in front of the tree with the manger scene. Then he read “Twas The Night Before Christmas”. We put out milk and cookies and went off to bed. We kids and mom gathered at the top of the stairs and waited for Dad to go downstairs and turn the lights on the tree, then we all went downstairs, littlest to oldest. We just found out yesterday that my dad has prostate cancer, so this tradition is all the more precious to me.ReplyCancel

One of our fav traditions is packing everyone into the car and heading out on a Christmas lights tour. We have a neighborhood that goes the distance by setting one weekend each December as one where everyone turns off the outside lights except for decorations and set luminaries by the curb. We take in that neighborhood most years and wander around.

One tradition we let lapse was my DH and I used to set the entire tree and put presents under it after the kids had gone to sleep. When they woke up the living room was transformed on Christmas morning! There were some Christmas Eves we never got to sleep if we hadn’t earlier wrapped all the presents! Glad we saw fit to end that one, LOL!ReplyCancel

Our tradition is to attend church services Christmas Eve and eat party mix and watch The Christmas Story the evening of Christmas. Congrats on your blog count!ReplyCancel

Our favorite Christmas tradition started when our boys were probably 1 and 2. We have these elf ornaments that are about 8 in tall that have bendable wire arms and legs.
On Thanksgiving weekend they usually show up. And they are in different parts of the house. Hanging from the Christmas tree or a mirror or closet door We put them out of reach and move them around when boys are not in room. Supposedly they are at our home to keep an eye on the boys and each night they report back to Santa! On Christmas eve when Santa comes they go home with him until next year.
It has been such a fun thing that we all have enjoyed for years. Our boys are now 19 and 20 but they still talk about the elfs. It was one of the magical things and they were always on their best behavior during that time. The tradition has been pasted down to neices and nephews who love it just as much.
Thank you Becca for sharing your passion for stamping. It is truly a blessing to all who stop by.
Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year!ReplyCancel

My favorite Christmas tradition is gathering the family and reading the true Christmas Story from the Bible. We need to keep Christ in our Christmas.

I am thankful for your God-given talent of art and always look forward to each new creation. You always amaze me.

Merry Christmas!ReplyCancel

Congrats on reaching 900,000!

My favourite Christmas tradition is Christmas pyjamas! My mom used to do it for my sister and I each year until we left home and now I do it for my kids. I just LOVE picking out Christmas pyjamas for my kids!

Hugs~
ChristyneReplyCancel

Wow congrats on the hits. I like to think I was a big part of that number.
My favorite tradition is potato salad and polish sausage for breakfast on Christmas morning. Yum! Were polish can ya tell.

Peace CynthiaReplyCancel

Congratulations on your 900K hits. It is well deserved. I am always happy to see when you have added some wonderful creation for us to enjoy.
My children are grown now but I have one little granddaughter who still believes so I go to her house and spend the night waiting for Santa so that I can let him in……childhood dreams are so delightful….
Thanks for the opportunity to win your blog candy and my best wishes for a blessed holiday season….ReplyCancel

Thank you so much for offering these gorgeous rectangles for the wizard. That’s an incredible figure you’ve reached-congratulations Becca, but I’m not surprised as you have a fantastic site. The items you make and the ideas you come up with just take my breath away- thank you for your inspiration.
I absolutely love hanging the stockings on the mantleplace on christmas eve, each of us has our own special one. Then each have to have the following 3 items every year… a small orange, some chocolate coins and some brand new minted coins, then other bits n pieces!
Wishing you and your family a very happy Christmas and a blessed New Year.ReplyCancel

Congratulation’s on so many Blog hits Becca.

My family tradition is to put up the tree and add the decorations on the first weekend in December, and now my daughter’s also follow the same tradition at their homes.

Thank’s for the opportunity to win some candy. Merry Christmas everyone.ReplyCancel

Congratulations, Becca! You’re blog is wonderful! I love to stop by. One of our favorite traditions is one that my husband has done for many years. He bakes a birthday cake for Jesus. Merry Christmas!ReplyCancel

Awsome blog candy. Great Blog! My favourite Christmas tradition is having Christmas Pudding with real rum sauce. This desert was always eaten a while after Christmas dinner. My Grandmother always made extra sauce as some didn’t like the Christmas pudding fruit cake. It was always a guess who would find the penny, hidden in the cake.
Thanks for the opportunity to win. Merry Christmas.ReplyCancel

My favorite Christmas tradition happens on Christmas Eve. We go to church than to my in-laws. All family members gather there for appetizers and to open gifts from Santa (my in-laws). My mother-in-law puts so much work into her Christmas Eve festivities and I appreciate it so much.
Merry Christmas,
PiaReplyCancel

Hello Becca, I do so admire your talent, thank you for sharing. Our favorite holiday tradition is to go around to see all the lights and yard decorations. We stop to get hot chocolate and cookies, sing songs and just enjoy being together. We’ve done this from the time our children were very little and now carry on with the grandchildren. gReplyCancel

I just love your site. We don’t really have any Christmas traditions but my husband and I received a Christmas ornament for our first Christmas together and we hang that one together first before anything else is put on the tree and we kiss. Been married now 27 years. PatReplyCancel

Wow congrats on all those hits. You must be doing something right :-)

Christmas traditions change as families grow, age etc. My favorite is a relatively new one for me and my family. Now that my mom is older and alone, a few years ago we started the tradition that we would have our big meal on Christmas eve at our house and my mom would spend the night at our place. This way she is with us Christmas morning and not alone…I love this. Since starting this I also fill a Christmas stocking for her. I remember the first year I gave it to her, she was so thrilled. She hadn’t had a stocking since she was a little girl.ReplyCancel

Wow..I was just thinking I could use those! Thanks for the chance to win them!

My favorite holiday tradition is making cookies with the kids and making a huge mess in the kitchen. It always happens!ReplyCancel

Wow! 900K! What a wonderful accomplishment. Congratulations. I have many holiday traditions that I share with my family. Our newest is a trip to the tree farm where we cut down our own tree. We’ve been doing it for three or four years now and always come home with a beautiful tree and a funny story!ReplyCancel

My favorite tradition has to be when our family attends the Christmas Eve church service-when we dim the lights, each light a small candle off of each other and sing Silent Night, it gives me goosebumps!

Your blog is amazing and your cards are gorgeous and inspiring!!! I would have to say that your blog is “candy” in and of itself!!!ReplyCancel

One of my favorite traditions is after all presents are opened Christmas morning we have scones for breakfast with homemade honey butter and homemade jam.

Love your website! Thanks for sharing.ReplyCancel

Hi Becca, I recently stumbled onto your blog and now you are on my “fav” blog list! I love your work! congrats on the 900,000 and wish you many many more! PamReplyCancel

My favourite tradition is pulling christmas crackers with all the family around the christmas dinner table before we eat. Thank you for all your marvellous inspiration, my cards this year were modeled from one using the corner punch around a circle…beautiful. Thanks too for the opportunity to win some candy and for continuing to share your creative abilities. LilianReplyCancel

One of my favorite traditions is that my kids all slept together Christmas Eve in the family room since they were very little. No one is allowed to come into the living room until we all do it together. My kids are now grown (28, 24, 21) and they still do this! Last year one of my sons brought their girl friend home for Christmas and he made her sleep in the family room with the rest of them! Traditons are great and very hard to break (thank goodness). Merry Christmas!ReplyCancel

When the boys were small, I always made a Christmas tree out of cinnamon rolls for breakfast and put candy canes in their orange juice.
Congratulations!ReplyCancel

Congrats on your fabulous blog and 900K hits! You are soooo talented!!! I’ve enjoyed reading everyone’s traditions and have gotten a few new ideas, too ;)! Our favorite Christmas tradition is to enjoy whichever of the kids can make it home and just sit around the fireplace and Christmas tree, play Christmas music, and talk and just enjoy being together. Merry Christmas to you and yours!!ReplyCancel

We love to bake sugar cut out cookies. When they are finished we all sit around the table and decorate the cookies. We have a little contest to see who can come up with the best creation. There is flour and sugar everywhere but it is so much fun.ReplyCancel

My favorite way to start the season is “Black Friday”. My daughter and now granddaughters get up early and do a little shopping. Just for the atmosphere, not our real shopping! Then breakfast out and back home for a nap. Later we go downtown and watch the lighting of the trees and courthouse then home to watch Christmas Vacation and put up the tree.ReplyCancel

Congrats! Woohoo!!! I enjoy your blog very much. I so enjoy making sugar cookies with my best friend Amy every year. We always schedule a Saturday and just have the best time. I look forward to our time together every year and of course I’m the taste tester. We use her grandmother’s recipe and it’s the best sugar I’ve ever eaten. Happy Holidays! :)ReplyCancel

Our most loved tradition is being with the family. It is a time we all make time to be together. We come from afar and wide to keep that tradition. Christmas is family to us and since God ordained it, we strive to protect it.

Blessings to you and yoursReplyCancel

We listen to Christmas music while I bake Christmas cookies and the kids decorate the tree.ReplyCancel

We have a small family, so we don’t have much traditonal activities.
Usually, my hubby makes a big breakfast and I make the tradional turkey or ham dinner. The kids are in and out of the house all day eating and hanging out with friends. The weather is so warm this year that I’m considering having a barbeque.ReplyCancel

I love seeing little children with Santa and the way their eyes just light up. And Christmas morning when they see all those things Santa has left for them!ReplyCancel

Congrats on 900k hits!!! We have several traditions; however my favorite is making cookies Christmas eve for Santa as well as cupcakes for Jesus. Then Christmas morning we sing happy birthday to Jesus, eat cupcakes and then open stockings!!! :)ReplyCancel

Wow! 900,000! That’s Amazing! Congratulations!

Our traditions are family related … on Christmas Eve we have dinner and gifts with my InLaws and then on Christmas Day we have lunch with them and the rest of that side of the family at my husband’s Aunt & Uncles. We have done that every year since we got married. This year we are going to visit my family on the 26th (14 hour car ride) and hopefully starting a new tradition.ReplyCancel

My favorite Christmas tradition was started by my Grandma. Every year on Christmas day she would make the home made Cinnimon Rolls for breakfast. I always loved it as a kid and have continued it for my son.ReplyCancel

I get your blog updates via RSS feed and I love it! I’m always inspired and challenged and I thank you so much for sharing.
My DH and I have three married daughters. Christmas Eve day they spend here at our home. This year is going to be especially fun and a day we’ll always remember. It’s the first Christmas in the USA for our new two year old Ukrainian grandson! He is such a blessing and delight and brings our grandchildren count up to seven. Nothing better in this world than grandchildren. We celebrate the birth of our Savior w/a meal and gifts for each other.ReplyCancel

My favorite tradition is playing my large library of Christmas music. I grew up in a house where music was loved and appreciated. My current favorites are Josh Groban and Ronan Tynan’s christmas cds. Just wonderful and there’s nothing better to put you in a christmas mood. Thanks Becca for offering up this wonderful prize. I would love to add to my Nesties collection.

Mary
http://www.primitiveseasons.blogspot.comReplyCancel

Becca your cards are extraordinary and I can’t wait each day to see what you have created.
Our favorite Christmas tradition is going to Christmas Eve Candlelight Service. I love singing the Christmas carols. Afterwards we all enjoy a Christmas Dessert Potluck. Everyone brings their favorite dessert and we all share our favorite Christmas stories. I love it!
Here’s to a blessed New Year for us all.ReplyCancel

would love these……very nice Christmas gift.

KathyReplyCancel

Hello,
My favorite tradition is the candlelight Christmas Eve service at church,I love that we can come together and focus on what Christmas is really all about.I wish you and yours a Blessed Christmas and New year.
Blessings,
DarcieReplyCancel

Oh Becca ! I love Nesties and those are sparking my creative juices !May you have a blessed Christmas !ReplyCancel

I did not know they had longer ones like these dies. I would love a chance to find the potential in them! Thanks for the chance.ReplyCancel

Congratulations Becca! You are so talented and am looking forward to seeing all of your creations in 2009. The family tradition that we always did was go to the children’s grandmothers house for Christmas Eve dinner and open presents with the grandparents. Then on Christmas Day everyone came to our house to see what Santa brought the children and have dinner. Now that we are all older and our grandparents are gone we go to my daughter’s house on Christmas Day and play with the grandchildren.ReplyCancel

On Christmas Day our entire family reads aloud (many quote from memory) the account of Jesus’ birth from Luke 2. It means more to me every year!ReplyCancel

Our favorite tradition is to make socks for the homeless. We buy packages of socks and fill a sock with the other to make a pair then we put in a water bottle, chap stick, snacks and other things, we keep them in the car and the week before christmas we drive around the city and pass them out. My son look forward to this and how happy we make the people. Love the blog candy and all your wonderful ideas. Have a wonderful Holiday season.ReplyCancel

My favorite Christmas tradition is new pajamas for my three sons.
I love them waking up on Christmas morning then coming into our family room in matching pajamas, to start our Christmas day. Now that they are older it is boxers and a t-shirt in their favorite theme but it still fills me with that warm fuzzy feeling.

Congratulations on your well deserved success.

God Bless you and your family,

DanaeReplyCancel

Wow–thanks for the blog candy.I love spellbinders, and I don’t have this one. My favorite tradition is the stockings. I love picking out all the bits and pieces to pop in them, although it does get harder as the kids get older.ReplyCancel

I am sooooo excited about your blog candy – Thank You for your blog and for offering up such a great gift! I’d have to say that my favorite Christmas tradition is getting out all the really old ornaments that have been passed down through the generations. It’s so fun to hear all the stories of how they came to be in our collection and to see all the handmade ones. It’s the best thing to be able to carry on that tradition with the younger family members and share the stories with them too!

Happy Holidays!!

~AdrienneReplyCancel

Becca, I am fairly new at finding your site, but absolutely love it. You are truly an inspiration to me. I am in awe of the details that you put into your work, and I am striving to add more to mine…

Our Christmas traditions are many. First is attending Church at 6:00 on Christmas Eve, which marks the end of the preparation “madness” and the spiritual evening is truly one our family enjoys. We read the story of the Savior’s birth, spend quiet time at home, have egg nog, and I have a coloring book that is over 35 years old. I color one page a year, so I do the year’s page, and we read “The Night Before Christmas” and off to bed with the little ones….if any are visiting, now that ours are all grown.

I’ll have to share Christmas day traditions another time, as this is long.
Thank you for the opportunity to stop a moment and think forward. May you and your family have a blessed Christmas and joyous New Year.
BettyBeeReplyCancel

Congatualtions on all those hits, but we should be the ones thanking you! Your creativity is an inspiration. I appreciate you taking the time to share with us. We have two traditions – making lots of cookies and candy and giving it to friends and relatives. Also, we get the kids a new ornament every year, usually something to do with a special event during the year. Thanks for the chance to win.ReplyCancel

My most favorite tradition for Christmas is My Mother and I would go to the different churches that would have their Bazaars and the 4-H sponsored a Christmas house and they would sever goodies and great punch. At the houses they would share recipes of the foods and the delicious beverages. We started this tradition when I was very very young and as a teen we got this delicious hot punch that we would have together on Christmas Eve. If we weren’t together which was not often, we would make it whereever we were and call each other and sip our hot punch.ReplyCancel

Congratulations on all the hits! You do lovely work and I have enjoyed recently adding you to my blog check :)

One of our traditions is making gingerbread and sugar cookies. The kids and I decorate them and then take them to our neighbours and to the fire hall up the street. It is a wonderful time to be able to share some love with others.ReplyCancel

I so love every card you make. You are such an inspiration to me.

My favorite Christmas tradition is getting together with family – We have the WHOLE family over for dinner and I make my grandmother’s jello salad.

GRANDMA’S CHRISTMAS SALAD
Bottom layer:
1 large lime jello
1 3/4 cup boiling water
1 3/4 cup cold water

Middle layer:
1 small lemon jello
1 1/2 cup boiling water, stir til dissolved. Add 15 to 17 cut up marshmellows, stir. break up 8 ounce cream cheese and mix in. Drain i small can of crushed pineapple and add to mixture. Fold in1 cup whipped cream with 1 tsp. sugar added.

Top layer:
1 large strawberry jello
1 3/4 cup boiling water
1 3/4 cup cold water
Use a 9 x13 cake pan and let each layer set before adding next. Cut and serve – I flip every other one to add color to the table.
Even tho Grandma has been gone for 18 years her spirit lives on!

Merry Christmas to you and your family!

Life is good!ReplyCancel

I could see how you would get so many hits…your blog is awesome!!! Our Christmas traditions include going to my parents house (not this year though, the inlaws get us this year) and driving around looking at the lights on people’s homes. Thanks for the opportunity to win these incredible nestibilities.ReplyCancel

My favorite tradition is Christmas morning brunch when all my children and grandchildren come over to see what Santa left for them and have brunch that consists of everyone’s favorite food.ReplyCancel

Thank you for ALL your wonderful ideas!! I am so inspired by your creativity.

Our most favorite Christmas tradition is Christmas morning food :)

Now that my kids are older they still love it! My son, now 22 makes an egg caserole and I make pull aparts, nothing special but they love it and demand it every year :)

Thanks again!ReplyCancel

My favorite tradition, which doesn’t happen often enough, is to be surrounded by family. We have a blended family, and my children are in Texas and Oregon while my husbands children are here in Spokane. At least we have a few members to spend Christmas with. I enjoy everything about Christmas, starting with the Christmas Eve service at our church and continuing to worship Christ on Christmas Day.ReplyCancel

I love nesties! My favorite tradition is playing games with my kids after all the chaos is over.

Jennifer L.
syftk@comcast.netReplyCancel

Our tradition is fonduing on Christmas eve. It’s a great opportunity for conversation.ReplyCancel

One of our favorite traditions is that we try and do lots of service during December. Instead of giving and getting gifts for the 12 days, we try to serve our neighbors and friends. It keeps us focused!ReplyCancel

Congratulations, thisis a lovely set of Nestabilitie, thank you for the opportunity to win
My favourite tradition is baking cookies with the kids as we play music and have lots of fun while baking
EileenReplyCancel

I’m addicted to your site congrats!!! I wouldn’t be surprised if you hit a million just with this candy. I hope you do!!!!
Faith Family and Friends!!! One of our favorites is spending the day together on Christmas eve starting with a big brunch and then having a nice dinner around 4:30. After cleaning the kitchen we gather to share the Christmas story in some form (a little different each year) and then open gifts. We usually have a few “non- blood” family with us as well.ReplyCancel

Congratulations on 900K, Wow. I love to go all out with the Christmas decorations. The tree is a favorite. Lots of special ornaments that have to be in the perfect spot. To finish it off I either put fresh babies breath on the tree or lots of the plastic snow that comes in bags. It gives the house a real winter look.ReplyCancel

Christmas family traditions were much more fun when the kids were younger. We used to line up from oldest to youngest and march downstairs to the tree to see what Santa had brought. I also loved reading the story of Christmas from my bible by the lights of the Christmas tree and saying our prayers before bed by the tree every night. I miss those times but I still carry one the traditions that I can. Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones and thanks for the opportunity to win a Christmas present!
TrishReplyCancel

Congratulations on the 900,000 hits on your site, but I’m not that surprised to see that. I love visiting your website, your work is so beautiful and inspiring!

My favorite Christmas tradition is just spending time together as a family. Being a “blended” family, we have ex-spouses, grandparents, step-grandparents, etc. to share the kids with. Plus the kids aren’t little anymore and have other places to be too (girlfriends, friends, etc), and some of the older kids even have families of their own, so it’s getting even harder! But we do somehow manage to get everybody together in one place and at one time. We eat some great food, watch a movie or two, open a few gifts, and just take some time out of the rushing around to be “us” again and be together.

Another favorite tradition of mine is that my husband and I always have a “Christmas date.” Just the two of us, we go out to a nice dinner, exchange a small gift, and spend some quality one-on-one time together. Just helps us reconnect during a time when we’re usually both rushed and heading in different directions!

Hope everybody has a blessed holiday, no matter what or how you celebrate!ReplyCancel

We celebrate on Christmas Eve with the entire family and open some gifts and eat. Then on Christmas day it’s just my husband and the girls that spend the day together. Thanks for your ideas and all the awesome cards.ReplyCancel

My favorite Christmas tradition is setting out our nativity set. We’ve had it sicne the girls were young and when I got divorced, it’s the one thing that I wanted to keep because setting it up always made the season spiritual for me. It’s the first thing that comes out and no decorating goes on until it’s set up. I love this tradition because it’s one that my girls came up with.

Thanks for the opportunity to win and congratulations on the 900K hits! You do beautiful work and I look forward to next years inspiration as well!ReplyCancel

Although our traditions have changed within the past few years but looking back, we always got together with family on Christmas Eve. Each year, we had a new food theme and some were very interesting, like fondue. Imagine a snack, main dish and dessert all using fondue – what fun. We would play table games and sing while my dad played the organ.
I wish you and everyone a wonderful Christmas and New Year.
I look forward to your posts each day.ReplyCancel

I’m glad to be part of your 900,000 hits!! My favorite holiday tradition is decorating our tree. I have ornaments from my trees as a child, handmade ones from our children and grands, yearly family ornaments (which get harder to find as our famiily grows and grows) and the remembrance ornaments for our son, who died in 2001. We decorate to music and laughter. My favorite ornament is one with my Dad’s voice recorded saying a portion of the Christmas story. what a wonderful legacy he left.ReplyCancel

Becca, you certainly inspire all of us with your gorgeous designs and work and the sharing of techniques with the world of crafters. You are one of the most giving people I’ve ever encountered.

At Christmas, the family gathers at our home for Christmas Eve for a holiday meal and our family Christmas tree. With 5 children and 10 grands the gathering is a delight for me – an only child!!! We visit, talk, the grands go down to the playroom and the adults sift through the house and some end up downstairs in the pool room! The girls and I get the food ready and round up the rest of the family. After the meal and before dessert we move into the living room to enjoy the huge tree and mounds of gifts (this year we are adjusting to the economy and the gifts will be fewer but the love greater!!!) My husband insists that only one gift is opened at a time so everyone can watch the recipient’s response. Also cuts down on the chaos! We begin with youngest grand and move all the way to Granddaddy then start another round! It’s a “strain” on the youngest ones to wait!!! Then dessert is served. After all have gone home to wait for Santa, my hubby and I and anyone who has stayed behind head for our church and the candlelight communion service. I’m in charge of the candles for the 11pm service and will assist in serving the communion elements. Hubby and I return home and reflect on the past year.ReplyCancel

I have a couple of family traditions that I love….the first is buying my daughter a pair of Christmas socks!! I look forward to finding the perfect pair each year.
My other favorite is inviting people who don’t have any family near to share Christmas with us. I LOVE to feed people, so I am in my element fixing dinner for everyone.

Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful talent with all of us and congrats on the blog hits!!! Also, thanks for the chance to win!!ReplyCancel

My favorite Christmas tradition is to make Christmas cookies with my sons. And I also have a grandson that helps now too, it is so much fun. Have a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year. Congrats on 900K too.
Hugs
Judi

Love your blog.ReplyCancel

I have seen 75 Christmas mornings and my favorite moment is when we light the tree and that beautiful rainbow of lights breaks the morning darkness! The colors reflected in the joyous expectation on the faces of my children. My heart fills to overflowing, even now, at the prospect of what we have been given as a family. God bless us, everyone!ReplyCancel

My favorite tradition is a new one…for the past two years my husband and I take my niece and nephew to find the perfect tree and then cut it down. We have hot chocolate and sweets at the lodge where we go, then head home and put the tree up! Thanks for the giveaway and your beautiful blog!ReplyCancel

There’s a reason you have reached 900K !!! We all love your style!
Thanks so much for sharing….

Our family tradition is our Christmas Eve meal. My grandmother used to make yeast dumplings with rolladen and red cabbage. Now it’s a meal we all look forward to, even my grandchildren!ReplyCancel

I am thankful for our tree cutting tradition. For several years now my family has gotten together with another family and gone out into the bush to cut our tree. This year it will be something normal in the midst of a rough year. I guess that is what traditions are for to give you roots when you need stability.ReplyCancel

Congrats on your milestone. I can see why your site has so many hits. Your cards are elegant and beautiful. I greatly enjoy them. A Christmas tradition I always enjoy is setting up the manger that my dad made. Placing each ceramic statue in just the right place, then plugging in the light for the first time is magical. It’s just beautiful.
Have a Merry Christmas, and thank you for offering blog candy.ReplyCancel

We have a lot of Christmas traditions but one of my favorites is having all the neighbors over after the holidays to enjoy our decorations, holiday foods and cheer and each other. When my husband and I were dating, I gave him a heart ornament one year. Now 21 years later we find the perfect heart ornament each year for each other. We have a special tree in our bedroom where they all are displayed. Happy Holidays and congratulations, Becca. Your blog is always a joy to visit.
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Hi Becca,
Wishing you and all your site fans……Merry Christmas..
God Bless you all
Love BonnieReplyCancel

How fun! My favorite tradition has to be decorating the tree – hiding the pickle ornament, putting up all the ornaments from when I was a little girl, and looking at all my kids ornaments.ReplyCancel

I just love your cards. My favorite part of Christmas is just being with family. We always had dinner at my home and all the family would come over. As the years have passed, family has moved away and some have passed away. I still cherish time spent with family be it 2 people or 20 for dinner.ReplyCancel

Our tradition is to go to church on Christmas Eve and open family gifts once home. Christmas Day is Santa’s gifts. We also enjoy oyster stew on Christmas Eve, anyway some of us enjoy it. It’s our Danish family thing.
Going to church is a weekly joy and the Eve service magnifies that joy of freedom.ReplyCancel

I really enjoy my visits to your blog… so many beautiful things to see!

My favourite Christmas tradition doesn’t happen anymore… my Dad used to read us “The Night Before Christmas” from a book he had as a child, on Christmas Eve. Once we had kids, he would read it to them.

Now that Dad is gone, we all remember it well, but no one has stepped in to take his place.ReplyCancel

A favorite tradition for me is having all of my boys over on Christmas Eve and each one of them always asks as they walk in “Mom did you make the shrimp dip?”. Funny the only time they ask for this is on this day. Thanks for the chance to win.ReplyCancel

My husbands family has a wonderful tradition of reading the story of Jesus birth from Luke before we open gifts. It helps remind us of why we are even exchanging gifts. I love the timber of my father in laws voice and it is something we all look forward to. That and his homemade eggnog!ReplyCancel

My Christmas tradition…. We read the Christmas story from the Bible, sing carols and spend time with the family.
Angel Hugs… Chemo Angel BobbieReplyCancel

My favorite Christmas tradition was started 21 years ago this Christmas. My baby sister had just had her first child a week earlier and was still not up to much. I came over on Christmas morning to see her family, and found out they really didn’t have any food to make a complete meal with since her husband had been laid off just a few weeks before. In my car, I had lettuce and tomatos for a salad I was making at my parents, I also had a loaf of bread. She had bacon in the freezer….so I took out the bacon, had my B-I-L start thawing and frying and had Esther sit at the table and put bread in the toaster and I cut up the lettuce and tomatoes for BLTs. I still have BLTs for Christmas breakfast every year with my baby sister and her family! My nephew has 2 children and this will be their first Christmas with BLTs for breakfast! I hope this is one tradition we can have for a very long time to come.ReplyCancel

I’m glad you’re pleased with your blog count — because we’re sure pleased with your blog! You are a true source of inspiration. Reaching 900,000 is pretty amazing but seems appropriate since I’d have to say you come across as a someone who is a one in a million kind of person! Regarding traditions, there are so many but I’d highlight putting cookies out for santa even though my kids are teenagers, reading from the bible on Christmas Eve, and making goldenrod eggs on Christmas morning. Thanks for sharing your creativity and your faith!
Merry Christmas!ReplyCancel

I love getting together with family and friends. I love the whole cozy feeling of everyone crammed in one house. The smells of all our favorite foodsReplyCancel

When my daughter was little I would give her a box of LifeSavers. One year I didn’t give them to Shannon. Boy did I find out real quick this was required. LOL I now give them to my graddaughter.
SharonReplyCancel

The one tradition that continues even after the children have married is going to the Christmas eve service. Every year it is a very special service that truly reminds you that God gave His Son…and Jesus is the reason for the season.ReplyCancel

One of my favourite Christmas traditions is that we all open one present on Christmas – usually just small things but I always remember the gift I open then.

Becca I have put your name forward to be featured in one of our Craft Magazine over here. Don’t know whether anything will come of it but I hope so – you are so talented.

This is the link..
http://craftstamper.blogspot.com/2008/12/poll-results.html

Fingers crossed
Ann xxxReplyCancel

My favorite holiday tradition is baking. I bake for days and give most of it away as gifts. I enjoy baking but my DH isn’t fond of sweets and I don’t need the extra pounds so Christmas is a special time for baking. Ann LindReplyCancel

Hi thanks for sharing, awesome blog! awsesome candy! Our tradition is just get everybody involved in the cooking process and we exchange gifts,so we don’t have to expend a lot money on buying everyone a gift, but everyone gets something nice!…hugs…ginaReplyCancel

My favourite Christmas tradition has been to prepare the meal – the menu is similar, traditional, each year… this year we head out to my DD’s, and the main meal will be a BBQ with SIL’s family – something we have not done before.
Church on Christmas morning has always been part of our celebrations too, here in the Antipodes.

Thank you for your inspirational blog – absolutely love it!!ReplyCancel

I have fallen in love with Nestabilities after seeing what you have done with them. Thank you so much for sharing your talent and spirit! Have a very merry and blessed Christmas!

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The tradition our family keeps is reading the Christmas story before we open our gifts to help u remember the real reason for Christmas.ReplyCancel

Congrats on hitting 900,000! I can see why! Thanks too for offering such enticing blog candy. I have been using Nestabilities for just a few months and absolutely love them. Our favorite family tradition is the gifting of new jammies for everyone for Christmas. To ensure we are all in our best jammies for Christmas phtos, everyone gets to open one (or whatever it takes) present Christmas Eve. Big surprise what it is…hah! The kids all say it is THE tradition they will take with them to their new families, so I guess it is a ‘hit”.

[Just a suggestion, particularly for aging eyes, but could you enlarge your font and/or choose one less wonky. It is EXTREMELY difficult to read. I can’t tell when I type the wrong letter or punctuation and enlarging doesn’t really help either. Just a thought!)ReplyCancel

Wow – congrats on the 900K hits. My favorite Christmas tradition was decorating the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve while growing up. We would pick out the tree the day after Thanksgiving and tag it. The weekend before Christmas would find us cutting down the tree and taking it home. My dad would set it up and put the lights on but we didn’t decorate until Christmas Eve after the candlelight service at church. After the tree was decorated, we’d eat either roast beef sandwiches or meatball sandwiches. Good memories indeed. Thanks for the chance to enter!ReplyCancel

Thank you for all of your wonderful inspiration and congratulations on the 900,000 hits. That is just awesome.
Our favorite Christmas tradition is having a yule log, standing rib and yorkshire, that my DH will cook and serve as well as all of the other foods that go with it.
We love to go to Christmas eve service. It is so peaceful and serene.
We have a small family, just one son, but it is beautiful to have him home and enjoy our blessings.ReplyCancel

One of my favourite traditions is when we sit around the table for lunch and we crack open our bon bons with the person sitting next to us. Then put on our silly xmas hats from inside the bon bons and wear them throughout lunch, We all look funny and our heads get all sweaty from the hat, because it is alway hot on xmas day here, but its just one of the things we have always done since I was a little girl. I also love singing carols with my family around the tree, singing is so good for the heart.

Have a great xmas and thanks for all your inspiration.ReplyCancel

Your blog is amazing, as is this great giveaway!!

My favorite tradition started after I had kids. It is the excitement of Christmas morning as they run down the stairs and see the presents for the first time.

In my childhood we opened presents on the 24th at midnight. Although it was very exiting to see the gifts we did not have the tradition of “Santa” himself. Being Spanish we celebrated Christmas more as the “birth of Christ” and then we celebrated the 3 Wise Men Day in January.

Its just fun to play with the concept of Santa and all that he does for the good boys and girls.

Thanks for the chance to win.ReplyCancel

When I was growing up we spent Christmases with my godparents. At their house, the tree was brought and decorated by Santa on Christmas Eve after we were in bed. I could scarcely stand the suspense on Christmas morning waiting for my Mother to tell us that we could go downstairs. The tree stood in their reception hall… 8 feet of total splendor, lit by candles with presents piled underneath. That was the best part, for me anyway….the first glimpse of the tree with its’ flickering candles.ReplyCancel

Congrats on the hits, this is the next set I was hoping to buy!!
Our Family tradition is to go out and see the Christmas lights at some display sometime during the holidays, in fact we are doing that tonight! Then on Christmas eve we always go to the Christmas eve service at church and then we drive around the neighborhoods on the way home and look at their Christmas lights!ReplyCancel

I’m a retired school teacher, and I wish
I had thought of this tradition while my
children were little. One of my students
said the dessert for Christmas dinner is
a birthday cake. They light candles and
sing Happy Birthday to Jesus and the
kids blow out the candles. I think it is
such a sweet tradition! Thanks!!! DianeReplyCancel

Congratulations on your milestone. One of my favorite traditions is going to look at Christmas lights with my family on Christmas eve.ReplyCancel

One of my favorite holiday traditions is wrapping gifts, while listening to Christmas music, with my grown daughters & my husband.ReplyCancel

Congrats on 900k hits, that is awesome. I have several favorite traditions, the weekend before Christmas we go as a family and look at some of our favorite houses that are decorated. One other one is my son and I decorate our tree every year, we have been doing this since he could walk and I cherish the time we spend together. Thank you for the chance to win some nesties.ReplyCancel

Our tradition is going to my MIL’s christmas morning in our new pj’s. Everyone in the family comes dressed this way. We then make breakfast and open gifts. The kids love it!ReplyCancel

Whoa! 900k in less than a year? What an accomplishment, and it speaks volumes to your talent -which is considerable!! My favorite tradition is to chose one present to open on Christmas eve. It’s quite the production, shaking each one, taking care to pick a GOOD one!!

Hugs, michelleReplyCancel

Hi, Becca,

I truly enjoy your blog. Congratulations, 900k hits is an awesome accomplishment, especially in nine months.

Our Christmas tradition is to trek 150 miles or more every Christmas eve to spend Christmas eve with my family and another 50 miles to spend Christmas day with my hubby’s family. This may not seem like much, but when my husband was active duty it became more and more important to us to spend the holidays with our respective families, so even when we were in Japan, we still made the trip. It has always been worth it. Time with family is more precious than gold.ReplyCancel

Becca,
I’ve been visiting your blog for about 3 months now and I’m so in love with your consistently elegant and beautiful designs and helpful tutorials! Congratulations!

One of my many favorite traditions is to spend a weekend across the Straits in Victoria, BC (I live in Port Angeles, WA.) with my girlfriend shopping and visiting Butchart Gardens all decked out with Christmas lights. It’s festive and fun!ReplyCancel

Becca,
I’ve been visiting your blog for about 3 months now and I’m so in love with your consistently elegant and beautiful designs and helpful tutorials! Congratulations!

One of my many favorite traditions is to spend a weekend across the Straits in Victoria, BC (I live in Port Angeles, WA.) with my girlfriend shopping and visiting Butchart Gardens all decked out with Christmas lights. It’s spectacularly beautiful, festive, and fun!

May God bless you this sacred season!ReplyCancel

Traditions! Wow where do I start. The Christmas tree is a must do and like others it is an eclectic collection of ornaments given and bought over the past 38 years – including the original string of popcorn we did the first year we were married. Cards written every year and this year topped out at 108! I just finished writing them today!!! Pizzelles are our traditional Christmas cookie. It is an Italian waffle cookie and this year we are making 5 batches of 7 dozen each! Most recently we have given our adult children half of their gift in the form of a check. They must use the money to make Christmas happen for someone else! Just like you — giving the Nesties to make someone happy at Christmas! Thanks.ReplyCancel

Our favorite traditon is to have Grandma and Grandpa over to watch movies on Christmas eve. A special dinner with them with no one else. Gives my kids more time with my parents also.
Angel hugs
DebbyReplyCancel

Becca I read your blog daily. I love your style.

My favorite tradition is going out & looking at the Christmas lights. We go for a drive & look at all the pretty displays. When my mother was alive she used to go with us. Afterwards we stop for some ice cream or something.ReplyCancel

OOOO, I am crossing my fingers and toes that I win…I NEED those SO BAD!!! ;)

We always bake lots of cookies and breads the weekend before Christmas and give them to neighbors and friends, I just Love the family all gathered in the kitchen, the kids decorating cookies, etc!ReplyCancel

Because we don’t “do” Santa and I like to make Christmas morning more than an attack on the tree, we started doing treasure hunts. When they were younger, I’d give each of the kids a card with step by step directions to their treasure on Christmas morning. The older ones helped the younger one and it was a fun time.ReplyCancel

Christmas is such a joyous time of the year. One of our traditions is to attend Christmas Eve Mass with my family. We then spend the evening together sharing a meal and reminescing about the year. We awake the next morning to opening our presents and having a wonderful Christmas breakfast. I hope you and your family have a joyful, peaceful Christmas celebrating the birth of our Savious Jesus Christ. Helen ReitersReplyCancel

One of our favorite Christmas traditions is to pull out all the Christmas decorations early in the morning and decorate all day. Reliving memories of Christmas’ past and ones who are no longer with us. Then once we are done we jump in the car and go out that night to drive around town and see other house’s outside decorations ~ then come home for some yummy hot chocolate.ReplyCancel

Our Christmas tradition was to get together at my parents house on Christmas eve. Mother would make chili for our hot dogs & we’d have ham sandwiches, sausage balls, potato salad & pecan pies. Now that my parents are older everyone comes to my house for Christmas eve. We don’t have the good food that my mother always made but we enjoy each other’s company & open presents.ReplyCancel

Holy cow Becca! 900 000! You go girl! Congratulations!

And what a nice little bit of candy too !

A tradition for us before Christmas is to make sugar cookies as a family. Then we ice them…and we always tell the kids to be more generous with the icing! It’s a one to one ratio! The thickness of the cookie should be the thickness of the icing…they think it’s hysterical and love it!

Christmas Eve is the service at church which is all of our kids favourite part. Then we’re off to my parents for opening presents (this is a German tradition…we’ve never waited till Christmas day)….

Blessings Becca!ReplyCancel

First off, I love your site. I know that you always have great ideas and wonderful links to share.

My favorite tradition is making Christmas baubles with my children. we have about 5 or 6 made by my baby daughter and 1 made by my son.

Happy holidays!

sorayaReplyCancel

Merry Christmas to you! One of my favorite Christmas traditions is watching “White Christmas” every year. One of my very favorite gifts was when my sister bought me the DVD. Congrats on 900K, but it’s no surprise to me. I feel that we (your readers) should be rewarding YOU! Thanks for sharing your talent with us – and may God bless you and your family in the upcoming year.ReplyCancel

My favorite Christmas tradition is hanging up all our handmade ornaments on the Christmas tree Thanksgiving weekend. We usually make one each year, so some of them are made by my kids, and the other ones are those we received through a swap(from a home school message board). Many of the handmade ornaments represent a picture book like Corduroy, Madeline, Night of the Moonjellies, etc.ReplyCancel

My favorite tradition is just spending time with family and friends. No matter what else is going on, we all make the time to visit and enjoy.ReplyCancel

Our favourite family tradition is to go to our tiny little church in my parents village for the candlelight carol service late on Christmas Eve. It’s a special place for us as DH and I were married there and our DD was baptised there. It’s only the size of a large sitting room but is packed with warmth and light and love.
Congratulations Becca on passing another milstone!ReplyCancel

Wow, Becca! Congrats and thanks for the chance to win these beauties!

Our family loves to take several ornaments from “giving trees” around town and give thoughtful gifts to the recipients. What ever they “ask” for, we always go a couple of steps further. It’s so much fun, and so gratifying!!!!ReplyCancel

Our favorite tradition is to take our granddaughters to church Xmas eve and then drive them around and look at all the neighborhoods all lit up and ready for Xmas. We then take them home and sprinkle reindeer food outside and set up cookies and milk for Santa. Mom & Dad appreciate the extra time they get but my husband and I feel that we have the best deal! Merry Christmas!ReplyCancel

My favorite tradition is sneaking a gift from Santa into a little cardboard train that Santa used for my son’s first gift 21 years ago. That little train is worn now, but somehow Santa finds it, fills it and leaves it under the tree after all these years!!!ReplyCancel

Wow! this is so COOL! Thank U for giving this away! Crossing my fingers and wishing on a star for this.
Traditions in our house is baking cookies on the day of christmas eve evening and having hot coco and watching old movies and snuggling with a warm fire in the fireplace.ReplyCancel

We always go to church on Christmas Eve and then my immediate family comes over for food and opening gifts with the grandchildren. We visit other family members on Christmas Day.

Thanks for the chance to win your blog candy!ReplyCancel

We have four children, all grown now. When they were very young, our family and close friends would gather at our home on Christmas Eve for dinner, church, and then an evening with all children taking part by singing a song, playing an instrument, or reading a poem – what gifts they always brought to us. We would end the evening with my reading “The Christmas Guest” by Helen Steiner Rice, long before it became so popular. We would then have a birthday cake to celebrate the birth of Jesus, with all singing Happy Birthday to Jesus, which we still do today. Our children being grown now do not perform for us, but they always ask me to read “The Christmas Guest,” which still brings tears to the eyes of all and reminds us of how we should live our lives, and then we celebrate Jesus’ birthday. I know this tradition will continue with our children and their children. We are very blessed, and very thankful.

Have a blessed Christmas.ReplyCancel

I would have to say that my favourite tradition is enjoying our buffet of delicious homemade appetizers and baked goods on Christmas Eve with the family, enjoying our time together, listening to our favourite Christmas music and anticipating Christmas Day to come. Not long now!
Btw, I just love, love, love your creations, Becca! Just beautiful!ReplyCancel

Congrat!! Becca!! I am just so verrry glad I found your blog!! Your designs are awesome!! For my family tradition- it would be baking our Christmas sugar cookies-there were three girls-and even though I have no children of my own-our tradtion of baking Christmas sugar cookies has now carried down to my nieces and their children! It is a good thing!ReplyCancel

My favorite memory was going to midnight mass on Christmas Eve. It was such a treat to get to stay up so late! Actually, we took naps early in the evening, then got up in time to go to the church. But it always seemed fun to go out so late at night.
DeniseBReplyCancel

Wow, 900,000! We always make homemade cinnamon buns for Christmas morning and share them with friends.ReplyCancel

Every single “hit” is richly deserved! Your blog is a beautiful and unique addition to the world.
Christmas Blessings,
Mary O.K.ReplyCancel

Congrats! One of my my favorite traditions is hopping in the car with the family and traveling back home on Christmas day to see our family and hopefully some snow too!ReplyCancel

My Dad is now 94 years old but still in very good health. As my 3 sons and their families (16 grandchildren) gather around my Dad, he reads the Christmas story from Luke to all of us before we have prayer and open our gifts. This is a tradition that we have done for many years.

Absolutely love your blog. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t check it. It was through you that I found the website Our Daily Bread. I would buy every one of their sets if I could afford it.ReplyCancel

Your creations are absolutely gorgeous, I’m so very happy I found your blog lots of beautiful eye candy here : ) My fav. Christmas tradition is our Family joke gift swap. It is such a fun time seeing what everyone has bought each other and the reason why! We always laugh so hard the tears start streaming from all the laughter. I love this tradition and can’t wait to see what I get this year! Merry Christmas!ReplyCancel

My favorite tradition is opening gifts with my dh on Christmas Eve by the fireplace. Congrats on your huge blog success! Thanks for sharing your God given talent w/us all!!ReplyCancel

We always do a Happy Birthday Jesus cake at our Christmas celebration. The grandchildren really enjoy this and it helps us to reflect on why we celebrate Christmas. We also make Samaritan Purse Shoeboxes with our grandchildren each year. The grandchildren enjoy being a part of helping someone at Christmas. Becca, thank you for sharing your knowledge and all your beautiful creations with us. Have a blessed Christmas.ReplyCancel

Becca,
My favorite Christmas Tradition is sleeping one night in the livingroom under the Christmas Tree lights. Of course it started when I was a kid… and now I’m doing it with my grandkids! Thanks for the opportunity to win those lovely Nestability Rectangles! God Bless,
ChrisReplyCancel

Becca, I absolutely love your style! So elegant and beautiful! Your blog has become a favorite of mine. Congratulations on 900,000 hits!
One of our favorite traditions during the Christmas season is to get out our cross country skis and ski around our land and through the wooded areas. When we are lucky enough to have a clear sky and moonlight, it’s beautiful. We have been out when it has dipped to -20 degrees. Church is an important part of family life for us so our Christmas Eve service is a favorite tradition as well. Merry Christmas!ReplyCancel

Our family tradition when growing up was we got to open one gift on Christmas eve.ReplyCancel

Congrats.

We always read the Christmas story fromt he Bible that my husband received for Christmas before joining the Air Force. The Bible is falling apart but our grown kids still want it read from that Bible.

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My favorite Christmas tradition, my Mother started many moons ago…I pick one small gift for each of my children and my husband to open later in the day, when all of the gifts have already been open. I wait until they least expect it and say oh I don’t know where this came form or santa forgot to put this under the tree! It is silly but cute, and heart warming at the same time!ReplyCancel

My favorite Christmas tradition happens on Thanksgiving. After dinner the dishes are cleared and we gather around the table and do a Christmas craft. One year we (Mom, Dad, Grandma and me) had pulled down grape vines and made wreaths. Everyone had brought stuff to decorate wreaths and we made some beautiful creations. Another year we decorated sweatshirts. Most years the crafts aren’t that large or involved. All ages participate — older ones helping the younger ones and young ones helping the older ones. It is a great opportunity to interact with the kids and each other. I remember one year Roddy was over in the corner asking Shelly to come help him. Shelly was ignoring him. FInally someone said something to Shelly about it and she explained he had tied her shoe strings around the table leg. This year we made foam reindeer ornaments. Simple and easy and was fun and funny trying to figure them out. They still haven’t forgiven me for the angels made with beads and safety pins. I think mine is still partially finished wrapped up in a napkin somewhere. Those suckers were hard! Last year we (mostly the kids) made Christmas cards to send to soldiers in the hospital. One year we tied a quilt for a new baby in the family. Another year we tied two lap quilts for an aunt & uncle who were both going through chemo. Everyone — including the guys — tied a few “love knots”. No matter what we do, it is a wonderful time for interaction with family and friends and we take home a little rememberance or send a little love.ReplyCancel

I still put up stockings for hubby and me at our old age, even tho we don’t have a chimney, putting an apple and orange and nuts in them, as my parents did nearly 70 years ago……
congrats on your awesome blog…….ReplyCancel

My favorite tradition involves an advent calendar. It has a little stuffed mouse that the kids would always move from day to day. I remember just a few short years ago my youngest was in her teens and I would smile when I realized the mouse had moved without my prompting. Then we had a couple of years where she wasn’t so interested, and I would have to gently point out that the mouse hadn’t moved.

Well, this year she went off to college. I thought I probably wouldn’t put up the calendar. But she insisted I HAD to put it up. So now guess who is moving the mouse!

Lots of memories of that calendar.ReplyCancel

We don’t really have a christmas tradition.We just get together and thoroughly enjoy spending time together.Having a great meal together and opening our presents.Since the passing of my oldest son 5 years ago, spending time with family has a whole different meaning now. I cherish family a whole lot more now.ReplyCancel

We get dressed up and take family pictures in front the the tree, drives the kids crazy because they can’t wait to open their presents!ReplyCancel

Congratulations on reaching 900,000. It is not surprising, as your site is wonderful! We so appreciate your talent, your inspiration, and your Christian witness. As human beings, created in the image of God, we were meant to “create”. You certainly have embraced that concept. Christmas holds many traditions in our family. As our parents have passed away, some traditions have changed. We now enjoy re-lighting all of the advent candles with prayer and scripture before sitting down to Christmas dinner. We share much good food, fellowship and gifts but most of all we share God’s love reflected in our love for each other. Thank you for the wonderful Blog Candy opportunity. Have a blessed Christmas!ReplyCancel

We have so many holiday traditions that are all beloved. My very favorite is … on Christmas morning we have Jesus’ birthday cake for breakfast. It is the one day a year the kids are allowed to have just cake for breakfast, which makes it an extra special treat. Not even on their own birthdays do they get this. lol It’s a simple way to remind us all what we are really celebrating. Before opening presents we light the Christ Candle in our Advent wreath and sing Happy Birthday to Jesus. I think it brings the focus for them back to Christ rather than ‘what did I get’.ReplyCancel

One of my favorite Christmas traditions we just started. we go to my mother-in-law’s and go to Midnight Mass and then come home for hot chocolate! SOO warm and wonderful!ReplyCancel

Congratulations – your blog is wonderful!!! Thanks for all you share and the blog candy would be such a great gift! My favorite part of Christmas is getting to be with as many of our family as we can gather together. Sometimes it takes two different days of celebrating to visit with them all.ReplyCancel

My favourite time is late on Christmas Eve. With presents wrapped, table laid and prepared veggies in the fridge, I sit in a tree-lit room, drinking coffee, watching the Midnight Service on television and thinking of family and friends who are no longer wish us. I started doing this when our son – now 35 – was a toddler and it’s still the best part of Christmas for me.

Whatever you are doing this Christmas, may it be happy and blessed for you all.

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My favorite tradition is getting together with my family Christmas eve, eating, playing totally rediculous games and laughing like crazy and having a yankee gift swap. Becca congrats on the 900,000 hits. I am not surprised, God gave you a triple dose of talent and I am so glad you share it with us.ReplyCancel

It was our tradition when my children were young to wake up on Christmas morning & read from our bibles the true story of why we celebrate this holiday. We always did this prior to opening our presents, so we could focus on our Savior, who is the greatest gift we will ever receive. My children are grown now, but we still enjoy doing this with our young grandchildren. My Christmas dinner this year will include a birthday cake for Jesus, where the grandkids can all take turn blowing out candles and singing Happy Birthday to Him.ReplyCancel

I love to go out to a local spot where there are lots of berry laden bushes. I have a great time cutting a big bunch of greenery and red berry delights and making them into a Christmas bouquet for the front of our house. I find it easier than faffing about with a circular wreath! I’ll be doing that tomorrow (Saturday) so that they last into the New Year.
Merry Christmas to you and will be looking in and delving onto the history here. You have some great work.ReplyCancel

Bekka,
Congrates from England, I am pleased to visit your website on a regular daily basis, you are truly a talented young lady, and thanks for the marvellous creative ideas you inspire in us that do not have the talent, but still enjoy trying.

When our grandsons were tiny we usually had all the family with us, and we used to have our Christmas breakfast of Ham and soft boiled eggs with slices of brown bread, which they always looked forward to, then off for a walk with the new toys, Now being on our own we spend our Christmas with friends as boys now spread around the world.
Wishing you a Very Happy and Peaceful Christmas
BarbaraReplyCancel

There are so many Christmas traditions…but the one I savor the most would be Mom’s home made melt in your mouth sprtiz cookies in S & O shapes… sUSAnReplyCancel

I just love Christmas but the fav thing is putting up the tree and seeing all the lights and baubles twinkling. I love when there are kids to help and the look of wonder on their faces. xxReplyCancel

Our tradition is making cookies with my children and my Mom and I do cookies to together. Thanks Kim HolochakReplyCancel

My favorite Christmas tradition takes place on Christmas Eve night. My husband and children light the tree and sit around the lit fireplace just talking and enjoying each others company (hot chocolate and other goodies are always present). We purposely decline all holiday invites on Christmas eve so we spend our family time together. Around 10pm the kids will lay out the cookies and milk for Santa and then head off to bed leaving mommy and daddy with some extra quiet time together.

Happy Holidays to you and yours, Becca. All the best for 2009!ReplyCancel

My favourite family tradition is simply getting together with our families. Sharing good food and being with people that you love is what makes Christmas as wonderful as it is.
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
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I’ll be brief- hubby is in the hospital. One of my fav’s is the family getting together for a wonderful meal, catching up on each other’s lives, and exchanging gifts (usually just small items, esp. humorous personallized gifts). I love my family! Thanks for the chance. I so love your style!ReplyCancel

My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the Christmas tree and listening to holiday music.ReplyCancel

My favorite tradition is the Christmas stockings. My two sons now 21 and 27 still have their stockings which are ugly commercially knitted ones that I purchased because they were cheap and I couldn’t find ones that I liked that year. The boys were allowed on Christmas morning to get into their stockings before they woke us up and have something to play with before 7 am!! At 7 they were allowed to wake us up for breakfast and opening presents from Santa. Otherwise we were sometimes up by 5 am!! I had planned to replace the stocking with nicer ones but anytime I mentioned it both boys were adament that they always remain the same so they have. They still enjoy the stockings but getting up at 5 am to see what is inside is no longer a problem!ReplyCancel

Hi Becca, what wonderful candy you are offering and thankyou for the chance to win :)
Our favourite xmas tradition is to take the children to our local Co-op to visit Santa Clause, I like seeing the little ones faces light up when the meet him :0)
We also enjoy going to see the xmas lights being switched on for the first time in the town centre.
Hope you and your family have a wonderful christmas and all the best for 2009!
**Hugs** Heather xReplyCancel

Thanks Becca for such a generous blog candy, and Congratulations!!!!! This may sound funny, but i just love eating my grandmothers anise cutouts!!! She makes them with LARD, but they are so crispy and yummy!!ReplyCancel

Thank you for your wonderful idea asking us for our favorite traditions. As I read your blog and thought about my favorites I got totally lost in my memories of all my family and the years of special times together. For several decades I have made an ornament each year for family and friends.

May you and yours have a very special holiday season.ReplyCancel

Becca – Congratulations on your many posts! I love visiting your blog and seeing what you have new to share with us. You have so many beautiful an creative ideas!
We have many traditions but one that has caught on the past few years (now my kids expect it!!) is we have a game on Christmas Eve. I go to the dollar store and purchase simple, inexpensive gifts and wrap them up. Everyone picks a gift and I read a story about the “Wright” family and whenever I say right, you pass the gift to the right and when I say left, you got it, you pass the gift to the left!! When the story ends, you get the package you end up with! It gets to be pretty funny! They love it!ReplyCancel

Becca~ What an awesome candy you are giving away! CONGRATS on getting so many hits….that is amazing!! What a great accomplishment! Your work is always so inspiring and so stunning!!! WOW!!!!! I am in awe everyday I come to visit your artistic page! Thank you for the awesome chance to win!

My favorite Christmas tradition is on the 23rd my sibiling and I go to my parent’s house and we have our immediate family Christmas! It is so much fun and relaxing, and I love being with my family! It’s my favorite Christmas tradition!
Hugs~ KimReplyCancel

Congratulations, Becca on your succesful and very popular blog site. I know I check on your activites every day!
My favourite Christmas tradition is the visiting and renewing friendships with family members who are scattered around the country and busy with their lives. It’s a time to stop and talk and catch up with everyone.ReplyCancel

Bekah,

I am so happy for you. I am a little jealous that you get to play so often :) but I just love your work. Thank you so much for sharing.ReplyCancel

Becca,

My favorite Christmas tradition is watching my daughter open her Christmas presents.

Lisa A.ReplyCancel

Becca: Your work is so beautiful, I can see why spellbinders would request you to join their design team. Keep up the wonderful creative work, you are a real blessing to all of our creative imaginations. Happy holidays to you and yours.ReplyCancel

One of our family traditions is going to the Christmas Eve service. Any of us who in the area go, the fist one there gets to save a pew or two so we all can sit together. It is a bonding, heartwarming time. The year my Dad was very sick (he passed on the 28th) our whole pew sat there and cried during Silent Night. Then we did the same last year – the first year without my Mom. It begins the Christmas celebration with the true meaning of Christmas, and also reinforces the importance of family and family memories.ReplyCancel

Wow Becca, that’s a lot of people visiting your blog! It doesn’t surprise me though, because you do such beautiful work. Your blog has been in my list of favorites to visit for quite some time now.
One of our traditions has been to go to the 11:00 candle light service on Christmas Eve at our church. Everyone has a candle which is lit just before the last song, by passing the flame from one candle to the next in the pew. The last song of the service is always Silent Night sung acappella. It is so awesome to stand in the glow of the candles, with just the sound of our voices, singing that song. It brings tears to your eyes.
Something we do for gift-giving started years ago as a joke, but has become a tradition now. Every year we’d give our children socks as a little add-on to their present. In their early years, they were looked upon by them as an “unwanted gift,” but as they got older, they started looking forward to those silly, ole socks. This year we’ve all decided not to give gifts, but just get together and enjoy the day/evening together. I just couldn’t let go of the sock tradition though, so I will be surprising them all with their Christmas socks again this year.ReplyCancel

My favorite tradition is to have s light supper with family and friends, then attend our candelight Christmas Eve service together. We live only 2 blocks from our church, and parking is at a premium on Christmas Eve. So, we have fun trooping along to the church, conserve a few parking spots for those living farther away and celebrate our Lord’s birth together.ReplyCancel

I love your work! Thank you for having a blog for us to get inspired.
Christmas is a time when I love to bring out the board games and play with eberyone. Weather we just came back from sledding or after the turkey, even after breakie I love to play any card or board game. This is something the whole family can do or one on one.ReplyCancel

Becca, 900,000 hits! That is amazing. I cannot even imagine but you are so deserving. My favorite Christmas tradition is to attend the candlelight service at midnight and then come home and each one of my boy’s gets to open a present that I choose. I always pick the new PJ’s so they look wonderful in the morning for the pictures.
Thanks so much Becca for always having something beautiful to share.
hugs.ReplyCancel

Thanks Becca,

My favorite Christmas tradition has always been having all my family with me……

Did I miss reading about your favorite tradition?ReplyCancel

Our Christmas starts on Christmas Eve by all going to church together. Then we come back to our house for food–lots of nibbles, meatballs, etc. We each open one gift (unless the grandkids talk us into letting them open another one!). We play board games until we all go to bed. In the morning the first person up wakes everyone else and we open our gifts. Later we have a huge meal together and late afternoon everyone packs up and goes home.ReplyCancel

wow! 9k? really? how cool! I’ve recently discovered that we DON’T have any christmas traditions. I know weird huh? 10 years married and no traditions. So we’re starting this year. DH and I (since we don’t have kids yet.) not entirely sure WHAT that tradition will be, but I’m sure we’ll know it when it happens! ;)ReplyCancel

Our favorite Christmas/holiday tradition is decorating the tree together. Then have apple cider and hot cocoa afterwards.
CammyVReplyCancel

Our family tradition is buying food for those in need. We are up to 11 families this year after starting 12 years ago.

Thanks so much for a great blog candy give awayReplyCancel

I just discovered your blog and your work is awesome! My favorite tradition is taking the kids’ ornaments out and telling stories about what they were like then and letting them hang them on the tree. Congratulations on your success!ReplyCancel

My favorite tradition is getting the tree. It’s not like we go out to the woods and get one. We usually just go to Home Depot or someplace like that. But it’s like a game of chance cuz the trees are wrapped up like sausages, so you never really know what you’re going to get. Then we watch my husband struggle to cut it get it in the stand and hope it stays standing. Then, of course, the cat has to come and have a sniff and even climb in there. My daughter loves to decorate it, so I do the lights and she does the rest. It’s fun!!!ReplyCancel

Becca,
I am so proud of you to reach 900,000-what an accomplishment!

My family’s tradition is to have everyone together for Christmas dinner, open gifts and go looking at lights in the evening.

We really enjoy each other being blessed with God’s grace.

Merry Christmas and do enjoy your family.ReplyCancel

We don’t have a lot of traditions. Our family is mostly 1200 miles away from us. When my husband isn’t working (which is rare) and now I usually work Christmas too, but when we aren’t working, we make sure to make cookies. We’ll make way too many and then we give them away. We’ll take a basket of cookies to the sheriff’s office or the local fire fighters. We’ve given them to the toll takers on the toll road to work. Jus someone stuck working to make their day a bit better. Thanks for the chance for the nesties. They are on my holiday wish list.

Cheers!
D in FL :DReplyCancel

Wow! Congrats on the posts, you so deserve them! Your work is truly inspiring. I look forward to every one of your posts to see what you’ve come up with next, each is more beautiful than the next!

Our favorite tradition is getting the kids all bundled up (if it’s cold – we live in FL) and go out looking for the yards with the best light displays. We pack cocoa or eggnog and cookies and just drive around, talking about why there is Christmas and instilling the real Christmas Story to the kids. They are older now, but it’s still just as much fun!ReplyCancel

My favourite Christmas tradition is the Chocolate initials that we all get on Christmas Day. This was started in my family before I was born, so it has continued for over 50 years. My parents are of Dutch decent and this is something they have always done. I continued the tradition with my children and my grandson as well as my children’s spouses. Next Christmas I get to buy another initial for my newest grandchild.
Another little thing that has become a tradition is the baking of a Cherry Bundt cake. My daughter says I “must” bake one every year.

Your cards are beautiful and you have such a talent. Wishing you and your family a wonderful Christmas!ReplyCancel

Well, Jesus is the reason for the season, and the Christmas Eve candlelight service and communion always make my heart get so full and I get those lovely tingles on the back of my neck. How special is that? I am thrilled that this service includes communion, because being invited to go up to the altar and kneel at the rail while celebrating Christ’s birth is just amazing!

Second favorite tradition: Hot mulled wine! ;-)ReplyCancel

Congrats on the 900,000 hits… just love your cards… I think you use “trick” photography! *Ü*

My favorite tradition is the peaceful time alone early Christmas morning with my hubby… we have a fire, Christmas music, devotions, & gifts… it has always been so special.

Merry Christmas to you!ReplyCancel

Well, I’m not surprised that you have reached 900K. You have a wonderful blog and a great talent. I love stopping by to see what beautiful things you have created. Keep it up!ReplyCancel

I love your site and the latest card is truly wonderful. You are an inspiration to all who visit and from the number of folks that have already commented today, you have a wonderful “fan club”. Do you feel like a rock star? My new favorite Christmas tradition is being ABLE to finally make and send handmade Christmas cards, even though it was only 4.. I enjoyed everyone of them and as I made them, I thought of and took the time to email and thank the kind folks that had generously donated stamps and paper so I could have my hobby again. I lost my entire collection from a robbery in 2007. I had collected for years, both fine arts, decorative painting, and rubberstamping. I have really reallly enjoyed this Christmas! Thanks to God too for all my blessings!ReplyCancel

What a great site!
I can’t believe you’ve only had this going for 9 months.
It’s been a part of my surfing, it seems, for MUCH longer than that!

Congratulations, TRReplyCancel

My favourite tradition was walking out Christmas morning with my dad( at 5.30 am) , we would wait until we had see a fallen star before we returned home,the we all sat for breakfast & discussed our previous years of doing this,sadly my dad passed away on Christmas eve 8 years ago.My husband continues the tradition with our chrildren & grandchild.

JeanReplyCancel

I love seeing all your gorgeous cards. NESTIES are my favorite toys.

MY favorite Christmas tradition is going out to see the lights on Christmas Eve after church. We have so many fabulous light shows in our area, it is a wonder to see. The kids loved it so much when they were little and they still enjoy it as middle teens.

DawnWReplyCancel

Congratulations on your outstanding number of hits. Your blog is incredible. For the past few years, we have been attending Christmas Eve service and then heading over to a friends house for FONDUE. It is wonderful. We eat and then play some type of trivial pursuit game. On Christmas Day we go to my brother’s to eat Christmas Dinner. I love spending the holidays with friends and family.ReplyCancel

I love your blog! Your work is so beautiful. My favorite Christmas tradition is an Advent Calendar I do with my kids. It’s filled with scriptures about Jesus on each day, and then an activity for us to do as a family like light looking, sledding, making cookies, decorating a gingerbread house etc.
Thanks!ReplyCancel

Congratulations on 900,000 visits to your blog.

Our traditions are simple. Church Christmas Eve, afterward, return home and eat supper (ham or lamb and all the fixings) then open gifts, saving one for Christmas Day.

When our daughter was three, she asked Santa for a pink cake. Every year, we eat cake for breakfast after singing Happy Birthday to Jesus.ReplyCancel

Our traditions are simple. Our daughter always hands out the gifts on Christmas morning. We open one at a time so we can all enjoy watching how the recipient likes it. Christmas Eve we always have a snack of Lil’ Smokies, cheese, crackers, etc. Simple but ours.ReplyCancel

Our favorite family tradition started a few years ago as our children moved out on their own one by one. Each Christmas Eve they all come home and spend the night. It’s my husband’s and mine favorite day to wake up every Christmas morning with all of us under one roof again. To see the kids all camped out on the living room floor in sleeping bags and blankets. There is nothing like waking up to a house full of children :D.

Our other traditions include Christmas Eve. I have trays of veggies, beef summer sausage, slices of different cheeses, crackers, punch, several kinds of home baked cookies and home made candy out and the kids snack away most of the night and stay up and play games and watch movies until they can’t stay awake anymore, lol!

On Christmas morning, they are up at the crack of dawn. We pass out the presents and then complete mayhem begins as wrapping paper quickly covers the floor- I love it! We clean up the mess and then hang out together until I begin making dinner. We have a huge dinner in the afternoon and the kids stay until late in the night on Christmas day. It truly is our favorite day of the year as we celebrate family together and remember the birth of our Lord and Saviour, Who made us part of God’s family.

This Christmas will be bittersweet for our family this year because our 23 year old daughter’s fiance’ is being deployed mid-January for Iraq and he will not be home for Christmas next year because his tour is for one year. Even though they are waiting until his service is done to our country to get married, he has been and is such a part of our family and we will all miss him very much. I know that when his leave is up at the beginning of January that there are going to be lots of tears being shed in this family. Our prayers go with him as they do each day and each day for all of our service men and women. God bless our military men and women who are serving away from family and friends this Christmas day. I pray that the joy of the announcement of the birth of Christ those many years ago will fill their hearts with all the gladness and peace they can hold. This Christmas is certainly special for our family this year- we have to fit two Christmases into one day for our soldier, but I know as hard as it will be to see him leave for a whole year, it will be even more so a joyous day and celebration when he returns home.ReplyCancel

I am enjoying reading about everyone’s traditions. Mine is about food. I grew up in a family of 7 kids and Christmas day was always a flurry of toys and excitement and not much in the mood for eating. So my mother started cooking the big Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve and we would pick on the left-overs on Christmas day. My mother made enough goodies to feed 7 families, so being able to just eat dessert on Christmas day was heaven to me. Of course there was the open face turkey sandwiches, which are my favorite. I’ve carried this tradition to my own family. Happy Holidays to all of you.
LeeReplyCancel

Tamales and posole on Christmas eve….yeah!!ReplyCancel

A tradition of many years is to phone my family in Australia at midnight on Christmas Eve, which is mid afternoon on Christmas Day in Australia.ReplyCancel

I don’t really have tradition.
When my kids were home we made candy and took it to our friends. My kids favorite things at Christmas was the stocking. They still put more thouoght into what they are going to do for everyone. Stockings arethe most favoirte to open at Christmas time.ReplyCancel

Our tradition is going out to breakfast with a friend & his family from school then heading Downtown to shop & see the lights. We always eat at the same restaraunt for dinner & we treat ourselves to those expensive mall cookies. We have been doing this for probably 20 yrs. but were unable to this year as my dear friend has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and wasn’t up to going. When the kids were little we also visited Santa there. Thanks for the chance to win!ReplyCancel

Hi Becca……One of my favorite traditions is going to my only brothers house on Christmas day, sitting around talking with his family (kids and grandkids) having a wonderful family dinner and then watching all the little grandkids opening their presents and getting so excited…….The adults stopped giving each other gifts years ago and just buy for the kids…..It is so much fun to see the smiles and hear the laughter as they tear off the wrapping to get inside the presents….Thank you for the present you give to each of us every day of the year…I love your site and your wonderful cards and projects…You are truly a blessing to all of us……
Merry Christmas
FoxieReplyCancel

My husband and I live far away from our families so we don’t always get the opportunity to see everyone at Christimas time. A couple of years ago, we got webcams so now we get to visit with one another whenever we want. It’s especially comforting during the holidays.

Thanks for the chance to win some awesome blog candy.

Mae in FloridaReplyCancel

Hi Becca,

My son is now a young man planning to get married in March 2009, but as a young boy, he was always too anxious to wait until Christmas morning to open his gifts and would not go to bed. My family would get dressed for bed, pj’s, etc., stay up late Christmas eve and wait until 12:01 and we would all open our gifts and then try
to go to bed. Most times we would just sit around through Christmas day and make up the sleep on Christmas night!ReplyCancel

The most meaningful Christmas tradition we have is candlelight church service on Christmas Eve with our children, our family, and our neighbors. After the hub-bub of pre-Christmas activities and shopping and baking, it just brings everything into clear focus just in time for Christmas Day!ReplyCancel

Thank you so much for the chance to win this wonderful prize. One of our
favorite traditions is getting together with all our family. I wish you a very Merry Christmas and the best for your blog in the coming new year.ReplyCancel

You’re a talented artist, Becca! Thank you for sharing your designs and techniques!

My FIL is full Norwegian and one of our favorite holiday traditions is going to my in-laws home for a fabulous meal that includes some Norwegian dishes… lutefisk, lefse, kotbullar and gomme. Yum!ReplyCancel

Every year, my mom makes a standing rib roast for Christmas dinner. We like to call it ‘roast beast’ like in The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. I’m getting hungry just thinking about it!ReplyCancel

I think one of the traditons that I enjoy the most is on Christmas Eve we all pile in the car and go view luminaries that neighbors in a rural road line their roads and properties with, all the cars have their lights off and it is just awesome!ReplyCancel

Hi,
Going to the Christmas Eve service at our church is the wonderful opportunity that we seize every year.
Christ the Saviour has been born. Hope and love that we so desperately need.
Merry Christmas everyone
bonnieReplyCancel

Hi Becca
You are a very talented artist and an angel with all of your wonderful human interactions with us all week after week!! Thank God for you. Blessed Be!
One of our cherished traditions is to make and share a awesome old “french canadian” recipe that has been passed down by paternal grandparents. We do this on Christmas Eve and everyone who is coming makes sure to be “home” in time to share this meal together. We love the food and sharing a meal together just like when we were kids. We always bring up some of our lasting memories of family members no longer with us in person and we bring them into our warm, and festive circle during this time. As I recall our years of doing this tradition it brings smiles and tears all at once. Thank you Becca for this experience.ReplyCancel

A very merry Christmas to you, Becca! Been busy at work lately so haven’t been able to stop by as much. Your projects have been as beautiful as ever! We have a tradition that my mom started with her four children and I have continued with my four. I came to my marriage with a box of Christmas ornaments as a result, so now ever since my first child was born, we’ve always purchased a new ornament every year, and every child gets the same one. They all have a card in their ornament box, with the date and description of the ornament, and if we’ve collected the ornament on vacation, where we purchased the ornament. I’ve also noted other gifts of ornaments on their cards, since the children have received ornaments from others as well. They will leave home with ornaments to decorate their first trees, too. And they will have good memories as they decorate their Christmas trees and tell the stories to their future spouses. :)ReplyCancel

I just love your blog. You are sooooo creative. Thank you so much for sharing your talents.

Your crafting friend,
Delores in VAReplyCancel