And the winner is #162Â Theresa N………………..
I’m hosting my first blog giveaway, along with at least 60 other bloggers.Â
 Starting at 12:01 a.m. on January 1, 2009, you will receive an entry if you leave a comment telling me about your favourite Christmas present of all time and why it was your favourite. In your comment please leave a link to your blog or an email address as I need a way to contact you if you are the lucky winner.
The winner will be randomly drawn on January 15th, 2009 at approximately 7:00 p.m. Atlantic time. I’ll announce the winner in an entry on January 15th.
The lucky contestant will receive the following to kick start your quilting for next Christmas:
1. Quick Quilts for the Holiday book by Trice Boerens
2. Three pieces of Diane Richmonds’ 12 Days of Christmas fabric -each piece is 1/2 yard.
3. Three fat quarters of the above noted fabric.
4. One tree mini quilt hanger.
This contest is open to everyone, including international entries, but please only enter once. However, you can double your chance at winning by mentioning my blog in a post on your blog. Just be sure to leave me a comment linking to your post.
So remember, the contest starts at 12:01 a.m. January 1, 2009 and ends at 7:00 p.m. Atlantic time on January 15, 2009 . You must leave a comment on your favourite Christmas gift of all time. Your comment has to include your email address or a link to your blog.
A big thanks to Debi for organizing the Whirl into Winter giveaway. For the list of other participants click here.
blogged here:
http://sweeps4bloggers.blogspot.com/2009/01/atypicallife-winter-giveaway-11509.html
What a wonderful giveaway! My favorite Christmas gift has to be the silver dragonfly necklace my husband gave me. It’s beautiful and it was special because he gave it to me.
Thank you for entering me in your drawing!
Hello,
My all time favorite Christmas gift was the digital camera I received from my husband a few years ago. I have captured so many memories since then and have also documented all of the things (from quilts, to cards to fancy cakes, etc) I have made. I would be so lost without a digital camera!
Very nice prize! Thank you for the opportunity to enter your draw.
Cindy
My favorite Christmas present doesn’t get nearly enough use!
My husband gave me a 4 Harness Tabletop Loom. I blogged about it in October 2006…
Truth & Owning it.
Time to dust it off… Thanks for making us think about an answer
http://sockshavenothumbs.blogspot.com/2006/10/truth-and-owning-it_24.html
Happy New Year!
My favourite Christmas gift was a set of leather-bound classic books. I’ve had them now for years and love the look and feel of them.
Happy New Year!! My favorite gift was a stereo my parents gave me when I was 12. It was the only gift I got that year because it was expensive…like $100 or something. It had a turn table plus cassette player..no CD player! LOL
My favorite gift was ally the Christmases past. Now that I am older I look back and remember those gone. Happpy memories. Great prizes
Great giveaway gifts! My favorite all time Christmas present was TIVO!! I love it and will never be without it ever. Here’s hoping you have a Happy, HEALTHY New Year!
Happy New Year!
Please enter me in your giveaway. I mentioned this wonderful giveaway on my blog at http://brendathour.blogspot.com/
my favorite gift of all is a hand prints wall hanging my three adult sons made for me, christmas of 2007. the family was all together, at my home, because the oldest was getting maried on the 22nd of dec. I have wall hangings from the three of them when they were very small, that have their very little handprints on them. They took that idea, and wrote a poem, and put their three very big handprints on a painting canvas!!!!! I will treasure it forever. heaven only knows when we will all be together again…
My favourite Christmas gift of all time would be the year I got a ski-doo.
My favourite Christmas gift of all time was my sewing machine, which I named Bernice. We have spent many enjoyable and productive hours together while my husband immerses himself in watching hockey on t.v.
Happy New Year!
rachel21mac@gmail.com
oh, without a doubt my favorite Christmas present of all time was my 6th Christmas – I got my bright red bicycle and a white wicker basket to hang from the handlebars! My first taste of freedom, in the eyes of a 6 year old.
Happy 2009!!! I think my favorite gift from Christmas is just being able to watch my children enjoy the day. The excitement in their faces gives me great joy. I have the snowflake in my blog. Have fun and keep quilting.
karimo1@yahoo.com
Hi, wonderful giveaway…
My fav Christmas present would be the beautiful bracelet my hubby surprised me with one year. Picked out by him, I had no idea and it is just what I would of picked myself.
Happy New Year.
cheers Julz
My favorite Christmas Present was a Maple cutting board island that my husband made me for my kitchen. Thanks so much for the chance!
djsloan1953@yahoo.com
hmmm….my favorite of ALL time? probably the yo-yo my brother gave me when I was a kid. It was my fav b/c he wrapped it in a gigantic TV box that he taped some bricks into.
I thought the creativity ROCKED
Thank you for the opportunity!
Favorite Christmas present was a stuffed pink poodle! My parents always wrapped ‘a feel-y’ present. I could feel it and try to guess what it was – that silly poodle was all angels and I loved it more in the package than when it was out!!! Sorry, mom!
Warm Winter Wishes!
doni @ Oregon coast
My favorite Christmas gift was a doll that was as tall as me! I remember that I could hold her hands and make her walk down the hallway with me. Precious memories!
Thanks for hosting such a lovely giveaway.
Wishing you joy in the coming year,
Lea
My favorite Christmas gift came this year. I wanted a new toilet seat and I got it! True, no one would make something like that up…..
joycee2561 at yahoo dot com
What i giveaway! I would absolutely love the hangers which are hard to get hold of in Sweden!
No contest – this year my FIL gave me an antique dining room set. We moved to Germany in 2007 and the packers in NJ did not pack my 100 yr old chairs properly and they were reduced, literally, to kindling. My FIL visited for two weeks and saw that we were using lawn chairs at our table and decided to remedy the situation! It was a big gift, but the most thoughtful and useful I have ever received! I am so lucky! I hope everyone has a great 2009!
Happy New year Mam! My favorite Christmas gift of all time…I can think of many because of the memories (first bike from my ‘pap’, gifts from my sons) but I will go with THE one from this year! I have a new DIL and she and my son gave me an
Empire RED Kitchenaid Artisan!!!! I had been putting away a few dollars a week so i could get myself one by next christmas…and they totally “shock and awed’ me…and they have it on camera! SHE’s a keeper.
This year I received a spiral bound notebook with a photo on it of my entire family from a cruise we took last year. I love just holding it.
My favorite Christmas present of all time was a handmade corral and barn made by my grandpa. I was a Breyer horse nut and had several. He made the corral and barn out of small wood pieces and was extremely detailed. I wish I still had it! It was so special because he made it himself.
The mom charm I wear everyday on a necklace, my kids bought it for me in 1991, the first and only time they agreed on a gift…
My favorite present was my first sewing machine back in the 80′s. It has since died and hubby bought me another, but there is something special about that machine…hubby actually surprised me and didn’t need coaching or anything…he just figured it out himself and kept it quiet…I never would have guessed! Enter me…..you have a great prize offer; thanks for participating!
My favorite Christmas gift of all time was the gift of Jesus. Yep, I know that sounds weird but he is the only Christmas gift that has lasted the test of time. Hope I can win your prize. My mom is an avid quilter and I’d give it to her!
I remember getting a new baseball glove one year. I think I took it to bed for months.
Thanks for the great giveaway.
A trip to the Grand Ole Opry!
My favorite Christmas was a Christus (statue of Christ with his hand out)
I guess this year tops it. I got a new-to-mt van. My car ied a few weeks ago and I guess DH got tired of getting up at the crack of dawn to take me to work, I got it a week or so before Christmas, but that doexn’t make it any less special. It is just exactly what I wanted. Guess he WAS listening when I told him about cars seen on the internet.
My favorite was this year …. DH gave me my very own fire proof safe for important documents. Perfect. thanks
Hello! and Happy New Year! My favorite Christmas present was a handmade dolly from my mother. I thought she was making a present for my cousin!!
my favorit Xmas present was a little quilt from my penfriend
This is so much fun. I love your give away choices. My favorite Christmas present comes every year when I can have my friends and family to dinners and bruches, and get togethers and we can ALL sit around the dinner table…Candlelight..good home cooking and people I love..What in the world is better than that.
Pat
A puppy ’cause I love dogs.
My favourite Christmas present? A phone call from my soldier son who was stationed in Afghanistan over Christmas. Just to hear his voice was more than words can describe. Claire mckiernan@rogers.com
my favorite present for Christmas: my sewing room
One Christmas when my sister and I were young girls, we awoke in the wee hours of the morning to find sleeping bags set up under the tree and our own small B&W TVs. Our parents then tucked us back into bed in the sleeping bags where we whispered and giggled until daylight!
My favorite Christmas gift of all time was the remote car starter my husband had installed into my minivan about 4 years ago…that has been a lifesaver here in the winter and in the summer since we don’t have a garage!
Nice fabric you are giving away! I hope I win!
MGM
My favorite Christmas present was mini-teaset from my husband. They are Peter Rabbit, Jemimia puddleduck and Benjamin bunny from Beatrix Potter. Otherwise any favorite is something handmade or fabric. Angie
My new Janome 6600 Sewing machine becouse now I can be a quilter.YAY
My favourite Christmas present was one I recieved when I surprised a friend in Denmark and turned up just a few days before Christmas and she organised a piece of authentic Danish Crystal for me to bring home.
hubs coming home from army…..Happy New Year! mrs.mommyyatgmaildotcom
I remember my twin sister and I getting a Barbie motor home for Christmas one year. We played with it for days on end. (Even my brother joined in a little)
Happy New Year! My favorite present of all time was a pogo stick. My sisters all got Hoppity Hops that year (guess I’m dating myself) and my Pogo Stick was so much greater in my mind. I attempted the world record dozens of times but never quite made it. To this day I associate Pogo Sticks with exuberance – it is impossible to be grumpy while using one!
Several years ago, my brother gave me a denim apron to wear on the farm, doing my chores. Since I listen to audio books while doing chores, this gave me the additional pockets I needed. I wore that apron out, then started making barn and garden aprons out of old jeans and overalls. I wear one every day. In my pockets, I carry my tape player, keys, cell phone, camera, gloves, medicine doser, and large kerchief.
The Christmas present I remember the most was a cassette recorder I got from my parents when I was 10 or 11 years old. Of course I used it for playing music but the best of all was that I could record myself. There were lots of interwies….
Happy New Year! – My favorite Christmas present was my engagement ring that was hidden in my new slippers. Long story but very fun.