I am excited to announce that I am participating in the Sew, Mama, Sew Giveaway Day! What is Giveaway Day, you might ask? Well, first off- it's awesome. Second- it's a chance for you to win many, many amazing handcrafted items from some very talented crafters. Bloggers and shop owners are giving away fabric, handmade bags, items for the home, jewelry, and accessories - the list goes on and on! So be sure to visit from Sew, Mama, Sew now through December 16th for your chance to win!
I've chosen to give away one of my Glass + Resin Pendants in the Lichen color way. Each handmade pendant features a microcosm of tiny glass spheres encapsulated beneath multiple layers of glass-like resin and is set in an antique brass bezel. The Lichen color way features a monochromatic selection of green and gold glass spheres perfect for the holidays!
The pendant includes an 18" hand-oxidized brass chain and will arrive boxed and ready for gift giving!
To win this lovely necklace all you need to do is comment on this post and tell me what your favorite holiday tradition is. Do you bake an assortment of cookies for family and friends? Do you host a party? Is there a particular dish that you make each year? Tell me- I'd love to know! Be sure to leave an email address so that I can contact you, too!
There are two more ways to win, and they are in no way mandatory. I am simply offering these two additional entries as a thanks for my old and new followers. : )
a.) If you are a follower of my blog, please leave an additional comment and let me know!
b.) If you have fanned Helen Ethel Studio on Facebook, be sure to comment that you are a Facebook follower!
You will have until Friday December 16th to enter. Comments will close at 5pm PCT on December 16th and one winner will be chosen at random (using random.org) on December 17th. I will announce the winner no later than Sunday, December 18th and will note whom that is in this giveaway post. If there is no contact info, or if I do not hear back from the winner within a week of my original email, I will select another individual at random.
Finally, I will ship INTERNATIONALLY!
Thank you for stopping by and participating in this great event. Be sure to visit my my shop, Helen Ethel Studio, as there is still time for holiday shopping! From now until December 17th, I will be offering free shipping on all items. This is open to domestic and international shipping. Please enter the code FREESHIP2011 at check out. Thank you!
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This is stunning! My favorite tradition is our annual Christmas Breakfast! It is a nice time together and always filled with wonderful treats!
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Stunning necklace! I love attending the Festival of Lights in Lyon during the holiday season
Thanks for the giveaway
Sarah @ http://kiwigetscrafty.blogspot.com
What a beautiful necklace!
Every Christmas we all go to the midnight church service on Christmas Eve - it's so magical!
Gorgeous.... we make fudge - and give bags of it to everyone we know!!
I am joining in with this give away day, so pop over to my blog and say hello if you get the chance
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We have one that involves pouring over all the pictures we took during the year and picking the perfect one for our Christmas Card. The discussions are lively!! Thanks for the give away.
I just love this necklace, Amy!! It's gorgeous!
No idea what my favorite holiday tradition is, but some include our elf Noel that visits us in December and surprises the kids with a new hiding spot or other fun things each day. I also love baking and making goodies to give with gifts. And a personal favorite has been making a move to mostly handmade items for presents.
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Lighting the advent candles every night, and making and decorating cookies!
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I love putting up the tree and the daily count down on the advent calendar!
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We love making gingerbread houses every year!
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My favorite holiday tradition is any type of Secret Santa giving. Drawing names at work, adopting a family, angel trees...I looooove them all. :)
Merry Christmas everyone!
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Wow amazing. Would love to win it
That is so pretty and unique! After Christmas my mom and I get together and cut up all the cards we received and make new ones for next year!
Most of all, I love decorating the tree! It's such a great group project and seeing the ornaments you haven't seen in a year is like saying hello to old friends!
I usually host all the celebrations at home, but my mother and my mother-in-law are the ones who do the cooking. I love having all my family around me.
Thanks for the chance to win.
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My favorite tradition is cutting down our Christmas tree! Amy @ gasudimack(at)sbcglobal(dot)net
What a beautiful necklace! I enjoy listening to Christmas music while decorating the tree.
One of my favorite holiday traditions is Black Friday shopping with my mom!
Beautiful necklace - thanks for the chance to win. I love the cookie baking (and eating!). ellen@myerly.net
my favorite holiday tradition is opening stockings on Christmas eve
I watch 'Love Actually' with my partner every Christmas Eve :) I still love it!
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I make Rocky Road candy and give it to friends and neighbors
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after all the running around is done, my husband and I get to snuggle up on the couch and watch Love Actually - my favorite movie. It's a quiet, cozy tradition that I love. :)
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I follow your blog through GFC.
LOra W.
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We have a tradition of giving a special ornament to each of the boys on Christmas Eve.
Lora W.
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I like the end of the day when me and my Mum get home and relax in front of the telly with a bottle of champagne.
Gorgeous! I love it!
My fave tradition is Xmas dinner, it's the only time get a proper western style roast out here!
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one of my favourite traditions is writing advent calendar postcards to friends and recieveing one in return - that way we catch up with each other before the Christmas turmoil starts. And on the plus side we al get several advent calendars to open a window each day.
My favorite traditions are making Christmas cookies and watching holiday specials on tv.
So beautiful! I love your work! My favourite tradition is cutting down the christmas tree in the woods behind our house.
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Wow that thing is beautiful! My family plays board games for the holidays.
This pendant would have my name under the tree, noone else's! Lovely! one of my favorite holiday traditions is caroling with 'chosen family' at the (nursing) homes of elderly and sick family or friends of the group. We've been doing it since I was a girl more than 30 years ago.
my favorite tradition is christmas eve with family. eating, visiting and wearing the kids out so they will sleep. thanks for a great giveaway
Advent calendars filled with chocolates to count down Christmas. Thanks!
We go out for dinner together every year in an other restaurant
So beautiful!
Our family tradition is reading every afternoon, with tea or cocoa and biscuits...in German we say: gemütlich LOL
Thank you for the chance to win this wonderful prize.
Kind regards from Germany.
Claudia
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A group of family friends and my family get together and bake/decorate cookies. We've been doing it since I was two, so it's definitely a tradition that we all look forward to.
Thanks for the giveaway!
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After dinner, my family and friends all go out and watch a movie. Then we head back to my mom's house and eat leftovers and watch the guys play poker!!
Love the giveaway! Thank you for entering mine!! :)
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I love doing an Advent calendar for my kids every year!
I love getting together with family and friends and celebrate Christ's birth! Making cookies, croquettes and olibolen.
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One of my favorite holiday traditions is to do my Christmas baking cinnamon pecans, chex mix and toffee.
I love painting cookies with my mom and sisters while listening to Christmas music and recalling funny stories.
I send out real Christmas cards, scads of them!!
Love the pendant, very pretty. I also like the ones in your shop. I haven't been brave enough to try resin yet...
Thanks for the great giveaway!
Katina
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We started a new tradition this year with our children. We hand made our own advent calendar which has been a wonderful success. I also made each child their own personalised felt bouble. Cant wait till next year to do it all again!!
xo Steph
I love baking cookies with the kids.
Wow, so pretty, I love the greens!
We always have a Christmas party. The whole family invites their friends (that includes my parents and siblings) so there's people of all ages having fun. :)
That's really eye-catching! Don't have anything at all like that.
I like going to the German-language service at the local Lutheran church with my father - it's the one thing just the two of us do together.
You are a very talented artist!
At Christmas we always spend lots of time putting up our tree and decorating the home.
my favorite holiday tradition is our various advent/countdown calendars.
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My favorite holiday tradition is cooking up some homemade caramel corn!
Lovely necklace-- my college's school colors were green and gold! My favorite holiday tradition is making a big batch of marinara with my mom for Christmas eve. akmajor (at) gmail (dot) com
My favorite holiday tradition is eggnog on Christmas Eve with are family. Your necklace is beautiful and my provincial colors.
I have become a follower of your blog.
this is lovely! thanks for the opportunity to win.
As for my holiday tradition, they change some based on what directions my family is moving. But my mother made a special dish and I like to make it each year, to anchor me to some continuity.
And I like to have my children over, share some food and play a game together. We all enjoy the shared fun.
Michelle
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You MADE this?!!! It's GORGEOUS!!! Wow. OK, I was sidetracked. Back to the question. Um...what was the question again? Oh yes. My family is just starting traditions this year, we're doing 3:
advent calendar, Christmas Eve church service, and my newest fun thing, which may become my favorite (I'm not sure since I just got the fruit loops tonight after the kids went to bed): making fruit loop garland for the tree!
Enjoying the lights
Our tradition is to cut down a homely tree, drag it home and burden it with decorations that threaten to tip it over. We do it year after year, and I must say, I love those little Charlie Brown trees.
I like to eat The 12 Grapes at midnight on New Years Eve. If you can eat and finish them by 12:01 you are supposed to have good luck for all of the new year. Yay!
The first Monday of December my family goes caroling and take goodies to friends
We have a Jesse Tree we put ornaments on every day during Advent.
Such a pretty necklace! My favorite tradition is going to see The Christmas Revels performance in Cambridge, MA -- I just so happen to be going tonight, and it will truly kick off Christmas for me!
That is gorgeous! On Christmas eve we make rum balls, go to church, then come home and watch "It's a Wonderful Life." I can't wait. Merry Christmas!
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