In honor of our first real snow this weekend, and just in time for sending out to your holiday card list, I’m giving away two separate sets of 8 holiday cards!
To enter just leave a comment with your favorite holiday song or album, or your favorite tasty holiday treat. Extra brownie points for a link to the song/album or recipe! Leave your comment by midnight EST Wednesday December 9. I’ll choose the winners (by random number generator thingy) on Thursday and contact you for your address to send them out asap!
I’m giving away one set of each of these designs (two chances to win!):
Bike with Wreath
&
Peace Stars
These are A2 size cards (4-1/4″x5-1/2″), hand-screenprinted here in my little hillside studio, blank inside, packaged up with envelopes for your sending pleasure.
good luck!
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Ok I’ll bite…into all my mom’s yummy Christmas cookies! As for the song, it changes every year… um, I do like the All I want for Christmas is You from Love Actually (they should do that on Glee!) But you don’t have to spend the postage if I win, just hold them for me
Great idea! …. So I’m not big on Christmas music, and my family’s tradition with that is to listen to old Irish Christmas hymns and songs…. but if I were to go American and Contemporary I’d say the Roche Sisters’ We Three Kings: http://www.amazon.com/We-Three-Kings/dp/B000W2164U.
May I win cards and may you have a lovely holiday….
xo, Laura
My favorite holiday snack varies between hot cocoa with a peppermint stick and hot apple cider with a gingernsap. Yum!
Laurie May! Well, let’s see, my favorite holiday song changes all the time, but yesterday I remembered a lesser known carol that is so beautiful: “Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella”. Do you know it? I thought that you, as a mother-to-be, might like this lyric in the chorus: “Hush, Hush, beautiful is the Mother.
Hush, Hush, beautiful is her Son.” There are much more traditional versions out there, but lately I’ve been digging on Sufjan Stevens’ version: http://popup.lala.com/popup/5621055323576658814.
As for treats, I always love the peanut butter kiss cookies: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Peanut-Butter-Kiss-Cookies/Detail.aspx Yummy!!!!
Love your work, Laurie May! It’s so rad & pretty!
One of my top favorite Christmas songs is
http://www.imeem.com/people/tSHBaW/music/yc56LhKx/dave-brubeck-snoopy-theme-songa-charlie-brown-christmas-cla/
the Charlie Brown Christmas theme by vince Guaraldi—this version is Dave Brubeck
Brings back good memories of my own childhood and very precious memories of years of wonderful holidays with our 6 children.
(love the star cards…)
all time favorite holiday song = merry christmas from the family (jill solbule version).
favorite holiday treat = hot buttered rum by the fire.
I am a complete sucker for Bing Crosby’s White Christmas…
http://s0.ilike.com/play#Bing+Crosby:White+Christmas:67356:s12647.18727.8920792.1.1.75%2Cstd_d8107323cc5a71a5bb1dcd25dde74365
I love anything peppermint! Loving brownies with peppermint ice cream this season.
i am a sucker for gingerbread men
These Ginger Cookies have become a favorite in the last few years. They are insanely good! http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/ultimate-ginger-cookie-recipe/index.html
Oooh – my favorite holiday treat is tollhouse chocolate chip cookies with crushed peppermint candy canes mixed into the batter – the peppermint gets chewy and crunchy and tastes perfect with the chocolate!
I LOOOOOVE CHRISTMAS! My mom always made a HUGE platter of cookies…all different kinds. We’d bake for days and days. My favorite was cleaning out the big pot of fudge…scraped clean!!! Oh, and a huge CONGRATS on your growing little pod. It is such and exciting time!! Your creativity will take off with new & different wings!!! Hope to see you at the colonial—missed you at the annual alchemy. (and hope to win some cards here!!!!)
Ok, this sounds totally gross, but we’ve always had the tradition of Slim Jims in our stocking…so picture my 5 siblings and I as kids, at like 3am, stuffing our faces with Hershey Kisses and Slim Jims from our stockings…nasty, huh??
It’s totally my favorite tradition, so of course it’s my favorite Christmas treat (and the only time ALL year that I eat them, of course…my husband is always disgusted, but continues to put them in my stocking for traditions’ sake, haha!). Love your cards!
In my family we construct and adorn homemade gingerbread houses, then deconstruct them gumdrop by gumdrop.
I love your cards, and receive compliments each time I send them!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dnrosVyamY
actually I really like the christmas carol oh holy night. I used to play it for old people in nursing homes on my violin when I was a kiddie. I found it so soulful. Seriously you goyim take this holiday stuff awfully seriously.
Yay! I’ll join the fun, too!
Excellent holiday cookies: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Triple-Ginger-Cookies-356326
Best holiday album: “Christmas Songs, various artists” (#3 by Dido is so lovely): http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Songs-Various-Artists/dp/B00005177I/ref=pd_cp_m_1_img
I love love love the bike card – and my favorite holiday song would have to be ‘The Huron Carol’ esp the Tom Jackson version. It is a haunting canadian carol written in the 1600s. It is beautiful.
LOVELY cards! I have to say, the best Christmas album ever is the Charlie Brown one — the one where all the kids hum Oh Christmas Tree. The image conjured up of Snoopy doing that flailing Peanuts dance always makes me smile.
I’d have to pick either Silver Bells as a traditional Christmas song or River (either by Joni Mitchell or Sarah MacLachlen).
For a treat – peppermint stick ice cream over warm brownies!
Merry Christmas to you and yours, Laurie!