1000th Post and the Winners Are...

This is posting as the actual 1000th post a little sooner than I thought, but perfect for the end of the giveaway! Merry Christmas. I loved everyone's answers. Thank you so much for sharing your stories.

Timestamp: 2008-12-11 15:12:46 UTC

shopannies said... I would love to win these they are so pretty. I have been blogging myself for a short period of time. You have reached a great point if you have reached 1000... I just posted and forgot what I was doing i was just happy for your for reaching 1000 but christmas for me has meant different things over the years when I was a little girl christmas meant making angels in the snow and waiting to go to grandmas for the biggest christmas eve party ever. As a young mother it was the delight of praying over each christmas present that I wrapped for my 6 children and my excitement to see them so excited christmas morn. Now christmas means all that and more now that I am a grandma and I can buy gifts for my little princess. Oh its begining to look alot like Christmas every where you look....

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Timestamp: 2008-12-11 15:16:35 UTC

Shannon H. said... Christmas means being with family and friends and experiencing the magic of the day. Eating lots of food, opening presents (home made or hand made gifts are the best) and signing carols. I miss my parents the most at this time of year but we always talk about them. They are ALWAYS with us.

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I know I said 2, but it's Christmas so let's do some more.

Kiy said... They are amazingly beautiful! Don't put my name in your hat, not that I don't love them (I do!) but we keep moving and things keep getting broken and it would crush me if one of these lovelies didn't make it. (I have lost too many of my fav's to moves already). I just wanted to drop a note to say what a pretty tree you have this year. Are you like me? Do you always say "this is our best tree ever"? BUT KIY I believe in eating on the good china and burning the fancy candles so you win anyway!

Timestamp: 2008-12-11 15:23:16 UTC

Gretchen said... What a great gift! Lets see, to me, Christmas means family. It's not about the goodies under the tree, but a time when I can be with the ones I love. Life is so short and each Christmas I get with family is precious to me. If we only knew which one would be the last, but I guess it's better not to. How could we stand it?

Everyone please send me your snail mail addresses and I will get these out in the mail!

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~ 1000th Post Giveaway ~ & Christmas Tree Decorating Contest

Christmas Tree decorating contest is hosted by An Island Life

I did some quick calculating this morning and it looks like my 1000th post will be right about Christmas! So in keeping with the Christmas Spirit I'm having a giveaway for hand painted Christmas bulbs. When my cousin Jenn first convinced me to start a blog, I thought I didn't have anything to say and it would be short lived ~ I guess I was wrong LOL, I seem to have found my voice!

So in keeping with the Christmas spirit I am going to give away sets of hand painted Christmas bulbs. In fact, I'm going to give away 2 sets, 1 for each 500 posts! No two bulbs are alike and every one of them were hand painted by me. When I first started making these it was as gifts. Hubby loved them so much he had me make enough to replace all our old bulbs and it's always a sweet reminder to put up the tree and remember how much he loved something I did. He decorated the tree almost by himself yesterday and did a fantastic job. We put on the lights and garland together and then I unwrapped the bulbs and put them on hangers while he did all the ladder work.

So to enter and win your own set of bulbs, just leave me a comment telling me what Christmas means to you or a favorite Christmas memory by December 11th.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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