Monday, 3 December 2012

A Giveaway / Un prix à gagner

Today is Sew Mama Sew's giveaway and I am offering one of my handstitched Christmas ornaments. I have been making a few of them for my shop, and also for our own tree here at home. You can see the different designs in my shop, if you feel curious. I know that most of you are on a sprint of visiting all the great giveaways, so I will make it easy to enter mine: 1. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post, telling me what is your favorite ornament in your tree. It can be something you inherited from your grandmother, something you or your child made, or some happy vintage find. I am just curious to know what other people put on their trees. 2. This giveaway is open to everyone, I will happily ship to any country. 3. The giveaway is open until December 7, and the winner will be announced next week-end. Please make sure that I have a way to contact you, otherwise you will be disqualified. 4. The winner will be chosen at random. Best of luck to everyone! And don't forget to check all the other giveaways here. Sylvie P.S. Sorry for the messy post, Blogger is acting up this morning and will not let me make it any better than this :( Bonjour! Aujourd'hui, j'offre un petit prix à gagner dans le cadre du Giveaway Day de Sew Mama Sew. C'est une décoration pour l'arbre de Noël, que j'ai brodée à la main. J'en ai fait quelques-uns cette année pour ma boutique, et aussi pour notre arbre à la maison. Voici les règlements très simples pour participer au concours: 1. Pour une participation, il suffit de me laisser un commentaire en me disant quelle est votre décoration favorite dans votre sapin de Noël. Ça peut être une décoration que vous avez hérité de votre grand-mère, un bricolage que vous ou votre enfant a fabriqué, ou une trouvaille vintage dont vous êtes fière. Je suis juste curieuse de savoir ce que les autres aiment accrocher dans leur arbre de Noël. 2. Le concours est ouvert à tous et à toutes, je serai heureuse de faire un gagnant ou une gagnante dans n'importe quel pays. 3. Le concours est ouvert jusqu'au 7 décembre, et le gagnant ou la gagnante sera annoncé pendant le week-end. Assurez-vous que j'ai un moyen de vous rejoindre, sinon vous serez disqualifié. 4. Le gagnant sera déterminé par un tirage. Meilleure chance à tous et à toutes! Sylvie P.S. Désolée pour la mauvaise mise en page, Blogger ne coopère pas ce matin, et c'est tout ce qu'il m'a permis de faire :(

57 comments:

  1. My favorite ornaments are those that are hand made by my children. The second favorite ones are the ones I use to put on the tree as a kid that my mother gave to me when I started to have kids. They bring back great memories.

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  2. I have two types of ornaments. The handmade ones, try to make something different each year, and the ones i collect in my trips to foreign countries!

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  3. Thanks for the opportunity on a great draw. Love the ornament. My favourite one(s) are the ones my children made for me when they were young.
    bonnielarson58@gmail.com

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  4. This is my second christmas being married so we are slowly collecting ornaments for our tree. I have to say I like the ones we get on vacations and from loved ones for special occasions.

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  5. My favorite ornament is a felt snowman that a friend of my grandma's made, one for each of my mom's brothers and sisters. Hers has on an orange hat.

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  6. My favorite ornament in my tree is one that my son made. He dipped his hand in white paint, then held a plain ornament in his hand. He decorated all the white impression his fingers made, to look like snowmen. It's adorable! :)

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  7. Mine would have to be the ones I have being given

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  8. What a lovely ornament! My tree has a lot of red balls, and handmade. I don't have a favourite, but because I collected them over many years I have fun remembering when I got them as we decorate each year.

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  9. my favorite ornament is the first ornament my husband and I bought together. It is a cat and a dog in christmas hats with our names on it.

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  10. I hope I can enter not knowing what my favorite ornament is. I'm sure I have one, and I'm sure my son made it, but my tree isn't out yet and honestly I have no memory of a favorite one. Maybe my favorite has yet to be created, bought, or received. I do very much love the one you are giving away. I love anything that someone has taken time to create.

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  11. Bonjour. I am Amy -originally from Ottawa but know very little French :( Love your ornament - it is really well done. Fingers crossed!!

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  12. My favourite ornament are a series of very bright bubles that I made with felt! It was my first sewing project ever and I love t o look at them again year after year! Merci beaucoup pour la chance!

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  13. You are going to think I am crazy but I have two ornaments that I love, love, love! I use to collect Santa ornaments and I have one made from okra...yes, okra! and another painted on a regular light bulb! I had one of my trees decorated in nothing but Santas.

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  14. I have a series of tiny glass "drops" on wires that catch the light and make the tree sparkle.

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  15. Oh, how lovely. I've just recently realized that you don't have to make just x's! My favorite is likely a beaded and sequined dove an elderly friend made me - I love it so much it doesn't get put away with the other ornaments, but stays on my desk the rest of the year. But most of my ornaments have a story connected with them (except for a set of gold balls from the store), and I love them all.

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  16. Ooo, I love mercury glass ornaments that I've collected here there and everywhere. I love to find a new shape or shade.

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  17. My favorite ornament was a splurge when I backpacked through Ireland with my sister-- a Waterford crystal seahorse engraved with the dates of our trip together. Thanks for the chance to win! akmajor (at) gmail (dot) com

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  18. An ornament I made in kindergarten, it's a plastic cup that I colored on and they melted it in the toaster oven..solo ugly but I never let my mom throw it out so it's mine now. :-)

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  19. My favorite is one my sister gave me a few years ago. It's a little bird in a bird cage.

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  20. that is such a hard question! i love so many=and this year we let our 5 year old pick out and decorate the whole tree!! i think my favorite is a tiny felted nest with 3 tiny felted eggs in it. thanks for your beautiful giveaway!

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  21. My favorite is a particular curvy black matte one that we just got this year! I love all my ornaments though... :)

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  22. Your ornaments are beautiful!

    My favourite ornaments are the ones my kids and I make together. We try to add something new every year.

    Thanks for the giveaway!

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  23. I love the personalized Hawaiian surfboard we got on our honeymoon.

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  24. My favourite ornament on my parent's Christmas tree is a cute elf that they've had since I was a small child - it just brings back memories of Christmas when I see it. :-)

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  25. We don't use my favorite ones anymore. We had these tiny painted wooden ornaments from Europe like rocking horses and soldiers they were probably about 1-1/2 inches tall. Now we've got a "fancy" tree and may favorite part is the white lights.

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  26. hmm the straw stars I would say ... but it's really hard to decide

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  27. My favorite ornament is a cross stitch ornament I made for my mother years ago. She loves it so I do too. Thanks Vivian

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  28. It's hard to pick one... I collect them from traveling and have received so many as cherished gifts. Hmm. A clear globe with a picture of my daughter from our 1st Christmas card made by my aunt who is no longer with us.

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  29. I have many favorite ornaments. I made snoopy felt ornaments many years ago and they are some of my favorites. My kids have made a few that I love too and I have a small number of plastic ones from when I was a child.

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  30. My favorite ornament is a little handsewn bunny-angel that I have had for 22 years. I got it in hopes that I would have a baby to give it to the following year...well it actually took over 2 years but I have a fantastic 19 year old son and that bunny-angel crowns the tree every year!

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  31. My favorite ornament is one that my sister made for me back when we were little girls. It is just a styrofoam ball that she glue a Christmas napkin design to and covered with glitter. It may not be the most beautiful, but it means the most to me! Thank you for the chance to win your lovely ornament, another handmade gem to add to the collection of cherished ornaments!

    Merry Christmas to you and your family (I love turtle too by the way . . )

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  32. My favorite is a nativity that spells out Faith.

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  33. I have an ornament my mom made me when I was a little girl and I love it!

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  34. My favorite ornament is one from my childhood tree - a sparkly pear.

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  35. Beautiful work! My favorite is a hand carved wooden nativity.

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  36. I have a few favorite ornaments: a clothespin reindeer I made as a kid, a dried okra painted like Santa, and a few ornaments I bought as souvenirs on a trip to Germany.

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  37. My favorite ornament is from when I was young. it is a little drum covered with felt and rickrack and sequins and to little drumsticks with pearl looking ends. I remember it always being on the tree, but I'm not really sure how old it is. My sister also has a matching one.

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  38. My favorite ornaments is the handmade felt ornaments I get from etsy.

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  39. My favorite ornament is a walnut hung by gold ribbon. Thanks for the chance to win this little gem.

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  40. I have a rocking horse from when I was little that I love.

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  41. Hi ! As your message is bilingual, I will answer in French (hope you don't mind) :
    notre sapin est eclectique ! On y met toujours les boules "mon premier Noël" offertes à nos enfants, celles que l'ainée avait faite et décorée à la crèche, et toutes ces petites bricoles chères à mon cœur qui font le lien avec ma famille qui n'habite pas aussi près !
    Sans parler des bonbons que j'aime bien suspendre aux branches !!!

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  42. we have also family ornaments, I have nothing against "professionally" decorated trees but in our house the tree means family, fun and sharing!!
    DESPINA
    deb_oro@yahoo.gr

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  43. My favorite ornaments are all of my children's "Baby's 1st Christmas" ones. We have 6 of those on the tree. :)
    Thanks!

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  44. My favorite ornament is a gingerbread man that I made out of felt the first year my husband and I were married 16 years ago. Beautiful ornaments!

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  45. My favorite ornament is one that one gifted to me 3 years ago from a dear family friend. She actually sent several but the one I love the most is this beautiful 5 tiered wedding cake full of beautiful colors and lots and lots of glitter! It's something I really care about and make sure I put it right smack in the middle of the tree so it's what my eyes go to the most often. I'm so blessed to have such a wonderful husband and family.

    Thank you for the chance to win. You do fabulous work!

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  46. I like the fabric ball ornaments I made when my daughter was one. They go on the bottom of the tree with the other non breakables

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  47. My favorite is a stocking ornament that my sister-in-law made using a piece of a quilt made by my Grandmother. The quilt was too ragged to be used, so she made ornaments for all us siblings.

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  48. Darn! forgot to include my email in the previous comment: quiltlady59 at fuse dot net

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  49. My favorite ornaments is a Norwegian rosemaled ball done in blues and white that my mother gave me several years ago

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  50. I have a cross stitched set of ornaments from my husbands grandmother that are very special to me.

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  51. My favourite ornament is one my daughter made when she was very young. It is a glass ball that she filled with red and green paint with glitter. It is so special to me.
    Thank you for the chance to win.
    ktreve (at) hotmail )dot) com

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  52. My favorite ornaments are some hand-painted birds in a "primitive" style. winterwrens at gmail dot com

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  53. My favorite ornament is the one that I made this year (this is the first year I have Christmas tree in my house, true!), it's reindeer in green background fabric. =)

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  54. My fave is a picture of our son on his first Christmas. Hard to believe he was ever that small.

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  55. Ive got so many favourites. They each have a story. I really like the ones that were made by me as a kid. Thanks for the chance to win your lovely ornament.

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  56. That is a beautiful ornament! I have very recently been making some with my kids so all of those have to be my favourites!

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  57. My favorite ornament is a crosshatch one made by a blogger friend. It is a snowflake with beads

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