Hello Everyone. How is your weekend? We have decorated our tree – I was raised with a holiday tree, so I love a decorated tree. And we celebrated the fourth night of Hanukkah with family and latkes – what could be better?
Tomorrow starts The 12 Days of Etsy – each day December 6th through December17th there will be a handmade giveaway from your favorite Etsy shops. There is something for everyone on your holiday list.
Did you have a chance to enter all 25 of the giveaways in my holiday giveaway week? I hope you enjoy the prizes, which were your favorites?
Enjoy the rest of your weekend and I will see you in the morning.
Last but definitely not least – giveaway number twenty five may make you go a little nuts! TWO lovely winners will each recieve a $75 gift certificate to NOVICA. At NOVICA, you have so many choices – will you use your gift certificate to purchase handmade jewelry, rings, bracelets, earrings, or maybe a handbag or something pretty for your home?
Either way you will be happy to spend your gift certificate knowing that NOVICA unites you with more than 2,000 extraordinary master artists around the world. When you purchase your holiday gifts through NOVICA you know exactly who you are buying from – giving you an attachement to both the product and the hands that created it.
Rush over to NOVICA and see all of the lovely things that they have to offer. You are guarenteed to find something for everyone on your holiday list. Then leave a comment below, you have 1 week to enter – tell your friends and family so they don’t miss out on the fun!
Arlene Nillson has created beautiful 100% hemp handbags that are completely Eco friendly and fabulous to boot! Hemptress has the highest green and Eco practices in the industry – assuring you that you get the very best in Eco friendly handbags.
Hemptress handbags have a very streamlined shape with sleek and simple hardware. My favorite would have to be the Mona Folder. I love the fashion forward trends without the sacrifice to the environment – a handbag that you can enjoy year after year!
Rush over to Hemptress and pick out a bag for yourself, your sister, your mom and your best friend. Then leave a comment below. You have 1 week to enter – tell your friends and family so they don’t miss out on the fun!
Giveaway number twenty three will assure that you get a good night’s sleep this holiday season. Our friends at Essentia are giving one lovely reader a fantastic Forma Spa Natural Memory Foam Support Pillow. Wow! This would make a fabulous holiday gift and at $229 is just so generous!
The Forma Spa Support Pillow from Essentia is a revolutionary molded pillow that offers the best qualities of memory foam to create the ultimate support pillow. The Forma Spa is designed for side and back sleepers – offering accurate support with a soft and ventilated pillow.
All of Essentia’s memory foam pillows are made with their Natural Memory Material that is 80% more breathable than synthetics – reducing both heat and discomfort.
With Essentia you can dooze soundly knowing that there are no toxic chemicals off gassing while you sleep. Wow! Won’t this make a fantastic holiday gift?
Run over to Essentia and see what you are missing sleeping on your old mattress and pillows, then leave a comment below. You have 1 week to enter – tell your friends and family so they don’t miss out on the fun!
Three lovely readers will receive their very own copy of The Family Dinner, giving you the perfect green guide to the most important hour in any family’s day: the dinner hour.
If there is one thing that my family has done right – and maybe it is the only thing {wink}, we have had a sit down dinner almost every night of Eben’s life. Eating dinner together has always been the most important time that we spend together as a family. It gives us a chance to reconnect at the end of the day, try new foods together, teach Eben’s manners (we are still working on this one) and communicate with each other.
What we are learning as we devour our copy of The Family Dinneris that there are many creative, fun ways for us to bond over dinner – that we haven’t tried yet.
Eben loves the Kids in the Kitchen section and Table Talk so these two sections have been very important to us. I want Eben to grow up knowing how to prepare his own meals, so that he can keep the ritual of the family dinner alive and well in his own family. And I think that the Table Talk section will remain extremely important once he hits the pre-teen and teenager years. Our goal is to keep the family conversation flowing.
Does your family eat dinner together every night? Would you like to start? Looking for ideas to keep dinner time fun, while making a lasting impact on your family? The Family Dinner is a beautiful book that you will definitely want to add to your bookshelf.
Jump over to The Family Dinner where you will find great tips and stories. You can also pick up a couple of copies to give as gifts to families that you love! You have 1 week to enter – tell your family and friends so they don’t miss out on the fun!
– The winners are Megan Burger, Wendy @ ABCGP and ilaybalilay. Thank you for playing!
. The Family Dinner is a beautiful hard copy book by Laurie David – the producer of the Academy Award-winning documentary 
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