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Hello, Everyone. Are you excited for the upcoming holidays? Have you decked the halls? Picked out and wrapped the gifts? Are you baking and creating this weekend?

Today, Eben’s day at school has been packed with fun starting with a pancake breakfast, movie and book exchange and ending with a pizza lunch! When he gets home – four of his lovely friends are coming over for a cookie decorating and dreidel spinning party. What could be more fun than children and cookies?

Since the mister was raised with Hanukkah and I was raised with Christmas – we have combined our family traditions and will start celebrating “our holiday” tonight. Eben is so excited he can barely stand it. After our cookie decorating get together, we are having Hanukkah dinner (again!) followed by candle and holiday tree lighting, exchanging gifts and ending with a viewing of Avatar.

While I get ready for The Great Cookie Decorating Party of 2010, here are a few green things I have been meaning to share with you:

– Yum! Pies in Jars.
– Do you give your children pajamas on Christmas Eve? These are super cute!
– For your listening ears, here is a FREE Christmas music sampler.
– I still love these mini gingerbread houses. Maybe next year?
– How cute are these countdown favor tins?
– I love this felt ball garland. How cute would it be on the tree?
– You could still make a swirled crayon ornament.
– Do you know the proper way to accept a gift?
– I love this picture of holiday feet, how cute!
– There is still time to enter the last giveaways in The 12 Days of Etsy. Hurry!

I hope you have a nice, cozy weekend with the ones you love.

xo,
Sweet Greens
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p.s. Did you enjoy Sweet Greens Holiday Giveaway Week and The 12 Days of Etsy. Did you win? You can see all of the winners at the bottom of each post.

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♫♪ On the twelfth day of Etsy my true love gave to me a subscription to Sweet Greens’ Goodies Club, a beautiful pair of earrings, an upcycled frame handbag, a vintage perpetual calendar, an all natural heirloom rattle, a honey do whistle, a set of mini stocking ornaments, a fab digital dot necklace, a gift certificate for fun pillows, three FLY art kits, two recycled ice skate ornaments and something that will make me look pretty.♫♪

Some of the goodies that members have received in the past include Alima Pure cosmetics, ONE soaps, People Towels, Beans Things earrings, Craftgasm stationary, Burt’s Bees lip goodies and many more.

Sweet Greens Goodies Club subscriptions also make a fantastic gift for friends and family who are serving in the military overseas. A little goody each month, always brightens their day.

Jump over to Sweet Greens Goodies Club and pick up a subscription for someone you love, then leave a comment below. You have 1 week to enter – please tell your friends and family so they don’t miss out on the fun!

– The winner is Jen. Thank you for playing!

Here is something fun! 25 Days of FREE holiday music just for you. Everyday through Christmas, Amazon is unveiling a new holiday song that you can download for free. Fantastic.

For many families the start of the holiday season is marked with choosing a holiday tree. Each holiday season more than 25 million coniferous trees are cut and sold as holiday decorations. Although, the holiday tree is an important symbol of the holidays, it can be a hard choose to make when considering the environment.

It can take up to 15 years to grow a holiday tree that will be used for about a month. Many holiday tree farms use large amounts of pesticides and fertilizers which pollute the waterways, land and poison wildlife. Then after the holiday season, these trees usually disposed of in our local landfills.
You do have options when it comes to choosing a holiday tree and many of those choices can be friendly to the environment – and beautiful in your home too. Jump over to Cascadian Farm for my top 6 favorite holiday tree alternatives.