This giveaway is now closed – thank you to all who entered!
Well, friends, it’s been such a blast guest-blogging here on Oh So Beautiful Paper. And, as a thank you to you fine readers, we’re doing a giveaway for our final post!
We know it seems likes ages away, but here at the studio and shop, we’re already gearing up and planning away for the holiday season. So, in the spirit of the (planning) season, one of you lucky readers will win a set of 50 custom-designed 2-color letterpress printed holiday cards or holiday party invitations with matching return-address printed envelopes.
And all you need to do to enter is leave a comment at the end of this post telling us about your favorite holiday tradition.
You’ll have until 11:59 p.m. on September 25th, 2012 to enter the giveaway. One winner will be selected randomly and notified via email. Good luck and thanks for reading!
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christmas music and wrapping presents – classic.
We have a holiday party every year where we make some delicious fancy food and lots of cookies!
opening up one present on christmas eve, always pajamas!
Matching pajamas from “Mrs. Claus” on Christmas eve.
My favorite holiday tradition is waiting, with my sister, to see what silly comment my brother will make at 7am while emptying stockings. He’s not a morning person and those few moments I spend with my siblings just enjoying each others company and laughing is something I look forward to each year.
After Christmas breakfast, we all line up in order of age (youngest first) and sing “Oh Come All Ye Faithful” (really out of tune) as we march into the living room to open presents. Did it when we were kids, now the age range is about 29 to 70, but we still do it anyway. Did I mention we’re also wearing paper crowns from the little English crackers? Oh boy…
My Mom still gives us stuffed animals in our Easter baskets…and
I’m 30 years old people!
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My favorite Christmas tradition has been on Christmas eve. As a family we go to the candlelit mass downtown and then open up our home to a group of 10-15 friends afterwards. The house is always warm and full. My father makes Boullibase, my brother and I rush home from church to light the luminaries that line our drive way. And my mother always puts out plates full of freshly baked breads and cakes, which she takes pride in displaying and serving to our friends.
My favorite holiday tradition is getting up really early and driving to my parent’s house in my pajamas on Christmas morning. Except now, I am in my thirties and I am dragging my husband and my son with me! It reminds me of the days when I woke up in my own bed and enjoyed the excitement of the morning as a child.
During the holidays my favourite thing to do is listen to Boney M and the Nutcracker. And nothing else. The Nutcracker transports me back to childhood, watching snow fall outside and be thrilled with the anticipation of Christmas; Boney M was the soundtrack for all holiday parties. I secretly wish I could dress with such panache. Well, I guess it’s not a secret anymore!
My favorite holiday tradition is watching the movie A Charlie Brown Christmas with my family. Even now that my kids are 24, 21 and 18 yrs we continue on! And every time I love that little sad tree even more!
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How to choose just one! Christmas is my favorite holiday of the year from tagging, cutting, and decorating the Christmas tree (while listening to Christmas carols, of course), to the full day spent with my sister baking Christmas cookies to share (we typically end up making around 15 different kinds – some, our favorites that are carried over from year-to-year and some new and experimental), to the annual “Christmas drive” spent with (more) Christmas carols, hot chocolate, and scoping out the best Christmas lights in the area (one even has Santa and Mrs. Claus who visit shortly before Christmas!), to finding “the” gift for everyone on my list, to spending quality time with family and extended family, to Christmas movies…. I love the spirit around that time of year and everything that goes along with it!
My favorite holiday tradition is seeing “It’s a Wonderful Life” with my family at an old movie theater in my town. I love that movie – makes me cry every time!
Two words… Jack Daniel’s.
My favorite holiday tradition is a simple one – snuggling up with my family members to watch the Boston Celtics play on Christmas Day!
Wrapping everything in sight in pretty paper and ribbon with handmade tags and embellishments! Sometimes the gift is less expensive than the packaging.
One of the reasons I love the holiday season so much is because of all the festive decor that can be found in neighborhoods and shops. A huge part of the festive decor, and a huge part of what people think about when they think of the holidays are presents and the many creative ways to wrap presents. As much as I love paper especially the beautiful and creative wrapping paper that can be found in your shop, my absolute favorite holiday tradition is the no wrapping paper rule! A few years ago in an effort to conserve paper and think more about our environment during the holidays, my family initiated a no wrapping paper rule. That being said, that doesn’t mean that we don’t get to open beautifully wrapped presents. When exchanging gifts we are not allowed to purchase any new paper to wrap our gifts. This requires that everyone get a little creative and use things they find around their house to wrap the presents, such as brown paper bags, old t-shirts or repurposed paper from a previous year’s celebrations. It is a little extra work but really fun to see all the creative ways people come up with to wrap their presents up! My mom always goes over the top and embosses gold leaves and glittery green balsam onto recycled paper, the result is stunning!
Having the girls home and staying in our jammies till dinner time watching old funny movies on Christmas morning!
My favorite holiday tradition is cooking Christmas dinner with my Memere. Ever since I was a little kid I have always loved to learn how to cook from her, and Christmas dinner is one of the few times a year that I get to do this with her.
Just love “Noël” ! Xmas is for good my favorite holidays. As my brother & sister in law live in USA, the rest of the family are doing a xmas skype session from France to USA. One a special moment for us ! And with the camera from the computer, we show them our xmas tree, decorations, dinner table…
Just love Christmas Spirit. Our family tradition is to make pretty, original, diy cover gifts. At the end, next to the xmas tree, it’s a bunch of colorful and personalized gifts !
My favorite holiday tradition is watching my adorable niece open her presents on Christmas morning. She is so genuinely happy and excited! It makes Christmas so magical and reminds me that it’s really all about being with family.
Making Christmas wreaths! On the farm we all head out with clippers and come home with mountains of pine boughs, spread them out in the barn. Each person makes their own and then we make a HUGE one for the front of the barn. Last year we had a wreath making party and all the guests brought items to decorate their own wreaths to take home. And they smell so fresh!
My favorite tradition is decorating the wall tree that my grandmother made when I was a child! We put an ornament on the tree every day starting December 1st!!
great idea! hmmm… my favorite holiday tradition is not seeing the presents under the Christmas tree until Christmas morning. When I was younger I would avert my eyes from my parents putting gifts under the tree, and now I try to not let my husband see them before he wakes up.
Our favorite holiday tradition is no electricity on christmas eve. We light the whole house with just candle-light. I’m not going to lie … there have been some hair-on-fire emergencies over the years.
Bing Crosby caroling on the old fashion record player, wood crackling in the fire place, pine spice mingling in the air, a dusting of needles on the floor, dancing dimmed white lights, humming, smiling, dancing, and remembering as we trim the tree.
We always spent x-mas eve at my grandparents house, my grandfather was a gruff old mainer who spent all his time divided evenly between starting projects in his workshop (note: starting doesnt mean finishing) and watching the yankees while muttering and swearing about the commentators or red sox fans.
So at the end of the night we’d gather around and draw from a hat one the 12 days of christmas – and we’d progressively sing through the carol. Thing is – every year – no matter which line my grandfather got, he would somehow muster all the christmas spirit in the world and belt out his line… to the melody of “5 golden rings”.
He has since passed away, but every christmas eve when we sing the 12 days of christmas, i make sure to inappropriately assign that melody to whichever line I get.
My favorite holiday tradition is watching Emmett Otter’s Jug Band Christmas with my family. It’s not super well known, but it’s the best Christmas movie ever! “We’re not birds, we’re a jug band!”
Christmas has always been my favorite holiday to celebrate (yes, I was raised Jewish…but we always also had a tree!) and I always decorate my beautiful Pink Christmas tree – I promise, it is awesome – with simple white lights and silver + blue ornaments. I will wrap everything in sight, which my husband loves since his wrapping skills are…not so hot…
My favorite Bailey Boo Radley, the kitty all kitties wish they could grow up to be, will be missed terribly this year since he too loves Christmas and can alway be found napping under the tree’s lights but we plan to keep bringing out his stocking and stuffing it with some goodies he loves. And maybe this year, in honor of Bailey, we will finally make a trip to NYC to see all of the lights.
We celebrated Hanukkah and didn’t really decorate at all when I was growing up, so it was always a real treat to bundle up, pile in the car, and drive around town admiring everyone else’s holiday light displays. My mom always seemed to know the best streets to drive down! To this day, I love driving around and checking out everyone’s beautifully decorated houses just before Christmas.
Love this! Favorite holiday tradition (new this year) will be watching my girls open their gifts and the happiness on their faces. Priceless.
One of my favorite holiday traditions is a really little one I miss now that I live far away from home. The first weekend of December, by Dad and I would load up the trusty Subaru and drive to get a Christmas tree. It had to be a Fraiser Fir as they shed fewer needles, smelled amazing, and were better for pets. We’d stop and get coffee and listen to Christmas music throughout the drive. Just a nice little time for the two of us.
Such a great idea for a giveaway! My favorite tradition is purchasing a new game (typically a board game)for my family to play together on Christmas Eve. When my brother and I were little it was to keep us occupied in one of our bedrooms while “Santa” snuck downstairs to deliver our presents. Now, we just enjoy spending time together and having fun. It’s a tradition though that I can’t wait to pass onto my future children.
My favorite tradition is listening to Nat King Cole’s Christmas cd while making Italian cookies with my mother.
Holy cow, what a fantastic giveaway! My favorite tradition is traveling to my grandparents’ house to be with my whole family. Those times are so precious to me.
My fav tradition is having dinner with my family on Christmas eve & drinking hot chocolate and eating panetone (even though we’re not italian!) and waiting until midnight to wish each other merry christmas.
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Oh, I just love the holidays! My favorite tradition is to make some hot mulled cider and fill thermoses with it so we can trudge through the snow to find the perfect Christmas tree. We pull the little kids on sleds and most always end up in a snowball fight!
What a nice treat for the holidays. My favorite tradition is spending a weekend in the kitchen with my wife baking holiday cookies for our family and friends.
So excited for the holiday season! My favorite tradition growing up was setting out cookies and *beer* for Santa…because Santa likes beer better than milk. I will continue this tradition with my own kids one day for sure!
Every year, I make a compilation mix of holiday and winter songs that DON’T make me want to stab out my eyeballs — songs like Imogen Heap’s “Just for Now” and Eisley’s “Winter Song.” It gets me through the holidays, and doubles as an inexpensive gift for friends and acquaintances. Plus, I’m an in-house graphic designer, and this “cover art” is the only thing I get to design all year that no one else is allowed to art direct. HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ME!
My favorite holiday tradition is watching our son rip off the wrapping paper to get to his presents. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway.
My favorite memory is my parents making us wait on the stairs banister and taking a photo of our pre-opening sleep faces. Then when we came around the corner to see that santa had come they got a shot of our smiling faces
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… as a child (and now as an adult), we always get to open up one gift before we go to Christmas Eve services. The gift: PJs. Every year, we get PJs. And once we get home from services, we take family photos by the tree and then all run back into our rooms and put on our PJs. Once everyone is dressed, we gather back by the tree and open up gifts from Santa (yes, some gift tags still say, Santa – once a child, always a child.) We stay up late, and since we are already in comfy PJs … we sleep in Christmas Day.
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating our Christmas tree the Saturday after Thanksgiving. My husband and I get up early to go pick out our perfect tree. We take our time putting lights and ornaments on throughout the day. That evening, we turn on the twinkle lights, light a fire in the fireplace, sit back and enjoy the pretty glow. That day always signifies that Christmas has started.
My family doesn’t do all the “traditional” traditions – we make up our own. My favorite is drinking margaritas on Christmas day after opening presents. Classy, for sure.
I love all these cards! As the oldest sibling in the house I was responsible for “Santa duties” so my favorite holiday tradition is keeping all the presents from Santa hidden until the night before and wrapping them late at night in special “Santa wrapping paper” and signing them in funky “Santa handwriting” before placing them under the tree so everyone would come downstairs and see presents brimming under the tree on Christmas morning.
My favorite holiday tradition is to trim the tree.
my favorite tradition is timeless, no matter how old i’ve gotten (and I am!), Christmas morning I sit at the top of the stairs waiting for my mom to take my picture, pj’s and all, before I’m allowed to go see the gifts under the tree…and yes, they’re still signed by Santa
What a COOL giveaway. My favourite holiday tradition is making zombie gingerbread houses… because the icing never comes out quite like the display and always ends up looking really spooky instead of festive