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03 December, 2012

SewMamaSew 2012 Giveaway Day I


***GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED***thank you.

SewMamaSew Giveaway numero uno:


It's that time of the year again when SewMamaSew coordinates a massive giveaway day that now lasts the entire week. This enables you to check out and enter all the giveaways.
I've never managed this.

I have, however, found a couple of new friends by looking at other crafty people's blogs.

 I have two giveaways this year.
This first one is for superb sewing supplies - most of which are vintage.
Buttons, Patterns, Laces, Trims, Needles, Elastic.
Random.



 Three patterns for girls: Simplicity 5551 ( sz 10 girl),  Simp 8065(sz AA toddler 1/2,1,2), & Simp 3244 (sz 8 girl).
Buttons and trims to embellish. Elastic and needles, snaps, covered buttons, etc., etc..

Even some tiny rick rack in white & gold.



And you might get some of these tasty apple cider caramels. If there are any left. . .


I'm running my usual "Tell me your favorite Christmas Carol" contest.
2010's winning song was "O, Holy Night".
2011"s winning song was  "O, Holy Night".

I bet you can guess what 2012's favorite song will be. lol.
Surprise me.

All entries will be entered into the  pot of randomness and given a stir. I will ship to either a domestic or an international winner.

Vote (comment) on your favorite Christmas carol between Monday December 3 & Friday, December 7th, 2012 (5pm PST). I will draw the winner either Friday night when I get home from work or after I finish work on Saturday morning.

If you are unclear as to whether you are a no-reply commenter, please leave your contact e-mail in this format: specialperson(at)wherever(dot)com. ***Added Monday night - already have three who I have no way to contact.


You can see all the other entries linked up here - at SewMamaSew.
Please take time to look at SewMamaSew's store as they are the world's fastest shipper of fabric.

They are a fabulous sponsor with about a million tutorials on things to sew or craft.


*** and Giveaway Two (2) is here.

125 comments:

  1. I love Carol of the Bells and Silent Night.

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  2. my fav christmas song is "I love to tell the story" which I have no clue why it is only heard during Christmas since it has nothing that would limit us to the Christmas season.
    For a "real" Christmas song, I would say "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas"

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  3. Fab giveaway! My favorite Christmas song (at least this year) is Go Tell it on the Mountain.

    Weird that O Holy Night always wins?

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  4. My favourite is 12 days of christmas. Thanks!

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  5. Mary Did You Know...thanks for a chance to win!

    Julie

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  6. I'll be home for christmas

    carolinebock1 at yahoo dot com

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  7. Littel Drummer Boy with Bing Crosby and David Bowie - great song. Great giveaway too :)

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  8. I've always loved Silent Night.

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  9. I'll be home for Christmas. And, thanks for the giveaway!

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  10. Joy to the World! Thanks for the great giveaway!

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  11. Frank Sinatra version of Silent Night :D

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  12. I love What Child Is This

    Desi
    weeshareblog@gmail.com

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  13. I don't celebrate Christmas, so no favorite for me. :)

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  14. My favorite Christmas carol is Jingle Bell Rock...does this count? I love it so much I sing it to my son to get him to sleep. Anyway, the caramels sound delicious! I hope there are some left!

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  15. These days I love whichever one my little girls are fond of singing. This past week it was Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph! ;)

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  16. i love Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer!

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  17. Mary Did You Know - though it's not really a carol. Thanks.

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  18. I love away in a manger but I also enjoy almost every christmas song! I can listen to them from Thanksgiving on and not get tired of hearing them.

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  19. Silent Night is my all-time favourite.

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  20. My favorite carol is a Spanish carol, Hacia Belén va un burro.

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  21. Lol I love O holy night too!

    Wildbluestarz {at} Aol {dot} com

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  22. I love It's Christmas Day by Family Force 5!

    sapurser(at)gmail(dot)com

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  23. Two years in a row??? Amazing. I vote for Silent Night.

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  24. My favorite is Fairy Tale of New York by the Pogues. Which I'm sure doesn't stand a chance!

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  25. I love Last Christmas by George Michael ;)

    This giveaway is great! All those trims!!!!

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  26. My favorite is Silent Night.
    rsgrandinetti@yahoo(DOT)com

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  27. The Little Drumme Boy is my pick!

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  28. I'd have to choose Deck The Halls!
    It puts you in the Christmas mood instantly.

    Great giveaway! Thank you.

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  29. O Holy Night?

    :)

    I actually do love that, but I think The Little Drummer Boy (the Bing Crosby/David Bowie version!) is my favorite of all time. xo

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  30. Great giveaway! My fave Christmas son would have to be "Let it Snow"!

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  31. Silent Night here! :) Thanks for the chance at this lovely bundle!

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  32. Silent Night is definitley my favorite song.
    Thanks for such a great giveaway.
    Erin
    emstone28@gmail.com

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  33. I love lots of Christmas songs. But I guess my favs are Joy To The World and Merry Christmas Darling. Thanks for the chance to win.

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  34. i love most of the manheim steamroller carols, but probably Angels We have Heard on High is the one I sing most to my kids!

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  35. I love Silver Bells.
    mframe00@gmail.com

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  36. Jingle Bells, always sung loud because everyone knows it. eatkin85(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  37. I'm slightly embarrassed to admit, I love to sing O Little Town of Bethlehem

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  38. Silver Bells
    mrs(dot)hbraun(at)gmail(dot)com

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  39. Do you hear what I hear! But really, I like them all. :)
    peachstateme (at) hotmail (dot) com

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  40. O Holy Night with Silent Night a close second.

    lane.family at yahoo.com

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  41. Oh, man... right now I love "Light a torch, Jeanette, Isabella"!

    harper651 [at] gmail [dot] com

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  42. Joy To The World!

    Deborah
    pinkscissorsdesign @gmail .com

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  43. What a fun package to win! Thank you! This year my kids are playing "Santa Bring Me A Dinosaur", so I'm picking that as my new favourite (until I get sick of it!)

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  44. Silent Night is my favorite Christmas carol. Thanks for such a generous giveaway!

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  45. Sewing supplies AND a possibility of candy? *swoon*
    I love so many Christmas songs, but "Mary Did You Know" tugs at my heart.

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  46. My favorite christmas carol is silver bells

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  47. My fav is Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas by Judy Garland.

    erikawithak.vintage at gmail.com

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  48. I want a hippopotamus for Christmas is my favorite. Santa's coming in a whirly bird is a close second. What can I say... When it vomes to carols I am not a traditionalist!

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  49. I think I voted last year with my fave, which is still my fave: Mary, Did You Know?

    Thanks for the chance!

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  50. we love "silent night"

    radiyas(at)gmail(dot)com

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  51. My fav is the Muppets singing Silent night with John Denver.

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  52. I love "White Christmas." I live overseas and not anyplace that ever sees snow. It makes me homesick in a happy way. Thanks for your giveaway. ajhtejpal at gmail dot com

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  53. I like Silent Night. Thanks for chance to win.

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  54. Carol of the Bells is my favorite. Thanks for the giveaway!

    robyn(dot)geddes(at)gmail(dot)com

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  55. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
    jitterbug1(at)gmail(dot)com

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  56. I would say a tie between Silent night and The First Noel. I always sang the first to my oldest and sing the second every night to my youngest.

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  57. My favorite is "Un Flambeau Jeanette, Isabelle"

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  58. I really like What Child is This

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  59. "Christmas Carol" by the Oak Ridge Boys! Doesn't everybody know this one?

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  60. Good King Wenceslas is my favourite :)

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  61. My favorite is Joy to the World :)

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  62. O come all yee faithful is my favourite x

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  63. I wanna hippopotamus for Christmas ;)

    Thanks for the chance to win!

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  64. I love O Holy Night, but And the Angels Cried is my all-time favorite! Thanks for a great giveaway!

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  65. O Holy Night, Mary Did you know and silent night

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  66. Silent Night!

    purple_harriet AT yahoo DOT ca

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  67. Silent Night!

    purple_harriet AT yahoo DOT ca

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  68. Silent Night!

    purple_harriet AT yahoo DOT ca

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  69. Silent Night!

    purple_harriet AT yahoo DOT ca

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  70. I love Silent Night! :) Thanks for such an awesome giveaway! Happy Holidays to You! :)

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  71. I like the minor key ones - O Come O Come Emanuel is my favorite (esp. as it's an Advent song, not a Christmas song, so my more liturgically strict friends can't grouse at me that "it's not Christmas yet!" when I sing it). (Also-rans: In the Bleak Midwinter, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Good King Wenceslaus - the last because it's got a story!)

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  72. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen by Barenaked Ladies. check it out :)
    xoxo melzie4boyz@aol.com

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  73. I really like rudolph the red nose reindeer. And of course 'O, holy night' ;-D

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  74. I love Carol of the Bells. And it really isn't a Christmas song, but Pachelbel's Canon is amazing. And they play it enough around Christmas for me to count it, I think. -grin-
    Thanks for a great giveaway!

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  75. I love Silent Night, in German. It is so much more beautiful, as Stille Nacht!

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  76. I love TSO Christmas Canon..so great :)

    gdukeak@gmail.com

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  77. Little Drummer Boy
    mandiprout80 @ gmail dot com

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  78. Not to be a copy-er . . . but O Holy Night is actually my favorite!

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  79. As tempted as I am to say it's O Holy Night just because the RNG seems to favour it, mine is Good King Wenceslas - the only carol my dad didn't have a silly version of.

    ikkinlala(at)yahoo(dot)ca

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  80. In the Bleak Midwinter. Angels We Have Heard On High. Bring a Torch Jeanette Isabella.
    OOOld fashioned, I guess.
    What a lovely giveaway.
    I looked at your towels, but considering you've got some other folks with real flying action (holy smokes, ladies! I like riding my BIKE for fun!), I thought I'd leave myself out of that pool.

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  81. Oh my, I LOVE your giveaways, right up my alley. . . So hope I win! Anyway, onto the favorite Christmas song, sorry but I have to buck the trend because mine is "Baby it's Cold Outside" the duet, especially the Barry Manilow version (yep, I just admitted that publicly)!

    Thanks so much for the chance to win, I hope you have a wonderful Christmas!

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  82. I would have to say Silent Night and what a fantastic giveaway

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  83. My vote is Carol of the Bells. Thanks for the chance to win!

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  84. Not apparently very original, but I love O Holy Night (when well-sung!), But O Come O Come Emmanuel is right up there, too. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  85. My favourite is I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day. But I know it isn`t a well known carol... Harry Belafonte did a version of it.

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  86. out of all the giveaways I've seen I'm most excited about this one. I would love to get my hands on that trim. I've been looking for trim at thrift stores but I never find it like that. the ribbon anyway.

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  87. My favorite Christmas carol is O Come All Ye Faithful.
    nicolesender(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  88. 7pm PST Giveaway now CLOSED.
    Thank you to all who entered.
    I will pick winner tomorrow - apres w-o-r-k.
    Merry Christmas!
    Hyvaa Joulua!
    God Jul!

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  89. Silent Night is my favorite.

    Thank you for the generous giveaway.

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