Our friends (and my sponsors) over at DaySpring wanted to give The Inspired Room readers a little treat today! They are so awesome I cannot even tell you…they are always doing the nicest things. I love them! Before I get to the prizes and shopping spree details, I wanted to tell you real quick about a few of my FAVORITE DaySpring items, most of which are NEW!
Have you SEEN this amazing glass dome? Wow, I completely did a happy dance when I got mine. It is amazing! I just stuck a few random things in it like reindeer moss, a small wreath and sparkly birds and it was cute (although I just noticed some of the moss escaped under the glass oops!). Imagine all the fun you could have with it all year round!
These Nativity Hurricane Candle holders at the top are our FAVORITE Christmas decoration!! Aren’t they GORGEOUS?? You can take the metal nativity scenes off and use the hurricanes year round!
And I’m digging this new wooden caddy for silverware, it is really awesome! Makes you look like the hostess with the mostess.
Loving the bird pillow cover, just seeing a splash of red makes me so happy!
This fun pillow cover is really festive too!
I love the idea of changing pillow covers with the seasons and holidays! Pillow covers are great for updating pillows each season and are easy to store when you are not using them.
DaySpring actually has quite a few new pillow covers that are really great, even my husband said he loved the purple pillow cover (above) and he hardly ever mentions when I get new things! The colors and textures are really really pretty, especially in person. My photos (which sadly never look very good on a gloomy winter day!) just can’t capture it!
NOTE! The pillow covers are on a special coupon with purchase until Friday! Here are the details.
Soooo, ready for the fun giveaway?
GIVEAWAY DETAILS
Saul at DaySpring offered to give away one Nativity Hurricane Candle set to a lucky winner PER one hundred entries (yes, more than one winner!) and then a $100 Shopping Spree will be awarded to one lucky random GRAND PRIZE WINNER! YES!
Have you seen the brand new DaySpring Christmas Catalog yet? You can see it here online! I was so excited to be featured in it — I shared some small ways to showcase the meaning of the season in your home. See if you can find a humorous photo I took. At least I thought it was funny.
Since Christmas is coming up SO fast, I want to wrap this giveaway up in 48 hours! WHOA! Giveaway will end Thursday at midnight PST and winners will be announced Friday.
All you have to do to enter is leave a comment sharing a favorite Christmas memory! You do NOT have to have a blog to win!
This giveaway is now closed! Thanks for entering!
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Note, if you are reading this post today in your email inbox, in order to enter the giveaway you will need to click here to go to my blog, and then scroll down to the end of the post where it gives you the chance to “add a comment” … click there and fill out your name, email address and comment. Once you hit submit, you have entered the giveaway! I do love when you email me but to be all official, try to leave a real comment to be included in the giveaway. I can help you if you need me to! Just let me know.
Oh my goodness! What a fun giveaway! Thanks.
My best memories are of our Christmas Eve family devotional. My dad would recite the Christmas story and then all the kiddos would bunk up in one room. We couldn’t sleep and would stay up all night talking. Such wonderful memories with my parents and siblings!
My favorite Christmas memory is ~ going to my grandparents house. My grandmother never had a Christmas tree or many decorations, but she always put out a little white church that played “Silent Night”. It was always exciting to wind up the little music box and see the lights shinning though stained glass windows. It was always a reminder to me of the real meaning of Christmas.
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When I was about 11, my parents asked my siblings and I to each choose one of our gifts from under the tree to help a family in our neighborhood. We each chose our gift, and then visited the family. I knew one of the girls, she was about my age, so I presented her with my gift.
I will never forget the look on her face, or the excitement we both felt as she unwrapped the gift I had wanted most that year!
To this day, I get choked up when I think about the wonderful gift my parents gave us that Christmas.
This giveaway is a truly wonderful way to spread the Christmas cheer!
A favourite Christmas memory of mine is being a little child and visiting the farm of a Great Aunt.
I was asked to help set the table which was a treat as we used the most beautiful Irish linen, heavy silverware and antique china. Each plate had a gorgeous red or green bon-bon and serviette encased in a silver holder.
My family are heavily into flower arrangements so there was no doubt a beautiful display in the centre of the table.
The experience of setting the table has stayed with me for life and it is with great pleasure that I try to emulate this setting in my own home now.
Merry Christmas,
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Mine I’d a tradition from when I was tiny until I was 25… Waking up early.. Running downstairs and not being allowed to go into the den until my parents were with us kids.. Santa left notes for 25 years! Then warm cinnamon rolls
My favorite Christmas memory was the year my daddy was off work and we were very broke. Another little girl in our church wanted a dollhouse, so her dad bought all the materials and my dad made us both dollhouses for Christmas.
My mom decorated it and made it lovely. Best Christmas ever.
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My favorite Christmas memory is really New Years Day at my grandparents home. All the aunts and uncles and cousins plus friends from Scotland who had immigrated to California would all show up for a full day of fun and games and great food. We all would play bingo and after a delish dinner all the lights would go out and my grandmother would come intot he dining room from thekitchen through the swinging door with some kind of cake that was on fire from the bourbon…some scottish delight. Plum pudidng even I dont know….It has always been my favorite holiday memory!!!
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Christmas memory??? Roast dinner with all the trimmings at my granny’s house and she liked every thing just so. My grandpa would always take us to the kitchen to get a little bottle of soda that they kept in a crate under the sink!!! They were always warm!!! My grandparents grew up in a time before refrigeration was everyday!!! So at this fancy dinner in all our finery and hideously uncomfortable clothes we would sip and sip soda straight from the bottle!!!
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My favorite memory is my last one with my oldest brother who passed away 2 weeks after Christmas 2006. He had been ill for a long time and in hospital all those months. But that Christmas of 2006 he was allowed to be home for the day. My sis in law and I had prepared his favorite meal and he could eat a little but enjoyed it tremendously
He had been on fluid food all those months and just craved a little solid dinner so he had a tiny bit. But oh the look on his face…priceless 
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The previous stories were so special. Thanks for sharing them ladies.
All my favorite Christmas memories are from being with my family on Christmas eve and Christmas day. Even more special was having my baby girl for her first Christmas. At six months (Oct) she became very ill and was in ICU and in the hospital for 6 weeks. Right before Christmas we got to take her NG tube out. She was feeling better and didn’t leave my arms for the many, months afterwards. I have a picture of me holding her on Christmas day, which really looks like my body is wrapped around her. Holding close what I almost lost!
I think last Christmas holds one of my favorite memories– a very moving Christmas Eve service at church– my younger son still mentions it. It set the tone for a peaceful, soulful celebration for us.
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My favorite memory of Christmas is being woke up by my brother in the early morning hours of Christmas Day…running into the living room and seeing the Christmas tree all lit up and the presents all set out. It was so magical and beautiful. We were so excited and I’m sure my parents probably just got to bed. Usually we headed back to bed as it was still too early to get up but I remember celebrating many a Christmas at 4 o’clock in the wee morning hours. This is a fun give away and thanks for letting us share our memories.
I remember decorating a blue and green tree (it WAS the 70′s after all) in my Grandma’s basement then turning off all the lights and sitting by it in awe. I thought it was the most beautiful thing ever.
oh my goodness. I remember the blue and green 70′s tree motif. How chic! Thanks for bringing back those memories!
I just love that Nativity hurricane set! It is hard to choose one memory – my parents did a fantastic job of making Christmas special for me and my three sisters – so I’ll share the first thing that comes to mind: sitting by my window as a child late on Christmas Eve, watching the snow come down in big flakes, and pretending the jostling chains on the wheels of the snowplows driving by were sleigh bells.
It has to be this Christmas. After a horrible year filled with divorce, financial troubles, and death, my children and I went shopping for our first Christmas tree in our new apartment. We went through every one before we found the “right” tree and then struggled to get it into the apartment and in it’s stand. We worked for an hour to get it straight (it even fell over once) and then ended the evening taking in our local light extravaganza. We had the best time. Thanks for the great giveaway. You are always so generous!
My favorite Christmas memory is when I was very young my mom, sister, and I would travel to stay with my great grandmother and great grandfather. The whole family would come aunts, cousins, grandparents. It was such a fun time with family and my Gram would play the piano and we would sing hymns…
I grew up in a town of 99 people. Our church was very small. I could not wait for Christmas as our nativity was stunning and I loved looking at it. My Grandfather built the Creche. He died when I was 5 and we were extremely close. It helped me feel connected to him each time I saw it.
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Favorite memory? There are so many that it’s hard to narrow down to one. I will have to say my parents were alive and well, and we celebrated Christ’s birth together.
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I love a Christmas “show” my kids and their cousins do every year…even mine now that they are 19 and 18! We do it right after church and it usually involves singing and dancing and a retelling of the Chrimas story. One year, they all dressed up as animals and told it from the animals point of view! Sweet, fun and keeps the meaning of Christmas alive
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My favorite Christmas memory is driving around on Christmas eve to look at lights and singing Veggie Tales songs at the top of our lungs. We do it every year; we try to sing carols, but it always morphs into Veggie Tales!!
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One of my favorite childhood memories at Christmas was anxiously awaiting for my mom to start Christmas decorating. It was so exciting to me the day that I came home from school to discover our house covered in Christmas! To me, our house never looked prettier than it did during Christmas, and it was the backdrop for countless other special memories.
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Wow, those nativity candle holders are GORGEOUS! What a wonderful giveaway
When I was a kid, we always had huge Christmas celebrations together with everyone on my dad’s side of the family. Everyone would cook and laugh together, my grandfather would play the piano and we’d all sing Christmas songs. It was just wonderful to be with all of them. And sometimes we would even get a little snow…which in Dallas was something special
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My favorite memory was waiting at the top of the stairs for everyone to wake up on christmas morning…we were not allowe downstairs until everyone got up! The anticipation was so exciting!!!
One of mine was going to NY with my Gramma and Aunt who was one year older than me. We were 15 and 16. My Great Uncle let us take off in his snowmobile and we’d never even seen snow before (we’re from Florida). It was crazy and I’m happy to be alive but we had the best time together!
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It is hard to pick just one favourite memory. They all include my children. By far my favourite Chirstmas memory was the one we shared with daughter number two as a newborn. She was born December 1st so was three weeks old. Her older sister got to open all her sister’s gifts so it was a double wammie for her! And the baby slept through the whole day-but it was just so peaceful. No WOW factor here-just a simple memory but a beautiful one God gave our family.
One of my favorite memories from Christmas past was lining up to go downstairs for Christmas Morning gift opening. Of course the youngest child usually awoke first or if they didn’t then an older sister would wake them up, we would be making so much noise that our parents had to have heard but they always acted like they didn’t. We mill around upstairs waiting impatiently for them to get up cause the rule was the oldest person had to be the first in line to go downstairs. Dad would place himself at the top of the stairs waiting for everyone to get in line in order of age and the excitement built, even as a teenager, to walk down and see all the gifts around the tree on Christmas morning.
I agree with Stef….it is hard to pick just one Christmas memory.
My Mother made many Christmas cookies to share with friends, family and for neighbors. We helped Mom as children and then as adults the cookie baking slowly became my sister and I doing the baking and Mom supervising and teaching our children. She so loved to teach her grandchildren how to bake and then how to share. Now I am the one baking all those cookies and my children help me as I teach my grandchildren.
Our neighborhood growing up used to line our street with luminaries. It was the coolest thing to be a part of!
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In 1982, I was a young military wife with 4 children aged 4years and younger. We had just recently arrived at a new duty station that was almost 2000 miles away from family and friends. I wasn’t really excited about Christmas that year. About 10 days before Christmas the postman brought me a huge package. Inside was Cherry cookies, divinity, and my aunt’s fruit cake. All these goodies made from prized family recipes, sent to me to make me feel connected and loved. I really felt Christmas was upon us!
I would have never thought at the time that 2001 would be my favorite Christmas memory, but it is! We were moving across the country, and moved out of our house 4 days before Christmas. Yes, I said 4 days before! Luckily, we had a lake house nearby. So, on Dec 22 we headed out and bought what was truly the tree used as a model in the Charlie Brown Christmas. We made paper chains, strung popcorn, glittered pine cones and sweet gum balls to hang on the tree. Didn’t even bother with lights! We still remember that Christmas so fondly. We still have a few of the glittered ornaments, and they are hung on the tree each year as we talk about the simplicity of that Christmas. (Well, it was simple once the moving van pulled away from the house!)
My wife & I are grandparents, and our first Christmas together we were snowed in for a week. We had to melt snow for water and burn candles. She melted my heart!
Cool giveaway! I love the set of nativity candles and how they reflect the miracle of Christmas. What great products that turn the focus to Jesus and his birth! Awesome! A favorite Christmas memory…this is a hard one…I do have one that comes to mind at this early morning hour I will share- My oldest daughter Emma is now six, but when she was two, she told Santa that for Christmas she wanted chicken nuggets and fresch fries! That was what her list consisted of…how cute it that! You should have seen her face Christmas morning when she opened her presents and there was exactly what she asked for!!! It was priceless! And Santa was pleased for an easy wish list that year as well I am sure.
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Don’t know if I have just one favorite, but after the Christmas Eve service at church we sit down to eat as a family. Later in the evening, the girls have to find their pickle ornamament in order to open their Christmas Eve gift, a pair of fun pj bottoms. The put them on and we pile in the car to go see all the lights, then some home for cocoa and dessert. They are 17 and 20 now and we still are keeping the tradition up.
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I would love these Hurricane candles…so beautiful. I collect Nativity Scenes and this would be a perfect addition!
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So many wonderful memories. Some of my favorite memories of my mom are around the holidays. I always loved that she let me help wrap the presents, even when they looked terrible. It was just girl time and I treasured that.
My favorite Christmas memory is a tradition that we do every year. On Christmas Eve, we meet at my mom’s adoptive parents’ home and all gather round as Papa reads the Christmas story to us. It’s been that way since before I was born and I love having a tradition I can count on.
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My favorite Christmas memory is when I was 13 and on Christmas Eve, my family sat down in the family room with our hot chocolates and pj’s on. My dad started to read from the ABC’s book of Christmas and then we each took a turn reading the story that went with a letter. There wasn’t any t.v. noise…just the sound of the fire cracking, light Christmas music in the background, and each of our voices…it is comforting to look back at that Christmas memory!
My Favorite Christmas memory is one we still do, and have the joy of sharing with my kids now!
Christmas Eve we go to my Aunt’s house. And Santa comes visits and everyone gets a gift! This was always so much fun. But the tradition that I love most is our candle lighting. Each person has a candle and we go around the room lighting each candle…remembering those we have lost, and end in singing silent night. Its really beautiful!
I love that each year we go to Christmas Eve church services… then come home and talk about the meaning of Christmas. Later we take out the Polar Express and read to the kids about Santa… it’s so much fun to ring the bells at the end and to see if they still hear them and believe in Santa… (which my son doesn’t, but still enjoys
fav Christmas memory… having homemade cookies and cocoa with my mom, sisters, nephews and niece. It only happened once, and now that I have kids I wish it could happen again.
I love this giveaway! How generous. My favorite Christmas memory was a few years ago when we drove 16 hours with 4 kids , through the night, to surprise my parents on Christmas morning. It would have been the one Christmas that we were not together and at the last minute, we were able to get there. The happiness on my mama’s face was priceless.
My favorite memory is sitting on the bed while my mom read us the Christmas story out of the gospel of Luke. I can still see it in my mind.
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My favorite Christmas memory is the first one that we discovered the 24-hour “A Christmas Story” marathon. Even though we had the VHS tape, it seemed so much more fun to keep it on TV all day and night- we kept a fire in the fireplace and didn’t get dressed till time for Church! And started a new family tradition.
My favorite Christmas memory is receiving a dollhouse when I was three. I remember coming downstairs and it was just sitting near our tree…it’s my earliest memory and I wish I would have kept that dollhouse!
I always loved putting out my letter to Santa and his cookies by the fireplace:)
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I’d like to win because I love everything about Dayspring and all
their beautiful products.
I have so many wonderful Christmas memories. My parents were
older than most when I was born as their eighth child. I remember
decorating the tree with them while enjoying hot chocolate and
homemade cookies. They made everything festive and fun for
their children, especially me as their last child. I miss them both
terribly, especially during Christmastime, but I take comfort in
knowing one day we will be reunited in heaven.
My favorite memory occurred just last year – we went to a new church for the candlelight Christmas Eve service. We were blown away by the history of the couple who built the church (with their own hands – the pastor is a carpenter), the wonderful people we met and how much we came away with. We have grown to love this church and have gotten to know the pastor and his wife. We are all excited to attend the service on Christmas Eve again this year!
Baking cookies with my kids and my mom. So much fun!
favorite Christmas memory – we have so many – my Mother is queen of memory making!! As a child I didn’t really enjoy this, but as a mother myself I am relishing each moment….we always have a Christmas program – at home. Each person shares a song or poem or skit or {fill-in} It was painstakingly embarrassing for me as a child, but some of my fondest memories are when we got to do the program for my grandparents & all my cousins got to participate as well. We have such a strong family bond, and I know it’s in part to being humiliated together!!
Seriously, it is the love of our extended family I want my children to know & remember as well….