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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My favorite Christmas was about 10 years ago. I lost my job right before Christmas and money was tight. The chaplain’s office at the hospital my husband worked at decided to adopt us. We figured we would be getting a food basket and were very appreciative. When they called us to pick up our stuff, there was a TON of food to completely cover Christmas in high style. Then there were a bunch of wrapped gifts too. When we opened the gifts Christmas morning, each of our family members had received a full “fancy” outfit, including shoes as well as toys for the kids and books and movies for us adults. We felt so blessed and now that we are in a much better financial situation, we adopt families and bless them.
My favorite Christmas memory is the year that we boycotted the normal chaotic rushing from house to house on Christmas day, and just stayed at home in our jammies all day. We played, ate, watched movies until it was time to fall into our beds! My kids have requested that we do it again this year! It must be their favorite too:)
My favorite Christmas memory is sitting on the couch every night with the Christmas tree lit in the dark singing Christmas carols with my little kids. There’s something special about a dark room with a sparkling tree, and something extra cute about carols sung by little ones.
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my best memory was in sicily, when i drew a landing for santa out of chalk and worked really hard on it. my siblings went out there that night and marked it up to look like he had landed and set a present on it to look like santa “forgot it” i was so amazed!
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Two years ago my husband had already moved to start his new job all the way across the country and would not be home for Christmas. We had a bad winter storm that required me to repair some of the roof shingles 2 days before Christmas. Christmas Eve I spent much of the day in ER with my son who was having a terrible asthma attack and pneumonia. That evening I was tracking down a pharmacy that was open Christmas Eve. Christmas morning my in-laws came over to our home and enjoyed the morning with my 2 children and myself. My son was so sick that he had no care to open any of his presents. A week before my mother-in-law came over to take my daughter out shopping and they had had a blast getting presents for my daughter to fill my stocking with as she wanted to make sure that Mommy had a stocking to open on Christmas morning. It was so sweet. She had even snuck my mascara to make sure that they bought the correct color and kind. It was such a wonderful treasure for this Mommy who had been doing so much by herself this Christmas. A wonderful memory that will be remembered forever.
I have lots of favorite Christmas memories.
I think the best ones are when my Paw Paw
was alive and would play his fiddle for us
when the whole family gathered. The best
things are people and the best memories are
time spent with people you love.
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I have just discovered your website just this past weekend and let me say, thanks!!! I’m a single woman (live with the boyfriend) and have found myself to be lacking in the creative department of housemaking. My sister took me to a local bookstore and pointed out a boom that u had written and told me all about you, “she’s great,” she says, “she makes decorating so easy!”. She finished up by saying that you have a blog. “I love blogs,” I said. As soon as I got home, i googled you. And I’m now looking forward to reading your backlogs. And looking forward to decorating!! Thanks!!!!!!
I meant, “book”!!
My favorite Christmas memory was 3 years ago when we moved to Colorado. It was the first move I ever made away from home and we had moved in November and no money to drive home for the holidays. My son surprised me but driving my mother and himself up to Colorado to spend Christmas with us!
bee blessed
mary
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The music- every year it is the music. Messiah and midwinter, and Bing Crosby, and Mariah Carey all mashed up in a tangled mess of Christmas love. There are special musical traditions that have become must do’s, like caroling, ect. But my favorite memory is finishing up some sewing at 2 in the morning Christmas day, listening to a Christmas music special, with a fire, and all my little ones tucked peacefully in bed.
I think my favorite Christmas memory is just the happy look on my Dad’s face as I opened my presents. No matter how old I was, his delight in giving was the same. Now that I’m a mom I understand. Thanks, Daddy, for the love you always gave!
One of my favorite Christmas memories……bringing home my 3 day old daughter and setting her beneath the Christmas tree with it’s white lights twinkling and thanking Jesus that after a difficult delivery and complications with her, she was the best Christmas gift my husband and I had ever received. That was 16 years ago.
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I remember singing Chritmas songs with my sisters and going to church every Christmas Eve. Then we would come home and open alot of Christmas presents. We always got jammies and robes and put them on to go to bed. Great memories!
Oooh…my favorite Christmas memory? When I was 9, Santa came into my room on Christmas Eve and asked if I could lend a hand. He had brought an heirloom tea service for my mother, and could I help set it up in the formal dining room?
I felt so very important and special that night…and it really taught me what the whole Santa thing is all about! Magic.
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my favorite christmas memory are all shared with my father who passed away this year.
My favorite christmas memory is waking up on day on Christmas morning and it was snowing. I have always lived in Atlanta so that was a special treat!
On special Christmas memory is when my four children were still young and the excitement they had was not about the presents but who would get to read the Christmas story at our family time before we opened presents. The girls would play Christmas carols on the piano and my husband would play his guitar. Even after they were grown and married they still count it an honor to be the one to read the Christmas story on Christmas morning.
I think the Nativity hurricane candles are spectacular! They set the tone for Christmas. And those pillow covers– lovely! Please enter me in the draw.
Jody
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I’d have to go with my son’s first Thanksgiving with my parents. They were just in awe of their first grandchild. I loved it.
my favorite holiday memories are baking a massive amount of cookies with my mom. she passed away 12 years ago at 47 and I really miss her. at least I have all the great memories.
My favorite christmas memory is from a few years ago. All of my family members were together for dinner on christmas day. Everyone who lives out of town were all able to make it home for christmas.
favorite Christmas memory are those when all the family is together, sitting round the table and laughing and talking. love my family!
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Too many favorites to count but the smells of Christmas stand out to me…cookie baking with my children, potpourri simmering on the stove, turkey roasting, fresh scent of greenery. Melissa, can you tell I’m still stuck on your post about smell? (: I’m loving all the Day Spring eye candy.
one of my favorite christmas memories was the time my sunday school class delivered bikes, and toys to this needy family. Delivering these toys to them, and food was so special to me, and seeing their faces light up to get them. I still cannot get those smiling faces out of my head to this day. To me this was one of my favorites., and of course every year with my family is.
Christmas when I was around 8 or 9 yrs. old I woke up, hearing something in the living room. I crept down the hall and spotted my Mom & Dad setting up my new Barbie House! I didn’t want them to know I saw them, so I slowly crept back down the hall to bed, but I was so excited I couldn’t go back to sleep! That was back in the 60′s, so the Barbie House was made out of cardboard instead of plastic. It was a treasured toy for many, many years. And, that was the year I found out who Santa really was!
The Christmas we spent at Leavenworth.
I remember finding our gifts when I was about 8 and talking my middle sister into opening them all then carefully re-wrapping them. No surprises that year and Christmas was a big disappointment so we NEVER did that again.
I loved the year my sister and I got a life-sized playhouse outfitted with bunkbeds for our dolls! Whoo hooo!
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My favorite Christmas memory is my second daughter’s first Christmas. She was three wks old and her older sister was almost 3. We could barely keep the baby awake for the festivities but I remember feeling so blessed to have my two girls with me.
One of my favorite Christmas memories is the year my first child was born. He came 9 days before Christmas. It was the first Christmas my husband and I were away from our families. We lit the tree up and watched its a wonderful life. We shed a few tears, and celebrated all we had been given. Most of all each other.
Dad wanted to make sure we kids did not see the tree with presents before he was with us. Our bedrooms were down a long hallway and he would seal the hallway up with masking tape so we could not peek at the tree until we woke Mom and Dad up on Christmas morning. =)) Oh he also would number our presents with funny numbers so only He knew which present belonged to each kid.
When my daughter was two and we told her Santa had come- the look on her face, a mix of anticipation and a little fear (she was scared of Santa then) was priceless!
My favorite Christmas memory was going to Washington DC and seeing all the state trees and getting warm by the Yule Log. It was a nice family trip and one that I hope to share with my child when she gets a bit older.
My grandparents would throw a big Christmas party each year with a nice dinner. The tree was hidden until after dinner, once we had eaten we would sing and dance around the tree that had all the presents until Santa would appear. Each child would line up and visit with Santa and get a stocking filled with goodies then the families would exchange their gifts and grandma and grandpa would hand out their gifts to everyone! It made Christmas and I miss it so much!
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When my girls were in grade school our church had a Christmas Eve service at midnight. The church was dark, except for candles and the Christmas lights; and it was quiet. A wonderful way to celebrate the birth of our Savior.
I think it just happened last night. We are having some thunderstorms hitting our area this weekend and my 6 year old was completely concerned Santa wouldn’t make it on Jesus’ birthday because of lightning. He was so cute and thankfully I was able to reassure him Santa would not let anything stop him from celebrating one of the most special days of the year.
We always try to stay simple at Christmas time and we make a lot of homemade gifts. A couple of years ago our youngest son was pretty small and he decided to make a bunch of paper rings which he stuck in my husbands stocking. When my husband found them he put them on a wore them and pleased our son greatly.
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One of my favorite Christmas memories was when my Mom mixed up the tags on gifts for my older brother and I. They were footy pajamas. His were about two feet too short and mine were much too long. We laughed and laughed about it. Funny how something so simple can leave such an impression. These is such an aura of happiness and joy around that one simple memory for me.
One of my most memorable christmas’s was in the 1960′s when me and my 3 brothers would wait for santa claus. He would always bring us what we asked for. One year I got a Barbie doll and her dream house, my brothers got a barn and all the animals and tractors. We were in the army so we were never at home by our relatives.
A few years ago when my husband and I were dating, we drove out with his parents and his sister to see “the one house with all the lights”. The three of us “kids” in the backseat (all in our 20s at the time) started reminiscing about christmas songs from childhood and ended up singing silly tunes the whole drive. I remember laughing and really enjoying ourselves that night.
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My favorite Christmas memory was when I was about 5 and it was Christmas Eve. My parents were trying to get my sisters and I to go to sleep so Santa could come. I swear to this day my Dad went outside and rang bells so i would think Santa was in the area. They told us he wouldn’t come until we went to sleep. Somehow I managed to fall asleep that night!
My favorite memory is always reading Christmas stories with the kids (who are bigger now, so it is very rare these days) with only the lights on the Christmas tree and a lamp. Sometimes we sing hymns too. Love it!
one of my favorite memories is going to my grandparents Christmas evening sitting around the piano singing Christmas songs then all the kids sleeping on pallets on the floor that evening!
My favorite christmas memory was when I was a little kid and santa brought the biggest prettiest doll house I had ever seen. I was a happy kid that christmas!
Honestly, this Christmas will be the top – we have a baby due any day now, and my parents are going to make the 10 hour trip down to spend his first Christmas with us
My brothers and sister & I would wake up on Christmas morning and head right for our stocking. My mom, ahem, I mean Santa would find the coolest little toys, pencils, small trinkets along with some candy. We would dump our stockings out and compare all the fun little surprises we received.
I still remember the Christmas growing up when my parents, er, Santa, got me and my brother a ping-pong table for Christmas. It was awesome, and definitely more than we were expecting!
We started making ornaments when my dad was in Vietnam, I still have my felt snoopy as the red baron on my tree, that started our tradition of collecting and/or making ornaments for the tree, each of my boys has a collection too.
One of my favorite Christmas memories is the first Christmas after we adopted our girls from Ukraine. They were 9 and 12 that Christmas and after we got together with my side of the family to exchange gifts, one of the girls said “This has been the best Christmas ever…and it’s not even because of the gifts. I have a family and we all love each other and have fun together.” It was such a special Christmas and each Christmas we have had them has been special as well!
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Going to Christmas Eve Communion and riding around looking for “Snoopy’s doghouse” afterwards.