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Christmas Collage Giveaway
Thanks for entering, everyone! Random.org gave me #13, which is Amy in Tennessee. If you mail me your photos at Kay@kayotic.nl, I’ll get you your printable collage!
Initially I wanted to do a storyboard giveaway, hence the odd intro graphic. Mainly because I know that Christmas is the time to make family photos that you want to print & frame. If only for the grandparents. I sure hope your family photos are better than mine, I guess you’d have to be related to enjoy those. Either that or stone-blind.
But anyway, it dawned on me that lots of people don’t have Photoshop (yes, I have my brighter moments), and that would mean excluding a lot of you. Wipe that. We’re so not gonna do that. I’ll do it different this time.
The winner can simply select a few photos they want to have printed, say, up to 5 or 6 photos, mail them to me and I’ll turn them into a printable storyboard for you at the print size you want (this depends on the print quality of your photos, of course).
Heck, I’ll even do the editing for you, if you like. I can send you one printable storyboard jpg in B&W and one in color so you get to choose which one you print. Or both. I’m easy-going.
To enter, answer the following question.
“What are your plans for Christmas?”
* Only one entry per person and no entries after Monday December 6th, please. I’ll announce the winner later that day!
This is a great giveaway!
I’m super excited about Christmas this year because we are actually hosting! I plan on making cinnamon rolls for breakfast, then we’ll open gifts with the baby, and have the rest of the family come over for a late lunch/early dinner.
This is the first Christmas that we are not going to family’s house or hosting anything at our house. Instead my husband and our three daughters will spend Christmas morning opening up gifts, having breakfast together, and sitting by the fire. I can’t wait! No stress, no time commitments, just the five of us starting our own family traditions.
I am hoping to keep it low key. We will get together with family. Hopefully do a white elephant exchange with the adults…not traveling…just relaxing and enjoying…
We are keeping it low key, just the 3 of us having breakfast and opening presents on Skype with family. Then my family will join us the next day to stay for a while, so it will be the calm before the storm!
Our plans are still up in the air, but will most likely involve staying home and having a big meal when my parents arrive. Then again, my kids are older now, so it might be time to head up to see them instead. Whatever we do, GREAT food will definitely be involved!!
Sad to say, I don’t yet know my Christmas plans, other than that they will involve lots of cooking.
I hosted (that is, cooked like a madwoman for) Thanksgiving, so I’m off the hook for Christmas. Yay! I enjoy the cooking aspect of the holidays, but I absolutely LOATHE trying to keep the house clean for visiting relative (4 kids, ‘nuf said). I hope to make lots of Christmas cookies with my kids, though. :-)
I will be spending a glorious day with my wonderful husband of 23 years, our sweet son, who is 22, and his amazing fiancee, along with our precious daughter, who is 20 and her awesome boyfriend. I also will be having friends over for a late lunch that don’t have any family near and we will be sharing lots of laughter and love. I can’t wait!
We’re going to visit family and our soon-to-be-born nephew.
Quiet this year. We moved far away from family. I hope we’ll be with friends. But even if it’s just Mommy, Daddy, and Baby, we can still have a good Christmas.
What a nice and beautifully personal give away! It’s worth more than any standard item!
Unfortunatley for a mommy of six…my hubby and I will be spending Christmas alone, just the two of us. What will we do with ourselves?????
What an awesome giveaway, Kay! Your picture editing is outstanding! Whoever wins this will be so lucky!
My Dutchman and I just went to a Christmas market in Germany last weekend. It was so fun! And I plan on scouting out lots of fun things to do here in NL too! Plus, we’ll have a family dinner on second Christmas day and sing carols by the piano. A couple of years ago we also took a walk on the beach, which I thought was a funny thing to do on Christmas, but it turned out really fun and we got some great pictures!
What a wonderful giveaway. I’m a big fan of your black and white editing as well as your recipes.
This year we will be having Christmas at my mom’s house again. Christmas morning my husband and I will exchange our gifts and the kids open theirs, then we go to my mom’s house where we have dinner and play a present game, sing, talk and have a good time.
We will be going to my in-laws. Traveling 9 hours to get there and spending 10 days at their house. My mom in-law makes Christmas so special. She prepares the best meal ever, decorates the table and house like Martha Stewart, and makes you feel so “at home.” Christmas Eve we will spend with my family – renting a hall so the grandkids can run and play to their hearts content. Christmas Day will be with the in-laws and boy do they know how to pile on the gifts for the grandkids. The grandkids have great time together and my dad in law will at some point haul out his old slides and we’ll all have good laughs looking through the old pictures. It’s a wonderful time! I can’t wait to see them all soon!!
I am so looking forward to Christmas this year. In the week before we will stay at a holiday park in Brabant and our family from Brabant and Zeeland (Holland) will come to celebrate Christmas with us in the cottage. I am cooking that day and selecting recipes at this moment, and it is so difficult to find a menu that everybody loves and is possible to make in a cottage (with oven). First Christmas day we will be at my parents’ house and the next day will be with our own family of 4. We start the day in the theater to see Sesame street and afterwards a walk in the forest and a nice early dinner. With the snow falling in The Netherlands I can’t wait to the Holidays but first we celebrate Sinterklaas!
This year, I’m excited to participate in my first cookie exchange, which will kick off my holiday festivities. A few days after that, I will make the 5-hour drive to my sister’s to spend the weekend with her and my niece and nephews. My littlest nephew’s birthday is a few days before Christmas, so we celebrate early in order to make sure he has his present from me on his birthday instead of waiting until Christmas to get it. On Christmas Eve, my husband and I will watch a movie by ourselves and get any last-minute wrapping or cooking done, then on Christmas Day we’ll spend time with his family. I’m hoping to visit my aunt that weekend as well, but only if the weather cooperates with the 6-hour drive. Yesterday we had Christmas music playing at work as the snow fell, and it really put me in the holiday spirit – I can’t wait!
Cool giveaway. :) I plan on spending Christmas enjoying spending time with friends. Still thinking about what to make for dinner since I’m keeping it low key.
We always spend Christmas Eve with my side of the family and have a big dinner and the kids get new pjs. As for Christmas, we relax, as much as you can with 5 kids! But I LOVE Christmas morning! Time for some good food…
Christmas is very stressful for us since we have 6 children (5 spouses), 13 grandchildren, & 4 parents in just our immediate family. Add in 9 brothers/sisters, their spouses, numerous nieces and nephews and the list goes on and on. Soooo…..I’m doing lots of photos and working on a cookbook with family photos and then we’ll finally have all our Christmas’s over with after 4 gatherings in 2 different states. Ugh……
I’m having carpal tunnel surgery earlier in the week, so I’m going to relax and let my husband, daughter, son and daughter-in-law do the cooking!
Staying home and taking care of my mom, who had a stroke. Enjoying food, family and fun!
This Christmas is going to be spent on my own. I’m currently living 800 miles from my family, and due to time and monetary constraints, I can’t go home for the holidays this year. We’ve agreed to postpone our celebration until we can all be together – even if it isn’t until March! I’m not quite sure how I’m going to spend my time yet. I just went through the same thing for Thanksgiving, and it wasn’t a lot of fun.
I live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We celebrate Christmas in a slightly different way. The tradition is to celebrate on the 24th at night. So, our family will get together at my mom’s house and we will have dinner there. We will have turkey, codfish potato salad, tender ( smoked ham in the form of a ball), farofa, rabanadas and I will make your recipe of cinnamon rolls. They will look fantastic on the table.
I’m gonna take pics and send you recipes with our xmas food! They are simply the best in the world!
At midnight everybody can open up the presents! and we also watch the Midnight Mass.
On the 25th we grab all the leftovers and make new recipes for lunch! The kids run around so happy with their new toys and they all ask for rabanadas for breakfast! We gonna have a blast!
At christmas eve we will eat ‘worstenbroodjes’ or ‘kaasbroodjes’ with tea and open all the gifts that have been under the christmas tree for too long (because my mum wants us to get really really really excited about them). At christmas morning we take a long breakfast toghether and afterwards everybody is changes into his/hers nicest clothes and we have a lovely dinner prepared by my father who makes up 3 delicous courses every year, including a vegeterian one for me, and after that dessert, made by my and then coffee and a movie :) The perfect Xmas to me…
We have my mother-in-law’s family Christmas gathering on the 18th; my in-law’s come over Christmas Eve and my family come over Christmas day.