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Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day!

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Tis the Season for Sew Mama Sew’s Giveaway Day’!  I LOVE Giveaway Day! (well..technically week).  It’s a great opportunity to take some time, check out bloggers, and of course – win some goodies in the process!giveaway_2013_Dec9

Before we get to the giveaway I want to tell you WHY you want to follow my blog and read it every time I post!

Project QUILTING – a fun quilting challenge that gets posted every other week.  Season 5 will be starting at the beginning of January and it’s never too late to join in the fun!

Bonus Bundle

I actually just posted a ‘BONUS Project QUILTING Challenge – Triple Trouble’ to start out Season 5 right.  To read more about what it is check out ‘What is Project QUILTING’?

Quilt Alongs – Last year I hosted my very first quilt along – Home Sweet Home followed by ‘My Favorite Block Quilt Along’.

52 BlocksThis year I’ve switched it up a bit and I’ll be sharing a block tutorial every week for the entire year – yup, 52 blocks!  Of course – there’s a twist…you’ll have to stop HERE to see what it’s all about!  PS.  I’m still looking for guest block designers/bloggers…head over and see if it’s something you’d be interested in…Hearts for Susie

Hearts for Susie – Hearts for Susie is a little campaign I’m running to help raise awareness for Women’s Heart Health.  You can read more on why I chose this as my mission HERE.

Block Tutorials – Whenever other bloggers are doing quilt along’s I’m always happy to create a block for them.  When this happens it is also shared on my blog with my readers/followers.

Random Projects – I’m constantly making something!  I do my best to share with you what I’m working on, how it’s going, and things I’ve learned.  Recently I went on a ‘Jewelry Binge’ to get ready for the big annual sale I have at my orchard each year.  As I was tagging and pricing everything I was amazed at just how much I made!  Oh!  And I made my Television Debut just last week!  It seems like something crazy is always happening around here and usually more than one thing at a time… !

Family and Orchard – I have three beautiful baby girls, a handy hubby and an apple orchard.  You’ll get to hear more about our adventure’s throughout the year and for some reason it seems like we’re never lacking in adventure.

Alright… enough about me!  Let’s see what I’m GIVING AWAY this week!…

What Can You Win from Persimon Dreams?

IMG_3800One lucky randomly drawn participant in this BONUS Challenge will win a bundle of six fat quarters of fabrics I hand-dyed ANDIMG_0449

A mini bundle of Aurifil Thread AND

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A free pdf pattern of my ‘Hearts for Susie’ Pillows.

How to Win!

I will ship internationally.

GIVEAWAY CLOSED

REQUIRED:  Easy – Just leave me a comment answering this question:

Be sure to include your email address so I’m able to contact you when you win!  If I can’t contact you I will choose a different winner.

What is your favorite food to eat at the holiday?…feel free to share recipes if it’s really good but this isn’t required Winking smile

BONUS Entries  Leave a separate comment for each to gain extra entries

The giveaway closes on Friday, December 13 at 5 p.m. PST.

Seriously – if you don’t leave your email address, I won’t be able to get ahold of you and you won’t get the prize…this is very important!

 

And…now that you’ve entered my giveaway – head back to SewMamaSew and see what other blogger’s have to offer!!!

There are TWO posts over at SewMamaSew…

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  7. I signed up for your newsletter that I did not know you had! I found you about this time last year when Marcia started to advertise Project Quilt and your blog. Your quilt along was the first I ever finished and I am hoping to do at least enough blocks this year to do another!!!

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  10. I must be a piggy because I love to eat lots of holiday foods. I especially enjoy homemade fudge, and pecan pie and red velvet cake. conn_and_vans_mom atyahoodotcom

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  23. Desde España. Nos encanta comer,aperitivos variados, pescado asado y langostinos, y de postre no puede faltar el flan de Turrón jijona.Gtracias!1

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  28. I like sausage balls… I follow the Bisquick recipe and make sure it includes 1/4 cup milk (not noted in all recipes online) as my secret ingredient to make them more moist 🙂 Kathi P. S. Thanks for a chance to win all this yummy stuff! Kathi

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  33. My favorite food at the holidays is a couscous I make with pomegranates, pistachios, dried apricots & dates – YUM!

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  38. We have Fondue at Christmas Eve as family tradition, I look forward to it every year. Thanks for the chance!

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  56. Spiced beef has got to be my favourite. WE only make it for Christmas, it takes two weeks of spicing in the fridge and then it's boiled up on Christmas eve. Thinly sliced with a dollop of chutney. Yum yum. Thanks for a great giveaway.

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  80. OMG it's gotta be cookies! I try and live the no carb life but come the holdiays….watch out! I have been dreaming of cookies since October! Thank you for the wonderful giveaway!

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  81. I love Christmas sweets and probably end up eating too much!! I also love the selection of appetizers and probably eat too much of that too! Guess what my usual New Year's Resolution is? Yeah, lose weight!! hahahaha

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  103. Favorite food – pumpkin pie. Though lumpy mashed potatoes are pretty great too if they have the right balance of butter, milk, salt and pepper.

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  104. I love fresh cranberry sauce (the kind with the whole berries in it) I wait all year for us to have that so I guess that is my all time favorite…but second to that is homemade gingerbread with whipped cream. MMMm!

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  106. I'm following you on bloglovin'.

    Also, I wanted to say–those hand dyed fabrics are just fantastic. I love the jewel-bright colors you got!

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  109. What a great giveaway. Thanks for the chance to win. Also sounds like 2014 is going to be great on your blog.

    Favourite holiday food – cherry flips. A sweet, short cookie wrapped around a maraschino cherry. Mmmmm.

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  116. I know it probably sounds lame, but I love to eat homemade sugar cookies during the holidays.:) Great giveway. I really need some thread!

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  128. It isn't Christmas here without my Mom's press cookies. They're a shortbread cookie with lots of almond extract. I can't wait to have some!

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  150. fantastic giveaway! I sure would love those hand-dyed fabrics. My favorite treat at the holidays is a tie between the divine and terrible cornbread dressing (carb + carb + carb + some onion and sage and broth) and my mom's sour cream coconut cake that she makes every Christmas Eve. Mmmmmmm. Looking forward to it! Thanks again!

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  165. Chocolate log…really easy.
    dunk choc chip cookies in sherry, one at a time, and "butter" with whipped cream forming a long log. Cover log with more whipped cream and sprinkling with chocolate shavings.

    it is the best…and sooooo easy.

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  171. I really have to watch what I eat but some of it is so hard to pass up. I love my dressing and my husbands sisters make these delicious salads. Christmas is only one day of the year so I only eat what I truly love and leave the rest behind. It all works out in the end.

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  189. My favorite holiday food is Icebox cake. Get a box of the Nabisco chocolate wafers, the recipe is on the box. Double the whipped cream 😉

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  196. Cranberry Upside Down Cake. I only make it twice a year but really should get some extra cranberries and freeze them so I can enjoy year round.

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  198. My favorite holiday food is pecan pie. I only eat it at Thanksgiving because it is basically just sugar and pecans. 🙂 j_momof2@hotmail dot com

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  206. Most of my favorite holiday foods have to be modified now for dietary restrictions :(. My old favorite was my mom's Swedish ginger cookies.

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  207. Strangely enough, nothing says Christmas to me like a clementine (yes, I mean the little oranges). Of course, I also like all of the goodies!

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  215. My favorite things to eat around the holidays are Rosettes. My grandma makes them almost every Christmas time, and a few years ago taught me how to make these Scandinavian delicacies to keep the tradition alive.

    They are best eaten still a little warm and sprinkled with powdered sugar.

    Pro tip: To avoid a smokey kitchen, use a high temp cooking oil like grapeseed or coconut.

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  226. I am going to say that it's holiday baking that's my favorite, not so much a single food.
    Thanks for the chance at winning your gorgeous fabrics!

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  246. Love your giveaway – I can always use bright solids and I'm dying to try Aurafil thread.

    One of my favourite things to eat is the stuffing – made the way my mom made it. So reminds me of my childhood. It is so yummy on turkey sandwiches.

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  247. Hard to pick a favourite but there is usually a tiered jello salad that is flavourful yet light – lots of pineapple. cramberries, grapefruit and shrimp in it. Thanks for the giveaway.

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  248. My favourite food is the Christmas pudding that my Mother makes, I always go back for seconds! Thanks for the lovely giveaway!

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  251. I love eating Stollen. Fell in love with it when we lived in Germany 30 years ago. You couldn't get ti in UK back then, but now it's in all the shops at christmas. It's an enriched bread dough studded with dried fruits with a roll of marzipan in the middle and flaked almonds on the top. Mmmm, delicious!

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  254. My favorite holiday food is my dressing I make with the turkey. Everyone always insist I make it every year. I guess it must be pretty good.

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  271. I love eating quick breads this time of year: pumpkin, banana, date, raisin, nuts. They are easy to make, the house will smell awesome, guests enjoy them, and they even make great gifts.

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  277. I love my beach holidays in the Med and to eat a Greek salad! Fresh tomatoes, cucumber, thinly slices white onion, black olives, a pinch of oregano, salt and lashings of olive oil. (no feta cheese for me)Crusty white bread to dip…MMMMmmmm

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  284. My absolute favorite holiday food is good ol' fashioned roasted turkey! I love Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner because of the turkey!

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  291. I love the sweets. The fudge, cookies and the like. I try not to make a whole lot because I don't want to spend the rest of the year getting it off my hips.. 🙂

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  300. My favorite holiday food is cranberry sauce! I am also a huge fan of Christmas cookies!

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  303. You want me to pick just ONE favorite food?! That's almost impossible. I do look forward to the devilled egg casserole we have for breakfast so maybe that's my absolute favorite. So hard to choose!

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  314. I like Christmas cookies. Every year my granddaughter and I try a new recipe.this year it will be one with dried apples and walnuts

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  346. I am a new follower of your newsletter and already follow on Bloglovin. I am a new quilter and I am reading and learning from a lot of quilting bloggers. I choose projects that will challenge my skills as I can. I just retired and have more time to dedicate to this skill improvement. Merry Christmas. crystalbluern at onlineok dot com

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  353. I really love the sweets and desserts. I really don't too many of these kinds of foods throughout the year so I do indulge during the holidays. Thank you for the opportunity.

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  356. Love the blog – so many fantastic ideas – thank you
    Favourite at xmas – roasted vegetables especially roasted brussel sprouts with balsamic vinegar and black pepper!

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  357. Not a food, but I only make cocoa from scratch during the holidays. I use my grandmother's technique and it always turns out beautifully.

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  364. My favorite food for the holidays is iced sugar cookies. I will be eating less of them this year though since I have just recently lost 21 lbs. All things in moderation right? ,,,except for sewing! Thanks, Kathy
    kdavis1@centurytel.net

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  374. My favourite is my late grandmothers Frozen Christmas Pudding – it is amazing but only allowed at Christmas time. It is very special.

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  391. Since we live out of state, it is nice to have many of our hometown favorites at Christmas. One of my faves is a candy that is not made many places–it is Sponge Candy. Yummy! No, not made out of sponges, but the candy center has kind of a spongy texture–covered in chocolate!

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  398. Love your giveaway. I follow you on Bloglovin and Like you on Facebook. Sorry, I do not have a Twitter account.Thanks for the chance.

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  424. Dominosteine! Little cubes with a layer of gingerbready-cakey-stuff, a thin layer of marzipan, and a layer of sweet jammy fruity stuff, all covered in dark chocolate. So yummy.

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  431. i really really like the peppermint bark candy that is only out around the holidays. im not much of a chef, so just the simple things for me! thanks for a chance.

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  440. All the pies we make for Christmas and Thanksgiving. My family really likes the chocolate pudding pie which is just chocolate pudding in a pie crust and whip cream.

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  451. I love baking a skillet apple pie! For the crust, google 'cooks illustrated vodka pie crust.' Its my go to recipe. You'll get a wonderfully flaky crust when you use a little vodka in the recipe (instead of some of the water) because the vodka evaporates out completely when baking!

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  452. I know this is strange but Pizza… if we are eating Pizza it means the grand kids are here and that makes the Pizza the best meal ever…

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  458. LOVE your hand dyed fabrics! Such vibrant colors! My fav holiday food is anything with Chocolate and Peanut Butter! Mom's cookies are my absolute fav! Thanks for the giveaway!

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  470. Bark! Multi-grain club crackers (for a tiny dose of healthfulness) doused with melted butter and brown sugar, baked a bit, then covered in melted dark chocolate. Sinfully delicious! Thanks for this chance.

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  471. I love to have the Christmas morning brunch, Monkey bread and homemade cinnamon rolls.
    lissawatson 3 at gmail dot com

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  472. I make 2 big roasters full of Nuts & Bolts every Christmas. Most people call that Chex Mix these days but mine has Cherrios (nuts) & Pretzels (bolts), hence the names. Chex cereal too and lots of mixed nuts & cashews – YUMMY!

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  476. My favorite holiday food is Sugar Cookies… Fresh from the oven, the cutout kind (homemade of course!) and slightly underdone so they are chewy!!!

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  482. There is not much I don't LOVE to eat, but if I just pick one, it would be gravy the is made with turkey drippings. LOVE!

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  488. Love your artwork, sewing & your orchard.
    Your 'stalker' customer 😉
    Would Love to win this! Following everything now! Get Tumbler account too!

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  492. We only make Spritz cookies at Christmas time so I really enjoy having them each year. They seem to disappear quickly so hide a few behind the teapot in my china closet so there are a few to have with a cup of tea.

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  496. I know its crazy but Christmas has always been the ideal time to indulge and eat roasted chesnuts.
    I guess they were considered a treat when I was a child back in the 50s – last century!
    Although they can now be found more often, somehow roast chesnuts epitomise a family Christmas to me.
    Love your blog and have learnt so much from it so, thank you from one of your UK followers : )

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  504. I follow on Bloglovin. It is fun to r wad everyone's favorite food. This year I made fruit cake it is so good. Your fabric is lovely. What kind of fabric do you use for dying.

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  510. My great aunts used to make cathedral window cookies. No "cookie" involved actually – colored marshmellows covered with melted chocolate
    rolled into a long roll, cooled and sliced. I'm going to have to find that reciepe now!

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  521. I love to make and eat Krispy Kreme donut bread pudding. I have two recipes which I will share with you if you email me. They are decadent and have no calories at all!

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  530. I love all the different types of cookies!

    Thank you for such a wonderful prize package, and the opportunity to win it!!

    haynesrive(at) aol(dot)com

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  531. I follow Persimon Dreams on Facebook

    Thank you again for such a wonderful prize package, and the opportunity to win it!!

    haynesrive(at) aol(dot)com

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  533. I like Project QUILTING o Facebook

    Thank you again for such a wonderful prize package, and the opportunity to win it!!

    haynesrive(at) aol(dot)com

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  534. I also follow your blog!

    Thank you once again for such a wonderful prize package, and the opportunity to win it!!

    haynesrive(at) aol(dot)com

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  535. I don't know if it counts as a food…but my favorite thing to consume around the Holidays is cocoa and Peppermint Schnapps. Its really the only time I drink alcohol! Thanks for the chance.

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  536. My favorite is our Christmas Eve tradition of the 7 fishes. My family has been doing this since way before I was born. I remember my Grandmother preparing it, then my mother did it for many years after Grandmom passed away and now my sister and I do it. Hopefully our daughters will continue the tradition. Thanks so much for the chance to win – Merry Christmas! 🙂

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  540. My favorite food during the holidays is the Swedish cookie recipe passed down for generations. Rosettes! Oh how I love these delicate little lacy cookies. We are a granulated-sugar-on-top family, others are powered-on-top. 🙂

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  554. Ohhhh your hand dyed fabric is awesome. I said "oh my" out loud when I saw it! Thanks for the eye candy! My favorite holiday treat is hot spinach artichoke dip. Thanks so much for this beautiful giveaway and for your lovely blog!

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  558. Hmm, my favourite holiday food has got to be frosted sugar cookies. I follow the Martha Stewart recipe and they come out great every time 🙂 Thanks for the chance to win!

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  561. My favorite food for the holidays are sugar cut out cookies with lots of frosting! Thanks for a wonderful giveaway!

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  568. Kruidnoten, speculaas! More for "Sinterklaas", which is a Dutch tradition on the 5th, but I cannot resists those "speculaas" spices.

    Made a filled version last night in like… 10 minutes?

    Dough: 85g butter (room temperature, in tiny blocks), 125g of flour, 1,5 teaspoon of baking powder, pinch of salt, about half a tablespoon of those "speculaas herbs" (http://dutchfood.about.com/od/cookingtipstechniques/ss/Speculaskruiden.htm)
    Mix all together, knead, make 2 balls of douch and roll in 2 flat "pancakes", which is easiest between baking paper.

    Stuffing: 75g of almond (meal is easiest & quickest, otherwise you need to grind almonds), 75g of light brown sugar, about 3/4 of an egg.

    Decoration: Few whole almond or slices, white is prettiest, but who cares… 😉 And the remainder of the egg.

    Make layers, dough -> stuffing on it (stay approx 1cm away from the edge), put other "pancake" of dough on top, pretty almonds on top, egg over it and in the oven for approx 30 minutes on 175C.

    Cool off & slice in pieces. Or eat straight away. Or put them in a tin, all good. 🙂

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  570. My favorite holiday foods from the Christmas meal is stuffing, mashed potatoes and sauerkraut, with gravy of course. But if we're talking about a food we make, like a dessert….it would be my mother's homemade caramels, I prefer the chocolate with nuts. Yummmmmy.
    Rae (nrhaller@aol.com

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  571. My favourite food is very hard to stop at one!

    I love the traditional roast and Christmas pudding, I love mince pies, all the savoury snacks, in fact I think I'll have to go on a MAFOR diet in the New Year!

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  586. Hi There! What a beautiful thread pack! and fabric! My favorite holiday treat is a peach pie! We had one every holiday growing up and it was only when I was on my own and asked my mom to share her recipe that I realized it was a Mrs. Smith's peach pie from the frozen section! We still have one at every holiday to this day! And it is easy! 🙂 Merry Christmas, Kim!!

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  594. My favorite is a breakfast casserole that I make for Christmas morning. It is the only time that I make it and I now make extra so there are leftovers.

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  605. this fabric is gorgeous! thanks for participating! best stuffing recipe is spinach/sun-dried tomatoes/mushroom stuffing!

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