Update: 12/7 — Congratulations to Heather, winner of the wreath. Her number came up! Thanks, all, for playing! ENTRIES NOW CLOSED.
It’s time for our most awaited giveaway of the year — a chance to win one of Georgia Peachez’ gorgeous vintage Christmas ornament wreaths — complete with vintage kneehugger elf made to order just for me — to give away to one of you! As far as I know, Georgia Peachez was the pioneer of the vintage ornament wreath, and has honed her craft to perfection. There’s nothing quite like an original GeorgiaPeachez creation! Read on for the rules to enter — and note, you can enter here daily now through Monday, Dec. 4.
As far as I know, Georgia Peachez aka Suzy was the first one to make and sell these wreaths starting about 10 years ago. She started a phenom! In the last few years, Suzy has also started creating non-wreath vintage goodies, such as arrangements made in vintage vessels like head vases, retro toys and Christmas ceramics, as well as dioramas made using the vintage ornament boxes. You can see a lot of her adorable creations on GeorgiaPeachez’s Facebook page and in her online shop. Bottom line, we just adore this artist and all she does!
How to enter to win this vintage ornament wreath made by GeorgiaPeachez:
- To win, you must be a subscriber to our newsletter (Yes, this is “what’s in it for the blog” — you can opt out at any time after the contest ends, or continue on for the stories and other, occasional giveaways.)
- To enter, use the Comment field on this post below and tell us what is your favorite part of the holiday season. Or whatever, we’re easy.
- You can enter once per day now through Monday, Dec. 4, 2017, when entries close. (You only need to subscribe to the newsletter once, though!)
- U.S. lower 48 states only. (These limits are in place because shipping (and customs internationally) gets prohibitively expensive in particular considering the fragility of this product and how carefully it must be wrapped.)
- Repeate: Entries close on Monday, Dec. 4, 2017, around 5 p.m. Eastern — that is, Iwill close the Comments field at that time.
- Prize: There will be one winner. The winner will receive the vintage ornament wreath pictured above, made by the GeorgiaPeachez, mailed to you by Georgia Peachez.
- Pam will choose the winners via the Random Number Generator at random.org. I will check if the ‘winner’ is a newsletter subscriber. I will email the winner. [Tip: Be sure you enter your email address correctly in the email field of the Comment form.] The winner will have five business days to respond. If I do not hear from them, I will choose the next person after who commented. Lather, rinse, repeat. I will post the winner’s first name as soon as all is confirmed. Note, I ‘clean up’ all the comments before choosing. That is, if someone A replies to another’s comment within the same day that someone A entered, I take out A’s comment.
- Terms of use apply.
Many thanks to the fabulous GeorgiaPeachez!
Disclosure: I purchased this wreath for this giveaway
from GeorgiaPeachez; she is covering the shipping — thanks, Suzy!.
We don’t typically do giveaways to make any money —
but to delight readers and to grow our newsletter list.
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Can’t wait? Make a wreath of your own! We tell you how, starting with Georgia Peachez’ gracious tips in our famous tutorials:
Dianne says
My favorite memory when I was a child & into my teens, we could not afford a christmas tree, so my uncle would take me, my sister, & brother out to the country and we would pick out a ceder tree that would suffice even though it was not as full as we wanted it to be, bring it home & my mother would place it in a bucket with dirt. We then would hang all the ornaments and the retro christmas lights on it and it was a delight to see it turn into a beautiful work of art with the ornaments sparkling from the reflections of the lights. What a wonder in our eyes back then. My sister and I would dance around the tree and look at our reflection in the shiny bulbs, never once did we think of the presents that would not be under the tree. Somehow on Christmas morn we would have a small gift of candy or cookies under the tree that was made by our Mother. Then my Uncle & Aunt would drop by with sugarcane to chew and a fruit cake.
My Mom always managed to have a special dinner of chicken and dressing, and sweet potato pie. Those memories linger sometime when I tell my grandchildren the real meaning of Christmas. They have so much these days. It means family and the love for them and your neighbor. Didn’t mean to make this so long, but I’m sure most of the readers here on this blog share the same memories.
Maggie Brendan says
Great post, sis! Still great childhood memories I remember fondly. I would add that our brother always slipped a small package – powder or perfume from Woolworth under the tree at the last minute after he returned from working at A & P stocking shelves.
Dianne, I believe you can write a story perhaps. You just proved it.
Love, your historical writer sis, Maggie Brendan. ❣
Ginny says
I just went to the holiday closet and started dragging out boxes for a slow, post-Thanskgiving-after-Dec 1 start of our holiday season.
Kathy says
Retro Andy Williams Christmas shows!
Sara McNamara says
I love pulling out all of our family ornaments, many back from grade school days, and remembering where each one made, or came from, or received from.
Whitney Noel says
One of the things I love about Christmas? Gingerbread!
Amelia Jackson says
My 1960s silver tree!
Anne says
I enjoy using vintage Christmas decorations that have been in my family since the 1950’s.
Lauren says
Christmas lights, inside or outside!
Rhonda says
Elvis Blue Christmas!
Dennis F Doran Jr says
At Thanksgiving we do Christmas as well. Our kids are far away and we don’t want them to drive in weather that may be unpredictable. Besides, there kids want to be home for that day, It always works out perfect and we can leave for Florida a little sooner.