Welcome to my giveaway! For first-time visitors, I am a reporter for The Associated Press by day, crafter by night. This blog has been a bit neglected in recent months, but I hope to get some momentum back in the new year!
I’m giving away a set of Japanese-style beanbags called Otedama that I made using a tutorial found HERE at The Things That Make Us Happy and Wise blog. Instructions on how to play the game can be found HERE, but it appears to be similar to playing jacks: You throw one beanbag in the air and pick up another before catching the thrown bag in the same hand and so on. My 10-year-old son gave this set a test run this morning and found it fun but more challenging than we expected!
They were rather tricky to sew because they are so small!
I will leave this open until Friday at 9 p.m. EST and will announce the winner on Saturday. I will ship internationally.
Just leave me a comment, any comment will do. If you’re feeling chatty, tell me something yummy you like to eat or drink for the holidays.
And please check out all the other great giveaways here:
I love these! I love anything pepperminty.
I haven’t had mulled cider in years, but I’ve had the mulling spices for years. What is wrong here?! I should ammend that this year.
Love hot chocolate during the holidays and all winter.
I always make hot apple cider during the holidays.
My boys are eating spritz cookies for breakfast this am.
This is super cute! I can even imagine using these as pattern weights if I could wrestle it away from the kids. My favorite holiday treat is chocolate mint anything 🙂
home made christmas cookies “nut corners”
These are adorable. I love any and all chocolate!
I love to make & eat Pecan Pralines. My granddaughter would love this game! It would be a good one to have on hand when she comes to visit!
These are super cute! We love drinking hot chocolate, especially if it has a hint of caramel in it!
I bet it was tricky sewing and turning things that little but they look great. My favorite holiday treat is cranberry-chocolate fudge.
I love to make cranberry sauce and eat it with stuffing!This year I’m making one off of pinterest that has cranberries, blueberries and Cabernet. I also make a ptetty fine green bean casseroles le with a fresh shallot cream sauce instead of mushrrom soup
I think my grandkids would enjoy these!
I love making peppermint bark.
These are very cool! I’m sure my kids would love them. Thank you for the giveaway.
I love eggnog! Thanks for the chance to win.
Love these! I like to make cioppino for New Years.
We always make trifle for dessert on Christmas Day, but instead of normal trifle we use berries only. Yummy!
I bake a large batch of cookies every weekend in December. By the time 12th night comes around the house is ready for a break 😉
Anything and everything with eggnog in it.
I love to eat Santa cookies that my Mom used to make when I was a kid, but now I make them with my kids. It always makes me happy.
These are awesome!
My family and I have a tradition of Chinese take-out for Xmas Eve dinner!
Those look like so much fun! I’ve never seen them before!
How cute these are! I like German christmas cookies – Vanillekipferl.
My favorite holiday food is to make these amazing no-bake cookies soaked in melted hershey’s chocolate that my mom always made to give to family and friends during the holidays.
I love the bean bags design! So cute!
Green bean casserole is my favorite. 🙂
My husband is part swedish, and I’ve now developed a taste for Julmust. Definitely worth a try if you see it anywhere!
I love chesnut sauce to go with some meat
Since you work for the AP, I’d be interested in knowing where you’d place commas in the following sentence. (Be forewarned that I despise the Oxford comma):
It is this time of year that I like to enjoy full-fat eggnog, hot tea and the occasional knock-your-socks-off cocktail!
I love to eat lots of kinds of cookies!
These are so cute! My favorite beverage this time of year is an eggnog latte…yum!
Warm apple cider brings back fond childhood holiday memories.
It sounds weird but hot jello was my childhood drink.
My grandson would love this! So cute! Thanks for the chance to win!
These beanbags are so fun! Please count me in.
I’m a hot chocolate girl. Happy holidays.
I love how cute these are. I love the bring fabrics you used too
I love hot chocolate with Baileys Irish creame
I love Magic Cookie Bars and it seems like most people only make them this time of year. Love the beanbags and I think my kiddos would, too!
These look fun! I bet they’d be good for practicing juggling, too.
I’ll be baking shortbread for the holidays.
Lovely color 🙂
I love anything with chocolate; )
OMG, those are so cute! Thanks for the giveaway. I love chocolate at any time of year.
Cocoa with a cinnamon stick 🙂
Looks like a great game for my grandkids. Hot Chocolate with lots of marshmallows
They look really neat! I can see also using the bags for homeschool (like throw the bag on a letter, or word and have the child give the correct answer, make a game out of it). We could try the game as is too of course. Thank you so much for the links. Good luck with reviving your blog. You can do it!
I really enjoy eating pumpkin pie during the holidays.
really awesome! my kids would have a blast with this.
my mom makes special ‘santa cookies’ every year – same recipe my grama made, so they are a treasured tradition.
I love chruschiki, which is a kind of Polish fried cookie.
I played with jacks as a child and this game won’t hurt if you step on them. My mother used to make this delicious dessert from chocolate, peanut butter and coconut every year for Christmas — not sure of the name.
This would be a great gift for my niece. Thanks for offering a chance to win a give away!
I have a bit of a thing for lemon meringue pie, and my current favourite is lemon meringue chocolate cake – it’s great for celebrations. 🙂
My 20 month old daughter would love carrying these around 🙂
Looks like fun! I like egg nog. Mmmmm
Gingersnaps are one of my favorite holiday cookies.
These are rad. I make a bunch of different christmas cookies, which I love all of because they are tasty and remind me of my family, who is far away. I love drinking hot buttered rum and spicy mulled wine… mmmmmm.
those are so fun!
These are really cute! I love to eat all of the cookies and candies my mom makes each year!
Adorable! I love Christmas cookies!
I love, love, love pumpkin pie!
I like to eat iced gingerbread. Unfortunately it has been a few years since I’ve had the kind I like since I get to travel home during summers. American gingerbread is very different from Estonian kind. So I don’t have a sweet that I could look forward to. We do drink mulled cider during holiday season 🙂
We are enjoying eggnog and pumpkin pie right now!
Only recently I read about Otedama and it seems so interesting and challenging. I would love to give this a try and to have my daughter to give it a go. She’s eleven and was trying to juggle with the new tennis balls she got the other day. I told her about the five little bags I’d seen and the tricks they do with them. The ones you made are really cute and I’d love them. They would definitely keep us busy for a while. Thank you for letting me participate in the giveaway.
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Thanks! it looks really great!
I love oat cookies.
Love this game. Thanks for the chance
Just made a large bowl of banana pudding with nilla wafers and its nearly gone this is what happens when you have kids great giveaway thanks.
lovely folding/sewing!!
eggnog of course:)
what an interesting game, looks fun!
eggnog!!! Love the stuff. I love your beanbags, such a cool folding technique
These are really adorable! Sometimes around the holidays, my mom used to make this banana shrub punch (I don’t know why it has such and odd name)- it has bananas, orange juice, pineapple juice… That is my all time favorite “holiday” drink!
Thanks for the chance! This is really cute. I love Christmas cookies!! 🙂
These are so cool! We love to make warn fruit punch
for the holidays
THANKS!
I like basically any Christmas cookies. 🙂
What beautiful beanbags! Yummy = Egg Nog, for sure : )
These are beautifully crafted!! my son would love the challenge of playing this! My favourite is sweet potatoe casserole with brown sugar praline topping! yum! Merry Christmas!
I love chocolate dipped pretzels they are soo yummy!
My granddaughter would love these! What a unique idea. cdahlgrent at live dot com
I hope I win these they are the best.
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I have to say that hot cocoa is definitely my favorite winter treat! 🙂
I love hot cider and cookies! The otedama look lovely in such vibrant colors. 🙂
What fun!!
I like florentine biscuits!
What a wonderful gift for a little child (I have several of those)! Your bean bags looks so good! Thank you!!
Those are adorable! I love hot chocolate during the holidays. (Or on any chilly day, really.)
I can’t wait to play these with my son. Thanks for the chance to win them.
I like hot apple cider and kringla cookies.
They are really cute!
I’d love to have some haggis! Someone on a facebook group was asking for ideas on how to serve and the ideas have me craving the stuff. Chicken stuffed with Haggis and Potato cakes, haggis balls in breadcrumbs, Haggis stuffed jacket potato and cheese, haggis nachos. The ideas kept coming!
Pumpkin mousse is always the best, especially with gingerbread cookies.
Cute, make a great stocking stuffer for my boys. Love it! Follow you on Bloglovin. Ty!
Beautiful! I know someone special who would love it! Thanks for the chance.
This time of year I love gingerbread.
We love to make Tasha Tudor English Toffee.
Yummy holiday food…pumpkin pie!
Peppermint hot chocolate.
I’d love to win this for my elderly father. He used to love to play basketball, and I think he’d enjoy using these to “shoot baskets.” Thanks for offering this great giveaway!
Very generous giveaway! We make a cranberry, orange, apple cider this time of year. Kind of a wassail.:)
This would be so fun to win! I have four small children who would get a kick out of something like this!
This would be perfect for my granddaughter. Thanks for participating in the Giveaway Day.
Good evening from Minnesota! Love this little set. As for holiday treats, nothing beats ginger cookies and tea.
I love chocolate covered cereal during the holidays. It’s sometimes called “puppy chow” or “white trash”, but it’s delicious whatever it’s called. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about: http://www.browneyedbaker.com/muddy-buddies-puppy-chow-recipe/
Have a great holiday!
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I can think of a few games these little cubes would work great for in addition to the “jacks” game…of which I might add.. I was VERY good at jacks as a kid!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Cheri
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I love peppermint!!! Especially peppermint hot chocolate from Starbucks. With vanilla pound cake. just yum.
Hoping my son could use these to learn to juggle. Chai tea has become a favorite drink.
These look fun. I love gingerbread. Thanks.
These are so cute! I love eggnog during the holidays!
I love eating gingerbread!
Oh, yay, a blog I actually CAN comment on! =) Thanks so much for the chance to win these. My son loves ALL things Japanese, and I know he’d love these if I win them. I think my favorite thing to eat during the holidays is fudge. Yum!
I have a rather yummy (and definately calorie laden) egg nog recipe that I save for Christmas Eve and indulge!
Favourite thing to eat at Christmas is my Late Grandmothers Secret Frozen Christmas Pudding. It is a secret family recipe that can only be made at Christmas time and only those who can be trusted to keep the tradition and the secret are trusted with the recipe (I am one of the lucky few).
I like just about anything that is baked, but not too sweet, with a good holiday tea.
These are so cute! I love to make cookies with my kids and we enjoy sharing them and eating them!
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I think these will be quite fun for my kids! I happen to love pineapple cheesecake from my mom’s recipe. It’s light and fluffy, not like New York cheesecake, and we only make it for Christmas!
What fun! My husband visits Japan several times per year for work – what fun it would be to win this prize! My favorite thing is kumla (potato dumplings).
These are great. I love the colors!
I’ve never tried it, but holiday songs are making me want to try figgy pudding. What a great prize! They look like a lot of work to make.
Cute! Thanks for the giveaway!
Thanks for the giveaway. I always make mulled spiced apple cider to get us through the cold nights. I’ve tried mulled wine, too, and like it but I seem to be in the minority at my house on that one.
I love to eat almond bars. They’re a yummy thing made a lot in our Dutch community and just taste of almond, butter and sugar. Nummmmmmm.
What a fun giveaway! I love hot apple cider (when I’m feeling festive) and peppermint tea (just about any evening) during the holidays.
I’m in love with pumpkin pie…and hot chocolate. I’m going to make some Hot Chocolate truffles soon. You drop them into hot milk and stir to make ahhh-mazing hot chocolate. Yum!
Thanks!
I love fudge!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Cute project. Thanks for the chance.
I love chocolate peppermint shakes- if you are near a Chickfila, theirs are the best!
These are really cute! I love a nice cup of hot chocolate.
Those are really cute! I’m going to have to check out the link to them.
all. the. cookies.
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Totally cute, apple pie with a scoop of ice-cream sound so good right now.
I love mulled cider, and decorated Christmas cookies. Eating frosted cookies any other time of the year never seems right, somehow. 🙂
My grand daughters would love these. Merry Christmas from Oklahoma, USA! crystalbluern at onlineok dot com
These are adorable and I must have them!
Also, I love chamomile tea 🙂
I like my mother’s Scottish shortbread and mincemeat pie at Christmas!
I love Quality Street – a brand of chocolates you can get in the UK. They definitely say ‘christmas’ to me.
These are so cool! I like to eat speck kuchen around New Years. It’s bread dough stuffed with bacon and onions and was something hubby’s family had all through his life for New Years. A yummy tradition! Thanks for participating! 🙂
I love lots of things to eat, this time of year (winter i mean, not necesarily holidays) it’s soup at least once a week. Soup always makes things better!
How fun!!! I have a 7 yr old son that can test drive these 🙂 I love the colors! I love to cook/eat my cranberry/kumquat cranberry sauce. A bit labor intensive, but I try to freeze some to get the most bang out of the effort, but there never seems to be enough left over to freeze 🙂
This is a gorgeous set! My yummy Christmas treat is our family Fondue dinner at Christmas Eve with prawns, chicken, beef and venison, homemade garlic butter, homemade bread and a green salad. I’m getting hungry…
Thanks for the chance!
These are so cute! Thanks for the chance to win them.
I went to Trader Joes today and had to resist the urge to buy all the amazing holiday treats they have right now. Though, I did walk out with chocolate ice cream and salted caramel gelato! Any time, any where!
I love teh hot apple cider that we put in the crock pot from Thanksgiving until New Years!
I love these! They are adorable!!!
I have so many nephews who would work hard in secret to practice up so as to be able to show off in public. Thanks for sharing the information on the tutorial and the directions. If I win, I’m keeping yours, so I’ll have to make any I want to give away. During the holidays, I could live on Christmas cookies!
Those are adorable. I love too many holiday foods as evident by the scale 😛 – hot apple cider, hot chocolate, pies, peppermint ice cream, cut-out sugar cookies, etc.
Buy some caramel vodka, Stoli salted caramel is the best and mix it with Coke. Tastes like candy. Thank you, peterstankovich@comcast.net
I love shortbread cookies and fruit cake!
I love these. My husband is a juggler and I’d guess he’d try to juggle them, however the game sounds really neat. I like anything warmed with peppermint schnapps added. This stoli carmel thing sounds pretty good though. Thanks for the giveaway and happiest of holidays.
Looks like loads of fun, we love games especially if we are throwing things. I love to eat homemade peanut butter fudge no one around us makes it until Christmas time, then it is everywhere! So love fudge! Great giveaway!