Everyone loves to get pictures in their Christmas cards and letters. It is perhaps the best part! To have a chance to see a family’s progression and growth is part of what makes holidays so special.
The Countdown to Christmas Challenge for today is to make an appointment fo
r your family’s Christmas portrait to be taken so that you can get the pictures back in time to send in cards. If that is not your style, then make an appointment on your calendar to take a family photo out in your yard or in another meaningful spot.
Check out List Mama Blog’s List of Steps to Taking Family Photos for the Holidays.
I completely forgot to mention the winners of the 5 Holiday ePlanners from ListPlanIt.com in yesterdays post! Here are the winners: Laura, Amy, Krisi, Susan, Kelly R. These 5 have been notified by email of their win.
This next week’s giveaway is for a customized Christmas canvas from October Belle Designs. You can choose from one of her Christmas collections:
* The Jolly Jingle Collection: Colors are apple green, red and white with accents in chocolate brown or black.
* The Merry Berry Christmas Collection: Colors are cranberry, dark green, gold and chocolate brown.
* The Chilly Confection Collection: Colors are magenta, silver and turquoise with accents in black.
The winner will receive the personalization of their choice!
Once again, you have several ways to enter to win this beautiful, handpainted canvas:
1) leave a comment on this post,
2) tell your friends & followers about 100 Days to Christmas on Facebook or Twitter(so easy to do when you use the Share This button at the bottom of this post) and leave a comment here linking to your profile,
3) subscribe to 100 Days to Christmas‘ RSS feed using a reader or by email and leave a commen
t here,
4) blog about 100 Days to Christmas then leave a comment here linking to your post.
5) become a member of the 100 Days to Christmas community
One of each of these per day please. You have until October 18 at 6 pm EST to enter.
Oh, the joys of being an amateur photographer! I remember the stress of Christmas pictures. This year, I want to wait until it’s snowed to get the pictures. I think I’ll skip putting them in the cards, though. There aren’t many people on our list that we don’t see regularly.
As per your request, my daily submission into the contest is that I’ve joined the community. You can’t miss me. I think I’ve blown the dang place up with comments!
Will sunny weather here I am thinking hard about the photo for this year. I am thinking that I will try and make it a fun one. Put this one on my to do list.
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How funny you should put this up as today’s activity! My kids are having their annual formal portraits done today at 4pm!!!! Been scheduled since September! And I was planning on snapping a dozen or so of my own before we go to hopefully get that great shot for the annual Christmas card! For once, I’m ahead! Yeah!
I always forget about Christmas pictures until it is too late – so a timely reminder
I might do the ‘pets’ this year for the cards I think
This is one of those holiday traditions that I LOVE with my family… and my husband hates! LOL Some years we do the entire family in portraits. Other years we only do pictures of our little guy. Whichever way it goes, family and friends DO enjoy getting pictures in their cards!
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For the first time I have scheduled a picture session with a photographer!! We will finally get our FIRST family portrait together…all 7 of us!! should be interesting…. Great givewaway too!!
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i’m already a member of the 100 days community! ♥
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I am so excited to have won a Holiday ePlanner, so great – Thank you so much.
Pretty canvas.
I am a subscriber.
and a community member.
I’m also a subscriber!!
http://twitter.com/3cuddlebugs/status/4848572109
I’d love to win (and I’m a subscriber).
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The canvas is so pretty!! And I have been thinking about the Christmas card portrait for two months–it is definitely time to plan it. Thanks for the tip!
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I just found your blog! I LOVE CHRISTMAS! Thanks for the days till christmas I needed it! I am also a sucker for giveaways so I subscribed
I subscribe by RSS reader.
I subscribe…and by the way…we did get that christmas card shot today while we were at the photo shoot! Yeah!
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