***GIVEAWAY CLOSED NOV 2010***
We love Secret Santa packages around here – good things come in small packages, and even more delightful things come in ones that package together lots of handmade goodies!


This month we’re offering a massive giveaway of ‘On Top of a Lily Pad’ (OTLP) products. It’s our biggest giveaway yet! More than $NZ70.00 worth of Christmas handmade goodies of your choice of colour, size, and appliqué, choosing from:
- Any of our Christmas Card Keeper pinboards;
- Any appliquéd design on a lovely cherry red Topography t-shirt (any size);
- Any Christmas Stocking Decoration, with your choice of appliqué and colour;
- Two gorgeous handmade OTLP Christmas Cards.
Imagine your children’s delight this Christmas when you go all out to bring back traditional Christmas cheer – in a stylish, modern way, using 100% cotton designer fabrics in the latest home decor trends. Will you go with all red polka dots, in an Amy Butler tribute? Or will you use a vintage style pattern....or a vibrant green as your theme?
We also want to encourage you to teach your children about the gift of giving at Christmas – by getting them involved in writing Christmas Cards. As well as drawing a winner of our $70.00 prize pack, we will draw a ‘runners-up’ prize – this lucky person will win a set of six Christmas cards designed by the lovely Sarah at Songbird Designs. Ultra modern and stylish, these quality cards are among some of the range pictured on my Christmas Card Keepers and are eye-catching and stylish! The timing to win these gives you plenty of time to make the international postage cut-off date for this year of November 29th (Australia) and November 22 (rest of world).(As an additional offer, I’ll send out a handmade Christmas Card to the children of every person who buys a Christmas Card Keeper between now and Christmas – ‘from Secret Santa’ – to get your board started looking full and busy.)
Our giveaway competition is open from now until the end of October, 2010, and closes at 5pm Monday Nov 1, 2010. The winners (both the main prize and Songbird Designs’ card pack winner ) will be drawn by random.org .
Please note: due to the weight of the pinboard, and size, this competition is only open to NZ and Australian readers. Sorry!
HOW TO ENTER:
There’s two ways to enter our giveaway:
- For 1x entry, join our blog’s mailing list (see left hand column), or our facebook pages (see left hand column), AND leave a comment on this post with your favourite thing about Christmas (current followers just need to leave a comment below)
- For 5x entries, re-post about our giveaway on your blog or facebook page, AND tell us you have done this via a post below.
All entries must be recorded before 5pm Nov 1.
Good luck!!!

The best thing about xmas is watching the delight on my childs face when they see all the presents under the xmas tree on xmas morning, and the excitement of finding out what is inside them.
ReplyDeleteDone Ladies - I can't wait for my First Christmas with my Little Miss :)
ReplyDeletewow what a giveaway! my favourite things about christmas time are wrapping pressies, christmas crafts, berry picking and seeing the kids faces on christmas morning! I love christmas!
ReplyDeleteHave put your giveaway on my blog and on my facebook page too :)
I have signed up to your blog mailing list. where to start on good things about Christmas... this year is going to be the first year that my daughter will understand what is happening, so that's going to be pretty exciting! I love seeing her face when she realises that a pressie is for her. A new bubs due any time before or on Christmas makes this year extra exciting too!
ReplyDeletesimone porthouse says My favourite thing about Christmas is visiting the Myer windows with the children to see the delight on their faces! oh and our Xmas tree.. love the lights in the house :)
ReplyDeleteHey what a lovely way to get in the Xmas mood. I love Church in the morning. I love getting together with family and friends sharing LOADS of food and drink. I love the house looking all twinkly and xmassy... and opening the pressies with kiddies on xmas morning... And I re-posted your guys comp on my facebook page... Rebecca W ♥
ReplyDeleteFacebook fan here!!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite thing about Christmas is catching up with Family and Friends that I haven't seen since the Christmas before.
Done, shred this on my FB page and also sent it on to all my friends with little ones. This Christmas will be my 1st one with our little girl, my partner and I are loving every minute of having her around.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite thing about Christmas is thinking up, and then organising (including sometimes making) what my family wears for Christmas day. I've done this ever since we had our second child, so that's been almost 21 years now (pheww!) and as the kids have got older it has sure got a bit trickier making them .... or should I say encouraging them .... to ummm comply!!!!! I try to come up with a theme, either a colourway or an idea - like the year my daughter was in Canada so we all dressed in Canadian colours with a maple leaf somewhere on us (we live in NZ). Or last year we dressed in denims with white singlets that I had appliqued letters on - on the front we spelled out "MERRY" and on the back "XMAS".
ReplyDeleteI blogged about this giveaway :)
ReplyDeleteHope you don't mind - but I shared some of your pics (Crediting you guys of course!) as an incentive to others :)
I love the family gatherings,every one together. cheers Marie
ReplyDeleteI love Christmas eve and the anticipation of it all. New fb fan :)
ReplyDeleteMy favourite thing about Christmas is Christmas eve, when I throw all my childrens gifts and stockings on my bed, put on some music and get busy wrapping and filling..and then their excitement the next day!
ReplyDeleteI have updated my FB status. It should show on the Lily Pad Design FB page.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite thing about christmas used to be all the yummy food you got to eat that you never got at any other time of the year. Now that I have a child the best part is wrapping his presents for his santa sack.
my favourite thing about christmas is giving gifts!!! I love giving handmade creations and specially chosen gifts to the people i love.
ReplyDeleteDone. Shared the link on my fb page :o)
ReplyDeleteFamily and Friends time is the Favourite thing about this time of year. I already follow and have posted in my side bar. Thanks
ReplyDeleteI've shared it too on my FB page. Sally
ReplyDeleteI love getting together with family and friends for the day.
ReplyDeleteI think my favourite thing about Christmas is remembering the excitement you felt as a kid. It never goes away.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite thing about Christmas is the smells.. xmas pudding, fresh pine trees, mulled wine & fake snow (lol!) The smells bring all the elements of Christmas together :)
ReplyDeleteI have posted a link to your page on my FaceBook & joined your mailing list <3
Fave Christmas thing? family together!
ReplyDeletei've reposted your giveaway on FHC sidebar :)
ReplyDeletethx for the xtra opps to enter !
and your lovely giveaway generosity..
Shared the link on my facebook page too. I'm really looking forward to our first christmas where Rebecca can understand presents!
ReplyDeletehiya - just signed up for newsletter, and posted on my fbook page. hope you had a lovely long weekend!
ReplyDeleteHave signed up for email, and posted on Facebook! Myfavourite thing about xmas, is unpacking all the christmas decorations out of the boxes on Dec 1st! And then watching the kids anticipation on the countdown to the 25th! The kids also love the chocolate advent calenders, Yum! Yum! Chocolate everyday in December till the 25th, and whammy christmas presents!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite thing about chistmas is how everyone just gets a little more kind...
ReplyDeleteI have signed up for email, and posted on facebook too. xoxox
p.s I love this blog! sooo many beautiful things!
All signed up :-)
ReplyDeleteMy favourite thing about christmas is having all the family together in the same room! And my mums pavlova.
I love the spirit of giving, and all of the quality family time.
ReplyDeleteim already a fan of both your pages on fb. and am about to go share on fb about the comp.
ReplyDeletewhat i like about christmas is that all the family get together,
Great giveaway. I've just signed up for emails. Two things I love about Christmas - that Pohutakawa are in bloom and our family tradition of berry picking
ReplyDeleteI've signed up for email updates. I love getting the box of decorations out and deciding which old favourites to use with this years new ones made by my kids :-)
ReplyDeleteWhat a fabulous giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI have subscribed for your blog updates - look forward to receiving them.
My favourite thing about Christmas is the time spent with family & friends. Always good to get together for a special occassion :-)
I follow your blog, and subscribed to your mailing list.
ReplyDeleteThe best thing about Christmas is the time spent with family, sharing stories...food.
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Oops I just missed the 5pm deadline - but I will follow your blog anyway as it looks great. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteA huge thank you to everyone who entered our competition!!!! I am about to use random.org and draw the winner - see the post soon! xoxo
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