kinfolk volume three [a giveaway]

4.13.2012



Have I gushed enough about the amazing-ness that is Kinfolk Magazine yet? No? Well you're about to hear more about it. Simply put, it's an exploration deep into the roots of what brings people together and the bonds that are created over the simple act of sharing a meal together. It is the single most beautiful magazine I've ever had the privilege to hold and own. When I am reading it, I want to try new things and travel. It fills me with inspiration and it is the kind of publication that draws you in and makes you want to study every little detail. I reread each volume several times, but it's not repetitious. No, on the contrary, it's like I'm reading it for the first time again. It is, in a word, stunning--and I mean that with every fiber of my being.




Today, Louis (who has just started blogging again as of today!) and I are giving away a brand spankin' new copy of volume three, which was just recently released. Guys...I cannot emphasize enough how wonderful a magazine this is. Even if you don't win the giveaway (which I hope you do!), I strongly encourage you to get a copy for yourself. It's so worth it.



Want to win? Just leave a comment below telling us about a little tradition you have in your family.

For extra entries (please leave a separate comment for each):

+ follow pastor's girl's ponderings
+ follow Louis's blog
+ tweet about the giveaway (be sure to include @pastorsgirl and a link to this post so we can track it)

Giveaway ends on Tuesday, April 17th at 9:59pm CST.

Good luck!

210 comments:

  1. carlotta, i seriously love you forever. and ever. amen.
    a tradition in our family? on Christmas day, we always make a batch of cupcakes. they're usually box mix cupcakes because we've done loads and loads of baking, and we decorate them with cream cheese icing {my favorite} and sing happy birthday to Jesus and blow out candles, and we eat the cupcakes on His behalf.

    -jocee <3

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  2. i follow your blog!
    -jocee <3

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  3. i follow louis's blog!
    -jocee <3

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  4. i tweeted it!
    https://twitter.com/#!/shessoloverly/status/190816789498822656
    -jocee <3

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  5. One of my favorite family traditions is going to Easter Vigil service with my family - this year was the ten year anniversary of my little sister's baptism, which made it extra special.

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  6. I follow you - of course.

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  7. I follow Louis's blog

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  8. Whew. I got so excited when I saw this. One of our family traditions is ALWAYS cutting down our own Christmas tree. It's super fun to get the chain saws together, saw it down, drag it through the snow, someone get it on the truck... :)

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  10. Following your blog.

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  11. Following Louis' blog.

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  12. And tweeted about the giveaway!

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  13. one of our traditions is to hug my dad goodbye in the morning. simple but definitely something i don't want to miss every day. :)

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  14. i follow your blog! of course. ;)

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  15. i followed louis' blog!

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  16. Ahhhh! I've never purchased Kinfolk but I've always wanted to!!!! A tradition is that my mom always makes sausage roll on Christmas morning. Well, we eat it on Christmas morning. Most amazing food in the world. :)

    I'm following your blog, I'm about to follow Louis's, and I shall tweet about it too. :D

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  17. I've always wanted on of these!!
    family tradition hmmm... we don't have many but my daddy always takes us out to eat on our birthday, it's a special time for both of us. ♥

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  18. I follow your blog, of course!

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  19. Ah, swooning already! The only tradition I can really think of in our family is that every Christmas we open one present on Christmas Eve - always pajamas's - and then in the morning we always receive an orange in our stocking :)

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  20. and of course I follow!

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  21. i follow Louis's blog as well

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  22. a tradition? we give a gift to one special family that we pick!!

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  23. I follow your blog!!!

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  24. what a wonderful giveaway! i love kinfolk :) a tradition in my family is to spend part of the summer up at a lake. it's a wonderful time away with family and friends!

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  25. I've been dying to read this magazine!
    Every night during the advent season us kiddos go to bed by candlelight after reading God's Word. It's such a fun tradition that helps us prepare our hearts for the celebration of Christ's birth! :)

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  26. And I follow your blog!

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  27. One of my family traditions is that we always have breakfast together. That may seem simple, but most of the people I know don't have a family breakfast. It's special to us to start our day off together. =)

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  28. And I follow your blog. =)

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  29. Sleeping in the family room on Christmas Eve...
    pizza on Saturdays... peach yogurt, popcorn, and TV Shows.

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  30. One of our family traditions is Daddy'd homemade berry pancakes every Saturday morning.

    xx

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  31. >>---->(I follow this blog.)

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  32. A few of our family traditions include,eating thanksgiving in the woods,Fancy cheeses and sparkling juice after the christmas eve service.And carving a new bench in the woods for every birthday.
    Yours,
    K
    http://500-daysofautumn.blogspot.ca/
    Ps:I follow you!

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  33. I follow Louis' blog,yes I do!

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  34. https://twitter.com/#!/garretwindows/status/190828490604548096
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  36. A tradition in our family is to have spaghetti for dinner every Sunday!

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  37. One of our family traditions is to spend the summers at our lake cottage. It's one of my most favorite things ever! :)

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  38. Oh gosh! I've been dying to get this one!! We always take turns praying over meals in my fam. We have our own days. I kinda like it!

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  40. and I retweeted you. Does that count?

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  41. A tradition my family has is to make food together. It's when we bond, when we cry, and when we laugh.

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  42. I tweeted. (@acaciarachel)

    xo

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  43. Carlottaaaaaa!! What a fantastic giveaway! (I never enter them, but this one is WAY too good to pass up:)

    I follow the blog!

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  45. Tweeted about the giveaway!!

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  46. A tradition in our family is to always have pizza and watch a movie on fridays. We've been doing it since I was about 4 or 5. It's such a fun night to look forward to.
    xo.

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  47. I follow your absolutely lovely blog.

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  48. And I follow louis's blog as well.

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  49. I'd love to check out the Kinfolk Magazine it seems like so many people are raving about it. ;)

    One tradition we have in our family is to watch 'The Nativity' on Christmas Eve. I love this tradition because it's so special to be able to watch the Christmas story acted out. The movie is really well done.

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  50. I follow your beautiful, lovely, fantastical blog!

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  51. I followe both blogs! Kinfolk looks like an awesome magazine~! ;)

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  52. My family? We drink coffee and tea on the sofa most nights with a cat by our shoulder and we dissect our day.

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  53. I follow your blog (obvs.).

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  54. I follow your blog of course! :)

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  55. I tweeted about this giveaway!

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  57. My mom always made cinnamon rolls on snow days. If we woke and smelled cinnamon rolls, my sisters and I knew we didn't have school that day!

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  58. I follow Pastor's Girl's Ponderings. :)

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  59. we don't have very many traditions in our family, but one we started about seven years ago is every year, around Christmas, we invite all of the families in our homeschool co-op to come over to our house for a ginormous cookie bake. everyone helps to make sugar cookies, and it's just a great time for hanging out with friends :)
    xoxo,
    gracie

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  60. I follow Louis's blog. :)

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  61. of course i follow your blog :)

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  62. A tradition we have as a family is opening and closing our days with worshiping God. It brings us into a stronger relationship with Him.

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  64. eeeep! so excited for this...I was going to buy the magazine, but I'll try my hand at winning it first :)
    anyways, a tradition our family has is pancakes on saturdays. and if its june, we go strawberry picking and eat our breakfast with strawberries :) xx.

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  65. i follow your blog.

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  66. I follow louis' blog.

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  67. We always have tomato soup on Fridays, followed by pancakes. That's the only one I can think of :)

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  69. And I tweeted about the giveaway just now!

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  70. hmm... a tradition. well, every year we always plant a garden in our backyard. there are always tomatoes and peppers. :)

    emilie
    pupsqueakphotography.blogspot.com

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  71. i follow your blog. :)

    emilie
    pupsqueakphotography.blogspot.com

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  72. i've heard of kinfolk, and i sometimes visit their website. i'd love to check out one of their magazines :) i follow you

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  73. i follow him. honestly, i would have anyway. his photography is amazing.

    xo,
    jess

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  74. tweeted it :)

    https://twitter.com/#!/jelysm93/status/190862834228412416

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  75. I follow you blog. :)
    xxx~Kelsey
    rindcounty@bellsouth.net

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  76. A tradition we have? Reading every single night before bedtime.

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  78. I follow Louis' blog!

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  79. im a follower of your blog :)

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  80. a family tradition we have... going to my grandparents lake house every summer :)

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  81. My family has hamburgers for dinner every Friday night, and popcorn and hot drinks ever Sunday dinner. =)

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  83. Now I follow Louis' blog! :)

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  84. A new tradition in our family is to celebrate happy times with caramel pecan monkey bread created by me. Our family sits around our kitchen table and we all pull apart pieces from it. And it's oh-so-good!

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  87. I tweeted this giveaway!

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  88. Our family (immediate & extended) is like a whole separate culture... we have an incredible amount of in-jokes and traditions. One tradition is going to the library together. I grew up doing this with my dad and younger siblings and I love when we do it today.

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  89. I follow your blog! And I love it! :)

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  90. my family and I eat gyros together...any time a guest is in from out of town, we take them to our favorite Greek place and initiate them, too. so delicious + fun! and sometimes, we watch My Big Fat Greek Wedding for good measure when we get home. ;)

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  91. I follow your blog! It's lovely.

    :)

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  92. I follow you! And I love and look forward to every post!

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  93. Oh you make me so excited about this giveaway! A tradition I have is the one of campin every memorial and labor day weekends with a couple of long time family friends. We tube all day and it's such a fun and memorable experience every year!
    Tessa Brooke

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  94. Oooooh!!! I have DEARLY want a copy of Kinfolk, but alas my funds at the moment are so low to acquire one. One of my favorite traditions is going by the seaside with my parents for Thanksgiving.

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  95. I follow your blog!

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  96. I follow Louis' blog!

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  97. A tradition that my family has is one present on Christmas Eve, always an ornament from my grandparents. I have so many now, and they each hold so many memories! The rest of the gifts are opened Christmas morning, and we never just dive in, we open them one at a time so that we can all see... I like it that way. =)

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  98. On Thanksgiving, my family gathers together for a most memorable meal, and everyone contributes a dish, or dishes. I just love the feeling that I get when we are all together, and my favorite part is my Grandmother's chocolate pie :) After food, sometimes we head outside for a couple rounds of kickball, and it can get very competitive!

    I follow your blog, Louis's blog, and tweeted!

    -ryan♥

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  99. I follow your blog- naturally! ;)

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  100. I follow Louis' blog! =)

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  101. This giveaway is seriously awesome! A family tradition of ours is on Saturdays my mom and I always clean the house and my brothers and Dad always go to work. :)

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  102. I follow your blog!

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  103. I follow Louis blog!

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  104. I tweeted about the giveaway! https://twitter.com/#!/amusingkimberly/status/190916716132438017

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  105. Forgot to leave separate comments. I'm following Louis's blog.

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  107. I tweeted about the giveaway! :)

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  108. a tradition in our family, is that we always hang up stockings for our old pets that passed away :)

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  110. i follow Louis' blog!

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  112. Since my family is Canadian, a tradition of ours is that we eat holubchi and borscht as part of Christmas dinner each year. We're Canadian but our family heritage is Ukrainian. The sound of the food might not sound great, but it tastes amazing when my grandma makes it. :)

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  113. i follow your blog

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  114. i follow louis' blog.

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  115. A tradition in our family is that on each of our birthdays, we always receive a block of chocolate from our youngest sibling, and we open our presents on Mum and Dad's bed. ;)

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  117. I follow Pastor Girls Ponderings

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  118. I follow Louis Blog

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  119. twetted about the giveaway https://twitter.com/#!/cathy_pinklemon/status/190939295878619136

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  120. My brother, sister and I watch a tv show or movie together each night. It's a tradition that I cherish, I don't want to ever grow up and grow out of it.

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  121. I follow your blog.

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  123. a tradition my family would always have on Christmas eve is where all the grand kids would have potato soup (always potato soup on Christmas eve, weird right? ha!)before opening presents, we had to finish all of our soup and read God's Word before we could open presents. It's something I will always remember being a special time all gathered around reading the Bible:)

    ~kelsie

    http://december23rd-kelsie.blogspot.com/

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  124. I follow your blog!

    ~kelsie
    http://december23rd-kelsie.blogspot.com/

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  125. I follow Louis's blog!

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  126. One of our family traditions on people's birthdays is to go around the table and say what we like about the birthday person. It really makes the receiver feel loved and special, and I think it helps everyone else to realize how much they love the birthday fellow! :)

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  127. I follow your blog. :)

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  128. Alexxus4/13/2012

    A family tradition of ours is to stay in our pajamas all Christmas morning as we open presents, eat breakfast, and all crowd around and talk with Christmas music playing quietly in the background. [:

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  129. My families's tradition? Well, every Christmas morning, Mum will grab our six tall, colorful Christmas mugs and we will drink hot coco together! We only use the mugs at Christmas time and we each have to give each other what we call a "warm fuzzy". Something we say to a family member that makes them feel good. :)

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  131. I follow Louis as well!

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  132. While this isn't anywhere near girly, I guess (having four brothers and natural lightsaber-loving inclinations will do that), my family loves to talk hockey during dinner. Not really just who's out or who's winning or whatnot--we love the players and we love the game and we want to see artistry in that. Something more girly to redeem myself? My grandmother and I love going out for tea. It's lovely. Completely British posh.

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  133. followed Louis' blog, too.

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  134. Well, when the whole family (I have two older sisters who have moved out of home) we always have, either, a family lunch, or a family dinner. :) And we just chat and stuff.

    Keep on keeping on,
    Sarah
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    theonewiththeb.blogspot.com

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  135. I also follow your blog (one of the first I followed)

    <3

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  136. love Kinfolk so much! I have the first volume and it's pretty much my favorite. One family tradition would have to be Woodland...this will be my seventeenth year and I am so excited as the days get closer and closer. My mom has been going to the same resort since she was eight, and before that, another resort on the same lake. Woodland is where my family all gets together -- my grandma and grandpa, aunts, uncles, cousins, sisters, brothers, mom and dad -- and we spend a week on this small, old resort that we love on the lake. Best week ever. xx

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  137. and of couuurse I follow your blog! :)

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  138. I really want to win this! Haha. A tradition in our family? Hmm... well, each year for Christmas, my grandma has everyone in the family over (her siblings, her kids, nieces, nephews, grandchildren, etc.) and we eat deliciousss treats and sing Christmas carols. :)

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  139. I follow your blog :)

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  141. One tradition my family has is actually a fairly simple, weekly one - every Sunday my aunt comes over after church for lunch. She'll make something and we'll make something. There's nothing better than a delicious home-cooked meal and time with the family. We laugh a lot. xo

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  143. I tweeted about the giveaway!

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  144. our family goes on a vacation every summer with two crazy special families. it's just for a few days, but we LOVE it. amazing giveaway, for REAL. xoxo

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  145. and, of course I follow your blog. :)

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  146. Your blog is one of my favorites, Carlotta! I'm happy to be a follower.

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  147. My family has a tradition of allowing the birthday boy or girl to choose the entire menu for dinner and dessert. It was always fun to plan your own birthday meal!

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  148. I also just sent a tweet about this giveaway. Thanks, Carlotta!

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  149. Every Christmas, we have cinnamon rolls for breakfast. Beside the fact that they are nowhere near being homemade (they are, in fact, from a tube), they're delicious, and utterly necessary for an enjoyable Christmas morning. :)

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  153. Every Easter, my family makes resurrection rolls. :)

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  155. Each Summer, when my family and I go to the beach, we always stop by Bojangles for breakfast and a little Italian restaurant for lunch. I don't know why, but I love the smallest traditions like that!

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  156. I follow you as well.

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  157. Every Christmas Eve, we share a wonderful meal and then gather together on our sofa and set up our projector screen and watch It's A Wonderful Life. Afterwards (and all the way through) we do synchronised crying over the film and it's emotion and perfectness. It's lovely :-D

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  158. I follow you as well

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  159. My family camps out in the living room every Christmas Eve and then wakes up to Christmas morning by the tree. That's one of our traditions.

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  161. I love our annual trip to Chicago to visit family for Thanksgiving - it's always such a lovely lovely time.

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  164. A "tradition" my family and I have is that we have partnered with an organization that does a lot of work in the inner city of St. Louis. It includes everything from tutoring refugee kids, to singing with the elders in a nursing home. No matter what we are doing it is always a great time!

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  166. I also followed Louis blog!

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  168. the most simple tradition my family has is eating dinner. every single night, reguardless of how tired we are or what else we have planned, we all gather at the kitchen table to enjoy a meal. its nothing huge, but its our tradition. xx

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  170. and i'm a new follower of louis' blog too

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  171. I've been wanting a Kinfolk mag! My favorite tradition is our summer family reunion. I can't wait to go!

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  172. I follow Pastor's Girl.

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  173. The latest tradition that we have done is dyeing ester eggs using natural dyes and plants. So cool!

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  174. I follow this blog!

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  175. A tradition my family has/had is/was running around the house barefoot (in the snow) on New Year's Eve.

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  177. Each night at the lake, we take a walk down the pier at sunset. And more often than not, there's ice cream (or in my case, sorbet) involved.

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  178. This goes without saying, but I follow your blog. ;)

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  179. ...and Louis's blog!

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  180. we do birthday breakfasts with our parents! they're my favorite.

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  181. silly girl, of course I follow you ;)

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  182. Oh my, this excites me. A tradition for my family is we eat dinner together every night.

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  183. I follow you dear (:

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  184. I follow Louis as well.

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  185. Anonymous4/17/2012

    One of my family's traditions is to, whenever we have a large family gathering, all get together in my grandparents' den and sing hymns and quote Bible verses before everyone leaves. We've had some really special times.

    SOLI DEO GLORIA!

    -Kyrie<><

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  186. Anonymous4/17/2012

    I already follow your blog. Thanks for this give-away!

    SOLI DEO GLORIA!

    -Kyrie<><

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  187. Oh what a great giveaway. I love the website and movies, but never purchased one before, because shipping to Europe is quite pricey.
    A lovely tradition in my family is, that the birthay boy or girl would always get breakfast in bed.
    Awesome!

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  188. Oh, and I also follow you now! Great blo and thanks for the giveaway!

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  189. What the heck, I also tweeted about it :)

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  190. I follow you! :)

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  191. I now follow Louis.

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  192. And I went all out and even tweeted about it. :)

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  193. Oh sigh, I love Kinfolk.
    Let's see, a tradition? Well, every year our family goes to a camp way up in the mountains of colorado. We spend a week there each year and though it's a bit of a new tradition, i look forward to it all year long!

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  194. OF COURSE, I follow you! ;)

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  195. And now I follow Louis too!

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  196. What a wonderful giveaway! I've been wanting to get the kinfolk magazine for a while but it is a little high and I seem to never be able to hold onto my babysitting money to get it.haha :-) one tradition my family has is going on vacation to a city a couple hours from our home (don't want to say the name over the Internet) we got every year and look forward to it. I love spending time by the lake and of course take lots of pictures. :-) thanks for having this.

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