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Giveaway: Batteries + Bulbs Christmas Lights

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Deck the halls with boughs of holly and plenty of lights! Batteries Plus Bulbs, the leading nationwide retailer for all of your battery and lighting needs, wants to make your home shine even brighter this holiday season by giving away a holiday cheer prize pack to one lucky CraftGossip winner. Glistening LED string lights placed around your mantle, atop windows or around trees will give a lovely glow, while flameless LED candles will bring warmth to your space. Top it off with some delicious recipes, the sweet sounds of Michael Bublé, and other festive items, and you’ll have everything you need to stay merry this season! Items within the holiday cheer prize pack include the following:

  • 12 strands of Beaded, Cool White LED string lights from Batteries Plus Bulbs
  • 6 flameless LED candles from Batteries Plus Bulbs
  • 1 Michael Bublé Christmas CD
  • 1 holiday-inspired cookbook
  • 1 $10 gift card to Starbucks for a mid-season pick-me-up
  • 1 $30 gift card to Pier 1 Imports

For all of the rest of your lighting (and battery!) needs, along with smart phone and tablet repairs, be sure to check out a Batteries Plus Bulbs near you!

For your chance to win tell us in the comments below why you need to light up your Christmas cheer.

Competition closes Dec 14th 2014. Open to US addresses Only

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Comments

  2. I would love to bring a little sparkle and cheer to my dark home, I don’t have a lot of windows in my home so some nice Christmas lights and candles and knick knacks from Pier Imports would brighten up my home and I could listen to Michael Buble’s Christmas CD while drinking a Peppermint Mocha from Starbucks would just be the perfect ending to a special day 🙂 Merry Christmas 🙂

  3. i could use something light and sparkly. all my Christmas stuff got damaged in a flood and don’t have the resources to replace anything. so I have nothing at all, so it would make a cheery happy time this Christmas season! 🙂 thanks

  5. Wow! What a sweet giveaway! My gratitude, in advance, for the nice package. It’d be SO very nice to receive some newer light products, for 2 reasons: I just moved across the country in September, purging lots of belongings prior to the move, & 2) the few that do remain w/ me are older, not LED-smart. I have 2 college daughters coming home for Christmas, AND whose bdays are just before & after Christmas respectively, so I’d probably gift some of the goodies to them. Blessings to all for a joyous Christmas! 😉

  6. My son is over the moon excited for this Christmas holiday. I’d love to go all out on a decorating bonanza to bring him some magic after a tough year losing loved ones we both miss so much

  7. I’ve been working a ton so I haven’t even started decorating yet; this prize would definitely be the motivation I need

  8. I need to light up my christmas cheer because I work retail and dont always see the best part of the holiday,truely wish all people could see how they act to retail workers

  10. I need to light up my Christmas decor because the more lights the better at Christmas! I don’t have any LED lights; most of mine I bought years ago. Thank you for a great giveaway.

  12. I would love to add some Christmas sparkle to my poorly little tree. It would make my grandchildren so happy!

  13. When I saw the prizes for this contest, my eyes actually lit up (no pun intended!! It hasn’t been a good year for me. My Father passed away suddenly, earlier this year. In the past 2 months, I also lost 2 Aunts, a Cousin, and a Dear Friend. My heart isn’t into Christmas this year, even though it’s my favorite Holiday, and perhaps to have a chance to listen to Michael Buble, who is one of my favorites, singing in the background, while I’m putting up strings of lights in my otherwise decoration-barren place, would do so much to boost my spirits!! It would be a grest surprise for my Husband, too!! What a great Christmas gift!! Have a wonderful Christmas and a great New Year!!

  14. I would truly love to win all of these wonderful lights and gifts to bring some special Christmas to my youngest son and fiance who just rented their first house. Needless to say they have no Christmas decorations at all and I would love to “brighten” up their Christmas also.

  15. An out of state move has left us with no Christmas decorations and facing the holidays with no family nearby. This would brighten the holidays around here!

  16. My son just bought a new house, would to give his family a nice Christmas “housewarming” gift.

  20. I need to light up my house with good cheer because it’s dark when I get up and dark when I get home – We need lots of light to keep us in the mood

  21. Seasons Greeting…….View beauty wants to lighten up the neighborhood for all the senior citizens that live in my cul de sac…..just moved here with my 15 yr old daughter and we want to spruce up our space for the holidays

  23. We’re buying our first house and should be moving in before Christmas! I’d love to have a few decorations up because I know I won’t have the time to get our decorations out of storage before Christmas 🙂

    demureprincess7(at)gmail(dot)com

  25. Our old Christmas lights are sort of dying out strand by strand… would love some new lighting options; thanks!

  28. I need to light up my Christmas cheer, for all to see, far and near. To spread some Christmas Joy and spirit, and hope Santa is listening and hears it, so he can bring our family the best of gifts, and not to forget anyone on are list.

  29. Mom gave me some of those collectible houses that you put tea lights inside. Right now they’re on our piano, with no lights, and they’d look so much better with them!

  30. I need holiday decorations because I have none. I recently had to move to a much smaller place and all of my belongings are in storage because there’s not much room in my house. This would be a fabulous prize! Thanks for the chance to win!

  32. I need to light up my Christmas cheer because when I got out my Christmas lights I discovered that somehow over the summer they got together and decided that only half of them would light up.

  33. We lost our oldest daughter last year right after Christmas, so needless to say, I am having a hard time getting into the “Christmas spirit” this year. Thank you so much for the opportunity.

  34. When my son was born 8 weeks early weighing 3lb 5oz he was put to bed on Christmas eve and we put all the decs and lights up that evening as he had a hernia op the day before and had to be kept in as he reacted badly to the anesthetic, It has been a long road from that Christmas morning and I would love to recreate the magic on his face again with this prize. xx

  35. My hubby and i are kinda struggling in the decoration department as well as playing Santa this year… This would help us out so much

  36. I’m afraid that due to finances, we won’t be having much of a Christmas this year. Still going to decorate, though…and try to infuse a bit of cheer regardless. I don’t have many windows, and use a lot of candles and lamps. These would be a wonderful addition. Thank you for the opportunity and enjoy the holiday season!

  37. Traveling out of state to visit my daughter, son-in-law and grandkids for Christmas – this would make a wonderful surprise – I would set them up in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve for a spectacularly festive Christmas morning!

  38. My son just moved into a new apartment and he desperately needs some things to make his place looks festive and cheerful this year. I want to win this for him.

Have you read?

Do You Park Your Cross Stitch Thread? Try The Royal Roads Method

I have not done a lot of big cross stitch projects, but sometimes even with small projects it can be hard to decide exactly where to begin and how to work through the chart if you’re working with multiple colors. The general categories for the possible methods are known as cross country and parking. 

Cross country means that you’re working one color at a time, moving around the chart (or the section of the chart you’re working on) until you’re done with that color. Parking means you’re working in a smaller section and doing all the colors in that area, “parking” the threads by leaving them attached to the canvas but out of the way while you finish each section. 

Royal Rows is a specific way of parking named by Alison Royal, which is explored in detail on a post on Stitching Daily. 

The idea is that you’re working one “tower” of stitches at a time (she uses a section of 10 stitches across by 20 down, but you can do whatever makes sense to you). You work all the stitches of a color at a time, starting at the top left and working your way down. When you’re done with a color you can park it where needed in the section below your current tower (known as the dungeon) or in the “east tower,” which is the section to the right. 

There’s also a specific way of dealing with thread ends when you’re done with a color. This is a super simplified version (head to the blog post at Stitching Daily to get all the details) but the basic idea is that you’re working from left to right and top to bottom across the work, parking the threads in the next section when you’re done with them and systematically choosing which color to work with next. 

The whole idea of parking is kind of overwhelming to me though I will admit that it makes a lot of sense. I guess I need to try it on a smallish big project and see how it goes. Do you use the parking method of cross stitch? I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo via Stitching Daily]