Announcing the Yuletide Farmgirl Festival!

Announcing. . . 

. . . Brown paper packages tied up with strings. . .  an old-fashioned snowball fight. . . 

Passing on time-honored traditions. . . dressing up in your festive Farmgirl best. . .

Marveling at the simple yet intricate beauty of falling snowflakes. . . Popcorn balls. . .

Singing Christmas carols out on a snowy night. . . skating parties. . . 

If you are enchanted with the thought of a simple, pure, joyful Christmas season, Farmgirl style - handmade gifts, wonderful home cooking, family gatherings, and remembering the real reason for the season, the birth of Jesus Christ, I hope you will plan on joining me for this exciting online event!

I will be hosting the festival for an entire week as we celebrate the old-fashioned joys of a Farmgirl style Christmas.

Consisting of five different categories, each will have a link pool for you to connect your blog posts.  All you need to do is prepare your own blog posts, relating to the subject of the categories you wish to enter.  You may enter as many posts in as many categories as you like!

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Home Cookin'

 From sweet to savory, simple to superb, give us a helping of your favorite holiday recipes!  

Festive Photos

A calm, snowy night.  Singing carols at a nursing home.  The joys of an old-fashioned snowball fight.  

Share your fabulous festive photography!

Farmgirl Fashion

Calling all Farmgirl Fashionistas!  

Showcase your festive Farmgirl flair with aprons, mittens, wool skirts, boots - use

your imagination to create a warm, winsome, and modest outfit!

Made With Love

Gather together your yarn, buttons, needle and thread!

There is nothing like a hand made gift to show your love - inspire us with your ideas for crafting a homemade Christmas!

Looking Back

Share your treasured holiday customs, traditions, and memories of Christmas' past - even a favorite Christmas in literature!

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Beginning on Monday, December 13th, and ending on Monday the 20th,

you will have plenty of time to prepare your posts for this exciting festival.

As stated above, I will have a linky for each category here on my blog so that everyone will be able to see each and every inspiring entry.  During the week I will be featuring fun posts with my favorite recipes, winter games, Farmgirl fashion inspiration, homemade gift ideas, free patterns, a fabulous giveaway, and more!

I will select finalists from each category for everyone to vote on at the end of the event week.  Finalists will be judged on...

Creativity

Farmgirl flair

Photography quality {where applicable}

Originality

A special blog button will be awarded to all participants, as well as an award (yet to be announced) for the winner of each category.

Please post one of the following buttons on your blog sidebar or website if you wish to participate.  

Use them to link to this post.  Thank you!

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I'm so excited!  How about you?

Comment and let me know if you will be participating, and if you have any questions!

I'd also love to hear of any ideas you may have!

Looking forward to hearing from all of you!

Lots of love,

~Kellie~