Home For the Holidays: What’s Your Favorite Outdoor Christmas Activity?

To add some fun into our Home for the Holidays week, we thought we’d ask YOU to share some of your favorite things about the holidays! On each site, we’ve got a question we’d like you to answer. Share your thoughts here in the comments, and then hop to the other sites to find out what we’d like to know!


Where we live, we’re blessed with weather that allows us to do a lot of activities outside to celebrate the holidays.  But I know that no matter what your weather is like during winter, you’re bound to enjoy some festivities out of doors.

For my family, it’s hard to pick one. Some of the fun ways we celebrate the season outside are by watching the annual boat parade where boats get all decked out with Christmas lights and music, walking around the famous local neighborhood “Christmas Card Lane” to look at all the Griswold-esque houses, and our newest tradition of going out to breakfast and a walk by the beach on Christmas Eve.

But my favorite event is probably our church’s annual celebration called Christmas Under the Stars. We sit around under a big tree strung with lights, sing Christmas carols and hear a reading of the Christmas story; then we enjoy sweet treats and warm drinks– it’s the perfect outdoor holiday celebration!

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Giveaway: I Heart Maps

I‘m back for another Home for the Holidays giveaway! We’ve got 15 giveaways across the entire network this week—all great gift ideas, perfect for the holidays.

Today’s giveaway is super fun for me as someone who not only loves to travel but also has a penchant for maps… if you or someone you love can relate than you’re going to love today’s giveaway.

Photo by I Heart Maps

Today I’m giving away a lovely set of jewelry from I Heart Maps.

This collection includes a Carry-On Cuff bracelet (pictured above), a Nomad Necklace, and a Rail Ring, each one showcasing a custom map.

Learn more about this beautiful jewelry and how to win the collection.

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Home for the Holidays: Plant With Purpose

As part of our Home for the Holidays week, each of us at Simple Living Media is featuring one of our favorite charities today. I’m really excited about the organization I’m sharing with you today and I know many of you will resonate with their values.

Plant With Purpose is an organization dedicated to fighting poverty by way of environmental solutions. We had a great guest post last spring about Why Every Day Should be Earth Day which gave a little bit of information about Plant With Purpose and this holiday season I wanted to tell you a little more.

Read on to learn more about what Plant With Purpose does and how easy it is for you to get involved.

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Giveaway: Mineral Fusion

Welcome to Simple Living Media’s Home for the Holidays! We’ve got 15 giveaways across the entire network this week—all great gift ideas, perfect for the holidays.

We’ve talked a lot about beauty products here on Simple Organic and I know lots of you are interested in going more natural in this area of your life. Today’s giveaway is going to help you in a fun way, with a great collection of mineral makeup!

That’s right; today I’m giving away a Total Makeup Collection from Mineral Fusion. This is the perfect starter kit for anyone wanting to try out these products to get dolled up for a holiday party or for everyday wear.

Valued at $122, this collection of makeup includes one of each of the following: Pressed BaseIlluminating PowderMascaraEye PencilEye Shadow Trio, and Liquid Lip Gloss.

Learn more about this mineral makeup set and how to win it.

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A Weekend Note

Hello, readers! No links this weekend as I’ve been camping at the beach all week with my family. I hope you had a great weekend and a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration.

First of all, I wanted to congratulate Tricia on winning the eBook I reviewed last week, Just Making Ice Cream. For those of you interested, Marillyn has discounted the book to just $10 for our readers. When you click to purchase the eBook, just make sure the purchase price says $10. I can’t recommend this cookbook enough for making homemade ice cream.

And secondly, I’m excited to announce that tomorrow begins our fabulous Home for the Holidays giveaway week throughout the Simple Living Media network. We have some amazing prizes to give away along with some other fun this week.

Have I mentioned how thankful I am that you choose to read Simple Organic? It’s true! Thanks for being a part of our little simple living community.

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