Hello, everyone, and welcome to our Cowboys & Mistletoes celebration! This year, we’re again spreading our celebration over two weeks instead of one. For this first week, we’re thrilled to reintroduce our Christmas Stocking Sweethearts series, which we have on 99 cent sale for a limited time, specifically for this event.
If you’re not already familiar with these books here’s a little bit about the series: The connecting thread is that the hero or heroine of each book is a former student of the same piano teacher, Melody Nightingale. At the opening of each book, the hero or heroine receives a package from Melody containing a very personal, handcrafted Christmas stocking and a letter written on the back of the sheet music for a Christmas carol.
This week we’ll be playing TWO games, the first one is a guessing game where we provide you with the image of a charm and a clue, presented from the perspective of the hero or heroine, and you get to guess which of the nine books that charm goes with. This game will have one winner, randomly selected from those who make the most correct guesses. The prize is a Christmas stocking decorated with all nine of the charms/tokens/pins.
The second game we’re calling “What’s In Your Christmas Stocking?” It’s easy-peasy and simply involves you answering the question you’ll find at the bottom of each post. A winner of a $10 Amazon gift card will be randomly selected from among the respondents of each post (9 total)
Here is the first Charm and clue, presented in no particular order:
I chose the snowman with a Christmas scarf around his neck because when one of my students leaves a scarf belonging to his late mother, I make a decision that will alter my Christmas plans…and my life. Little did I know I’d be stranded with the boy and his father until the storm passed
When you’re ready to guess, you can log your response AT THIS LINK.
DO NOT respond in the comments – your entry will only count when logged at the link noted.
CHRISTMAS STOCKING SWEETHEARTS Book 1
Winnie Griggs’ Christmas Melody
CHRISTMAS MELODY kicks things off with a story that not only introduces Melody, but gives us a peek into who the characters in the other books were as children.
And here’s your “What’s In Your Christmas Stocking” question for today. It’s meant to be fun, so use your imagination but don’t overthink it 🙂
“You reach into your stocking and pull out a key. What does it unlock?”
And don’t forget, in addition to the other prizes we’re offering,
All entries will also be eligible for our oh-so-beautiful Grand Prize – a gorgeous quilt hand made by our very own Jo-Ann Roberts
ALL PRIZE WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14th
The hope chest recently inherited. Who knows what treasures are inside?
I read the entire series last year, but my memory is not that good! Guess I’ll have to buy the series if I want to participate!
A jewelry box inherited from a relative containing who knows what.
A new bookcase, filled with books!
A small wooden Cedar chest. Just big enough to hold family secrets.
The key is to my Grandmother’s trunk. It would have family momentoes and a quilt stitched by her and her mother.
I was not able to attend the auction and unfortunately did not get my grandma’s trunk. I’ve wished I could change that ever since
A cedar chest left to me by my grandmother.
A cedar chest left to me by my mother which I still have. Loved what she kept inside all those memories.
The key in my stocking opens up a vault (lockbox) that once belonged to my grandmother. Inside is all the money she left me and the deed to her ranch.
The key unlocks a music box. A young girls dream unfolds as a ballerina dances in a circle to the music.
The key open a beautiful carved keepsake box that was once owned by my great-grandmother that came all the way from Ireland with a family heirloom.
The key opens an old diary.
The key opens a dusty old trunk in an abandoned apartment in Paris–the trunk contains letters and diaries of a woman who lived in that apartment for her whole life and died there at the age of 98 in 2002. Her life is in the diaries and letters–a story waiting to be told.
Wow, Nan! That’s pretty creative! 🙂
A key to a mountain log cabin to be used as a hideaway and a reader’s/writer’s retreat.
Now that would be cool, Janice! 🙂
(From one writer to another!)
It opens an door to the forbidden room at her grandmother house that completely off limits. Sneak in to find the room completely untouched in many yrs. Find a chest full of letters and little trinkets from the past which contains secret hidden about the family legacy.
A music box that belonged to my great-grandmother
I would pull out a key to hotel room for that was a vacation to Hawaii for the whole family? And maybe attached to the key on a key ring would be flight tickets too 😉
A small box
Grandma locket
A trunk from an ancestor with ancestral information and money.
It’s a missing key for an old dresser I bought!
Key to my grandparent’s attic filled with their lives precious mementoes and treasures.
My paternal grandparents’ attic was a favorite place for us to play. Metal pull toys, books, a soft feather bed and an old Victrola that worked were a few of it’s many treasures.
Its
It’s key to a jewelry box that I thought I had lost
It’s a key to a new four wheel drive SUV, a gift from my kids to replace my eighteen year old RAV-4.
The key opens a diary that tells of a lost love that the young woman has never gotten over. The diary shares their love story and hopes of finding each other again.
Well, I’m going to guess it belongs to a car!! Probably because one year I opened a gift and it was a key to my parents’ car that I was driving back and forth four days a week to college!!
It goes to a door that has shelves of books to read with a beautiful reading nook!
A key to the center drawer on a new small oak desk.
A key to a hidden drawer in a desk.
It opens a chest filled with gift cards.
Cedar chest
My key opens a hidden door in my house…and when I open the door, I step into a secret library overflowing with books! 😀
The key unlocks a Hope chest filled with all my grandmothers’ quilts!
MY dream house!
My key unlocks the front door to a charming little cabin, where I can go when I need some peace and quiet.
car
The key unlocks the door to a beach house retreat.
a new truck!
The key opens a door that goes back in time to the days of Lewis and Clark, mountainmen and the settlement of the west.
It is the key to my heart from someone from long ago.
It’s the key to a bookstore with a note attached that reads, Admits you for 1 hour of free shopping up to $200!!!!!!!!
The key opens the door to a vacation home on a beautiful lake.
The key unlocks the door to my new She Shed.
A special tea/spice chest
The key unlocks Santa’s treasure chest that you’ve got access to a mystery prize once a year
The key opens the door to a seaside cabin for me to use for a week!
The key opens a box full of books and a cuddly quilt (and maybe some munchies??) !!!
It is a key to the heart locket necklace I received, it has a secret message in it, it is actually a marriage proposal. Thank you for the chance.
The key unlocks the future.
The key unlocks my sewing room.
A jewelry box that has a family heirloom within it.
Roller Skates. Thank you so much for the opportunity. God bless you.
A beautiful antique armoire.
The key opens the door to the music room!!!
A hope chest containing priceless family mementos and heirlooms
It opens a secret walk-in closet and if you finish reading all the books, new books will appear!
Ooh a key! I know there is an old trunk in the attic that has been locked. I bet it goes to that!
A small cedar box that has a variety of things from my teenage years.
The key opens a cedar chest that my husband gave me for Christmas. Inside that cedar chest are items that chronicle our married life and the life of our only child!
It unlocks the trunk with all my mementos from my time in the Philippines and my travels to Indonesia and Bali.
It unlocks the closet door where the mountain bike I wanted for Christmas is hidden!
It opens an door to the forbidden room at her grandmother house that completely off limits. Sneak in to find the room completely untouched in many yrs. Find a chest full of letters and little trinkets from the past which contains secret hidden about the family legacy.
A truck that has family history in it. Photos, stories, recipes, the works
A time capsule from the 1800s.
Hope chest left in the attic
The key is to a hidden treasure chest–now, if I could only find the chest! LOL
A new but smaller house in the country with a barn for my horse.