Oh my goodness! It’s the end of the series! We made it!
Creating for 12 days straight was pretty intense. But I can honestly say, whenever I push myself like that, I end up with some pretty cool stuff! Click any of the thumbnails above to see the latest!
And click HERE for my full home tour.
But today is a little different than the last 12…
Party Junk (a regular weekend link party) will be on the bottom of this weekend’s event, in the last two widgets. They are shortened into pages just for this weekend to make viewing hopefully easier.
But the star of the show today is your Christmas Junk! You saw mine for the last 12 days and today it’s your turn.
But first, it just isn’t Christmas without presents… and I think you’re really gonna love this…
This giveaway is now over. Winner is announced below!
Meet Marian Parsons! Well, of course you know who she is! But in the 1/million chance you don’t, she goes by Miss Mustard Seed on her blog.
Marian has fired up her own paint line called Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint. Have you ever tried milk paint before? If yes, you’re ahead of me because I haven’t! Yet. But that’s all about to change.
Milk paint comes in powder form, in which you just add water for the amount you wish to use. The paint doesn’t need a primer, and is rather unique in the fact that you can choose either a super chippy finish, or a new look if you add a bonding agent.
Loads of colours are available and if you mix the powder, you can even create or own. Neat! Also available are specialty waxes, hemp oil, a paint mixer, and more. Click the button below to visit the website for full info! 
12 chances to win!
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2. Click on the 1+ button to answer the mandatory question, then follow the other 11 optional prompts.
This giveaway is offered for USA and Canada. You must be over the age of 18 to enter. Void where prohibited. Winner will be announced back on this blog post one week from today.
Disclosure: This prize was generously donated by Miss Mustardseed Milk Paint. I was not compensated. Thank-you for your generosity, Marian! I’ll be reviewing her paint in exchange very soon!
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The drumset that my brother & I both got from Santa as a child!:) loved it! now my one brother is a drummer in a band lol
Thanks for the chance to win! I wanna get on this milkpaint bandwagon too as I’ve heard great things about it!
Joey J.
My bike! Love MRS and have been wanting to try her awesome paints. Thanks for the give away.
I hate auto correct. MMS.
OH my… hands down my favorite present was a pair of roller skates!!! Love those!!!
I loved my tricycle!
Thanks for the link-up and giveaway contest! I usually don’t enter them but this one is too good to pass up!!
I was a little girl, maybe 7 or 8, when all the girls in my neighborhood were being gifted, Barbies, by Santa. I grew up in a neighborhood where every house had at least 2 kids, so there were lots and lots of lttle girls with Barbie. She had blonde hair, that black and white striped one piece and very expensive taste in clothes.
Oh, and the best toy ever for this child of the 70s was The Disco Dance Machine. It was a gigantic record player with a microphone attached to it. Kind of like a primitive karaoke machine.
The best Christmas present for me was electric curlers!!
I always loved my Barbie Doll. Each year, I would get clothes or accessories for her. Once in awhile, I would get a friend to go along with her, Ken, Skipper, and my…. it’s been so long I can’t even remember if there were any others, but we are talking early 1960’s! Vintage dolls now. Barbie had tons of eye makeup and her arms and legs didn’t bend. Quite different from the Barbie dolls of today.
I loved her!
Thanks for the chance for the Milkpaint. It looks like a fabulous medium to work with.
an old rocking horse–wish i had it now:) thanks for the chance and fun party, donna!
ROLLERSKATES!
Rollerskates! All six girls in my family received a pair. They had keys that tightened them around our shoes…not so great with tennis shoes LOL!
Merry Christmas!
My favorite gift as a child was the doll Chatty Cathy!! I thought she was named after me!
Barbie dream house!
My favorite toy as a child was my little people doll house.
A doll named Hi Giggles….
As my older brother and I sneaked downstairs at 4 am I remember vividly
shaking the box she was in and hearing her giggle inside!!!
Thank you so much for hosting! I have loved seeing everything you’ve done and now I get to be inspired by others. Happy Holidays!
My favorite present as a child would be a long stocking cap – probably as long as I was tall.
A Tiny Tears Doll I think it was 1959….. I still remember the smell of that new doll!
My favorite was the game of operation. We played it all the time while visiting at my Grandmas house.
Oh my..this one is easy…my Chrissy doll…I am 45 and cause my family much hilarity as I sniff new plastic things searching for my sweet Chrissy doll smell – ahhhh, 1970’s plastic!! hahaha Merry Christmas one and all!
Would live to get your milk paint collection and try it !!
I had several favorites, but if there was just one it was a Barbie doll! Oh my I have just the junk I would love to use that paint on!
My favorite gift was a new doll….any doll…and a doll carriage.
My favorite toy/present? My mom made a bunch of Barbie clothes for my dolls. She knitted tiny coats with angora collars, beautiful evening gowns out of taffeta and other silky fabrics, just the most beautiful array of clothes and I was beyond thrilled with all of them.
My favorite gift as a child was anything that had to do with dolls. I loved playing house.
My favorite toy any year that I recieved them,was paper dolls of every kind….my imagination went wild with stories I made up about their lives and ways that I dressed them.
My favorite gift was a microscope 🙂
Favorite present…a farm set, complete with metal barn, silo, animals, fences, etc. Can you tell I was a tomboy growing up? I’d so love to win the milk paint. I follow Miss Mustard Seed’s blog regularly and really want to try that paint. Love your Christmas ideas, Donna!
My favorite toy was a Baby Doll! I got one every year! I still love Dolls now that I am grown with kids and grand kids of my own!!
My favorite toy is a teddy bear that Santa brought when I was 7 years old. I named him George. I slept with that bear until I got married! I’ve had him now for 35 years. He’s missing his nose and his mouth and has been sewn several times, but he’s still loved just as much!
My parents always did a great job when it came to Christmas gifts, but I would have to say one my favorites was a doll house. I still have it and I hope that one day I have a little girl that I can give it to!
Thank you for hosting a great party and giveaway Donna! My favorite gift had to be the year my Grandfather converted space in his work shed to allow me the room to create and play. I made lots of mud pies in there and decorated my little play house with neighborhood yard sale finds. Pure bliss!
xo
My favorite present was always anything to do with art…sketch paper, paints!
My favourite toy as a child were my stuffed animals and dolls.
I loved to bake from a very young age. The year that my grandmother (who taught me most of my baking skills) passed away, my mother gave me her rolling pin for Christmas. It’s very special to me and I still use it.
My favorite gift was a blond walking doll I wanted so badly–my older sister got the brown haired one and we were the happiest little girls on the block…
My favourite toy was a Tonka truck that belonged to someone else!!! lol I used to play with it every chance I got. I was not into the dolls everyone kept giving me… 😉
I loved my Barbie dream house with battery powered elevator, it was so cool at the time! 🙂
Although I love all the Miss Mustard Seed milk paint colors, my favorites are two new ones–Trophy and Curio. Thank you!
I have fond memories of a ‘Chex’ baby doll that I picked out from a catalog 😉
Great giveaway, Donna! Not sure I have a favourite but one would be my Pendalart, it was a swinging base with a paper on it and a magic marker pointing down on top. You push the base (like a pendulum) and the pen would make designs as the base swung back and forth. Anyone remember this?
Would love to try milk paint.
I don’t remember a toy that stands out, but I know that me and my siblings used to get new pj’s that were quite memorable. The girls would get a cotton ruffly nightgown with sometimes a matching night hat. The boys would get a new red union suit. They made for some adorable photos.
What a great giveaway! I love the colors of MMS Milk Paint! Thanks for sharing all of your cool Christmas projects with us!
I LOVE this blog! You have really inspired me. I have the particular blessing of inheriting most of our antique furniture so I don’t need those things. But I am going to do a few of the repurposed items for others in my family. I just might find a place at my house for one or two items!
Anyway, the gift I remember the best is a ring my mother gave me when I was 16. It has a tiny diamond in it. She said she wanted to be the first person to give me a diamond. It now belongs to our oldest daughter. I gave it to her on Christmas Day when she was 16. Hopefully she will have a daughter to pass it on to for Christmas of her 16th year!
I would love to win this giveaway… My barbies…..
I got one of those dolls that you feed and then it pees. Loved it!
My favorite present was a tape recorder I had wanted and knew my parents didn’t think I needed it. I was so surprised and still remember my excitement when I opened it…after 40+ years.
I got a Chatty Cathy doll that my mom had made dresses that matched mine. We were quite a pair!
I think my favorite toy was the little Fisherprice toys, I would play for hours, making up stories. My day made me little house for them out of scrap wood, and I would use any little thing, pop bottle caps etc for accessories!
My white go-go boots! It was the 60’s, and SO out of character for my parents to get me something so hip! 🙂
My favorite toy was an old tape recorder with cassettes I could stop and start that thing over and over to write down and memorize songs (this was the 70s).
My Baby Alive doll
Love your blog and everything you do.
i loved stuffed animals!
I have been dying to try milk paint!
My favorite Christmas present as a child was a Kid Sister doll. She was about 2 feet tall and had blonde, braided hair! I so loved her! 🙂
i love all of your neat ideas. i would to win this prize as i have not tried Milk paint . thank you.
my favorite was a big pink barbie house and jeep!
I would love to win so I can finally try using milk paint. I have heard so much about it and want to try it.
The best gift I received as a child was my first bike, a 2 wheeler with training wheels!! Thank you for this great giveaway. I can’t wait to try her milk paints.
My favorite Christmas was my Madame Alexander doll from Santa that I have now given to my daughter.
She still has her original wig and rubber bands even though we both played with her quite a bit.
I have 3 chairs that someone was going to throw away and the milk paint would be wonderful for them.
My fave toy was anything Barbie. I was obsessed!
LOVE joining in with Party Junk. Have a great week Donna. Can’t believe that you are hosting a MMS Giveaway! Happy Dance. My best ever Christmas Present – my first bike when I was ten – rode it until I was 18.
Joy
A doll with long glossy brown hair and it wore a locket! I lived that doll and now my daughter’s play with it 🙂
My favorite was an upholstered rocking chair. Mine was brown (the color of my eyes), and my blue-eyed sister got one to match her eyes too.
My Silhouette Cameo!!
My favorite present was any Lego set that I received. Usually it was a joint present with my brothers, but we all loved them! They are still in my parent’/ home and now used by grandchildren. 🙂
my fav toy was my american girl doll!
I loved all my Barbie’s and her stuff. I had the airplane and her townhouse. My Aunt also made the coolest outfits for her.
A Betsy Wetsy doll or my Chrissy doll that grew hair
My favorite gift as a kid was all the barbie doll clothes my mom made for us. They were better than anything store bought. 🙂
My favorite Christmas present was a Chatty Cathy doll.
roller blades!
I have always wanted to use milk paint. It makes beautiful furniture!
a new bike!
My big wheels!
Thanks for hosting the party, have a great weekend.
Madame Alexander Pussycat baby doll. I loved her nearly to death.
My favorite toy as a child were my brothers trucks and cars. I especially liked the Grader, I was the road builder. I made the best roads to drive our toys trucks and cars on. I was most certainly a tom boy!
I’d love to try milk paint!
I loved getting paint-by-number canvases.
My favorite present was my first Cabbage Patch Doll.
I received a knitting machine that I thought was the best – and an Easy Bake Oven!!! I was in heaven!!!
I really enjoy reading all of your posts and drooling over your creations!! You are an amazing woman – thank you so much for sharing with us all – we are much richer as a result!! I’ve not tried the milk paint before either – hopefully this will happen soon!! Thanks for the chance at the win!!
What was your favourite toy/present as a child? My favorite toy/ present was my first “big kid” bike with no training wheels!
I really liked my latchhooks. They were so fun and creative to me at such a young age.
I collected Madame Alexander dolls and got so excited when I got a new one!
I got a new Breyer Horse every year for Christmas, I’m saving them for my grandson when he is old enough.
WOW, SO many pretty links today. I’ll add mine when I get home. SO excited for this giveaway. I’ve never won anything and this would be a Christmas present to ME!!! What a fun way to start the New Year with some new toys 🙂
My favorite gift as a child….would have to be Barbies and clothes.
The Timey-Tell Doll ! …and my lil’ play kitchen!! Nothing like the plastic ones they sell now. My mom still has mine…hand painted & made out of plywood!
I’ve read about milk paint and now am extremely interested. Judging from other comments I am supposed to say what my favorite present ever was. I think the guitar my husband bought me. It was a total surprise!
My favorite Christmas Gift was a stuffed alligator my mom gave my sister and I for Christmas. We used to jump from bed to bed and pretend they were going to get us!
The best present for me was when I got my first pair of hose. I thought I was so grown up and I shaved my legs for the first time and had cuts all over them! Thank you MMS for this contest. I follow your blog and know I will love your paint.
I don’t remember something I received as much as one thing I gave. When I was four I bought my dad a pair of slippers that looked like moose. He still wears them every Christmas to this day…25 years later. He is also the one who encourages me the most in my diy endeavors.
Dolls! I loved my dolls!!
Cowboy boots!!!! lol
A small electric organ/keyboard. I remember playing Home on the Range for some reason. Not sure why that song sticks in my mind.
i think every gift i received as a child was my favorite, we had 5 kids so we were appreciative of every gift we received.
would love to win the paint!
I’m so excited! I have seen milk paint in many decades!
Favorite gift was the arrival of our twin cousins on Dec the year my twin sister and I were 6. There was one baby for each of us!
my favorite Christmas present as a child was a stuffed panda bear from my Grandmother. I still have pandy, he sits on my bed 🙂
My Holly Hobby doll! I would love to try out MMS milk paint. I’m a big fan!
Bicycle! I read MMS blog every day. Thanks!
My favorite gift ever was a pair of real (like the rentals, only WAY COOLER!) pair of rollerskates! I spent sooo much time with them on my feet, even long after they were too small. 🙂
stuffed hippo
Cabbage Patch doll.. :0)
My play kitchen!
I adored the dollhouse my father loving built for me.
One of my favorite Christmas gifts was a bike when I was a little girl. It came complete with a basket on the front and streamers on the handlebars. Every little girls dream;)
I love that you can mix up only what you need.
A typewriter when I was 11yrs old
I loved receiving Barbies and LEGOs!!!
A trampoline. Would love to try milk paint!
It would definitely have to be the beauty parlor doll. She came with her own beauty parlor chair that I sat in instead of the doll!
What wonderful Christmas decorating ideas!
My favorite toy was probably a mermaid Barbie my sister gave me
I always loved getting Barbie dolls! <3
My favorite toy was my bike!
The teddy bear ( and perfume) my boyfriend ( now husband!) gave me for our first Christmas together!He picked one out with blue eyes just like him–not an easy task! Would love to try milk paint..thanks for the entry!
Thanks for letting me share my Christmas mantel with you here today:-)
Enjoy your weekend.
xoxo
Kathleen
One stroke paint kit was my fav gift
My favorite toy was a bike. It was used but that didn’t matter. I had a sense of freedom I had not had before.
My barbies.. My grandmother knitted all our Barbie clothes one Christmas. I have kept two pieces in a safe place.
My favorite Christmas Gift is my First Panda Bear stuffed animal. I still have it. All the love we shared shows proudly, by the worn off fur, and missing eye.
My favorite toy as a child was always my babydoll
I just tried MMS Milk Paint for the first time and I love it!
my favorite toy as a child was probably the Playmobile mansion. Remember those? I loved them 🙂
I love to look at your link parties. Thank you.
My fave present was a doll with a beautiful white wedding dress and blonde hair I could style. I still have her and she brings back fond memories of my Grandma who bought her for me.
What an exciting party! You did awesome with your 12 day challenge, my favorites were the stacked gear tree lights and the metal washer garland, love them!
My favorite was a Barbie Townhouse.
A bicycle.
My best Christmas present ever was a Barbie dream house me and my sisters got.
probably my Barbie townhouse!
I loved my pink Huffy bike! I want to try that paint so bad!
Thanks for this awesome chance in the giveaway and also thank you for hosting a wonderful party. It was fun to join in.
Kris
Books and music in the form of vinyl records : ) top the list
Hmmmm…I don’t remember too many toys. I do remember missing a few days of school due to a blizzard and playing with a Barbie camper I’d received for Christmas. Outside it was blustery and cold but for Barbie (and friends!) it was summer. lol
It has to be 4am playing whack-attack on Christmas morning. Awesome game
My favorite present as a kid, well the one I wanted more than anything in the whole world and was was completely shocked when I got it – an American Girl Doll! I had Samantha and I loved her! I still have her and will give her to my daughter in a few years. Thanks for the awesome giveaway!!
I’ve been reading about Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk paint for quite some time and oooohing and aaaaaahing over many projects that have utilized the paint…I would love to get my hands on some of it! My favourite toy as a child was my Bionic Woman action figure and her lab. She had panels on her arm and leg that you could open to view the bionic parts. Man, she was cool! If not for a terrible house fire that burned our entire house to the ground, I probably would still have her.
Thank you for the very cool giveaway; I really enjoy reading your blog and oooohing and aaaaaahing over your projects, too! If only I could be so creative! I look forward to reading much more from you!
The book, “Where the Wild Things Are”. 🙂
Tinker Toys was my all time favorite gift! I could build anything with tinker toys and imagination 🙂
I was blonde; my sister was brunette … The best Christmas present we got were wigs! I got a brunette wig, and my sister got a blonde wig! We were 3 and 6, and we played with those wigs for years!!!
My favorite toy was a Raggedy Ann Doll.
My favorite Christmas present when I was a kid was a huge cardboard box. I don’t remember what the “real” present was, but my brother and I played that box to death!
I don’t understand how this Raffle-copter thing works. I followed the directions on it but it would not let me answer the question from there.
By commenting here will I be entered????? Confusing. Favorite toy was a baby doll I named Roseie!
My favorite were the dolls, from Chatty Cathy, Tiny Tears to Barbie, Midge, Ken & Skipper. Loved them all. Thanks for the chance to win MMS paints, haven’t tried them yet, but am looking forward to trying them.
An electric train set! I’m still fascinated by train sets as an adult although I haven’t bought myself one.. Yet 😉
A Barbie doll fashion model runway – I thought it was the greatest thing ever!
Doll house with real working lights
My favorite was anything Barbie. One year my oldest sister (who was 13 yrs older) and her husband made me a custom Barbie home. It was so special to me, I’ll never forget it.
As a child, my favorite present was a little sewing machine. I wanted it for months and was bowled over that Santa actually got it for me. I think my crafting craziness started then.
What awesome inspiration here! Thank you for the party Donna. I have been wanting to try MMS paint for some time. She does such great work. Have a merry Christmas!
My favorite toy was a Barbie… the one with the changeable wigs!
Favorite toy as a child — hmmm, I don’t remember the toys as much as I remember loving books.
The wooden doll house from my Aunt. She always gave me the best gifts.
My big wheel was awesome!!
I love, love, love, your decorations!! And I love all the furniture makeovers! So rustic and country—my fave!! So many ideas I don’t know which I want to do first!!
My gosh I didnt know such beautiful work could be done with old furniture!! Wow Id love to get into this hobby, thank you for the opportunity!
I didn’t have much toys as a child but I remember getting a mini play kitchen about 12 inches high and I actually made furniture out of cardboard boxes to add to the kitchen.
My favourite childhood Christmas gift was a copy of the book the Wizard of Oz. I loved reading, and still do.
Suzy Smart doll that talked.
My Barbie dolls! I loved my dolls….. oh, and my little red baby grand piano! I played with that thing forever! I still have it… saving it for my first grand baby due next summer! 🙂
I loved my 10 speed bike. LOL
My first cabbage patch doll. From Santa.
I can still see her sitting under the tree…
I’ve never tried MMS Milk Paint either, Donna and I’d love to!
My favorite toy was my Sunshine Family set of dolls – wish I still had them!
A bright blue typewriter
my first sewing machine
Great giveaway! Hmmm…as a child, I loved my American Girl doll, Kirsten. Still have her, and can hopefully pass her on to my future children someday. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
Oh, best gift ever was the play-house that my dad, who really couldn’t build things….built for me!!! Crooked windows and a door that didn’t close! But, much used and loved!! Thank You so much for the chance to win MMS goodies!!!
The year I got a bike…..it was the year my Dad’s company was on strike for many months and money was tight. We received welfare food and there wasn’t much in the way of extra’s to be had. But Mom and Dad still managed to provide a special Christmas for all 5 kids. The bikes were second hand and had been painted and reassembled so they’d look pretty new. I was old enough, maybe 10-12?, to understand how much it meant to make sure that we still had our Christmas. I think that was one of the best we ever had!
A four poster doll bed with a ruffled white canopy, bedspread and bed ruffle! I think I was 9 years old that Christmas. I wish I had the actual human sized one now!! 🙂
These are such great ideas!
Definitely, my pink and white Schwinn bike. Wish I still had it!
Great giveaway — my fingers are crossed!
Thanks for hosting and for the awesome giveaway opportunity Donna- I would LOVE to try milk paint!!
Oh and I think my favourite childhood gift was my cabbage patch doll at 3 years old. I still remember it vividly.
Thank you so much for hosting, Donna! Have a nice weekend 🙂
I love, love your website!!!!! You are so inspirational!,,,,,,
My favorite present was my Barbie House! Thanks for the giveaway 🙂
My grandparents gave me Little Women with $100 in small bills in the pages. So memorable! AND I loved the book.
I loved dolls. Suzy Smart and Betty Beauty Parlor were two of my favorites. I always enjoyed the jacks I got in my stocking every year.
I loved to get books! Still do. 🙂
The jack in the box – up popped Casper the friendly ghost. In later years I loved watching my kids play with it at Grandma’s house.
I have just the piece for some milk paint love. Got my fingers crossed. Thanks!
I was so excited to receive my roller blades around the age of 9!
When I was 6 my parents got me my first dog,he was by far the best gift ever =)
I loved my art set with colored pencils and thick paper – not that I became an artist or anything, but I dreamed!
I loved my Cornsilk cabbage patch doll
The most exciting gift that i received as a child was a pair of roller blades around the age of 9!
My favorite childhood Christmas gift was a new saddle for my pony!!!
My favorite toy was my Barbie dream house (still have it!) 🙂
My favorite gifts were the various deer toys, figurines etc that my mom (Santa) got me every year. I was crazy about deer, and so my mom gave me a deer of some kind every year… occasionally she still does, and I’m 55 now! 😉 I also loved those gold foil covered coins in a mesh or cotton bag that were in the stocking every year.
A pink bike
I got a beautiful green dress when I was in second grad from Sears. I can still see it; tall white collar, long sleeves.
Thanks for hosting such a fun party Donna!
A set of doll furniture in white plastic. Thanks for the give away!
Thanks for the party, Donna ! Have an awesome weekend 🙂
My favorite present was a ring my father gave me that matches my sister’s and my mother’s (of course, her’s had a bigger setting).
I was big on Barbie when I was a kid and I remember the Christmas I was 7 getting all of the dolls, outfits and accesories that I picked out of the sears wishbook and wondering how Santa knew. Thanks for a great giveaway!
Love what you have done in your 12 days. Where do you find all your junk? You end up with some cool pieces.
Shannon ~ bohemianjunktion.com
Big wheel
Thanks for the chance to be able to try out her milk paint.
Favorite gift as a child was a doll that stood about 3ft. tall, I named her Freckles.
Hmmm. I remember having a Cher barbie doll that I really liked. LOL Thanks!
I know this sounds. Rey nerdy, but when I was about 9-10 I got a little microscope and LOVED it. We lived on a huge lake and I loved sampling the water to see what was living in it as well as financing stuff in nature and seeing everything that was so tiny up close.
Hi Donna: What beautiful holiday decorating ideas you’ve come up with–so creative! Thank you for hosting the party for us.
I must say, I was wondering how hard that must have been to come up with 12 days of junk Christmas Decor, but you hit it every time. I am so impressed with all the other Junk DIY Christmas decor at the party! Think of all the stuff that was saved from a landfill and now is making people’s homes more beautiful!
Not sure if my comment made it through the first time, so I’ll try again. Just want to let you know I think your holiday decorations are so pretty and creative, and thank you so much for hosting the party!
Books!
Just found your blog can’t wait to spend hours going thru it!!!! So many interesting things!!
So many ideas and some will have to wait till next year. You always come across great projects.
I remember our tree when I was little my parents would put Angel Hair all over the tree. There were 6 of us but we thought we were rich. I received my first doll. I wish I still had that doll.
Thanks for the chance to win. I haven’t tried the chalk paint but I have so many project to use it on. God Bless and have a Merry Christmas!
Hands-down… my Easy-Bake Oven :+)
Great giveaway Donna! I’ve really enjoyed this series.
I would love to reboot my crafting with some painted furniture and signs. I have not created anything new in several months. Let’s get painting!!!
My Grandpa made a doll buggy and a kitchen set it was awesome and I still have the buggy!
My favorite present wasn’t definitely when Santa got me an American Girl doll. I was in heaven.
My favorite Christmas present was from my mother in law soon after my father in law passed- we went on a Disney cruise as a family over the holidays (something we never dreamed we could di). It made Christmas easier- while missing a loved one.
Any book that santa left for me. Apparently, I would hole up for the rest of the day in my pjs and just read!
It was a children’s book of Bible stories.
Thanks for hosting this giveaway! I loved getting my very own bicycle when I was little… so much so, that I put it in my room and stared at it as I fell asleep!
I would love to try the milk paint. What a fabulous giveaway!
My favorite Christmas presents were the Shelley teacups that my Grammy collected for me 🙂
believe it or not, I come from a large Mennonite farming family and I don’t remember ever getting a Christmas gift! But neither do I remember feeling deprived so I doubt if my friends did either:) I’ve yet to try the milk paint also, so this would be fun to win! Thank you!
I got a link tape player that I loved with the Wilson Phillips tape! I prayed it all the time.
Donna, I LOVE your link parties. Thanks so much for hosting!!!
My favorite gift when I was a child was a paint set 🙂
Love your style! My favorite toy as a child was Barbie dolls. Times have definitely changed, huh?
I loved my bigwheel!We would peddle around the house for hours!
So many lovely link ups. My favorite gift was my pink bike with a white banana seat!
My favorite was this kitten stuffed animal that “purred” when you hugged it!
Oh how I love Milk Paint, and know exactly what I would do with it if I won… I’ve been dreaming of a old chippy red and white couch… that I make, and stain, and sand, and paint, and sand, and paint. Because of the finish that I want to do on this lovely piece (that currently exists only in my head) I would need both the milk paint (in at least the white/linen and the red…) and the antiquing wax to help with the chipping.
Really love your link ups, but this week truly is extra special. Thanks for the great opportunity.
Love! Of coarse what woman wouldn’t want it all. so inspired by your site and creativity!
A Cabbage Patch Doll! It was during the Cabbage Patch Kids craze and my mom won a doll! I know now that she could have sold her for a lot of money, but instead, she gave her to me for Christmas!! <3
What a wonderful giveaway! I’m excited just thinking about it.
Toy guns and a pistol.
My favorite present as a child was my first guitar. Jo @ Let’s Face the Music
My favorite childhood gift… boy will this date me, was a Chatty Kathy doll. You pulled the string on her back and she said different phrases, I LOVED that doll, until my sister gave her a BAD haircut and gave her a makeover with fingernail polish. Didn’t ever see Chatty the same way, but still loved my baby sister! Thanks for the chance to win some Milk Paint, love MMS, but have never tried her product! Fingers crossed and maybe this will be my new favorite gift!!!
I could use the milk paint for the three tables I have started and I could also finish the shelving I made with pallets!!!!! O YEA!! Merry Christmas!!!!
I loved my mandy doll
Yay! It’s finally December! Happy Holidays!! Thank you for hosting this great party. We love your blog!!
~~ Seasons Greetings,
Sharon, Denise & Aubrie
My favorite gift as a child were the games my parents would put under the tree…whenever guests would come on Christmas night, we would play those games over and over and over!
My Zandar wizzard game
i would so love to win.
A veterinarium truck full of dogs.
My favorite toys as a child were my Breyer horses. I was horse crazy! (Still am!)
My favorite toy growing up was a painting kit. Unfortunately my babysitter fell asleep on the sofa one day and I painted my first set of kitchen cabinets.
Take Care,
Mandy Jean
My favorite toy I ever got for Christmas was a Spirograph. Loved that thing. Thanks for hosting the party.
You and Miss Marion are both just awesome….need I say more! Happy Holidays, ladies!
JP
Oh, mine was a Palomino…I loved horses!
My favorite toy was a toy typewriter when I was about five. I would love to receive the milk paint because I have never used milk paint.
My favorite toy was a doll. Thanks for the giveaway!
My favorite toy I received as a child was a trampoline. It was the only white Christmas we’ve ever had. We ran outside in our pjs and coats and could have stayed out there for hours jumping.
Love it! Thanks & Merry Christmas!
The one present that stands out-when I knew there must be something else since I didn’t have many presents… but then a small something under the tree turned out to be a needle for my stereo that I wanted! the stereo was hidden away for me. : )
A camera!
I was thrilled to discover your site. I truly enjoy it.
Hi
My favourite gift was a Ernie and Bert radio. Love your house!
I follow Miss Mustard Seed’s blog and love the work that she does. Winning this prize package would be the best “gift” ever.
I would say it would be a little white real fur kitten I got when I had my tonsils out.
The only gift I remember specifically is a Barbie, and I remember peeking under the wrapping paper beforehand, so it wasn’t a surprise Christmas morning!
I would love to try Marian’s milk paint. I didn’t realize it came in powder form. My favorite toy as a child was probably my Barbies. I am not a person with a wild imagination so I spent more time brushing their hair and getting them dressed and setting up their homes than I actually did “playing” with them. But that was my fun!
I am in chippy, junky, rusty, heaven with all of this holiday loveliness!
Oh, we had a giant tub full of wooden blocks when I was little … I could play with those for hours. Very nostalgic.
I definitely adored my kitchen playset I got one year… Tie between that or the plain wooden blocks we had in a big old tub. So many good memories!
I don’t recall a favorite present necessarily, although I do remember one year getting furniture for one of my dolls. That was pretty sweet!
This paint is awesome! I have a dresser crying out to be painted!
My favorite Christmas present was my kitchen set of tools. We had just bought our first house and my mom gave them to me and then came out to visit and show me all the possibilities they have!
My favorite toy was a Cabbage Patch kid.
My American Girl doll was the best gift!
I think I had more fun giving than getting, because I honestly can’t remember a lot of my own gifts other than a cabbage patch doll I got when I was 4 and I loved that!
My favourite toy I got was a slinky.
I know what I will do with the paint, but what about you?! Strawberry shortcake anything!
Chatty Kathy was my favorite childhood toy.
I’ve never tried milk paint but I’d love to! Thanks for hosting!
Hairstyling doll head. Loved playing with that thing!
My favorite toy was the baby doll named Tiny Tears. I think it is still stored somewhere at my mother’s house. She’d cry real tears.
Favorite present as a kid had to be a wooden rockinghorse. It’s fun to see my toddler nieces and nephew rock away like I once had.
My favorite childhood gift was a swing set!
I have fond memories of a dress with the pettiskirt beneath. I remember looking at it every time we entered the shop all year.
Barbie House
One of my favorites was my Monchichi! And my Cabbage Patch doll and Popples!
Crayons! Crayolas, the 64 count package, which was the biggest one they sold at the time, i think.
I loved that wooden puzzle game Labryinth!
Wow! What a great party! I just found it on Facebook! Got to go pin on the Pinterest boards! I pinned like crazy yesterday. Thanks for hosting Donna and Merry Christmas!
Sherry
My best Christmas gift had to be my aunt’s old antique camera!
Ready to try the milkpaint products!!
Barbi camper.
My tiny tears doll and chatty Cathy. Well over 50 years ago. I still have them today, and many little ones have played with them through the years.
Thank you for such an awesome contest. I have never used chalk paint. Looking forward to getting creative. 🙂
My favorite toy as a kid was an original Kermit doll. I wish I still had it!
Best gift ever spending time with my children and grandson Cindy F
Weeble People Treehouse
I always liked getting a new coloring book and colors!
I loved my new bike when I was 10!
I love your site! Thanks for all you share!
My favorite Christmas gift was my teddy bear, “Teddy”. And after 40+ years, he still has a home with my family! :)) Thank you for such a wonderful giveaway … I’d love to try MMS milk paint!
My favorite gifts were always book!
I loved the Radio Flyer sled I used to have. I wish I had kept it now that I am seeing all the “junking” fun stuff to do with it 🙂
A jewelry maker!
The most memorable christmas gift as a child was my play kitchen.
My very own CD player/radio for my room.
A boxed set of the Chronicles of Narnia books. Loved those books. Movies are a nice attempt but not the same.
I have not used milk paint yet, but I am always up to try something new..
My favorite toy as a child was a “sewing machine”. I didn’t really sew though, it dotted little spots of glue along the seams for stitches.
My most memorable and favorite gift was the portable CD player and the Larnelle Harris CD I revieved. I went through quite a few batteries and I had to replace my Larnelle CD. I plumb wore the first one out. That gift started a lifelong long of LarnelleHarris and contemporary Christian music. Thank you for the oppertunitu to win this awesome prize packahe. I have made my own chalk paint but I would sure love the chance to try Miss Mustard Seed’s. version.
Spirograph!!
The year we went to Disney for Christmas!
My favorite gift as a child was the little drummer boy book. I carried it around all the time.
I so loved the baby doll my grandmother gave me in 1967. She had a pink lace dress on and when you tipped her over she would say mama!
A pair of yellow and white high heels I was 12. Was so upset when my feet got bigger.
Absolutely love your “JUNK”!!
my dollhouse I had for years
A dog!!!
My favorite was my Mrs. Beasley doll!! 🙂
My talking cabbage patch kid! Still have it and plan on giving it to my daughter when she is a bit older:)
I just loved my toy winnebago motor home with people.
My all time favorite gift was a pair of roller skates. I really thought I was fit for roller derby! Thanks for such a great giveaway – I’ve been wanting to try this paint, and love Miss Mustard Seed!
Yay! I would love this. I have 3 pieces I need to paint.
I remember wanting a Mrs. Beasley doll like Buffy had on the TV show “A Family Affair” (I’m dating myself, I know…) but I never did get her. Instead, I got a Drowsy Doll that my sister & I always fought over. Maybe my parents should have gotten me Mrs. Beasley & gave my sister the Drowsy Doll and there would have peace everywhere… 😉 A A close 2nd fav toy would have been my Close N’ Play record player. Why yes, I WAS a child of the 60’s & 70’s.
The mini 4-wheeler my brother and I got as youngsters. Such an awesome present from Santa!
My favorite toy as a child was my little blue teddy bear. Thank you for the chance to win!
Favorite present was my 3 foot tall walking doll
Books
My favorite gift that I remember was books. I love to read and a book that I didn’t have to share was wonderful!
My favorite toy was my cabbage patch doll named Xavier Alexander. He came with a cabbage patch pony. My parents still have him in the attic.
My red and yellow BMX bike! I was such a tom boy growing up. I loved that Bike!
A drum set!
I would LOVE to try the MMS paint! I’ve got an old desk just waiting for it…. My favorite gift was my Madame Alexander baby doll. I loved her for years!
When I was 2 years old, my aunt and uncle gave me a bean bag tiger, (my uncle also called me tiger till the day he died) It was my most treasured possession. As a matter of fact, I still have it…42 years later.
Thanks for the opportunity to win the Milk Paint!This would be my first attempt to use it and I love the stuff! I already have a piece in mind to try it and I’ve already watched all of Miss Musterdseed’s tutorials! Can’t wait!
Probably my Annie soundtrack on vinyl! 🙂
Barbie doll clothes!
Can’t wait to see what you do with the milk paint. Love your creativity. Merry Christmas
My favorite gift as a child was a Care Bears Cousin who was a raccoon name Bright Star. Took him everywhere I went.
Barbie dolls
My favorite toy was my Barbie house from Santa. I loved to set up the furniture… still do today. 🙂
My favorite Christmas gift as a child was my big chalkboard. It had a wooden frame and was attached to a metal stand so you could rotate it. One side of the chalkboard was black, and the other side was green. I wanted to be a teacher when I grew up, and for me, that was all about writing on the chalkboard. I was 50 years ahead of my time with the chalkboard thing. 🙂 I wish I still had it.
Merry Christmas, everybody!
I have always wanted try, been redoing furniture years with oil, but never had extra money for milk paint?
Rollerskates!
Favorite toy was my Tammy Doll.
My favorite gift was receiving a bicycle for Christmas.
I loved by Betsy-Wetsy baby doll with all of her accessories.
The doctor/nurse set I got as a child.
My favorite toy was an Easy Bake Oven.
A Barbie camper
favorite gift … definitely the banana seat pastel bike I got when I was 6 or 7. my parents totally pulled the wool over our eyes and then BAM (!) there they were on Christmas morning! (Thanks for the giveaway!!!)
Hi There! Happy Monday! My favorite childhood toy was my record player. I love music, and would listen to records and the radio for hours.
Happy Holidays!
Love your website. Merry Christmas
strangly it was a sleeping bag. We lived in an old farm house and slept on the floor in front of the wood stove on cold winter nights. The sleeping bag was heaven. 🙂
Bicycle! It felt like flying. Love your blog. Thanks for GREAT giveaway!
My favorite toy as a kid for christmas was either my Donny Osmond Barbie or my easy bake.
This is less about the actual toy that I received at Christmas and more about the memory of it instead. One Christmas I remember waking up and opening presents, the one thing I had wanted more than anything was a Cabbage Patch doll and it wasn’t in my presents. I remember being upset but I knew that it was a long shot since they were expensive. While I was playing with the home made doll that my mom had made to resemble a Cabbage Patch doll there was a knock on the door, when my mom answered the door in walked Santa. With a present that had my name on it. In that present was a Cabbage Patch doll. My parents never knew who the gentleman dressed as Santa was and they were never sure exactly where the doll came from but the memory is forever etched in my brain as a wonder of Christmas. And that hand made doll from my mom was my favorite for years to come. The Cabbage Patch doll always took 2nd place.
I loved when I got the “Dawn” mini dolls. They were like miniature Barbie dolls and my sister and I got the fashion runway with it. We had so much time, I love to make clothes or her.
Favorite toy was a walking doll. I still have her and she still works!
My favorite gift as a child was a trampoline that I had been wanting for so long.
I can remember when I got my Mrs. Beasley doll! I loved her so much. I told her all of my secrets. I think I was 10. Somehow she is lost out there in the world. ): When I was 12 I got my Shirley Temple doll. I love her, too. I still have her!
I loved all my Barbies! I had totes and totes of them!
A green toy tractor! I was 3 and had hours and hours of fun playing in the dirt with it!
Sadly I don’t really remember any toys I got. However, my best memory of Christmas is spending time with family. One of my favorite memories was making cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve. 🙂
My favorite present as a child was a pink Huffy bicycle.
My favorite toy as a child was my doll house.
One of my favorites was the Breyer horses I received. I grew up riding and those were very cherished.
Barbie and all of her accessories!
I love MMS milk paint. It seems like you are screwing it up when you use it, but it all works out.
My favorite Christmas present was a trip to Disneyland because I got to spend time with my mom and best friend.
My favorite gift as a child was a mosaic art kit. Instead of gluing the little mosaic tiles down on the picture provided I used them to create all sorts of different designs. Keeping the tiles separate allowed me all sorts of creative pleasure that winter when I was home sick for 6-weeks. I would so love to try Ms. Mustard Seed’s milk paint! I have a couple of flea market finds sitting in my garage just waiting for a fix-up!
I seriously have THE worst memory in the world but from what I can remember, my favorite childhood gift was our video game system. Anyone remember ColecoVision? It was the less popular version of Atari and we thought it was the bomb! 🙂
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I don’t know what is was called but it was a ride on toy that had two big wheels with handles on the inside and you could make it spin. I wish I had and adult sized one today. Great memories!
It was a ride on toy with two big wheels on the side and handles on the inside. You could make it spin when you stopped the handles.
I remember one Christmas my mom bought me those little girly sets with the bath bubbles and lip gloss. I loved them!
My Fisher Price farm set
My Holly Hobbie lunch box and Holly Hobbie stand up doll house was the fondest toys I received. I still have them both and I’m 45 now. There are four of us kids in my family and Mom didn’t put names on the gifts she would put numbers. We never knew until Christmas morning which was our gift. My gifts may be 1-10, a sisters 11-20 and so on. This made our Christmas so special because we didn’t know if we were shaking the right presents to see what was inside so we shook them all 🙂
My Radio Flyer wagon!!
My favorite gift as a child was my Thumbelina doll. She had a round wind up on her back. I loved her…too bad my mother sold her in a yard sale, now she is worth a couple of hundred dollars. I also had 2 Chatty Cathy dolls that she sold…probably for a quarter a piece.
My favorite gift I received when I was a child cabbage doll, by the way I still have her today.
I am still in love with the birthstone ring I received for Christmas. I still wear it!
“Santa” brought me a candy maker when I was 9! It was the only thing I remember really wanting and it was so much fun.
Always used chalk, milk is next for painting! My husband has his grandmothers dresser this would look amazing!
My favorite toy as a child was my first bicycle. I must have ridden 1,000 miles on that bike.
A tin dollhouse! I found one just like it for my birthday a few years ago complete with original box. Yippee!
Thank you very much for the giveaway! Good luck everyone!
Large stuffed horse that my grandmother made by hand.
Lincoln Logs
Okay…to answer your question….my favorite was my science kit that let me make things and I learned morse code…it was awesome!
My favorite toy was always the Barbie clothes my grandma would make for her or Ken. She was the best and oh how I miss her.
Donny Osmond doll.. My cousin got the Marie one.. Barbie and Donny were in love!! =)
2 stuffed animal horses with a cabbage patch doll!
My favorite childhood toy was a dancing doll.
My favorite Christmas gift were Barbie dolls and their clothes. I loved the dolls but never asked for Barbie houses or furnishings. I made my own houses, furniture and decorative items myself. I used anything I could find: scraps of fabric, bottle caps, cardboard (which i cut up and remade into beds,chairs,tables–everything!)tin foil for mirrors, etc. I LOVED making the most elaborate houses and then putting the Barbie and Ken dolls all over the place. I really think I loved the “making” more than I liked the playing… Gosh–this makes me want to go spend a weekend making an elaborate homemade doll house and then taking it down and starting all over again!!! Thanks for encouraging me to recall such a sweet, uncomplicated time of life…
A Chatty Kathy doll. It was 1960.
I loved models of the human body.
Thanks for the inspiration. I love the blog. 🙂
Books! I’ve always loved reading.
My favorite present would have to be the skis and boots I got when I was 15.
I have several gifts that come to mind when I think of a little girl at Christmas – a metal doll house, my Easy Bake Oven,and Dolls and Barbies. It would be great to win Miss Mustard Seed’s Milkpaint products!!
The doll that grew hair when you pressed her belly button!
My blue banana seat bike! I did crash and broke an arm…but what fun!
My favorite gift was a doll whose hair grew when you pressed her bellybutton! Thanks and have a great holiday!
A 10 speed bicycle.
My favorite toy was my cabbage patch dolls
What a wonderful contest!
My first Cabbage Patch Kid, and I still have her!
My lil sister doll
A doll that was taller than me at 5 years old. I played with her like she was a sister.
The best gift I got when I was a child was Record Player. Have been wanting to try Milk Paint – it’s amazing that sanding and priming isn’t necessary. Love your Blog!!
Well isn’t this sweet!? I’d love to try MMS other colors. I’ve only worked with Ironstone.Did the chippy version. Loved the results after awhile.
Cheers,
Miss Ellie
My favorite was my first bike. Great freedom in being able to ride however far your legs and those wheels could carry you!
The year we got the Nintendo was a great year. But I loved getting art kits, like the ones with 100 different markers, crayons, etc. I still have a few kits I love to use!
The best christmas gift was when my mom gave me my jewelry from when o was a baby and a young little girl after I got married. That way I could pass it Down 🙂
My favorite gift was the doll house that my mom and step-father made for my sister and me when we were around 8 and 10 years old.
My favorite christmas present as a child was always my stockings. I love going through all of the little goodies.
my favorite toy was a microscope.
My favorite gift was a handmade Raggedy Ann Doll my mom made me, straight down to the “I love you” on her heart. Still have her – she’s my keepsake!