On the fourth day of Christmas, Domestic Sluttery gave to me... a pretty pair of earrings from Accessories Online.
Christmas means nothing but parties according to the ladies in the Boots advert, (to us it usually means extra Tunnocks Caramel bars). But the good thing about all these parties is that we can coo over all things sparkly, like some deranged gin-addled magpie. And we're cooing over these rose hoop earrings from Accessories Online. They're blingy but still pretty and we want them.
But we have to share our presents. Want to win these beautiful earrings? Just leave us a comment telling us about your favourite Christmas party as a kid. Did you go to the school party wearing a bright pink dress? Do you remember parties where you got a slightly rubbish present from Santa and sitting on his lap wouldn't get anyone in trouble? We wanna hear all about it.
You can also get an extra entry if you tell us about your Christmas parties on our Facebook page. It's definitely the day for sharing Christmas stories. You've got until midnight tonight to enter and we'll announce the winner tomorrow with our next competition.
Wondering who won yesterday? It was one of our Twitter entries! Millicent Green (@milliepaw) who does actually thing that the best part of Christmas dinner is the sprouts. MADNESS! Utter madness! Millicent, just email us and we'll get your turkey delivery arranged.
Good luck to everyone entering today!
Oh yawn, small print (read it). The competition will close at Midnight on December 6th. You must be UK based AND leave a name with your comment so that we know who you are! If you're anon your entry won't count and if you enter more than once, we'll discount all of your entries and tell you off. If you take ages sorting out your prize, Accessories Online totally reserve the right to change it. If you've won one competition, let someone else have a bash and go and play with your toys! We're not allowed to enter our own competitions, but Siany remembers the Christmas where her Grandad was Santa. That was the best.
My Junior School parties were fab... fancy dress parades, crackers and paper hats, and lots of games. Loved em.
ReplyDeleteI used to love Christmas school discos. I had such a killer outfit; velour paisley print leggings and a polyester blouse with bell sleeves. I was Eight. And loved that outfit so much.
ReplyDeleteI remember my Primary school used to have a Christmas party every year and we all used to take along our party clothes and some party food and drink. We used to have a massive feast, dance around and play party games. I would go back to those days in an instant!
ReplyDeleteI remember wearing a black dress with purple glitter all over it...maybe a little over dressed for the school hall!
Our best parties were (and still are!) my Grandma's Christmas party. It happens around her birthday at the start of December and involved a massive treasure hunt around her house. I'll be honest and say I've done the treasure hunt in recent years too, but she's made the questions harder as I've got older and it's NOT FAIR.
ReplyDeleteStunning earrings!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite Christmas party was at my parents' workplace, I was only 5 or 6 and I was scared of Father Christmas and would not sit on his lap, but I was thrilled at the opportunity to wear a diamante tiara. It is one of my earliest memories from childhood.
Well it was actually just before Xmas. Nearer my birthday which is the 21st of December. Anyway mum and dad thought it would be nice to go for 'a run in the car'. This was mine and my brothers version of torture - who would wont to go for a run in the car at age 10 - so boring. Typical female that I am, I went into a huff. We arrived in Aviemore and we got out of the car, I presumed we'd stopped for a snack or something. Then my dad told me to open the boot of the car, so I shuffled my huffy feet to the boot and opened it. OMG, our suitcases were in there - what's going on. Dad had booked us in to the hotel with swimming pool, video players in room etc etc for my birthday. How bad do I feel for going in the huff. It was brill and I will never forget. Love you dad from Nickey Fraser x
ReplyDeleteInstead of parties, my school had a Christmas theatre trip each year, and for weeks beforehand the corridors of my strict girl's school were abuzz with discussions of what we might wear.
ReplyDeleteBeing sartorially, um, 'independent' even then, I wore a bright pink satin mini skirt with silver platform trainers, a black T-shirt which said 'babe' on it and, because this seemed like the perfect accessory to set off my 'space hooker' ensemble, a black velvet drawstring bag with fringe around the edges.
We were sat up in the balcony, and during the interval I was chatting away with my friends, excited and happy, twirling my velvet bag on a string around my finger when whoops! It went flying of and sailed down into the stalls, below.
Too mortified to MOVE, I owe my thanks to my friend Heather, who went downstairs and retrieved my bag from the very surprised elderly gentleman in whose lap it landed. She brought it back to me where I was sitting frozen in my seat, face so red it matched the velour on the theatre seats, but sadly clashed horribly with my stylin' pink skirt.
I remember going to my Aunty's for a get together Christmas Eve, I was quite young and delighted to be staying up late with all the family. Watching Santa Claus the movie and peering out of my Aunty's window at the night sky, hoping to catch a glimpse of Santa in his sleigh.
ReplyDeleteThis is so tragic but I never went to any Xmas parties as a kid that I can recall. Our family didn't celebrate it so it wasn't on our radar. However, I made up for it as an adult going to a stellar one in the Maldives ; ) x
ReplyDeleteIt has to be the year, possibly 1978, when i won the Best Christmas Hat. I had worked so hard on this damn hat, covered a cardboard shoe box in cotton wool and glitter, the 'glue' was flour and water mixed together, so it really, really was home made.It was a snowy lake scene with tin foil and it cost my mum and dad a fortune it make!!! Oh i thought i was the Queen Bee in that hat, i can still smell the fairy cakes that the dinnerladies had lovingly baked, and i can feel the magical excitement of The School Christmas Party even now. I was 7 at the time, and i hope every Christmas Party of the future makes me relive that magic......
ReplyDeleteI remember when I went to a Christmas party and Santa gave me a real life Christmas tree!! It's still buried in my garden growing to this day!!
ReplyDeleteMine was the one when I must have been about 13 years old in the 1970s when a a schoolfriend had a party at her house and her mum put on bottles of Pomagne for us and we drank it like lemonade. Most of us ended up being sick but there was lots of laughter before the drink had its effect! The party ended somewhat earlier than expected and parents collecting us looked somewhat bemused at the spectacle I can remember well!
ReplyDeleteback in 2004 was the last party my gran was at she was the life and soul of every party ...... she would have her port and would be off .... never shy my gran ..... all the years of growing up my gran used to get me all dressed up which i loved ..... and still to this day i have a port and lemon at christmas to remember my gran ....
ReplyDeleteMy fav is when all my family where seated together eating and chatting - was very loud think there was about 20 of us - sadly the numbers have dwindled:( @kikicomp
ReplyDeleteSitting in the empty bath aged 6 with a blanket, the dog, a mince pie and a copy of the BFG while my parents noisily entertained their guests downstairs. I'm a very sociable bod now but I remember having the loveliest Christmas Eve, just me and my pooch in the bathroom......
ReplyDeleteThe Christmas Party I remember most was one I didn't even attend! I was in the first year or College or last year of school and all my friends were having a Party and my family were going up North to visit relatives. I was cross at my parents for making me miss the Party. I made a cake for it anyway and I got to listen to one of my cds in the car...
ReplyDeleteI come from a quite large family (my mum has 8 siblings), so we used to have a huge family Christmas party every year on my birthday (December 27th). So because it was my birthday I got to be the first to see santa (yup, we had a proper santa with presents for everyone), and I also got my choice of song first on the karoke - yay!
ReplyDeleteThese huge family parties stopped after my Gran died and I must say I miss them almost as much as I miss her.
The christmas party i rememeber being the best was in primary school second year we all got to take in food (I remember choosing biscuits lol) and we did lots of dancing and games then we were all told to listen and we could here bells jingling coming from towards our classrooms (there were only two reception and second as main school was a seperate building) we all froze and gasped lol so funny thinking about it we all went to look and the corrider was covered in big snowy foot prints and when went into our rooms there were presents on our tables one in each of our places. It was so magical i remember telling everyone in my family all about it!I cant wait for my little girl to have moments like that :)
ReplyDeleteMeeting my dad's ship when it came home to Plymouth and the Royal Navy putting on a Christmas Party for all us children on board - Father Christmas on an aircraft carrier - it was amazing! And they really could say they had sailed him from the Pole!
ReplyDeletechristmas was my happiest time as a child. I am the youngest of 7 children and we all used to dance and sing and do little plays when my aunties and uncles came round on boxing day
ReplyDeleteWe didn't really have Christmas Parties when I was little. Ahhhh poor me
ReplyDeleteMy fave was a huge christmas party we had at school with party rings and pass the parcel - what I'd give to be a kid again!
ReplyDeleteHas to be the annual Christmas party for the entire primary school in the local Duke's castle! Held in the main hall with a 40 foot Christmas tree with real candles (health & safety??)and glass baubles the size of melons, there was always a conjuror or magician and everyone got a pressie from Santa. The food was wonderful too. A very special event.
ReplyDeleteThe one that stands out most in my mind is the one where I nearly lost my front teeth!
ReplyDeleteTo be fair I shouldn't have been running around.... but then again Santy should have been watching where he was going when he was ringing his bell!
I did get an extra selection box as an apology...that's right he didn't manage to knock them clean out so he thought he would help me try and rot them instead! ;)
I remember one Christmas everyone coming into school with Christmas lights/Santa Claus hats/tinsel/ reindeer antlers. We all ate lunch together, and Father Christmas (my friend Paul) took a victory lap round the school in his Santa Costume & Speedos :)
ReplyDeleteMy best Christmas party as a kid, was always the one I spent outside the family home as ours always ended up ala Eastenders type lol :)
ReplyDeleteThe best Christmas parties were at my Aunties house when I was about 10 years old. Me, my Brother & Sister used to laugh wildly at all the adults getting more and more drunk, then walking home with our Parents who were half-cut aswell singing, laughing and falling over in the streets. Hilarious :)
ReplyDeleteEvery christmas party was amazing as a child, the food the songs and often one of santas special helpers too
ReplyDeleteyou can't pick just one when as a child everything about christmas was so special and magical.
I have millions of cousins so my grandparents used to have a big party for us all each year where the family got together they used to arrange games and everything for us amazing times
ReplyDeleteOne christmas our family went to lapland - it was fabulous. I would love to do it again with my children x
ReplyDeleteMy favourite Christmas as a 10 year old was when the tele broke down. I hadnt realized how talented my family are. Singing, dancing playing instruments. Why had we wasted 9 christmas's watching TV?
ReplyDeleteI had an ace time going to a Christmas party in a silver sequined boob tube, before that became uncool. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm actually really looking forward to my next Christmas party, because the people I'm going with rock.
ReplyDeleteI used to love the school xmas parties the best... musical chairs and all those other silly-but-fun games which has so much appeal back then. Plus it was a day off from schoolwork = WIN!
ReplyDeleteMy fave christmas party as a kid was always the one at school, where we used to all be given a party bag with food and toys and then sit down in the gym and watch the teachers pantomime! I always found it hilarious! xx
ReplyDeleteI don't really remember any Christmas parties as a kid - but I used to really like going to see my nan and grandad, because their house was really cosy and my nan would play Christmas carols for us on her piano.
ReplyDeleteThis is a bit sad but it was a school party late 70s all girls dancing along to Slade Here It is Merry Xmas knowing that Dave Hill (the silver one in the band) lived right next door to the school building!!! A mass of sixth formers tried to jump the hedge guaranteed to end in tears!!!I only need to hear that record now and still get the giggles!!
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I don't think I ever went to a Christmas party as a child *sob* I'm ever so envious of everyone else's stories
ReplyDeleteI come from South Africa and remember the Christmas parties we had where Father Christmas would be there dressed in normal Father Christmas suits - I can only image how hot it must have been in a Santa suit! I also remember seeing a photo taken of mum and me at my second Christmas party crying - I was terrified of Father Christmas - fortunately I got over my phobia and further Christmas parties are remembered fondly!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite christmas parties were the ones that were arranged by the local paper mill that my Grandad worked for when I was little. The parties were held for family of the workers and I have such magical memories from them! Might have something to do with one of the best presents I ever had coming from the santa there!A walking and talking tess doll!lol
ReplyDeleteMaybe not the best, but certainly the most memorable (although this could be due to my mum always bringing it up) was a playgroup Christmas party when I was about 3. Presents, Santa, songs - and according to my mother, my first boyfriend!
ReplyDeleteSee the picture below, it makes me laugh every time because of my expression! (hope it's ok to include this)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/holliez/dec89.jpg
My dad worked for Lucas and they had a kids party at the site in Long lane, it was fantastic, the father christmas was all wrong but it was agr8 day
ReplyDeleteMy elder brothers work place saved all year to hold a party for their children/siblings and I remember it being fantastic, loads of games and I got coonect 4!!!
ReplyDeleteI have never been to a Christmas party. I hope this year will be the year for me, I have suffered from depression for most of my life and am now receiving treatment in the form of group therapy. This week, after six months, I broke down in front of the other group members. I am starting slowly to come out of myself. This year my Christmas party will be just me and my children but I am tentatively inviting another guest, hope for the future. Thanks x
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