I get all those wonderful Holiday Gift Catalogs from the awesome Gift basket companies like Harry & David.  Their presentations are incredible, but so are their prices!!!  So I created this kit so to help you make your own little gift basket for the people on your list that you just don’t quite know what to buy for or for your hairdresser or others for whom a small "Thank You" would be just right.

This kit will be the freebie that I give away to some lucky reader tomorrow in my twice monthly Blog Comments Contest.  All you have to do is post a comment on my blog anywhere between the 1st and the 15th and this kit could be yours!  For the rest, it will be available next week at The Daisie Company Store for $4.48 (plus 20% off until Christmas Day)

Using the Holly Berry Christmas 1 & 2 art sets, this is a classic Red, Green and Gold Christmas that is both elegant and fun.  It contains a bow top box, a cocoa packet, a tea bag cover, book mark and assorted gift tags.  Add your cocoa packets, spiced holiday tea, some peppermint sticks and Christmas Hersey’s Kisses and tuck in some of the free recipe cards that I have available elsewhere on this blog and you have an instant gift! 

I like to make up 2 or 3 sets like this and have them pre-labeled with blank labels just in case someone drops by that I didn’t expect to give me a gift.  I store them away in a closet and can pull them out in a jiffy!

Today is my "Get all of Christmas wrapped and all the cards sent" day!  So I’m off to brew my coffee and fuel up for a looong day!  Meryy Christmas to you all!

THE CHRISTMAS STORY: Luke 2:35-40
The Prophecy of Anna

36 Anna, a prophet, was also there in the Temple. She was the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, and was very old. She was a widow, for her husband had died when they had been married only seven years. 37 She was now eighty-four years old. She never left the Temple but stayed there day and night, worshiping God with fasting and prayer. 38 She came along just as Simeon was talking with Mary and Joseph, and she began praising God. She talked about Jesus to everyone who had been waiting for the promised King to come and deliver Jerusalem.

39 When Jesus’ parents had fulfilled all the requirements of the law of the Lord, they returned home to Nazareth in Galilee. 40 There the child grew up healthy and strong. He was filled with wisdom beyond his years, and God placed his special favor upon him. NLT

This concludes the Christmas story in Luke, next I’ll go to the gospel of Matthew which tells a few different details.