Comments on: The Top Five Places for Christmas – Presents-Style! http://www.iheartpresents.com/2009/11/the-top-five-places-for-christmas-%e2%80%93-presents-style/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:09:18 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Pete http://www.iheartpresents.com/2009/11/the-top-five-places-for-christmas-%e2%80%93-presents-style/comment-page-1/#comment-53016 Pete Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:00:50 +0000 http://www.iheartpresents.com/?p=1306#comment-53016 The best Places for christmas is Germany. The Christkindlmarkt is not in Vienna, is in Nuremberg.=) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwN_Kcb-XhM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1TK8dKBZDA The best Places for christmas is Germany. The Christkindlmarkt is not in Vienna, is in Nuremberg.=)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwN_Kcb-XhM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1TK8dKBZDA

]]> By: Jennie Lucas http://www.iheartpresents.com/2009/11/the-top-five-places-for-christmas-%e2%80%93-presents-style/comment-page-1/#comment-52693 Jennie Lucas Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:22:41 +0000 http://www.iheartpresents.com/?p=1306#comment-52693 Heidi!! Your pun made me laugh, and your Lapland trip left me all agog. Wow. You are the very first person I know in real life who's actually gone there. What an incredible trip! I loved hearing about your Christmas events calendar with your family. I seriously need to do that. It's too easy as the Mom to get swamped with all the things on the holiday to-do list, and to forget what the meaningful events of Christmas really are. Things like going ice skating. Thanks for the fab idea! *hugs* Heidi!! Your pun made me laugh, and your Lapland trip left me all agog. Wow. You are the very first person I know in real life who’s actually gone there. What an incredible trip!

I loved hearing about your Christmas events calendar with your family. I seriously need to do that. It’s too easy as the Mom to get swamped with all the things on the holiday to-do list, and to forget what the meaningful events of Christmas really are. Things like going ice skating. Thanks for the fab idea! *hugs*

]]> By: Heidi Rice http://www.iheartpresents.com/2009/11/the-top-five-places-for-christmas-%e2%80%93-presents-style/comment-page-1/#comment-52661 Heidi Rice Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:06:30 +0000 http://www.iheartpresents.com/?p=1306#comment-52661 Hi Jennie Looking forward to reading The Christmas Love-Child, it sounds like a cracker (excuse the pun!!). I'm a huge Christmas-a-holic too. We went to Finnish Lapland a few years back for New Year and it really was spectacular, 40 degrees below one day, but after putting on six layers of clothing, having a few hot toddies and looking at all that powdery snow sparkling in the lamplight it gives you a surprisingly warm glow! Myself I like to stay home for Christmas in London. My boys make a Christmas events calendar every year which involves us writing down something Chrismassy to do each day during December until Christmas Eve. This year we're doing the Christmas Lights on Regents Street, Skating at Somerset House on Christmas Eve, and seeing the new Jim Carrey movie A Christmas Carol on the South Bank and all the usual suspects like getting the tree, baking cookies, writing Christmas cards and making our annual trip to John Lewis department store on Oxford Street to buy a new ornament for the tree... Love it... Heidi x Hi Jennie

Looking forward to reading The Christmas Love-Child, it sounds like a cracker (excuse the pun!!). I’m a huge Christmas-a-holic too.

We went to Finnish Lapland a few years back for New Year and it really was spectacular, 40 degrees below one day, but after putting on six layers of clothing, having a few hot toddies and looking at all that powdery snow sparkling in the lamplight it gives you a surprisingly warm glow!

Myself I like to stay home for Christmas in London. My boys make a Christmas events calendar every year which involves us writing down something Chrismassy to do each day during December until Christmas Eve. This year we’re doing the Christmas Lights on Regents Street, Skating at Somerset House on Christmas Eve, and seeing the new Jim Carrey movie A Christmas Carol on the South Bank and all the usual suspects like getting the tree, baking cookies, writing Christmas cards and making our annual trip to John Lewis department store on Oxford Street to buy a new ornament for the tree… Love it…

Heidi x

]]> By: Jennie Lucas http://www.iheartpresents.com/2009/11/the-top-five-places-for-christmas-%e2%80%93-presents-style/comment-page-1/#comment-52659 Jennie Lucas Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:34:05 +0000 http://www.iheartpresents.com/?p=1306#comment-52659 Hi Marian! Thanks so much for your sweet words. I sure hope you like the book! Merry Christmas!!! :) Jennie Hi Marian! Thanks so much for your sweet words. I sure hope you like the book! Merry Christmas!!!

:) Jennie

]]> By: Jennie Lucas http://www.iheartpresents.com/2009/11/the-top-five-places-for-christmas-%e2%80%93-presents-style/comment-page-1/#comment-52658 Jennie Lucas Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:32:26 +0000 http://www.iheartpresents.com/?p=1306#comment-52658 Ha! Sarah, you know me well. And you always make me laugh! Your Christmas set-up sounds lovely, but grrr....sorry to hear about the birds eating the berries! What is it about wild animals always helping themselves to the best of one's garden? This past spring I never saw a single tulip - they were all munched and crunched by deer before they even had a chance to grow. Grrr! Freeloaders!! For a substitute for the berries. let's see... no, not M&Ms, those might melt on the fireplace mantle. Red Skittles? That is, if you have Skittles in England.... Ha! Sarah, you know me well. And you always make me laugh!

Your Christmas set-up sounds lovely, but grrr….sorry to hear about the birds eating the berries! What is it about wild animals always helping themselves to the best of one’s garden? This past spring I never saw a single tulip – they were all munched and crunched by deer before they even had a chance to grow. Grrr! Freeloaders!!

For a substitute for the berries. let’s see… no, not M&Ms, those might melt on the fireplace mantle. Red Skittles? That is, if you have Skittles in England….

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]]> By: Marian Pearson Stevens http://www.iheartpresents.com/2009/11/the-top-five-places-for-christmas-%e2%80%93-presents-style/comment-page-1/#comment-52647 Marian Pearson Stevens Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:39:54 +0000 http://www.iheartpresents.com/?p=1306#comment-52647 Jenny! Loved your blog! Between your lovely post and the Harlequin ornament exchange, I'm already shifting into the holiday spirit! Way early! Just added your Christmas book to my list. Can't wait! Hugs! Jenny! Loved your blog! Between your lovely post and the Harlequin ornament exchange, I’m already shifting into the holiday spirit! Way early! Just added your Christmas book to my list. Can’t wait!

Hugs!

]]> By: Sarah Morgan http://www.iheartpresents.com/2009/11/the-top-five-places-for-christmas-%e2%80%93-presents-style/comment-page-1/#comment-52646 Sarah Morgan Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:14:07 +0000 http://www.iheartpresents.com/?p=1306#comment-52646 Jennie, you definitely are a goofball but we love you for it, especially after you've given us such a lovely seasonal blog to get us in the Christmas mood. Tonight I'm going to have to light my winter scented candles and curl up with a copy of The Christmas Love child, which sounds like a real treat. Home is definitely best for Christmas, except that the birds are already munching their way through the berries on my holly so I'm going to be decorating my fireplace with bare branches unless I can think of an appropriate round red substitute. Jennie, you definitely are a goofball but we love you for it, especially after you’ve given us such a lovely seasonal blog to get us in the Christmas mood. Tonight I’m going to have to light my winter scented candles and curl up with a copy of The Christmas Love child, which sounds like a real treat. Home is definitely best for Christmas, except that the birds are already munching their way through the berries on my holly so I’m going to be decorating my fireplace with bare branches unless I can think of an appropriate round red substitute.

]]> By: Jennie Lucas http://www.iheartpresents.com/2009/11/the-top-five-places-for-christmas-%e2%80%93-presents-style/comment-page-1/#comment-52643 Jennie Lucas Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:46:28 +0000 http://www.iheartpresents.com/?p=1306#comment-52643 Oh my heavens, Mulberry! I loved your description of the Oxford Street lights and the story of your rollercoaster night. Your dh sounds like true hero material. WOW. A hot bath, glass of wine, and dinner waiting?? And he collected you at the train station??? I'm shaking my head in amazement. That man is a keeper. And he's clearly over the moon for you. That's true romance IMO. :) Oh my heavens, Mulberry! I loved your description of the Oxford Street lights and the story of your rollercoaster night. Your dh sounds like true hero material. WOW. A hot bath, glass of wine, and dinner waiting?? And he collected you at the train station???

I’m shaking my head in amazement. That man is a keeper. And he’s clearly over the moon for you. That’s true romance IMO. :)

]]> By: Jennie Lucas http://www.iheartpresents.com/2009/11/the-top-five-places-for-christmas-%e2%80%93-presents-style/comment-page-1/#comment-52642 Jennie Lucas Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:41:29 +0000 http://www.iheartpresents.com/?p=1306#comment-52642 Marilyn! Thank you! You guys should know it's largely because of Marilyn that Maksim stayed Russian in my book! I really wanted to write a Russian prince, but halfway through the book I was panicking that I should make him Greek instead (readers adore Greek heroes!). Then I ran into Marilyn at a writing conference and she convinced me that I absolutely had to stay true to my convictions and fantasy for this particular hero, and keep him Russian. So thank you, Marilyn! :) Marilyn! Thank you!

You guys should know it’s largely because of Marilyn that Maksim stayed Russian in my book! I really wanted to write a Russian prince, but halfway through the book I was panicking that I should make him Greek instead (readers adore Greek heroes!). Then I ran into Marilyn at a writing conference and she convinced me that I absolutely had to stay true to my convictions and fantasy for this particular hero, and keep him Russian.

So thank you, Marilyn! :)

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