Happy Holidays from SOL!

2012 has come and gone faster than I could have imagined! This past year brought with it wonderful additions to SOL. I am so blessed to be a part of this wonderful SOL family. 

SOL will be closed from Tuesday, December 25th through Tuesday January 1st so we can spend the holidays with friends and family. We will reopen at 10am January 2nd -- Ready to celebrate 2013 with each and every one of you!  

Before I sign off for the year, here are a few pictures of SOL's Christmas party at Denver's Crimson Canary (you have to eat there. The food, drinks, and atmosphere are beyond fabulous). Great times all around! 

My sister Jeanie and SOL's newest addition Brittany

Janelle and Doug, our bookkeeper and our Santa Claus ;)

Maggie, Jocelyn, and Barb (and a Jordy photo bomb!)

Emily, Jordy, and Jocelyn

Lisa, Amelie, Melissa, Anna, and Anna's beau Cody

Sister love! That's our sister Nancy in the middle. Sister Julie was at home with her new twins!

SOL truly has the BEST sales girls!

Anna, Brittany, Amelie, me, and Jordy

Eddy (Gloria's hubby), Jeanie, Gloria (aka the best seamstress EVER!), and me

Sandy and Laura ("Lulu") with their handsome husbands

Kendall and the SOL Man, Bruce

Ah, young love ;)

May each of you have the happiest of holidays and we'll see you in 2013! 
xoxo,
Cindy

Santa Claus is coming to SOL!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

The Holiday season is once again upon us and I couldn’t be more excited! Soon SOL will be filled with Christmas cheer and buzzing with that special December joy.

To kick off SOL’s month of Sunday events, we’re bringing in some famous reinforcement: Santa Claus. Yes, jolly ‘ole St. Nick himself will be at SOL to meet and greet with you, your kids, and your pets!

One of Santa’s SOL Elves will be on hand taking professional photos and emailing the images to Mom and Dad. This is a great opportunity to have your kids (or your “fur” kids) Holiday card photos taken. Your little ones also can hand-deliver their letters to Santa – And leave with a treat! Candy canes for the kids, biscuits for the pets!

Happy Holidays!
xoxo,

Cindy

Holiday Traditions of the SOL Girls

While I'm never one to turn away a present, I think we all agree that the real gift of this time of year is that we gather around the people we love and we're drawn to do the same things time and time again. Tradition. I live for it. We all do. It makes us feel like family. Like we're cherished. It helps us stay connected to the past and teach our little ones what to do in their futures. 

This week, we asked all the SOL Girls what their favorite holiday traditions were. Not surprisingly, a lot had to do with food...but all of them had to do with family.

My personal tradition? Every Christmas, we have special SOL Christmas PJs made for all of us. My sister Nancy always gives my daughter and Jeanie's daughter matching PJs. So cute.

My sweet Bella on Christmas morning. She designed her silk top herself!

Adorable  cousins in their matching PJs. They grow up so fast!

Now...for some of the SOL Girls' faves...

Tracie - "We have a Christmas Eve tradition. Every year we let our daughter Kendall open one gift. It's always something cozy and fun from SOL. After that, the whole family sits in front of the "electronic hearth" and watches A Christmas Story together."

"It's thuck!"

Krista - My family gets together on Christmas Eve for tamales and green chili! La Casita (a North Denver institution) makes more than 200,000 tamales for the holidays and you have to place your order almost a month in advance! For the last four Christmases, I have brought tamales in for the SOL family to enjoy as we work Christmas Eve helping people finish their shopping. I guess you could say my Christmas tradition is eating tamales at all three meals on Christmas Eve. iFeliz Navidad!

Yum.

Janelle: I'm 37 and while I've lived in Colorado for fifteen years, I've never missed a Christmas with my family in Long Island, NY. I even book the same United flight every year. Being together is the tradition.

"My lovely Mom a few years ago after opening her yellow box. She loved gifts from SOL."

Jordy: Growing up in Texas, my family would always go to church together on Christmas Eve. There would be a beautiful candlelight service and then we'd venture out for some delicious TexMex food! At home that evening, we would each open one gift from a family member (not Santa, of course). My sister and I would watch a Christmas movie and wait patiently for Santa to eat our cookies and milk and leave everything on our list. The next morning, we'd eat Sara Lee coffee cake and then take off for Waco to celebrate with relatives...and eat even more! Merry Christmas, y'all!

Amelie: My favorite holiday tradition, which I'm sure my mother completely made up on her own is "Bayfana - the New Year's Witch." She always left a little gift on New Year's Day. She wasn't as extravagant as Santa, but it was always something beautiful and sweet! Also, after we opened our presents on Christmas Day, we had to go outside and yell as loud as we could, "THANK YOU SANTA!"  That was so much fun!

Merry Christmas from all of us at SOL. We hope you have a wonderful time celebrating with the people you care about and making traditions.  We'll be doing the same - so we'll close the store at 4pm on Christmas Eve and reopen in the New Year, on January 2nd.

Happy Holidays!

xoxo,

Cindy