Today our Elf on the Shelf siblings, Winter Mint and Pepper Mint, were in our living room on a chair with the Winnie the Pooh clan. Pepper was reading out of a Winnie the Pooh book. and Winter was as well. The other Winnie the Pooh characters were listening. I loved so many details in …
Holidays
This is a fun pink gingerbread house tablescape for kids that I designed for our annual Pulsipher family Christmas party this last weekend. The table was decorated with a variety of gingerbread houses and gingerbread men—themed items. There were gingerbread house ornaments and favor boxes on the chairs. Each setting came with a darling gingerbread …
I love decorating tablescapes for kids. Yesterday, I hosted my husband’s family of almost 40 people for our annual family Christmas party. I wanted to set up a boy’s gingerbread themed table and a girl’s gingerbread themed table. I’ll post the girl’s gingerbread tablescape soon. The activities I had for the kids after dinner were: …
Today our elf siblings are bungy jumping. They have their harnesses and ankle safety on and have taken the leap off of our living room chandelier. My four and six year old had no idea what they were doing and their older siblings were at their dad’s house this morning. So, I asked them do …
‘Road trippin’ with my two favorite alliesFully loaded we got snacks and suppliesIt’s time to leave this town, it’s time to steal awayLet’s go get lost anywhere in the “UK”Let’s go get lost, let’s go get lost‘ — Road Trippin’ Sung by Red Hot Chili Peppers Our elves, Pepper and Winter, went ‘Road Trippin’ today. …
I am hosting a Christmas party in a few days and there are twelve adults attending. When I was thinking about what theme to do for the tablescape, I couldn’t help but think of the Twelve Days of Christmas. What a fun theme for a table of 12! Although a very lonnnnnnng song (my daughter …
On December 1st, our elves came back with a, “Reindeer Homecoming”. They were brought in by a wooden sled that they used in their dog mushing scene from 2024. Only this time, instead of being pulled by six huskies, they were pulled in by… Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen… Comet and Cupid and …
This is my 2025 Traditional Christmas Mantel Design. My favorite part about this design is having the nativity front and center. I did this last year and I absolutely loved it! While I try to change up my decor each year. Going forward, I’d like to always keep a nativity or something to remind my …
Today our elves made the game Candy Land come to life. They put gummies at the gummy pass. Ice cream at the Ice Cream Slopes and Winter is wearing her little ice cream tutu with pink scarf. Pepper Mint, our elf was found at Peppermint Pass surrounded by peppermints. And holding a basket of peppermint …
This was my 2024 Christmas Front Door Decor. Each year I do a different theme. This year was Santa mail. I used the two six foot Christmas trees that I’ve had awhile on both sides of the front door. Two white tree skirts, two lanters, and two coir mats were at the base. I strung …
I love Alaska! I’ve been there multiple times and when I was there in the winter I got to go dog mushing. I couldn’t get enough of it so we went a few times. Each experience was different. In the picture of me above, we ran the team in deep powder and it was amazingly …