This year, I had 12 adults RSVP to our annual Pulsipher Family Christmas Party that I host. I love the Twelve Days of Christmas gifting tradition. Growing up, I used to secretly deliver 12 gifts to a few widows in my neighborhood each Christmas. When I saw these plates and the table runner on My …
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Each year I swap out my front door decor for a different theme. I usually start with two 6′ Christmas trees I bought years ago. My daughter strung them with big white Christmas lights that we have on hand. This Christmas, 2025, I choose to decorate with a pink gingerbread theme. During the after Christmas …
Recently, I made a Twelve Days of Christmas tablescape and decorated the backs of the dining chairs with Christmas pine sprigs. I was going to make chair wreaths but was running out of time before the guests came. So, I just came up with these cherry charm Christmas pine sprigs because I thought they’d be …
Our elves are bathing in gingerbread snaps on this bright Christmas day. Pepper Mint (brother) and Winter Mint (sister) are eating and bathing in gingerbread snaps and drinking hot cocoa. I think they just saw a cute opportunity to join the red, green and brown gingerbread tablescape I was setting up for our annual family …
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 …
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 …