Kids Santa-Themed Christmas Tablescape Each time I host, I love to have a ‘kids table’. Growing up at family parties, as a kid I would always sit at the designated, “Kids Table”, and it was the best place to be. There were more interesting conversations and there was a lot more fun to be had …
Elf on the Shelf: Mele Kalikimaka Like many of you, we haven’t traveled anywhere too far away since before 2020. We had saved up our flight points and booked a family trip to Hawaii for this December 2021. Unfortunately, my two older kids both picked up COVID19 at school a few weeks before we left …
Elf on the Shelf: Goodnight Moon Pepper Mint, our Elf, must have seen the green room in my girls’ dollhouse and thought to do a recreation of one of his favorite night time stories, Goodnight Moon, because when we woke up in the morning, this is what we found… Goodnight Moon, is a classic bedtime story. …
Elf on the Shelf: Popcorn Popping display. Pepper Mint, our Elf on the Shelf, is my type of guy. He loves popcorn and movies—especially on snowy days. I really love being cuddled up in a fluffy soft blanket, enjoying freshly popped popcorn, and watching Christmas movies—or any good movie really. Pepper also loves this combo. …
White and Gold Nativity Christmas Tablescape I love hosting Christmas parties. I especially like designing different Christmas tablescapes for adults and then kid-friendly Christmas tablescapes as well. You can see in the background of the above photo that there is a kid’s table behind this one. I will be posting about it soon. …
Elf on the Shelf: Real Miniature Breakfast “Be Our Guest, Be our Guest, Put our Service to the Test”… What a fun Christmas breakfast for an Elf on the Shelf! Pepper Mint, our Elf on the Shelf, is apparently a foodie. He made himself this Christmas feast with all real food. He made a stack …
Our Elf on the Shelf, Pepper,’s dream was to go riding in one horse open sleigh this Christmas. Pepper, our creative Elf on the Shelf, made his dream a reality when he saw my daughter’s Barbie horse and sleigh. To make this in Pepper-style, he took a piece of faux fur and hot glued it …
This Wood Peg Nativity DIY project was a fun for to make this Christmas season. I love to decorate with nativities! Our upstairs mantel is Nativity-themed this Christmas. I wanted to add a nativity that I handmade to our collection. I had all the supplies on hand so Sunday I decided I’d make it. Soon …
This is our Elf on the Shelf: snowmobiling scene. Our elf, Pepper, is very creative. He also loves the great outdoors. He went snowmobiling, “sledding” the other day. He wrote a little sign with the hashtag #ShredtheSled. My kids asked me, “What does ‘Shred the Sled’ mean?” I said, “I think it means that he …
Best Christmas Books For Kids Christmas is just a week away and kids are starting to get excited. Books are a big part of the Christmas experience in our family. I posted about Popular Kids Christmas Books here. Now that a year has passed and have found more Christmas books to read, so I figured …
This Classic Christmas Front Porch Decor was mostly made with items I already had and found in the great outdoors. Above is a photograph taken at night; below is the decor photographed in the day. I LOVE using nature to decorate with. It is much cheaper than store bought items, it is also full of …