I LOVE chess. It is my all-time favorite board game…Stratego is a close second on board game ratings, and Risk a third… I guess I love strategy. I never really knew that about myself until I just typed out my favorite board games… Anyway, today our elves are playing chess with one another. They are …
Christmas elf
This morning, my kids looked and looked and looked for our elves and could not find them. Finally, about 10 minutes before school, I placed my 6 year old daughter looking straight at the elves while I did her hair. The photo below was her perspective as I did her hair. About when I was …
Our elves found their way outside our house on pink mopeds. They used my pink gingerbread front door decor as the base of their scene. It looks like they added padded seats to these planter mopeds that I used on a kids’ gingerbread tablescape. The seats weren’t there when they were on this gingerbread tablescape …
The last few Christmases my kids and I have tied quilts for our home or donated them to Wrap Ukraine in Quilts charity. This is the blanket we tied last year. Today, our Elf on the Shelf siblings laid out the blanket we are planning on tying for Christmas 2025. We tie a blanket while …
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 …
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 …
Catching up on Elf on the Shelf. This scene was from the Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. I love C.S. Lewis and was honored to able to tour his home in England and sit where he wrote the Chronicles of Narnia. It was a privilege to sit where the famous …
This is a scene our Elf on the Shelf sibling duo set up in my daughter, Amelia’s room. Amelia loves kitty cats and always has. I designed her room with a lot of cats in it… one day I may have to ask her to count how many cats are in her room as a …
Catching up on 2024 Christmas… this is an Elf on the Shelf scene I didn’t post last year. I have a few I missed because the days were spent mostly with family. Years ago my kids came home from elementary begging for me to ask Santa for an Elf on the Shelf. They were sad …
Our elves are excited we have less than a week left until Christmas. They are reminding of us of our Christmas Countdown by being next to and in our paper chain. They are each holding the number 6. Pepper’s number 6 looks like it is a Minecraft number 6. I think he got that out …