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 scene
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 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 …
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 …