My two little elves, Stephen and Boston, were beyond excited to begin decorating the Christmas tree. They were very proud of their work.
I love Stephen’s arm around Boston’s shoulder. Totally posed, but still Mommy’s favorite sight!
The elves at our house weren’t always helpful….
In fact, sometimes they were quite naughty.
One time, the mischief involved a sharpie marker.
We had another elf join the family. His name is Claude and he liked to play while we were all sleeping.
He cut paper snowflakes as a surprise one night…
Can you see him there? Rappelling from the fan?
The elves also enjoyed a bit of Christmas shopping…we valued their opinions.
More helpful elves…
Stephen’s job was cutting the wrapping paper. He has excellent cutting skills! I really like the wrapping paper with the grid lines drawn on the back. Boston’s job was taping – I don’t have a picture of that but I will tell you there was PLENTY of tape used!
One of Santa’s busiest elves was Mama Elf. I spent many hours working on gifts for the family gift exchange and helping my mom with some projects she was working on. We both put together Sunday “quiet bags” to give as part of family gift exchanges. The bags contained handmade activities including crayon rolls, coloring books (made from Friend magazine coloring pages), and popsicle stick puzzles made from pictures from Friend magazines (12 sets each!) The projects turned out wonderfully and were a big hit on Christmas morning. I don’t have a single picture of the finished projects unfortunately! I also sewed crayon rolls for my boys as well as wallets for each of them from this tutorial.
At the very last possible moment I whipped up these sock cupcakes and cards to give to Stephen’s preschool teachers. Stephen’s thumbprints are on the card – that turned out to be trickier than I thought. Both the sock cupcakes and card are ideas snagged from Pinterest.
Another busy elf was Scott. He had to study for finals and took three finals in one weekend – one Friday night and two on Saturday afternoon/evening. Yuck! He also worked on some secret Christmas projects including trays for the popsicle stick puzzles. (Once again, no pictures!) He also made this Lego table for the boys for Christmas.
Whew! It is exhausting just writing about all of that!
2 comments:
Awesome! I just pinned your darling little card. Hope that is okay. You are creative my friend! good job!
Boston's pose is hilarious. He looked like he was being very obedient and posing, perfectly still. You have such cute kids!
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