christmas elf 2010

maisiescamp

Percy & Snowbell have arrived! Both DD's so pleased to see them and DD2 has taken a real shine to Snowbell and already cried because she doesn't want her to ever leave!

pinkie_pie

Well Elfis Tinseltoes is here!!! He's been a bit of a labour of love (I've never sewn in my life and made him myself lol) but I'm hoping the kids will be excited when the get home after school as they haven't seen him yet. Going to try and find him a passport and letter printable, he's turning up with a small christmas tree and a santa blanket which was a dog cape in the 99p store lol.

Please add him on facebook, I'll try to get him a few friends

little_evo

snowedunderitall wrote: »

Well Elfis Tinseltoes is here!!! He's been a bit of a labour of love (I've never sewn in my life and made him myself lol) but I'm hoping the kids will be excited when the get home after school as they haven't seen him yet. Going to try and find him a passport and letter printable, he's turning up with a small christmas tree and a santa blanket which was a dog cape in the 99p store lol.

Please add him on facebook, I'll try to get him a few friends

LOVE the name Elfis!

tracey12_2

snowedunderitall wrote: »

Well Elfis Tinseltoes is here!!! He's been a bit of a labour of love (I've never sewn in my life and made him myself lol) but I'm hoping the kids will be excited when the get home after school as they haven't seen him yet. Going to try and find him a passport and letter printable, he's turning up with a small christmas tree and a santa blanket which was a dog cape in the 99p store lol.

Please add him on facebook, I'll try to get him a few friends

Love the name, our elf is called Binky Tinseltoes, maybe Elfis is his brother

Binky is not arriving in our house until about 6pm, think he may have popped in to see friends on the way.

Have fun

Tracey

Cakie

Mr Jingles and Twinkle toes arrived last night before the kids went to be. They were really worried as it was so windy that they wouldn't make it but as dh went running he opened the door and said "oh, can't you reach the doorbell?". Kids were hugging them like mad and were very happy they had brought chocolate teddies in their slegh

little_evo

Our elves are now waiting for the kids to get home from school. They have been busy making paper airplanes and decorated them in green and red and have asked the kids to check to see which one flies the longest distance, along with some little elf poo, which my 9 yr old son will really get a kick out of. I just have to keep the cats away from attacking the elves as they are smaller than them. lol

artichoke

hi all

this is our 4th year of having the elves coming to stay. We now have quite a collection. We started with 3 identical ones (DD was 4 DS was only 2 and i wanted another baby at the time so i bought 3 identical ones to start with just in case i did have 3 kids by the next year! Each year we have added another type of elf to the collection - big brothers and sisters etc.

They usually arrive on the morning on the 1st dec but last night i did not get home from work until 10.30pm and DH had gone to bed, with a child either side of him in our double bed, I had put the elves stuff in a box under the bed but did not dare waking any of them up, thinking the elves will just have to arrive after school instead of before. I had been telling the kids that the elves might not arrive this year as they might go to some other house instead this time.

This morning DD who is 7 kept saying - hey look i can see Mistletoe peeping out from behind the pan, and then later Hey look I can see an elf's cap pop up behind that book....

Her elf spotting made me get up and look thinking maybe DH had hid them....

she then sent her brother age 6 upstairs and told him to look under his pillow and there was a new elf that i had never seen before. DH had never seen it either....

i need to question DD when she gets home as to where it has come from!!

DH is picking them up from school and on the back seat is a bag with a note from one of the usual elves, and they will appear with a bag of craft activities after they done their homework.

art

yummy-mummy-amy

hi,

we are still in the hotel, but i have spoken to the staff and they are happy to help us where they can.

bertie arrived last night with advent calendars and the elf training book i wrote, he was left in 1 hotel room but the staff are going to move him to the other room b4 we get back from school!!! they are going to put up few decorations in each room as well tomorrow.

pinkie_pie

So I've had one of my silly moments... ( I'm sure I'm hormonal!lol) and decided I don't like my little home made elf and I'm not sure the kids will be convinced by him either. So I have in a fit of panic bought a new more convincinging (lol) elf who will hopefully be here in time for after school monday, which is ok as the kids are at their dads this weekend so won't miss out on too many hijinx. However because I wanted the elf to give them their advent calendars today, I was debating getting oh to knock on the front door, with the advent calendars there with the note from santa, but having a bit in the note about how you can't always see him iyswim. Then getting up to some mess before school in the morning, and then hopefully he will be here for when they arrive after school monday.

I was thinking changing their bedding would be a good trick for Elfis to play tonight, might need a trip to matalan

AwkwardAnnie

We use Maileg Pixys/Gnomes.
In our family you get an elf the first Christmas after your third birthday (because your a bug boy/girl at nursery), so babygirl got her elf "Ingrid" and my sons elf "Søren" joined us.
Our elves right all notes backwards, and arrived with advent calendars today.
They were so excited !!!
I'm going to enjoy this years elfing.
It's the first Christmas after my separation and it's been my happiest in years !
Bring on the mischief