A couple of years ago I spent a lot of time on flickr sharing photos and getting inspiration from photographers all over the world… a reminder to myself is that I should still use this amazing source. During this time I kept seeing some cute elf pictures and I really wanted to do something similar. It was only this year that someone posted a picture of a book they had purchased called Elf on the shelf. I recognised the elf and quickly purchased the book myself.

The book is called Elf on the Shelf and it comes as a pack with both book and elf. The elf is one of Santa’s scouts and once your receive your elf you go to their website to adopt it and give it a name. Your Elf comes with special Christmas magic and watch over your children every day and while they are at sleep fly back to Santa to report on their behaviour. When they return in the morning you will find them in a new place in the house. Sometimes the elf can be a little bit mischievious too.

Our Elf on the Shelf arrived on 1st December 2012, we received a little girl and she took along a present to the girls. My daughters decided to name her Amalie and so the adventures began.

Day 1 – Look who’s here
Our Elf arrive and she took a present along for the girls. It was a playmobil advent calendar for them to share.

Day 2, Marshmellow night
Our girls have named our Elf, she is called Amalie. They woke up to find that she had made her own camp fire.

Day 3 – Glumb Attack
My daugther collect Moshi Monsters and these glumps are the bad Moshi’s. Amalie and her friend Barbie had been tied up by the glumps.

Day 4, Hanging out
Amalie had made a rope swing in my daugters room, she must have had a lot of fun during the night.

Day 5, Midnight feast
My daughter wanted Amalie to sleep in her bed. They used paper to pick up Amalie to make sure they didn’t remove any Christmas magic and put her in the bed. Amalie must have decided on a sleepover as we found Rabbit in bet with her and they must have had a midnight feast.

Day 6 – Time to chill
Toilet paper??? yes toilet paper… Amalie created a hammock using some toilet paper and was clearly very comfortable.

Day 7 – Candy Cane Thief
Amalie stole all the Candy Cane’s on the Christmas tree.

Day 8 – Time to keep your promise
I have promised my girls to bake, weekend after weekend. So Amalie put all the ingredients on the worktop with a clear message to keep my promise to the girls.

Day 9, Tea Party
Amalie is hosting a tea part serving up the brownies we baked.

Day 10 – Message to Santa
Amalie was writing up a message for Santa to let him know what she heard and saw today.

Day 11 -Going to School
Amalie decided to go to school with one of my girls. Santa gave her some extra Christmas magic just in case some of the other children decided to touch her.

Day 12 – Creating Art
Had just ordered a few copies of some pictures of the kids and Amalie thought it would be fun to be a bit creative and drew on the photos.

Day 13 – The last bottle
Amalie took the last bottle of Coca Cola which had been saved for a special occasion.

 

Day 14 – What a fun night it was
Reading the book about the Elf on the shelf and reminiscing about the fun she had with her friends during the night.

Day 15 – A sweet tooth
Amalie had a sweet tooth and was going for the candy canes again but then someone returned home from a shopping trip with some cupcake and whilst the family was out she just could not resist.

 

Day 16, Just hanging out
Just swinging from the living room light.

Day 17 – Wrapping up Breakfast
Yes just that, the girls woke up to their breakfast bowls wrapped up by Amalie and a little star on each spoon.

Day 18 – Christmas Bouble
How creative, she made a Christmas Bouble and put herself in the middle of it.

Day 19, Bath time
Amalie think it is about time the kids have a bath. She herself had a bath in the night and is still sitting in the bathroom all wrapped up.

Day 20, Dreaming of a White Christmas
All this rain have Amalie dream of a White Christmas, just like it is in the North Pole and she decideds to cut out some snow flakes, mr and mrs santa to feel more at home.

Day 22, Balloon ride
Amalie always wondered what it would be like to have a balloon ride so she makes up her own balloon and how much fun that was.

Day 23 – Roly Poly
How much fun it is to do roly Poly downn the stairs

See you in a years time 🙂