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I love calendars and year-at-a-glace calendars are my favorite! They make great gifts for family members and work perfect for marketing your business so clients have a reminder of your services hanging around all year long.

Little Blue Boo has just added this great set to their shop so please go check them out! Just click the image for the link:

Our Elf

I would like to introduce you to our very own special elf Crystal.

The girls just adore her and we are having so much fun with her! I can’t believe how perfect the name is too. Our elf has beautiful blue hair and pink crystals on her clothes so it is a great name for her.

I decided to go with a pink dress. I took one that we already had, shown in the previous post HERE, and just shortened it a bit. I then used the excess fabric to make a little hat. I took apart the fur lined items from the My Little Pony and just added a bunch to the dress, the hat, and made little wrist cuffs as well. Then everything is lined with silver ribbon to tie it all in together. There are pink crystals and snowflake embellishments added as well.  She turned out to be so pretty and fun. The girls cant get enough of her!

Crystal came to us the night after Thanksgiving because we were traveling and things ended up not going as planned, which is pretty typical for us! We ended up staying in a hotel and then started our camping trip a day late. But Crystal made it and we love our little addition to our family. We just postponed reading the “Elf on the Shelf” book which was our way of letting Santa know that we were ready for our elf to arrive. So no big deal at all! =)

Crystal delivered a letter from Santa to further explain a little but more about her and how the magic works. I used some Santa stationary, which can be found at Design Editor and the envelope is from a Letter From Santa kit by Michelle Coleman at Little Dreamer Designs.

It is such a fun tradition and I am bummed that I didn’t start it years earlier. But better late than never and we are having so much fun! I am hoping it helps get the girls out of bed for school a little easier for Dad too….

Crystal is already getting in to trouble so stay tuned to see what she’s been up to!

Now available at….

I am so happy to finally announce that Knappscraps templates are available in the shop over at Little Blue Boo! I am so excited about this opportunity so please go on over there and check it out. Just click on the image to be re-directed. They have so many other great things in the shop as well and it’s a great way to support small businesses.

Happy Thanksgiving and a little intro to our Elf on the Shelf

I hope you are all having a wonderful Thanksgiving!

I decided to try out Elf on the Shelf this year so “she” should be visiting us tonight! Yes, I did say SHE 😉 I have been thinking about starting this tradition for a while and there have been a lot of people posting great ideas on Pinterest. But when I saw this VERY cute and clever idea for a little girlie elf over at Bubbly Nature Creations, I was completely hooked! I decided to just hunt around the house first to see what I could find. I was so excited when I found an elf doll hidden in our huge mound o’ toy chaos. She is perfect!

I figured the blue hair could be considered Frosty and she has cute little pointed ears. I love it!

Then I pulled together a little outfit. I grabbed some furry lined Christmas stuff from an old My Little Pony:

I had a few dress options to choose from as well:

We were even able to check out the Elf on the Shelf book at the library too so this ended up not costing me a thing, which was so nice!

I just need to add a few more finishing touches to her and she should be all set! Stay tuned for the big reveal and I’ll show you how we introduced her to the girls and what sort of mischievous things she has been up to! Wish me luck!!

Year at a glance 2013

The 2013 boutique set of calendars is now available at Focused by WHCC. Just in time for all those Black Friday printing sales so go get your templates!

Stay tuned for some more great stuff! It will hopefully be ready for Cyber Monday!

Knapp Scraps Holiday Set 2012

Knapp Scraps Boutique Cards are now available at Focused WHCC! Go check them out!

Calendars are coming soon and I also have some exciting news to share so stay tuned!!