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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Our Christmas Tree Cinnamon Rolls were delicious! </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11075429805339909290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124108989973603032.post-19154061933344859632012-12-18T13:44:00.001-08:002012-12-18T13:44:57.219-08:00Elf on the Shelf: Day 13<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jingles, our elf, snuggling with his friends - Santa and Frosty - reading a Christmas book. This one was easy and fun. The blanket is a cloth napkin and they are sitting in a little decorative bench.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Jackson liked that they were so cozy and of course wanted to read his Christmas book and all his other Christmas books as well. I think he's getting to love Christmas as much as I do. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jingles, our elf, decided to play dominoes with Santa and Frosty the Snowman last night! They were playing the miniature set of dominoes and eating sprinkles and mini marshmallow bits for snacks. Jingles is having way too much fun while we're asleep!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jackson adored this! He loved the tiny (travel) dominoes so much he insisted on having them next to him while he ate dinner and cried when I said we needed to put them away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mommy decided to play with this idea and took some secret pictures of what these guys were playing earlier.... poker! It was a lot of fun making these cards from index cards - I just cut them up and wrote the A, 2, 3, 4 with red and black sharpie pens. The "poker chips" are from a mini connect-four game (that was the inspiration - I thought they look like mini poker chips). I had so much fun with this one!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jingles, our elf, riding his chopper in style ~ and he brought a shirt with a motorcycle-riding Santa on it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Look who we found sleeping in a shoe-box lid this morning! Jingles found himself a pillow and a blankie as well as a teddy bear to sleep with. Awwww.... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jingles turned the milk <span style="color: #38761d;">GREEN</span>! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">JJ loved this so much he kept asking for the <b>magic elf milk </b>all day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jingles, the pirate elf, brought JJ a SKULL RING today! </span></div>
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Our elf, Jingles, came last night and brought his "Elf on the Shelf" book along with "A Christmas Story" - a board book about the origins of Christmas and how it is about the birth of Jesus. He also made a lego chair and held baby Jesus!</div>
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All of this was a little hard to explain to a 2 year old, but I think he got the gist of it. In simple terms the book explains that Jesus was born on Christmas and that we celebrate his birthday and give each other gifts (like the wise men brought Him gifts) because we love each other. Elf book explains that Jingles will watch us to see if we are being good or bad and report back to Santa. JJ had me read it 3 times in a row! Elf on the Shelf is a hit already! So much fun! :)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Continue adding buttons in varying sizes and colors to your liking...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It doesn't have to be perfect, once you hang it up you won't be able to see the spaces in between - just do the best you can, you can always take out the pins and rearrange the buttons. That's the best thing about this project, it isn't permanent!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tie a ribbon or string (I used some thick embroidery thread) onto the top of one of the pins securely, tie the other end (here I tied it in a bow) and push the pin into the top between a few of the buttons where the sides show off the best of your chosen buttons!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is a picture of the finished ornament and the left over supplies I am going to use for more ornaments or a Button Christmas Tree using a foam cone! (I'll post pictures if I make that). Also, I used approximately 1 package of push pins per ornament but I like to use many small buttons on them - so that might be just me. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Amy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Made a Christmas Tree from a foam cone and wanted to share this as well! Same concept and supplies just pinned the buttons around the cone instead. Tip: Be careful to pin at a downward angle towards the top of the cone so the pins do not come out the other side!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I think I love it even more than the ornament!</span></div>
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