Simply Crafty Life

I never planned on getting an Elf on the Shelf, but when my oldest started school (you know what happened). We had to get one and started this crazy journey of elf ideas. I know all of us grown ups out there get elf fatigued and sometimes your tired brain can’t think of a good idea. […]

To make Christmas magical this year (with everything going on) we decided to get each of the kids a Christmas advent calendar.  Cookie (our Elf on the Shelf) will bring  the Christmas Advent Calendars the first day he comes back as a gift. I can’t wait to see the excitement at seeing Cookie and getting […]

Who else loves the smell of a fresh new Christmas tree? Oh the joys that smell brings. Our pleasantly plump tree is perfect, has hardly any holes and is the best tree I think we have ever had. Okay, I probably say that about all of them, but each one holds a special place in […]

Christmas brunch is a tradition at our house and the one thing, we always run out of is coffee. Everyone in my family are big coffee drinkers and every year, I think about another option, another way to always have hot coffee. Well this is going to be even better than coffee because this is […]