Santa's little Elfs at work

It's like an Elf Slave Camp over here, everybody is being tied down and has his/her work cut out.
From the youngest to the oldest, the smallest to the biggest and the smartest to the  ... ahhhhmmmm well to Eddie, everybody is keeping secrets, hiding things, making things and trying to find out what the others are hiding ....

Even though we have not completed much we are working on small things day by day.
Our trash tree looks rather sad but I am hoping that we can still dress it up a bit more before Friday comes.

There is not much "self-made" that has been wrapped or packed into Santa's sleigh (aka GP's suitcase) and the poor (or better happy) mailman has not carried one Christmas card away from our house sending it off into the big, wide world.

I pretty much suck at Christmas this year!
I was so hyped up and "gun-ho" but somehow our busy holiday schedule just made it impossible to sit down for more than an hour and craft or create.
Adding Pat and my new addiction to watching this series on Netflix we are just completely screwed when it comes to the upcoming big event.

But don't fret and don't cry ... it'll still be Christmas Eve ready or not and in the end we will have a good time hand-crafted or not.

Here are a few reasons why we have been so busy ...

Exhibit (A)

I had asked every child in Ls class to decorate these little Gingerbread Man and we then 

made a huge garland for her teacher out of it for Christmas.

It turned out soooo wonderful!

Mrs. O was very touched and loved her new house deco.

Exhibit (B)

Little gifts for teachers and neighbors

itty Christmas trees

The Ls were in charge of stuffing and fluffing

Judy and I were on the sewing front

Pat had to prep the pottery 

et voila ... 

the Superman tree and it's friends

Ls german teacher has two boys and we thought they'd like to have a little Superman tree :)

Exhibit (C)

entertaining the masses

the Ls performed at the Christmas party for the German school

Lulu on stage!!!

L and I with the Kindergarten class on stage

Lulu came with me to receive the teacher gifts ... she was quite proud to be up there with me.

posing for GP and Papa

WOW ... 

Santa aka Weihnachtsmann came and had treats for all good children

(not sure why the Ls got one too, he must have had some left over 

and didn't want to take them back through customs :)

 Exhibit (D)

GP needed wrapping paper and we didn't have any

... so we made some

potato stamping 

... so FUN!!!

adding some BLING

et voila ...

sparkle star wrapping paper

Thats it for now ... nothing more on the creative front.
It's dark outside, way late for the Ls (it's GPs last night so they get to spend a few extra minutes with him), Pat has to work on his assignment from Santa for Lulu's gift (apparently the Elfs didn't know the measurements) and we still need to find out what Ann Boleyn is going to do to the poor English people before they cut her head off.

So good night my dear blog.
Sleep well in blogland and make your way to all of our friends screens and tell them how things are on 711 Coyote Street.
ta-ta for now.