It's December, which means we are having our annual Elf Christmas Breakfast! For the last several years, the elves have made an arrival breakfast for my kiddos. This year was no exception! Instead of going with the traditional red and green, they styled the breakfast table using a splash of black. I love how it pulls everything together. 

My kiddos loved everything Sabrina and Frosty made them and were a little shocked it was in the formal dining room, as was I!

These snowmen were their favorite! Who can resist pancake snowmen with a bacon scarf, chocolate chip eyes and powdered sugar snow? I would be all over it!

Aren't these reindeer cinnamon rolls adorable? You simply take mini cinnamon rolls and add the candy eyes and red hots for the noses! So simply and what a great breakfast treat. 

 What a fun breakfast party! My kiddos love when their elves come each year.

This was the perfect idea. We dropped a mini cupcake into an egg cup! Brilliant! It is the perfect size and dressed up the cupcake too. 

Can't have an arrival breakfast if you don't have a note spelling out the rules about being good and Santa coming. 

Mini Jell-O cups were eaten first, I think! My kiddos love Jell-O. Find the tutorial on how to make these delicious dessert cups, here.

You can find this Special Delivery Note Card in our shop along with all our fun elf items from years past.

Remember to follow BellaGrey Designs on all your social media channels, you will find the links below this post! Exclusive coupon codes to our shop and free printables throughout the year are shared on our social media. If you like this post, sign up for weekly updates via email. It's FREE! See the sidebar for more information. 

Design/Styling | Jennifer Kirlin, BellaGrey Designs

Photographer | Jennifer Kirlin, BellaGrey Designs

Printables | Jennifer Kirlin, BellaGrey Designs Shop

Black Lantern | Oriental Trading

Egg Cups | Pier 1

• Thursday, December 08, 2016
• Christmas Breakfast

Special Delivery from the North Pole

It's December, which means we are having our annual Elf Christmas Breakfast! For the last several years, the elves have made an arrival breakfast for my kiddos. This year was no exception! Instead of going with the traditional red and green, they styled the breakfast table using a splash of black. I love how it pulls everything together. 

My kiddos loved everything Sabrina and Frosty made them and were a little shocked it was in the formal dining room, as was I!

These snowmen were their favorite! Who can resist pancake snowmen with a bacon scarf, chocolate chip eyes and powdered sugar snow? I would be all over it!

Aren't these reindeer cinnamon rolls adorable? You simply take mini cinnamon rolls and add the candy eyes and red hots for the noses! So simply and what a great breakfast treat. 

 What a fun breakfast party! My kiddos love when their elves come each year.

This was the perfect idea. We dropped a mini cupcake into an egg cup! Brilliant! It is the perfect size and dressed up the cupcake too. 

Can't have an arrival breakfast if you don't have a note spelling out the rules about being good and Santa coming. 

Mini Jell-O cups were eaten first, I think! My kiddos love Jell-O. Find the tutorial on how to make these delicious dessert cups, here.

You can find this Special Delivery Note Card in our shop along with all our fun elf items from years past.

Remember to follow BellaGrey Designs on all your social media channels, you will find the links below this post! Exclusive coupon codes to our shop and free printables throughout the year are shared on our social media. If you like this post, sign up for weekly updates via email. It's FREE! See the sidebar for more information. 

Design/Styling | Jennifer Kirlin, BellaGrey Designs

Photographer | Jennifer Kirlin, BellaGrey Designs

Printables | Jennifer Kirlin, BellaGrey Designs Shop

Black Lantern | Oriental Trading

Egg Cups | Pier 1

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I'm excited to announce, I have teamed up with 20 creative and talented bloggers to share some Christmas fabulousness, AKA a Christmas Blog Round Robin! 

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS 

As each blogger shares a Christmas post, you will be treated to recipes, Christmas home decor, Christmas parties, DIYs, crafts and so much MORE! At the end of my Christmas post you will find a link for another bloggers post, click on it and by the end of the round robin you should see 20 different fabulous Christmas posts and end up right here where you began! 

Have fun reading, learning and receiving some Christmas inspiration! 

Today we are sharing, our Elf on the Shelf Hot Cocoa Bar! 

Do your kids have the Elf on the Shelf? We have TWO! One for each of the kiddos. Sabrina and Frosty came to visit us on December 1st for the first time this season. My kids were so excited when they woke up to a Hot Cocoa Bar hosted by their elves! 

As I was thinking about the design for the return of the elves, I remembered I had purchased this table cloth a few years back and thought it would be fun for a Vintage Christmas party. I created all the designs with a very similar Tartan pattern. I'm so excited how it came out - it matches perfectly! 

As any fabulous Hot Cocoa Bar should have, we chose some seasonally delicious treats to add to our hot cocoa this morning. 

Several different types of marshmallows are a must have for a successful Hot Cocoa Bar. We decided on the mini {aka snowball}, Peppermint and Vanilla Snowmen marshmallows. As an added treat, I made some hot cocoa marshmallow mugs. 

The kids had their choice of cold chocolate milk or hot milk to dip the chocolate sticks into. They chose both, of course. Add a mini candy cane to the hot cocoa and you instantly have hot chocolate mint! 

Both of my kids thought is was so great to have hot peppermint cocoa and reindeer donuts before school! The added bonus was the "candy" factor! 

These little cuties were so easy to make and made a great impression on the kids too! Four ingredients are all you need - mini chocolate donuts, mini pretzel twists, red hots and candy eyes - that's it! 

Frosty and Sabrina left behind some Dear Santa cards for the kids to fill out so Santa knows what to bring them. This past weekend my kids made their lists and each have about four pages! I'm hoping they will pick their top three and write them here for Santa to see. 

Each one of the kiddos received a personalized Elf Report telling them, their elves would be reporting back to the North Pole each night with a report and to be good! My son has an issue to temper tantrums, so we are hoping to nip this in the bud! Keeping fingers crossed!! 

We hope you enjoyed our Hot Cocoa Bar as much as the kiddos did this morning! 

You can find all this Party Suite in our shop today! 

The Elf Hot Cocoa Bar Party Suite includes: 

Welcome Sign

Elf Report Card

Dear Santa Card

Straw Flags

Food Labels

How do you celebrate the arrival of your elf? 

Vendors: 

Styling + Design + Photography| Jennifer Kirlin, BellaGrey Designs

Marshmallows | Jet Puffed

Mini White Mugs + Saucers | IKEA

Square Milk Bottles | UR Party

Chocolate Sticks | Home Goods

Don't forget to check out The Crafting Chicks to see what Christmas goodness they are sharing!

Have fun! 

• Monday, December 15, 2014
• bellagrey designs

Home for the Holidays Round Robin

I'm excited to announce, I have teamed up with 20 creative and talented bloggers to share some Christmas fabulousness, AKA a Christmas Blog Round Robin! 

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS 

As each blogger shares a Christmas post, you will be treated to recipes, Christmas home decor, Christmas parties, DIYs, crafts and so much MORE! At the end of my Christmas post you will find a link for another bloggers post, click on it and by the end of the round robin you should see 20 different fabulous Christmas posts and end up right here where you began! 

Have fun reading, learning and receiving some Christmas inspiration! 

Today we are sharing, our Elf on the Shelf Hot Cocoa Bar! 

Do your kids have the Elf on the Shelf? We have TWO! One for each of the kiddos. Sabrina and Frosty came to visit us on December 1st for the first time this season. My kids were so excited when they woke up to a Hot Cocoa Bar hosted by their elves! 

As I was thinking about the design for the return of the elves, I remembered I had purchased this table cloth a few years back and thought it would be fun for a Vintage Christmas party. I created all the designs with a very similar Tartan pattern. I'm so excited how it came out - it matches perfectly! 

As any fabulous Hot Cocoa Bar should have, we chose some seasonally delicious treats to add to our hot cocoa this morning. 

Several different types of marshmallows are a must have for a successful Hot Cocoa Bar. We decided on the mini {aka snowball}, Peppermint and Vanilla Snowmen marshmallows. As an added treat, I made some hot cocoa marshmallow mugs. 

The kids had their choice of cold chocolate milk or hot milk to dip the chocolate sticks into. They chose both, of course. Add a mini candy cane to the hot cocoa and you instantly have hot chocolate mint! 

Both of my kids thought is was so great to have hot peppermint cocoa and reindeer donuts before school! The added bonus was the "candy" factor! 

These little cuties were so easy to make and made a great impression on the kids too! Four ingredients are all you need - mini chocolate donuts, mini pretzel twists, red hots and candy eyes - that's it! 

Frosty and Sabrina left behind some Dear Santa cards for the kids to fill out so Santa knows what to bring them. This past weekend my kids made their lists and each have about four pages! I'm hoping they will pick their top three and write them here for Santa to see. 

Each one of the kiddos received a personalized Elf Report telling them, their elves would be reporting back to the North Pole each night with a report and to be good! My son has an issue to temper tantrums, so we are hoping to nip this in the bud! Keeping fingers crossed!! 

We hope you enjoyed our Hot Cocoa Bar as much as the kiddos did this morning! 

You can find all this Party Suite in our shop today! 

The Elf Hot Cocoa Bar Party Suite includes: 

Welcome Sign

Elf Report Card

Dear Santa Card

Straw Flags

Food Labels

How do you celebrate the arrival of your elf? 

Vendors: 

Styling + Design + Photography| Jennifer Kirlin, BellaGrey Designs

Marshmallows | Jet Puffed

Mini White Mugs + Saucers | IKEA

Square Milk Bottles | UR Party

Chocolate Sticks | Home Goods

Don't forget to check out The Crafting Chicks to see what Christmas goodness they are sharing!

Have fun! 

Read more »

Last week we shared our North Pole Breakfast with you ~ if you missed it you can see it here. 

Our North Pole Breakfast Collection Suite is now available in our shop! 

This suite consists of:

Note Cards with your child's name on it and a personalized message from their elf {elves}.

Straw Flags with 6 different sayings

Mini table cards or Cupcake toppers to be personalized

Mini Elf "BELIEVE" bunting banner

Cupcake Wrappers

Please share our post with your friends and Pin It to help us spread the word. 

• Friday, December 13, 2013
• Elf on the Shelf

North Pole Breakfast Party Collection Suite :: New Collection

Last week we shared our North Pole Breakfast with you ~ if you missed it you can see it here. 

Our North Pole Breakfast Collection Suite is now available in our shop! 

This suite consists of:

Note Cards with your child's name on it and a personalized message from their elf {elves}.

Straw Flags with 6 different sayings

Mini table cards or Cupcake toppers to be personalized

Mini Elf "BELIEVE" bunting banner

Cupcake Wrappers

Please share our post with your friends and Pin It to help us spread the word. 

Read more »

Happy Thursday! Look what the kids woke up to this morning! 

A North Pole Breakfast "cooked" up by our elves!  

This year, Sabrina has a partner in mischief ~ Frosty! He made his debut last year and we are so excited to see what our elves have in store this year! 

  

Do your children have Elf on the Shelf? This has become a tradition for our family! Our kiddos just love their elves. They can't wait until December 1st! 

We'd love to see some of your photos of your Elf on the Shelf. This new party collection will be available in our shop by the end of the day! 

Hope you enjoyed our North Pole Breakfast! 

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• Thursday, December 05, 2013
• Elf on the Shelf

North Pole Breakfast with our elves ~ Sabrina and Frosty

Happy Thursday! Look what the kids woke up to this morning! 

A North Pole Breakfast "cooked" up by our elves!  

This year, Sabrina has a partner in mischief ~ Frosty! He made his debut last year and we are so excited to see what our elves have in store this year! 

  

Do your children have Elf on the Shelf? This has become a tradition for our family! Our kiddos just love their elves. They can't wait until December 1st! 

We'd love to see some of your photos of your Elf on the Shelf. This new party collection will be available in our shop by the end of the day! 

Hope you enjoyed our North Pole Breakfast! 

Follow my blog with Bloglovin

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