{"id":451,"date":"2013-12-06T14:46:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T19:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/?p=451"},"modified":"2013-12-06T14:46:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T19:46:49","slug":"gnomey-on-a-ledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/06\/gnomey-on-a-ledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Gnomey on a ledge"},"content":{"rendered":"

I admit, I’ve always though the idea of Elf on the Shelf<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0was kind of cute. And there are some hilarious ideas out there – some kid-friendly, some not so much – of what you can do with your Elf so that you aren’t wracking your brain every night. But the actual Elf \u00c2\u00a0… well, he’s never quite been to my taste. Plus, our kids haven’t really been old enough to understand the idea of the Elf reporting back to Santa, so we’ve largely ignored\/avoided the little guy.\u00c2\u00a0But now that Abigail has hit the Frustrating Fours, it seemed like a good time to reconsider our options for reminding her to be nice, not naughty\/cranky\/yell-y.<\/p>\n

Except, of course, that the original Elf still isn’t quite to my taste, and we didn’t have a stand-in for him. But a few days ago I had the brilliant (if I do say so myself) idea of making a little Gnomey to watch over our house instead! Luckily I found a half-finished one in my stash, so all I had to do was make the arms and hat and he was ready to go! I skipped the beard for this guy (mostly because I couldn’t find the yarn I usually use for the beard) and also opted to give him some legs that could dangle over the shelf. Abby thought it was amusing to have a Gnomey with legs. Abby also thought our Gnomey should be a girl (maybe because of the lack of a beard?).\u00c2\u00a0And so Lovela (as named by Abby) was born and has taken up residence in our house to watch over the girls and report back to Santa.<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS \"OLYMPUS \"OLYMPUS<\/p>\n

Lovela Gnomey \/ Lovela\u00c2\u00a0burning off the Christmas calories on the jumpoline \/\u00c2\u00a0Lovela Gnomey\u00c2\u00a0and her homeys<\/em><\/p>\n

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We’ll see how this plays out. So far Abby seems to be buying into the idea<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/p>\n

Abby telling Lovela about the good and not-so-good things that she did during the day<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I admit, I’ve always though the idea of Elf on the Shelf\u00c2\u00a0was kind of cute. And there are some hilarious ideas out there – some kid-friendly, some not so much – of what you can do with your Elf so that you aren’t wracking your brain every night. But the actual Elf \u00c2\u00a0… well, he’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,12,10],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vfXi-7h","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}