What's that? a contest? This year, we had to have some fun! Which, is no surprise, because we love having fun. We had a contest for all you Hive denizens. It was called the Elf on the Shelf. It was fairly simple, we had 7 volunteers that hid some elves last week, to watch all of you Hivepeeps and make sure you were being naughty nice! If you happened to find one of them, you would have won a prize.

What even is 'The Elf on the Shelf'? Where did that come from? In 2005 (which makes it a fairly recent Holiday gesture), Chanda Bell suggested to her family that they write a book on their own personal family tradition. The book was about an elf sent by Santa Claus, that watched over families - mostly the children - and reported back to the North Pole on whether or not they were being naughty or nice.

You ever wonder how you ended up either of those lists? It's because of the elves. They've apparently been doing it the entire time and we just couldn't see them. Trixies they are. Mischievous pixies they are. But, it gave us something fun to do.

After the self-published book went into it's marketing mode, it captured several awards including a Book of the Year from Creative Child's Awards and a National Best Books Award from USA Book News, before finally hitting the number one spot on USA Today's bestseller list. I wonder if our tradition of opening presents could be bestseller? HA!

So Who Won??

We have some prizes to give out for those that found an Elf we placed on chain as afore mentioned. This year, @stickupboys have stepped forth to help spread some of that Christmas love around with us. Here's the ones that were found and what we got for prizes for each of you awesome hunters:

To @stekene for finding this one, this one and the one here, you won 30 HBI from us plus 9 HBI and 15 LGN from @stickupboys! Good eye!

To @arc7icwolf for finding the one located here, you won 10 HBI from us plus 3 HBI and 5 LGN from @stickupboys! Way to sniff it out!

The ones you all didn't find were hiding here, here and over here. Sneaky elves.

That's that, I hope you all enjoyed out little witch elf hunt for the season! Be sure to check back around any holidays and see if we are doing something fun for ya! We like that word. Fun. HA! To each and all, we mostly hope you had and are having a very Happy Holiday season.