Tizzy Blogs Again!

Hello World! It's Tizzy again. I wanted to let everyone know that I've been helping Deedy again. (Her official name is Dorothea Jensen, but that's too long and complicated for us elves to say every time we want to get her attention.) Anyway, she doesn't know much about modern techie stuff. That's why she asked me to start posting some of the preliminary sketches Michelle Alfonso has made to illustrate the story of My Most Exciting Adventure So Far, also known as Tizzy, the Christmas Shelf Elf. I just posted the very first one on our Pinterest account.  This sketch shows my two heroes, Owen and Alex, sneaking downstairs on Christmas morning before their parents are up.  A very, very naughty thing to do. (I've already told you that they do something much naughtier later on, but I'll show you a picture of that in a future post.) Here's where you can see the sketch: http://pinterest.com/izzyelves/pins/.

As I told you in my last blog, Deedy has already written down what happened to my favorite lass, Blizzy, when I was off having My Most Exciting (Also Scariest) Adventure So Far. Blizzy's story is called Blizzy, the Worrywart Elf, because all of the other elves thought she was worrying way too much when she couldn't find me on Christmas Morning. But she wasn't just worrying: she was INVESTIGATING.

Not much else is going on with the Izzy Elves, although I heard a rumor that Dizzy has been having secret meetings with Deedy.  I don't know what on earth he's been up to, but he must have a story to tell.  I'll ask around and see if anybody knows what's up with Dizzy.  I do know that all last year, when he and I were working next to each other, he kept asking me questions about My Most Exciting (and Scary) Adventure So Far.  Of course, I didn't mind telling him all about how Owen and Alex managed to send me back to the North Pole when I was delivered to them by mistake.  It was, after all, a very exciting (and scary) story with a happy ending. But I did notice that as the months went by, he started getting very quiet when I told him my tale. For awhile I thought that he was just feeling scared by what he heard, but then he started saying odd things. But more about that later.

The only other thing happening of note is that Frizzy has asked Santa if she can do a new job in the workshop. Apparently, she gets so attached to the dolls whose hair she cuts and curls that she is very depressed when Santa takes them away for delivery.  She hints that she has a tremendously exciting idea in mind.  I'll keep you posted on further Frizzy developments!

To learn more about us Izzies or about Deedy, please go to her website:

dorotheajensen.com

Very First Ever IzzyElfBlog by Tizzy

Hi!  My name is Tizzy.  I am one of Santa’s Izzy Elves, and I had a really scary thing happen to me one recent Christmas morning.  I was packed by mistake in a present and was delivered to a home by Santa Claus (we elves call him S.C.) with the rest of the gifts.  I was just starting to panic, when the two little boys who lived there, Owen and Alex, did something really, really NAUGHTY. They sneaked downstairs and opened their biggest present BEFORE THEIR PARENTS WERE UP.  And there I was!

I explained to them that S.C. always says that children’s imaginations are powerful. In fact, his sleigh runs on this power! So I figured that Alex and Owen might use their own imaginations to get me back to the North Pole 1) before I missed the Big Elf Celebration and 2) before their parents came downstairs.  Well, it took awhile, but they finally figured out how to do it.  I won’t tell you exactly what happened, but my story definitely has had a happy ending! 

I told Dorothea Jensen (we elves call her Deedy) all about this, and she wrote it down for me in a story called Tizzy, the Christmas Shelf Elf.  At first, it didn’t have any pictures in it, but recently I have been posing for some with my illustrator, Michelle Alfonso.  It’s hard to hold still while she draws me, but she doesn’t seem to mind if I move my mouth, so we have fun chatting about this and that as she works. I asked Michelle if I could post some of her sketches for children to see, and she says that is okay with her. So I will be putting the occasional sketch on our Pinterest site so you can preview the illustrations that will be officially in the story soon.  (Yes, we Izzy elves will have our own Twitter and Pinterest accounts soon! We’re very up to date.) 

In case you are wondering why we are called the Izzy Elves, it’s really, really simple.  S.C. gave each of the eight elves in my section names that end in, yes, "-izzy".  I tell Alex and Owen all about them in my story like this:

There’s Whizzy, who rushes around, always scurries

He probably packed me, in one of his flurries.

Now, Fizzy and Dizzy - they both specialize

In holiday treats and in toys that surprise:

Hand buzzers and squirt guns and magical rings,

Jacks in the boxes and those sorts of things.

And Bizzy, of course, is S. C.’s right hand man

He bosses the others whenever he can.

The puzzles are Quizzy’s particular trick

She turns them out cleverly, my, she is quick!

Our Frizzy’s the resident expert up there

At cutting and curling the Christmas dolls’ hair.

While Blizzy’s the last (she’s my favorite lass)

She fashions the snowflakes that swirl under glass.”
                                          © 1999/2013 by Dorothea Jensen

By the way, Blizzy says she has already told her story to Deedy so she can write it down.  It is called Blizzy, the Worrywart Elf,  and explains how she figured out where I was on that Christmas morning when I ended up at Alex and Owen’s house.  She is very, very clever. That’s one of the reasons she is my favorite lass.  Unfortunately, there is one little bit in Blizzy’s story that I find rather embarrassing, but Blizzy says that’s her favorite part!

If you want to find out more about my story, or Blizzy’s story, or our friend, Deedy, go look on her website: dorotheajensen.com