The Evolving Homemaker

Two weeks ago, we were on a lovely play excursion with some friends.  During a little wrestling ‘moment’ between two boys my son got a foot in his mouth.  An hour later he states, “Mom, I think there is something wrong with my mouth.” I turn incredulous, and panicked like usual, and said, “What?!”

“One of my teeth are loose.”

Then giddy excitement on my part.  You see, my son is 7 1/2 and this is his first lost tooth.  But that giddiness quickly gave way to fear.  Sadness.  It was a reminder that as much as I love my babies and want them to stay just the way they are forever, they are growing up.  Literally, before my eyes.

The tooth was out before 6 o’clock that night.  Fast.  The dentist said it was probably because all the roots had dried up before, eww, and the tooth was just being held in by the skin, like all the others cause there ain’t any other loose ones, and when it got hit, wallah…out it came.

So, in sudden need of a tooth fairy pillow, I got to work.  I don’t have any photos, cause that is how much of a hurry I was in, but I have photos of the finished product and will walk you through what I did.

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I basically grabbed my scrap fabric, matched some colors up and grabbed some ribbon that matched those.  I made the pillow a square, I sewed the blue part of the square on the front first, then I hot glued the ribbons on so I could get them straight.  I stitched them on to be double safe, but obviously wasn’t going to re-thread the machine to match each color, I had like an hour.  I then made the little tooth pocket out of some leftover felt fabric and stitched the ‘My Tooth’ in with brown floss.  I then sewed the little pockets edges together.

Then I turned her inside out and sewed the edges of the big square.  I also sewed the blue ribbon for the door hanger on the back too.  After turning it right side out again, I glue gunned the little pocket to the front, let it dry, then stuffed it with stuffing. I hand stitched the opening closed at the blue ribbon.

I tied a little brown bow and glued it on to the front. I would have sewed the bow on, and there are a billion tiny mistakes in this, but time was of the essence.  I wish now father time had been on my side, I would have done it perfectly the first time around, but sometimes in motherhood, ok most times in motherhood, nothing is perfect the first time around.  And us perfectionist types, we just have to breathe and start again. Pin It
My son left a little note for the tooth fairy asking if he could keep his tooth.  This makes life so much easier.  I didn’t want to throw them away, but I didn’t want to really keep them either.  Now he decides!

Stay tuned for a pink pillow to follow…

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So, a few months ago I made some felt gnomes, which you can see here, and some felt fairies, which you can see here.  The only problem?  My dog ate them.  I just didn’t do my homework, the dog really did eat each and every one, save for the blue fairy my son took to his room and set on the windowsill.  She didn’t eat them all at once, she was methodical about her murderous ways, one. at. a. time.  They were each sitting on our nature table, and while the rest of us were busy getting a restful night of sleep, she swiped them, chewed them, and left them in a pile of wood and felt mess in front of the door.

We were sad.  And I had no desire to remake them anytime soon.  BUT, my nieces birthday was yesterday, so in light of trying to make most gifts homemade this year I decided to send her a family of felt fairies and gnomes.  If you are looking for the pattern to these adorable little creatures, look no further than here for the gnomes and here for the fairies.

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Here is the whole family.  I want one for myself.  Not sure I want to start on a whole new family at this moment!

The gnomes.

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The fairies.

The cute little flowers on top of each of their caps.  I can say I have finally mastered the art of the french knot.

I tucked them all into a bag that something from Target came in, I can’t remember what that something was, a pillowcase, sheets, something of that nature, but it made the perfect bag for a little girl who also has a doggie that may prove dangerous to such a family.

And just in case you are thinking to yourself, “How the hell does she have time to do these crafts while keeping the rest of her world together?”, this photo is for you.  This is the mess my kids, and that murderous dog, made in my bedroom while I was cutting and gluing and sewing my little gnomes and fairies.  Every single cushion from our couch is in there, plus the mattresses they have been sleeping on the last few days, plus a whole pile of clean towels from the bathroom and a bunch of pieces of paper they made into a campfire and roasted real marshmallows and chocolate squares over.

So yes, I craft, but don’t think that doesn’t mean some other disaster is being made in the house while I am doing it.  Cause it is. And, there was also an injury along the way:

I had just glue gunned one of the bodies of the gnomes, dropped it, went to grab it before it burned our carpet, and ended up with a swath of glue on my finger.  As I peeled the glue off, part of my skin came with it.  So in all reality crafting with children in the house is not all sunshine and lollipops, without a little pain and mess.

This, just in case you thought I was wonder woman or something, and you are a miserable failure cause you can’t do it ‘all’.  Wonder woman does not exist.

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