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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