So Little A has been having a fit for over a year because several of her friends at school have lost teeth and yet she didn't even have a loose tooth. I took her to the dentist back in September and she had 2 loose and the dentist said just to wiggle them. I decided to wait and let them get progressively looser on their own as they were barely loose which told me that they weren't ready yet.
Fast forward to early December and one tooth is barely hanging on (bottom left front) we tried several techniques to get her to let us pull it. After several attempts we gave up and decided that maybe the tooth still wasn't quite ready and we would let it go a little longer. Since it seemed the tooth would fall out sooner than later I made a Tooth Fairy Pillow. I had a serious aversion to allowing her to place the tooth under her pillow; my luck I'd wake her up trying to find the tooth or it would fall behind her bed and then when she leaves for college we would find a whole pile of baby teeth in the floor. And unlike most parents we are not saving her baby teeth; I found mine in my mother's jewelry box and I just want to say EEEWWW.
To make her tooth pillow I looked on line and saw several really cute designs. I sat down with Little A and let her pick out one. She picks out this hot pink crown number and says "Since I am a princess I need a crown for my teeth." After finding the design we wanted I looked up clip art on Google. I allowed her to pick the crown shape she liked best. Then I made my list of supplies and headed to Hobby Lobby.
Supply List
2 pieces of pink felt
1 roll of decorative ribbon
1 pack of shiny "jewel" buttons
1 skein embroidery thread
Tracing complete and ready to cut out.
So like most little girls, Little A loves all things bling. I used a thin floral themed lavender ribbon and a package of heart jewel buttons. I let her set up the buttons on the crown. I took a picture so that I could remember the pattern she used once I started sewing the buttons on. After the ribbon and about 4 buttons I got tired of sewing and out came the glue gun.
Lastly I took a piece of white felt and cut out a small heart to use as a pocket to hold the tooth and cash. I did a quick whip stitch 3/4 the way around the heart. And since I couldn't find a matching color of embroidery floss I stitched the whole thing together using white embroidery floss.
Finished product. So I didn't quite get my points large enough and was unable to add stuffing to them; I ended up having to use fabric stiffener.
Now it is January 1, 2015 and finally the tooth has come out and waiting on Little A to go to sleep so the Tooth Fairy can come visit. Thankfully I have a few years before Little J is ready for one; maybe by then I'll be in the mood to make another one. LOL
Thank goodness that is done,
Amy
