Tooth Fairy Pillow

When SweetGirl lost her first tooth last month - we did the traditional thing of putting her teeny, tiny tooth under her giant pillow before she went to bed. When she woke up, the magical tooth fairy had come to visit and replaced the teeny, tiny tooth with monetary goodness!

The whole time she was going through the process of putting her tooth under her pillow I was stressing: Would the tooth fairy be able to visit without rousing the child? Would the tooth still be there because said child is a violent sleeper and her pillow is never where it starts at the beginning of the night? Would monetary goodness remain in place under pillow? Would tooth fairy be clumsy and accidentally do bad things thus waking child up?

The only logical solution, in my very messed up mind, was to make a tooth fairy pillow. After scouring the internet for ideas, I came back to one of my favorite craft/sewing sites, mmmcrafts. Turns out she had recently designed and put up a tutorial for exactly the item I was looking for! So with great appreciation to Larissa, I give you SweetGirl's tooth fairy pillow with our own modifications (no wings or crown, and embroidered eyes which aren't my best work but adds that homey touch, particularly since they are all the way up in the tooth's forehead. Oy). Obviously, hers is much more... polished, but I couldn't put button eyes on this pillow after having SweetGirl read Coraline! It eagerly awaits SweetGirl's next tooth to be placed in the little mouth pouch, and will hang quite nicely on her headboard - far away from late night tossing and turning.