This Summer We

...decorated frames with paint and feathers and pom-poms and straws

...made a marble run out of trash

...went to the Orange County Fair (twice!)

...made yummy popsicles out of pureed fruit and yogurt

...and discovered little Legos.

(I won't mention all of the video games and TV time :)

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Tooth Fairy Experience - Guest Post and Round-Up

Huck recently lost his first teeth! He's not even five years old yet, so I was totally shocked and not at all ready when the loose teeth were discovered. But I pulled myself together and, of course, went a little nuts with the Tooth Fairy Experience. I wrote a post about all of the fun things we did, starting with a mysterious package from the Tooth Fairy herself and including a tutorial and pattern for a simple felt envelope to hold the lost teeth. You can read all about it over on The Southern Institute of Arts and Crafts!

And while I was brainstorming ideas for our own Tooth Fairy Experience, I found a TON of inspiration and cute products that I wanted to share right here. Enjoy!

TikeALike, Custom Tooth Fairy Pouch, $5 + shipping
TikeALike on Etsy makes these very cute custom pouches for lost teeth. You can choose from a variety of hairstyles, colors, eyes and skin tone to match the illustration to your little one.

Goody Goody Handmade, Matyroshka Tooth Pillow, free pattern and tutorial
Lauren from Goody Goody Handmade has a free tutorial and downloadable PDF pattern for this sweet matroyshka tooth pillow.

 looploft Tooth Fairy Pillow with Chart, $25 + shipping
This was one of the most clever tooth pillows I found on my quest for tooth receptacles. Just use a permanent maker and you can record the dates when those precious pearls came out!

Office of the Tooth Fairy Kit, $16 + shipping
The Office of The Tooth Fairy Kit makes sure your child's tooth loss experience is all legally recorded and squared away. After all, nobody wants to deal with a painful tooth audit!

Nest of Posies Tooth Fairy Door, (custom doors available for $17 in the Nest of Posies store)
When I saw this door, we just had to have one of our own! Huck was thrilled when his door (a little different from this one) showed up on our doorstep with a special note from the Tooth Fairy.

Remember to pop over to The Southern Institute and check out my post over there. And if you're visiting from Jenny's blog, Welcome to Hideous! Dreadful! Stinky! I hope you enjoyed what you've seen and you'll stick around for awhile :)






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Dining Chair Redo

My latest home project was to replace my super nasty dining set. We bought a Craigslist set for $100 just under five years ago when my first son was only a few months old. For some reason, at the time and with a baby who was not mobile and did not yet eat solid foods, white fabric dining chairs seemed like a good idea. They were already in used condition when we bought them, and I'm sure you can imagine how much spaghetti, ketchup, paint (the dining table doubles as our craft table), and, yes, urine has spilled onto these not-even-close-to-being-white-anymore chairs over the past five years. So much that I'm not even going to put up a picture because it's too embarrassing! So when we saw a simple set at a garage sale for $40 we snatched it up. The set isn't any prettier than what I already had, but these had a fabric chair pad rather than being being entirely covered in fabric, and the whole set cost less than chair covers. I started doing some research, mostly cruising around Pinterest, and found a great tutorial for reupholstering dining chairs. I browsed around a lot of fabrics online, but couldn't bring myself to spend much on covering furniture that wasn't super-high quality to begin with and would continue to get spills and messes. Lucky for me, I have a fantastic discount fabric store nearby, and I found some very thick, good quality upholstery fabric that was dark and had a nice floral design that will help hide some of mess for just $7/yard. I only needed two yards to cover four chairs, and by adding some extra batting to the existing foam and rounding the shape a bit, I think the new chairs look pretty darn good!

before

after

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