My Kiddo, who is only a few months away from tuning seven (OMG!) finally has a loose tooth.

We have been awaiting this day with great anticipation for at least a year or so. I have fielded nearly constant questions about why EVERYONE ELSE has lost teeth and been rewarded by the Tooth Fairy and HE has not.

We have been checking on its wiggle-ability for a week now. While smiling and trying to figure out a somewhat believable story about the Tooth Fairy’s existence (because there is not nearly as much background available for her as there is for Santa or even the Easter Bunny) I realized I had nothing to put the tooth in. No special little pillow or chest or envelope. And it HAS to go in something or it could get lost or eaten by the cat or spend eternity rolling around in the chaos under the bed until he packs for college and we get grossed out by our discovery.

I looked online. All I could find were overpriced little girly things. I still have my little girly tooth pillow and although it is blue, the stuffed angel/fairy thing just wasn’t going to cut it. What do you do for a boy?

I finally stumbled into the world of crafting blogs, a place I had feared and avoided until now. I am just not a crafty girl. I don’t create unique heirloom gifts for family and friends. I don’t scrapbook. Every craft supply I have optimistically purchased for Kiddo to create masterpieces with has turned into shredded cat toy. It’s just not our thing.

But I had to do something. So I found some simple, step-by-step instructions on a beautifully rendered blog (which also made me feel horribly inferior and lacking in creativity).

And I did it. I crafted. It…doesn’t look half bad…

So thank you to the purl bee for making your Tooth Fairy Bags simple enough for an utterly inept mother/crafter/seamstress like me.

Kiddo loves it. Now we just have to wait for the tooth to fall out…and figure out the Tooth Fairy’s going rate for a body part…