From The Tooth Fairy

Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Cupid...these are just a few of the mythical beings that make being a kid fun. Who ranks number one on our list you ask?  The Tooth Fairy.  The little prince is on the verge of losing his very first tooth - how exciting!

I knew that I wanted to make this experience as special as possible, so to the internet I went to search for ideas{seriously, what did we do before we could hit a search engine???}.  I found this great list from Under the Table and Dreaming -- 10 Tooth Fairy Traditions and Ideas.  One stop shopping...can we say jackpot!

On the list were these awesome Tooth Fairy bags from the Purl bee.  Simple to make and best of all, I didn't have to spend a dime since I had everything on hand.  Now, let me be completely honest with you -- I HATE sewing.  I consider myself rather crafty but sewing is my nemesis. Just the idea of sewing makes me sad because I'm not good at it and I cringe whenever there is a project that I love but involves needle, thread and worst of all a sewing machine.  These bags were too cute and I really wanted one for him, so I pulled up my big girl panties and decided I could do it!

The bag and the tooth on the front are made from felt {click here for the step-by-step directions from the Purl bee}.  My sewing wasn't great but I was proud of the end result.

Now that the bag was complete, time to move on to a special letter from the Tooth Fairy.  Another cruise around the internet and I found a few free tooth fairy letters that you could print but none were quite what I was looking for, I would need to create what I wanted.  I copied a couple pictures from the internet and began writing out his one-of-a-kind tooth fairy letter.  Here's what I came up with.

The front of the letter

The back of the letter

His tooth is so close to falling out that I wanted to make sure that he received his bag and letter before the big day.  I picked him up from the bus stop and told him something special had been left for him at home and boy was he excited when he saw that it was something from the Tooth Fairy {he's been obsessing over that tooth for weeks now}.  I thought my goose was cooked when he said "how did she leave this here?" {Uh-oh...think fast mommy} I calmly said, "I thought you remembered that she was magical?"  To which he answered "Oh yeah, that's right - just like Santa Claus". {Okay, crisis averted...whew!}

A trip to the bank for some gold dollars and now we are all ready for the Tooth Fairy's arrival.  I love creating these memories for him and helping to make his childhood just a little sweeter.  Crafting the best from my heart to his!

Treasure Boxes

Happy New Year and Welcome to 2013!

My Christmas holiday was amazing!  Time spent with family is always the best, especially since I no longer live close to most of them.  After eating more than any one person should consume and staying up way too late, I am back to life as normal and that means chugging along in my crafting.

A co-worker asked me to make a treasure box for her son.  As it is with many little boys, he has some special "treasures" that he needed to keep in a safe place.  After completing his box, she asked that I make one for her daughter.  I wish that I had taken a picture of his box because if I do say so myself it was a GREAT looking box!  He didn't have a preference and his mom let me choose so I gave it a very cool fish theme.

Now fish work well for boys but simply won't cut it for a cute little girl, so I gave her flowers (again, their mom let me choose).  The boxes were the large unfinished wood treasure boxes that can be found at Michaels.  I used acrylic paint and wooden letters, shapes and gems to decorate.  Here are the pics of the finished product:

Close-up of her name -- wooden letters painted and glued to the box

Close-up of the hand painted flowers with the crystal gem in the middle

Each side was given a small heart and jewel studded star

Inside of the box

The completed box

Of course as soon as my son saw these he immediately asked if I were going to do one for him, so I'm working on a smaller version.  You'll have to check out my Facebook page to get a glimpse of that one when it's finished, but for now.....

Popular Post Re-cap

2012 is ending and all around people are doing those famous "Countdowns", you know the ones 'Hottest Couples', 'Richest People', 'Best Songs', etc.  So I decided to take a look at the stats on my blog to see which of my posts were the most popular and thought I would share with you the top four.  So without further ado...here is Little Blue's Room 2012 Top Blog Posts Countdown!

 #4 ~ Party Like a Pirate



#3 ~ It's All in the Polish



#2 ~ A Mad Hatter Tea Party



And the most popular blog posts is {drum roll please}....

#1 ~ Aaargh!



So many wonderful things to remember in 2012 and so many more wonderful things to look forward to in 2013!

Happy New Year!

Christmas Treat Tree {gift for his teachers}

My son has two awesome Kindergarten teachers.  So for Christmas we wanted to show them how much we appreciate all of their hard work with something homemade.  I looked around my craft room to see what I had to work with and I remembered that I had these great paper mache bags/boxes that I bought on clearance in Hobby Lobby after Christmas last year.

Now, what to do with them...hmmm.  Since these are going to be Christmas gifts, what says Christmas better than 'Santa'?  An idea has been born {haha}, so off to Michaels for some scrapbook paper to cover these in.

I didn't want the traditional fire engine red, so I opted for a deeper red with a shiny black and silver accent.  At this point my creative juices began to flow and I decide that I would like to turn this into a 'treat tree'.  Another trip to Michaels for styrofoam trees (my stash was depleted on the 12 Days of Christmas tree here) and some hunter green spray paint.

Sorry, but I don't have pics of the process for the Santa box.  Most of this was done late at night and finding sufficient light in this house for photos is next to impossible...LOL.  The steps I took to cover the boxes are these: (1) I took the handles off, (2) I measured each side of the box and cut the red paper down to size, (3) using Aleene's tacky glue I glued the cut pieces of red paper to each side including the bottom, (4) I added very thin black ribbon around the top and seams of the box, (5) I cut the black paper in two inch strips and glued them around the box in four separate pieces {two long/two short}, (6) I then cut the silver paper in a 3 inch x 3.5 inch square and cut out a square in the middle, (7) I cut a small strip to make the prong and glued it to the silver square, (8) I added a little bling with the crystal jewels on the belt {even Santa likes a little sparkle, don't ya think?}, (9) using a long craft stick I inserted it into the bottom of the tree, and (10) I glued the stick tree into another piece of styrofoam inside the box, filled the box with red and green tissue paper.

Here it is almost finished.

Now for the treats!  After checking Pinterest, I found an easier version of a cake pop -- an Oreo pop found {here} from the Camp Clem blog.  I bought double stuff Oreos, a box of candy canes, vanilla candy melts and wooden skewers (these have a sharp edge and work better than lollipop sticks since they needed to be stuck in the styrofoam tree) and with the help of the little prince we got to work.

I melted, dipped, dunked and refrigerated the Oreo pops and after they chilled a bit was able to bag them. Now here is where a brilliant idea was great in theory but poorly executed.  I didn't think about how heavy these Oreo pops would be so the plan was to have ten of these around the cone in three layers.  I learned very quickly that I didn't factor in the weight and after five of them they almost toppled over...YIKES!  Removing some and choosing to just put them in the middle to evenly distribute the weight, this is what I ended with.

This is definitely not how I envisioned this project to end up...not even close, but when have any of my projects turned out exactly like I envisioned them -- hahaha!

The good side of this was that his teachers really like it and were thankful for our generosity.  One of them even said she would try the Oreo pops with her two year old daughter.  Now to me, that's a success!

From my family to yours, we wish you a Merry Christmas!

Where we are partying!

Christmas Trees

Have you seen all the cute Christmas tree crafts happening in the blogsphere and on Pinterest?  I even saw some in Hobby Lobby and thought this might be a quick and easy craft to try my hand at.

Looking through my craft supplies, I found a styrofoam tree, jewelry wire, some yarn and scrapbook numbers.

With a bottle of glue, I began wrapping and gluing the yarn around the foam.  At this point, I became so involved I neglected to take additional pictures until it was finished so here's a look at my "12 Days of Christmas" Christmas tree.

I've since decided to remove the beaded circle from the top of this.  I didn't quite like the way it looked and it never sat well up there either.

Once I finished this one, I did another...here is Tutu {Much} Tree

Happy Holidays to you and yours from me and mine!