Stray Fortunes

I was reading a post on the A Beautiful Mess blog and the writer wrote about stray fortunes. I like that pairing and thought of  it recently as I cleaned our house, especially as I went through the girls’ room.

Here’s a little box for teeth that have been lost. Hadley lost another tooth, and much to her delight she lost it at school.  Losing a tooth at school entitles one to a tooth treasure box, and late in January Hadley came home with one to carry her tooth in it. This is indeed a treasure as Hadley’s been talking about this for almost two years.  It sits in her bed.  I thought the tooth fairy took it but it turns out tooth fairies aren’t interested in the treasure boxes.

This was on my desk one Friday afternoon, and I think it’s just delightful.  I particularly love how she cut and designed the border.

Speaking of designing….

Here’s a little message from a happy person that I found in the corner of this happy person’s bedroom.

And here’s another one of her contributions:

That would be at the foot of her bunk bed where she sleeps.

It’s hard to be mad, and really, I don’t care. When we move, I’d like to leave the “Happy Me!” on the wall and hopefully another small child will find it and know that for a while there were people here who found and kept a lot of stray fortunes.