Seashells, buttons, toilets and Fairies! :)

Fairy House...that's what Camille, my 3 1/2 year old niece and I did two days ago...we made a Fairy House! She stayed with me on Monday and we watched Tinkerbell and the Great Fairy Rescue which is an adorable movie that I hadn't seen before. So, that's from where the idea came! It's amazing what you can do with an old box, some glue, scissors, tape and construction paper, maple leaves off of a garland, some ribbon, stickers and a jingle bell! She glued, taped and stuck flower and fairy stickers to her heart's content! The roof is an old blue plaid folder to which we taped the maple leaves around the outside edge. We cut a hole for the door, covered it with a sunflower picture from an old gift bag we cut up, and tied it to the "frame of the house" with a yellow handle from the gift bag. The front and sides have blue, orange and green paper covering it with about a 100 fairy and flower stickers adorning  it! She had her Tinkerbell character, Ariel, a  My Little Pony, a teddy bear angel, a cute little white mouse pin that my Mom had given to me when I was Camille's age, all inside with a big roll of clear tape sitting outside the front door for a swimming pool! (She had Ariel in the pool, and Tink sitting on the edge of it talking!) We went around the house picking up items that could be used...here is what she picked out of my jewelry drawer, my colorguard box, and from around the house...an old watch, a big red button about the size of a half dollar I used for the song "Button You Must Wander" with my Kindergarten kids, an unused sponge as a bed with little ones for pillows, one of John's mom's unused handkerchiefs for a rug, a bird's nest ornament with 3 eggs in it that she put on top of the roof, 3 seashells, an old blue beaded broken bracelet and a picture of a kitty. We used a paper clip to put the kitty on the wall and she hung the mouse on top of it...funny...I don't think that she realized the irony in that, but I loved it!!!...the broken bracelet hangs in the corner while the seashells were carefully placed along the back wall. The bed was in the corner...oh yeah...we used an old jewelry box for a table that the button sat on. But here is the clincher...and as you all know...this is one of the most important things to a 3 or 4 year old...a toilet! Back in Texas, John and I went to a Christmas party and got this gag gift of a little toilet about the size of a box of oatmeal that really flushes. It's a coin bank...you put the money in the toilet, flush it, it makes the whoooosshhhh sound and the money drops into the bottom. My friends, this was what she wanted in that Fairy House the most! That was the FIRST thing she put in it! It cracked me up! Just had to have the toilet!! The jingle bell hangs next to the front door so that you can ring it if you'd like to come visit! There is a lovely flower garden with a pool you could enjoy! I will say this though...if you need to use the bathroom, there are no doors or walls around it and there's no toilet paper! And...it will cost you some coin to use it!