Tooth Fairy Halloween Costume Accessory: The Destiny of Things, Story #598
I wish I had an updated photo for this one!
First loose tooth locket saver necklace in pink, red or green, available here.
Photo via VintageToGoEasy
Here is the email I received:
My granddaughter wants to be a "Tooth Fairy" for Halloween.
Besides the crown, wings, wand, I thought it would be cute to wear a
necklace with some teeth. I am a little confused: do I order the
string and then a certain number of teeth? Any help is appreciated!!
Thanks so much, Kennedy!
www.etsy.com/listing/190355707/5-tooth-fairy-locket-pendant-necklace
She wanted all pink ones!
First loose tooth locket saver necklace in pink, red or green, available here.
Photo via VintageToGoEasy
This is what I wrote back:
Hi there! Each tooth locket comes with a plastic necklace, just order the amount and color you want and your granddaughter's "Tooth Fairy" Halloween costume will be complete. Sounds so cute! Let me know if I can help you with anything else, Kennedy
Random color necklace mix is available here, usually 2 red, 2 green and 1 pink or 3 reds and 2 greens.
Photo via VintageToGoEasy
Saying Goodbye: These were some teacher destach that have turned into one of the items that Etsy seller's keep ordering! So I call them, "re hoard" and I can keep buying them, since they keep selling out!
What I Learned:
1. Kids love these! or at least my third grade students did back in the day! I had an entire stash of these when I was a teacher and handed them out like candy (plus they are better than handing out candy!) especially during tooth falling out season, which is practically weekly teaching. Other students from other classes would even come to me at recess wanting one! Everyone whose tooth fell out got one!
2. Actually in my class you got to choose, and what a difficult choice to make! So much for me, that's why I had these toothy tooth lockets and the mini tooth saver treasure chests. The mini tooth saver treasure chests don't come with a plastic necklace, but you can add them to the tooth locket necklace like most of my students did.
3. My teaching days may be over, but I'm still selling a lot of my teacher destash and teacher re hoard! I don't miss teaching one bit! Kudos to all the teacher out there today! I can't imagine how you all do it now with all the covid and curriculum changes that must be in place now. I hope one day teaching gets to be easier for you all! It's the one main reason I retired, the teaching life always got more complicated with more time consuming mandates and more admin demands, meaning more paperwork and less student orientated priorites that just didn't make sense to me! Either join 'em or leave 'em. So I left!
4. Oops, never get me started on the crazy demands of teachers! I am thankful for all the teachers out there and it's never ending job!
These used to be simple tie one necklaces, but now they come with a plastic closure.
First loose tooth locket saver necklace. Choose an amount of 1, 5 or 10 and color in pink, red or green, available here.
Photo via VintageToGoEasy
Thank you Etsy buyer for sending your inquiring inspiring note and cute idea! I would have loved to see how your granddaughters Halloween tooth fairy costume turned out! I bet it turned out really cute! How fun! Many thanks!
Sales have been up again! I've been grossly distracted by Etsy's new "star seller" status policies and wonder what kind of statistics they are using because what is happening doesn't make sense to me. One of my shops had a 95% feedback rating according to the star seller criteria, but my shop star rating is at 4.9 out of 5.0 when you see it on a listing.
The other day an Etsy buyer left a 4 star rating and then I got 2 other 5 star ratings and my feedback rating according to the star seller criteria my feedback rating went down to 94%, so that shop most likely won't make the star seller criteria for Nov. Very strange statistics that aren't matching up!
I could say the same about the star seller email statistics too! At that shop, the star seller email response is at 94% and if click on why, it says it's because out of 18 emails received, I didn't answer 1 email in 24 hours! Does that make any sense? Stuff like that riles me! and it's why I left teaching and it's probably going to be why I leave Etsy! My countdown is still counting down and I have 16 more Etsy months to go!
I won't leave Etsy completely, but I'm not sure what it's going to look like. Probably keep two or so open for my handmade. It's really helped me as a recovering hoarder because I've totally stopped buying items, even the ones I know will re sell at a high profit margin. Instead I've been cleaning and organizing my hoard and finding more stuff to list anyway! Will it ever end? I hope it will in 16 more months!
Are you ready for a new adventure? I am! I am thankful for everything that Etsy and the online retail world has taught me and it's time to move on and learn something new! Perhaps archery, fencing, ribbon flower making, an edible flower garden, so much to choose!
I do my best to new list weekly at all the shops. My goal is to keep 180 items at each shop and I've been close to making that goal, but things keep selling!
Click on the shop names to visit my hoard: HoarderRehab with 172 items, The Destiny of Things- 179 items, VintageToGoEasy - 164 items and JunkDrawerAndMore - 171 items. And now, Mending Ways with 77 items!
My current goal is to list 180 items on each shop and to keep a full 3
pages on Mending Ways. I am immensely grateful, thank you all who are
supporting
my alternative to hoarding!
Eat, drink and be scary! Happy Halloween! Boo!
