I am planning on making jewelry out of my tooth.

Better than stashing them in jewelry box like my mom did with our baby teeth.

Oh lord yes.

Better than stashing them in jewelry box like my mom did with our baby teeth.

I'll admit, I was really surprised not to find my baby teeth when we were going through my mom's things. I would have liked to have them.

Our baby teeth got thrown out somewhere. Once my parents said "Fine, there is no tooth fairy, you keep it" I hoarded them myself in a little wooden treasure chest.

And then we moved five million times, and no more teethsies. Sad.

Mom had little locks of hair of ours, too.

I was tempted to keep that stuff with my kids, but then I realized if I wasn't going to display it or use it (like in jewelry), why bother. I kept some of their baby clothes instead, one or two outfits from each that were well loved and used, and really remind me of them at that age.

We found a bunch of mine, mostly rattling around at the bottom of my mom's jewelry boxes. I did not have any urge to hang on to them.

I should ask Dad if he's run across them. I didn't go through all the jewelry boxes. We did find my childhood immunization book, though.

I found a long braid of my hair when we went through my mother's stuff. I was kind of touched that she'd kept that for 43 years, but old, dry hair is also kind of creepy.

More proof that my dentist is awesome: He just left me a comment in FB that if I need a hole drilled in the tooth that was extracted so I can turn it into a charm, he'll do that for me.

That's so sweet.

I...might have a lock (a loc, actually) of my ex's hair somewhere. I hope I threw it away at some point, but I might not have. I took it by accident, if that helps?

I have a lock of my first girlfriend's hair, which is a memento mori now. Death is strange. Or it lends its strangeness to the world, making simple things fill up with mortality and loss.

It's a weird old world.

t /mordant reflection