Help Accidently deleted my home icon from Finder

I only bought my iMac yesterday and have broken it already. In Finder, under 'Places', there used to be 4 icons: Toni (my name), desktop, applications and documents. I have lost the Toni icon! In attempting to move it to the Dock it disappeared in a puff of smoke. Gah. I think the contents are still there: when I hit 'Home' on the 'Go' menu in the top left corner, the contents appear in Finder. Is there any way I can restore the icon? I've tried time machine but it doesn't seem to work. Many thanks

Go to Finder Preferences, Sidebar Tab, and recheck the Home folder. Or, you can drag your home folder to the sidebar. The home folder is in /Users/ and has the same name as your short user name.
The sidebar holds aliases to the actual files/folders, not the folders themselves. It's like a Windows shortcut, but actually still works when you move the original file.
You can drag other files/folders/devices to the sidebar for quick access. When you drag the original, the alias is automatically created. If you don't like them, you can drag them off and they will go poof.
The same is true for the Dock. Nothing in the Dock is real and if you drag it off the dock, it will go poof, but the original is still intact.

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