Yikes - I "poofed" my user icon and I don't know how to restore it!

First, I accidentally "poofed" my fan-out folder that's next to the trash (i.e. pulled it off the dock and it disappeared). I tried to restore it by dragging the little house icon with my user ID from a Finder window, but it just "poofed" that as well!
Although I can still find my files if I do a search for them, I don't know how to access them directly. Can anyone help??
Thanks --
Christine

Thanks -- it worked. I dragged the original icon and not the alias in the finder window, so I guess that was the difference.
I feel dumb, but the problem is solved, so I won't linger on it.

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