Sticky note problem

In trying to find out why all icons on my desktop were magnified (my grand baby was on my keyboard), my coworker inadvertently deleted all of my sticky notes, along with all of my widgets. Although my son realized this and recovered my widgets, my sticky notes are still gone. Any ideas how can I recover them?

Unfortunately I don't have an answer for you, but something very similar happened to me- I'm used to being able to quit stickies without losing notes, but today when I opened it up they were all gone. Maybe this happened because I shut down my computer (I don't remember if I did), but either way there was quite a lot of stuff on there that I'd like to get back if anyone can help