Salt Dough Ornaments

Before the baby came I got to make a little bit of a mess....

 Fun right?! I thought I would make some salt dough ornaments/gift tags! I showed you the ornament last month in my Christmas post...so I thought I would attempt it myself! It was very easy..the only thing that I didn't like was that I had "unbleached" all purpose flour...so they are not very white..I am thinking I am going to have to paint them now!

Anyway, here are the ones I made:

 Do you see the paw print ones?! The cats were easy but Sadie wanted to eat the dough the entire time...hahahahh I had to do hers quickly.

And here is the recipe I found at Oleander and Palm:

Salt Dough
1 cup salt
2 cups flour
1cup water

Mix all ingredients together with a mixer until a smooth dough forms.  To dry the dough, bake in a 250F oven for at least 3 hours. For the ones with black I just used  a normal stamp and stamp pad to make it show up...but am thinking I am going to have to paint over it because I don't like the yellow colour! boo. I also put the ornaments on parchment paper! I used an end of a paint brush to make the holes!

I decided to paint them because I wasn't happy with the "yellow" colour. Here they are after I painted them

I thought I would be able to re-stamp them...but that didn't work out! Then I tried using a fine tip marker but they just looked ridiculous. SO I threw out the "To/from" ones and the candy cane ones!!

I decided to glitter the rest and used a coffee filter to keep the glitter all in one place

Here are the finished ornaments!

I was going to give the "P" away to all of Mike's family but I don't think they look good enough to give away!! I did put the paws on my tree though. I love them!!!


So...next time...get real white flour and all will be good! :)

Ashley

CHRISTMAS!

It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here! Ok, it has looked this way for a while! I actually put my tree and some other decorations up before the baby came. I secretly knew I would be tired and lazy!! I still have bins of decorations I planned on getting out but I am not going to bother now. The living room is the only room I care about being decorated..it is where we spend most all of our time!! I have a few decorations upstairs, and some on the cabinet in the kitchen but that is about it! Anyway, here is my living room:

That is my rocker from the nursery....I spend all my time down here so I brought it down!

 I picked up the glass trees and deer at the end of the season last year

 Harrison checking out the presents!

I love Christmas and love all the decorations! Can you see the spot on the tree where the set of lights went out!? We had a set of lights go out last year, on before we even put the lights on the tree and then this one...I think it is time to get all new lights!

Ashley

My sweet baby girl

She is here!!! Adalyn Sofia was born November 13th and weighed 7lbs 6 oz.

I could not be more in love!

Ashley

Dear Baby

Dear Baby,

It's your Mommy here.

 I cannot believe your Daddy and I get to meet you today. We are so excited! It seems like yesterday we found out we were having you! It was a Sunday, I remember...one of the happiest days of my life. We waited almost 3 months to tell our family, we wanted to make sure everything was okay first. It was the hardest secret to keep. Everyone is so excited to meet you! You are going to be showered with lots of love! I can't believe this journey is coming to an end and you will be in our arms anytime.

It is crazy that you went from the size of a blueberry..........

7 weeks

 15 weeks

 21 weeks

 24 weeks

28 weeks

 32 weeks

 36 weeks

 38 weeks

.....to the size of a watermelon at 39 weeks today! 

I know you are coming early but it is for our safety. I hope everything ends up ok, and you are healthy and strong! The Doctor said you were 7lbs 9oz at our last appointment...we will have to see how true that is!

We can't wait to find out if you are a girl or a boy....can't wait to kiss you, play with you and love you.

(And maybe squish those cute, chubby cheeks we saw you had at our last ultrasound)

See you soon sweet babe.

Love, your Mommy

xoxoxoxxo