SALT DOUGH ORNAMENTS

Salt Dough Ornaments

December 16 2015

okay, I did not sleep well last night! Too bad it's getting chillier out,

 maybe the snow would stay this time (yes I am one of the few, who love the snow :) ) I just feel bad leaving the dogs sleep on the cold laminate flooring in our house. So I Let them on the bed, now just let me make something clear... I may be a small 5 foot lady and my fiancee not that much taller, but our dogs, OMG our dogs are MASSIVE!!! They take up SOOO much space!!! but it's just SOOOO cold on the floor, and I mean dogs don't wear slippers.... well mine don't anyways. So I feel guilty, and Trigger well he's not a lie at your feet kind of dog, but he's also not a snuggle up next to you kind of dog, or a steal your pillow kind of dog (that's Beau), He's a jump up on bed all clumsy like find your body and lay on top of you kind of dog.... he's I swear got to be like 150 lbs at least. So yup there we are lying in bed smashed together on account of Beau stealing Andy's pillow and then BAM! We get pushed down into the bed because Trigger decided one of us to squish wasn't good enough but both of us maybe.... So tryin to toss and turn and get comfortable all night, leads to literally no sleep.

Anywaaays....Lets get to the actual post... Salt Dough Ornaments.... Yeah or Nah? Well I can say, thus far …. fairly easy, if your participants are willing.... I have them in the oven right now as I write. I saw this post on pinterest.com it came from the website http://www.irocksowhat.com/2012/11/salt-dough-ornaments.html?m=1.

I like to read the comments first before I start, Just to see what others have tried and what worked for them. So I decided to do the 200 degrees for 4 hours instead of 250 for 2 hours. And also instead of painting them after they cooled I added food colouring to them while I was kneading, just to maybe make it easier, (post pictures) I am in no way an artist, If I would've waited chances are I would've tried to do something a little more fancier and probably would've just screwed them up anyways.

I started with an empty bowl

obviously....

  Added the ingredients

I had gotten a good idea that I wanted to do my dogs and rabbits paw prints, So I doubled the batch. Just to make sure I had enough. Oh and by the way that's a ton of salt!! glad I'm not eating these, ewwwww..... Trigger obviously doesn't care how much
….I'll still eat it ma...

Then you gotta mix and knead and knead and knead.... It says for 7 minutes.. So I stopped at like 3 minutes... Because Uhhh I wanted a break.... and to add the food colouring... I divided into 3 pieces

for 3 animals.

 And decided I would do one white and then being festive like I like to think I am, I did a red

which to me looks more pink....

  and a green
which looks green :)

…. still waiting for my piece ma.....

 after adding the colours I kneaded them a little longer.

 giving up but staying close.... just in case I change my mind and let him have a piece...

I rolled out the white portion first and brought out Root Beer to try his paw....

didn't work out very well, he was less then thrilled, and just left a bunch of holes













I think it might be time to get somebody's nails trimmed...

I scratched that one.

 my turn?!?!? why yes trigger it is! This is the part where my “participants” weren't very helpful, after taking a nibble and I told him no and tried to grab his paw to push into the dough,

 he stared at it.....for a really long time.... took like 15 minutes to get him to stop trying to eat it and co-operate, but I finally got it!

 It's not as deep as I wanted.

Beau's turn!

See his ears perked up a little? looked like he might be co-operative :)









after trying a piece..

... he was a little confused, and possibly didn't like the taste(probably the salt...)









 he gave me his paw (post picture) again, not very deep.

obviously not the treat he had hoped for....

that'll cheer em up.

Now what to do? To make sure you can actually see the paw prints? Oh I know I'll do a little food colouring mixed with water to fill in the holes, add their names and actually they looked pretty good. So in the oven they go...

And we wait....

Start a blog entry

And we wait....

...do the dishes...

And we wait...

 build a coffee station in my kitchen for Andy

And we wait...

and I think finally after 4 long hours they are done.

. I wish the green I used on Beaus ornament would've finished looking green...
None the less they turned out great :)

I don't have a tree this year, because we left it in our other house. We have renters there so we don't want to bother them by going in the attic, but I am positive my mom will love these huge ornaments in her tree :D