In 2012, my husband and I enjoyed our first Christmas since we'd been married, and in our first home, an apartment in Mississippi. In the months leading up to Christmas, I went a little crazy with homemade Christmas ornaments -- actually, it was mostly during the summer, when I was home from work for several weeks with a broken elbow. One of the ornament ideas that we had a lot of fun doing was salt dough ornaments. This pin offered the idea of saving the imprint of the key to our first home.
Unfortunately, it didn't have a salt dough recipe attached, so I changed the link to this blog post, which is the recipe (albeit much smaller scale) we used.
We made a fraction of a batch, so this was all it made. Apparently, I didn't take more photos of the one with our rings imprinted on it, so I'll just tell you that I later labeled it (on the back) "Our First Christmas as Mr & Mrs". If you make them, don't forget to poke a few holes in unobtrusive places! If you don't, you can get unsightly darker spots.
My husband is obsessed with dinosaurs -- see my other post about fruit snacks. :)
We don't have kids, so we used the handprint idea (from the blog post with the recipe) on our cat!
Simple as that! I wrote our address and the year on the back of this ornament.
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