on a quick aside (although i haven't even started), i think i am recycling post titles. but i guess since i've been doing this for a while, so it's bound to happen...
on the real topic, i just found my new favorite medium EVER! salt dough. it's like a super quick sugar cookie dough (with no flavor but salt) that you can shape and bake and then decorate! you can work with it as soon as you make it (no waiting in the fridge for two hours) and you don't have to eat the finished product! horray for my waistline!!! it's AMAZING!
okay, back up- i know i am a complete and utter craft geek. i get my kicks on anything dough-y, sew-y, paint-y, glue-y, etc-y! i love any and all mediums, projects, outcomes- you name a craft, and i'm in! this is probably why god created me to be a mom AND a preschool teacher! i have carte blanche to just create! ahhhhh- the power!
anyway, i just put in the oven 22 little gingerbread men made out of this salt dough. they'll take about 2 hours to set, and then tomorrow at school we'll decorate them with paint, glue, glitter- whatever. then we are pretending to "bake" them, and while we wait, they will all run away... then we have to follow crumbs (which i also made tonight and am baking) throughout the school back to our classroom and back to their cubbies, where each kid's gingerbread man will be waiting! i am so excited for this! probably more than some of the kids! but that's ok. it happens. like i said, i'm a geek, and i've come to terms with that!
anyway, i am also excited for the infinite possibilities of what my kids and i can make with salt dough! i already have a pretty lengthy list in my head (family members, be on the look-out at Valentine's day! heck, friends can even look out- that's how FREAKING COOL this stuff is!) okay, i'm done standing on my salt dough soap box. but seriously, it's amazing!
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