Triple Project Tuesday

Today's pinterest inspired projects:
salt dough keepsakes & nutella hot cocoa & quick yard ghosts*

Now I've done the salt dough before but always left it out for a week to dry out on it's own.
SALT DOUGH: Very old simple recipe of 2 parts flour to 1 part salt plus water. Pinterest calls for you to "cure" it in the oven at 250 for 2 hours. Sillies had a blast playing with it... rolling it out (using an empty salt container because I couldn't find my rolling pin!) and cookie cutters. I used a skewer to poke holes in each of them so I could later be able to hang them with ribbon. Sillies is excited, but Momma didn't know he played with the timer so they were in for less than 2 hours... and the hand prints puffed. Not happy about the ornaments puffing up. The acorn ones are great, the larger hand prints don't feel right.
Project grade: end result + fun creating =B

Nutella hot cocoa. Splenda, more often hiding in the ingredient list as Sucrolose, makes my inside try to kill me. Serious intestinal pain. Sucrolose is the third or last ingredient in every hot cocoa packets I find in the store. It sucks. It's not just the low calorie ones... even the ones with lots of sugar will list Splenda/sucrolose as the last ingredient! < / rant >
Anyhow, it was chilly and my husband still isn't home and I don't know how to properly start the pellet stove (we moved here in Spring) so... hot cocoa craving! Then I was sad because I don't have any in the house (because I stopped buying it because of the sucrolose.) and... *blink blink blink* I remembered the pinterest 2 cups milk + 2 spoons Nutella = yum! So... I get out a saucepan, put in 2 cups milk and a big spoon of nutella and turn on simmer and then start the bath for my son. I return and stir and it's still too cold for all the nutella to come off the spoon and my son wants to then show me a bubble mohawk... so I then completely forget about it until after his bath. I used my rubber whisk, but it was slightly too late... the nutella got slightly scorched. It was better than no hot chocolate and much better than the packets of pain.
Project grade: A (my result =A- and I burnt it, so I totally recommend this hot cocoa recipe!)

Quick Yard Ghosts*
-Old handkerchief or a square that size of white fabric
-Whiffle ball
- large rubberband
-long stick
Super quick & easy & will withstand the rain. My son thinks they are awesome and was thrilled to put his shoes on and go put them in the yard near the driveway.
These I didn't find on pinterest, but it should be up there. If I had a working camera it totally would be up there! It's my creative way of giving my son the handmade ghosts for our yard that he said he wanted last week. "Not just a pumpkin Mommy, we need ghosts too!" By the way, a four pack of small whiffle balls was found at the dollar store, as well as one large flour sack cloth (which I cut into quarters) and I have been keeping rubberbands from veggies from the farmer's market... so I made 4 lawn ghosts for $2.