Sunday Fun version 12.30.12 - First year ornaments

I really struggled with this one, I really wanted a first year ornament but I wanted it to be special, not just some ornament you could pick up anywhere and worked for any baby.  Several weeks ago Pottery Barn Kids had a kit for making handprint or footprint ornaments, but by the time I got around to it they were sold out.  I looked for kits in  craft stores and couldn't find anything - now I know what you are thinking, you can make your own!  I just knew I wouldn't get around to it!

So then I thought about doing a metal stamp ornament with their names and the year, but sheesh, metal stamping is sooo expensive!

Then over the weekend  I had to run some errands and ended up in Marshals and there it was!  Exactly TWO babyprint ornament kits on clearance for $2.50!  SCORE! I was stoked!

So Sunday evening we got them out and ready and made our ornaments!

Adella was pretty funny - it took 3 tries to get anything decent.  She just wanted to play with the 'dough' of course and kept digging her hands into it.  Finally I got a mostly flat print and left it at that. The dough in this kit was super sticky and almost marshmallow like, but it worked pretty good and most importantly no mixing!

Charlie was more interested in the cutter so he let me do whatever I wanted and we got a perfect print.  For some reason his dough was not as sticky either and even easier to work with.

I'm so excited to have these ornaments to treasure, we were not prepared and don't even have hand and foot prints from the hospital - I know totally lame and sad - I was too exhausted to worry about it at the time, it's a good thing we at least have pictures!