Table Arrangement with Sad Salt Antlers

Do you remember how I was so gung-ho with Lucy's clay antlers?  This weekend, I decided I would try to make some for myself.  As you've probably guessed by the title, they did not turn out as well as I had hoped.  They kind of look like sticks that look like antlers.

Pity the poor deer that would have to walk around with these.  I used this salt dough recipe.  The recipe was great, the dough was nice and smooth.  Artsy Chick jumped on that and made some charms to hang on a mobile project.  Fun-Sized Chick made her friend's name in dough and strung it on a gift bag.  We also baked them--they could have air dried, but I didn't want to wait that long.  I used Lucy's method of fashioning antlers out of foil, then covered them with the dough.  I think the dough didn't have enough elasticity to stay on really smoothly--that's my best guess, anyway.  I tried to stipple the end with a toothpick, but when I placed them on the tray to bake (over two dessert bowls to keep their shapes), the dough pressed against the pan and flattened out.

I thought I'd place them in this table arrangement so you could get a look at them. 

These mini pumpkins turned out pretty well.  I purchased the real pumpkins (in the basket) from the grocery store and gave my all white pumpkins a combination of orange, dark yellow, green, and buttermilk white to emulate the genuine ones.  I used a paint brush and kind of pounced the paint on.

So I'd say pumpkins happily "pass," antlers, sadly, "fail."  All in all, I'm happy with the arrangement.  The runner will be on sale at the craft show next month.



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