I'm looking for the recipe or directions for making a dough-like scent ball, used as an air freshener; several are placed in a pretty dish to scent a room. I remember reading directions for this several years ago. I think the ingredients were the same as salt dough, or similar, that was mixed with...

I use all kinds of jars for pantry storage and they hold up pretty well most of the time. It's just that, as you discovered, they're not air tight once they've been opened. Most of them would keep out ants or other small bugs, though. I went digging on the internet and came up with some more...