Hey everyone so I was honored that my best friend wanted me to plan her Gender Reveal Party. I have been the only mommy in our group of friends and I'm so excited for her to join the Mommy Club. We have a pretty great group of girlfriends and one thing that makes us so great is that we will do ANYTHING for each other. We always go all out for each other's birthdays, weddings, etc. I was so excited she picked me to take charge. I'm not really a demanding person so I looked to Pinterest to help give everyone an idea of what we could do. I'm OBSESSED with Pinterest. There were some things however that I came up with on my one or figured out on my own. The first is the chalkboards. I LOVE the chalkboards at parties but I didn't want to pay for one already made I wanted to make a cheap one. I found frames at Michaels for buy 1 get one FREE and one was $39.95. Then I had never used chalkboard paint before so I wasn't really sure about what could work as the actual board. I decided to go for a foam board. The chalkboard paint that I used was the spray paint (all that Michaels carried). The directions said that you had to spray it in a 60-80 degree room. I'm living at my parents right now and we are bursting at the seams! There was NO room at all! So I took it out side put both boards up against a tree and sprayed away. The tree was small enough I didn't get it on the tree. The spray paint is messy!
I let it dry for 24 hours and was so worried about if it would work. And it did!! When it was dry I hot glued the foam board onto the frame and I had my own home made chalkboard!
The next I ordered these really really cute straws off of ETSY
Then at Walmart I did buy 1 chalkboard for $10
And it WAS raining so the chalk was a little smudged on everything.
Then I loved the idea I found on Pinterest of Late Night Diapers. It's so cool it's little pick-me-ups for new parents when they haven't had much sleep and they are changing diapers in the middle of the night. I changed it a lot from what I found on Pinterest. I found the cute font at dafont.com, printed it out, and put it inside of a cute frame I already had.
My mom left them this one ^^^^ lol
Last the now ties and bows. I just took an old frame and taped ribbon from the top to the bottom on the back of the frame. Then I hot glued the bows and bow ties on clothes pins. I have a how-to on how to cut out and make the paper bows on another post. But these turned out so cute!
The cake I got from Brookshires Bakery and the Team Boy Team Girl fingers I ordered off of ETSY! I hope y'all enjoyed! And good luck to anyone planning their own Gender Reveal!
