The baby shower!

I had my baby shower! Big big thank you to all the people who came and even those who couldn't come and who have been very supportive to me during this pregnancy I appreciate it beyond anything! Thank you, thank you, thank you for the presents and all your kindness and generosity! Especially a big thank you to Richard who is the best person I've ever met in my entire life.

Nat with the winning dummy spit (thank you Carol for the games!)

My awesome rainbow cake that I made!

I extremely appreciate the time and effort my boyfriend put into making the food. I'm lucky I know!

Yes the baby has a Metallica shirt lol

DIY Dyed Disposable Wooden Cutlery

I did it! I really wanted to do some do it yourself projects but when your 7 month pregnant its hard to find the energy and enthusiasm to get anything done! But today I managed to get a huge list of things to do done for the baby shower. First up on that list was this How To: Dip Dye Wooden Cutlery. I loved this post and thought it was so much funner than buying ordinary plastic cutlery. It was super easy to do also.

All you need is

• food dye (blue, green, red and yellow)
• water
• medium sized bowls (that won't stain)
• wooden disposable cutlery
• gloves (food dye stains everything and anything!!)

At first I was being pretty dumb and doing the cutlery individually until I realised that I could just dump the lot into the the separate coloured filled bowls and let the wooden cutlery absorb the dyed water. The more water you place into the bowl the more surface area the cutlery will absorb. Altogether I'd say it took about 15 minutes to get 100 each of the wooden cutlery forks, knives and spoons done. But if your pregnant just a bit of advice do not sit on the floor crossed leg or sit on the floor in any position at all at 7 months because getting up is hell.

I absolutely love the end result!

DIY Baby Shower invitations - part 2

I finally made and sent out my baby shower invitations! After much procrastination and sheer laziness I did it. I was a bit nervous but after receiving some lovely messages of people attending it's cleared away my fears and replaced them with some excitement. Although I'm a still bit nervous. I love parties except when I'm hosting them, I'm just always concerned that someone isn't having a good time. But blah moving on I thought I do a little post just showing what I used to make my invitations and what I did.

pictures listed are exactly the product I bought from OfficeWorks.

Firstly I used photoshop to create the invitations, pretty much looked around invitation websites to gather some ideas of how I wanted it to look and then used google to find images. But overall I just played around with photoshop to found what I liked (I'm not a pro at photoshop!) I didn't want the project to be expensive so I went to Officeworks (Australia) and bought the items pictured above

1. Self adhesive magnets - to stick on the back of the invitations so people could put them on fridges  (no muss no fuss!)

2. Prepaid envelopes - I don't really care about envelopes! Nobody keeps them anyways in my opinion. As they say its what on the inside that counts ;) 

3. Paper - I decided to use my own printer to save on the cost so I just had to buy some paper. I didn't want it to be thin cause then it would just flop around everywhere so when looking for paper get something that is 200GSM in thickness, I thought anything lower than this just didn't have the desired effect I was looking for.

Other options would be to use a program that lets you make your own invitations (some are free some are not) and going to a photo shop or some place like it that will print out your invitations out on paper that photographs are printed out on.
Also feel free to get more crazy than I did with the design, you could always buy little decorations, stamps etc to pretty it up more (I prefer a clean and simple design) Each to their own!

How it came out!
  (I decided on using a long size rather than a short one & also I ran out of magnets for this picture so I used another magnet to keep it in place just so you could get an idea of how it turned out!)