#MonthlyMani: Autumnal Hues

I love fall.  It's such a great time of year.  Unfortunately we don't get much of a fall here in Texas and it takes forever for the temps to drop, but I can reminisce of how awesome fall was growing up in NY.  We're going up that way to visit family next month and it will be the first time I've been up there during the fall in awhile.  I'm very excited. :)

I think of oranges and yellows and burgundy - basically the colors that the leaves would change - when I think of fall.  I was thinking of trying a gradient effect on my nails so I grabbed a couple shades of orange and yellow.

{OPI Top Coat, Pure Ice Hot Tamale, OPI Hot and Spicy, Pure Ice Excuse Me}

 

I started with Hot Tamale as the base coat and then used the sponge to attempt to make a gradient effect on my nails.

Unfortunately the yellow didn't cover the orange, but I ended up with a cool matte look with the orange.

Since that didn't work, I went to Plan B, adding some gold (Ulta High Roller).

I like how they turned out even if it wasn't quite what I was going for.  It's a fun orange color.  I'm going to have to attempt doing a gradient again because it always looks cool in the pictures I see on Pinterest. :)

Check out the other ladies' fall nails:

Kristi from Alligator Toe

Piniel from Pins-Place

Justine from The Two Cent Chick

Kate from Into the Stratosphere

Miche from Buttons and Birdcages

Jacki and Lesli from Sistas from Cali

Marlena from Here, Pretty Kitty

Angie from hashtagRANDOM

Tracy-Ann from Mint Statement

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He or She? It's a...

He or She?  Pink or Blue?  That was the theme of our gender reveal party that we had over the weekend.  It was so fun getting together with family and friends to celebrate our little baby.  We decorated everything in pink and blue and I found the cutest plates and napkins at our local party store.

I tried to incorporate pink and blue into my outfit.  Marty just wore blue, although he swears he didn't think about it when he got dressed, haha.

We kept track of what everyone thought the gender would be.  The final tally ended up being about 75% votes for a boy!

I made the little bow and tie confetti above.  The candy bar idea below of coloring the HE in blue and the SHE in pink was from Pinterest.  How awesome is it that Hershey's bars fit in with the theme?

Pink and Blue grab bags.

We played a couple games.  The first was a quiz on how well everyone knew the old wives tales about pregnancy.  A majority of the tales indicated I would have a girl.

The second game was about interesting birth facts.  We split everyone into 2 teams: Team Blue vs. Team Pink!

Team Blue is above and Team Pink is below.  As you can see Team Blue vastly outnumbered Team Pink.

Team Blue ended up winning!  That for sure meant it would be a boy.  Plus, the majority couldn't be wrong, right?  Well, it was time to find out!  The big reveal was coming up!

On a side note, how cute is this picture?  Rudy is ready for a little human sibling!

I found a fun tutorial for making scratch off cards and decided to make that for the reveal!  I did both blue and pink cards and each card had 3 boxes that said either Boy or Girl.  Every card had a different combination and only one had all 3 boxes matching with the correct gender.  Once the person with the "winning" card revealed the correct gender, they yelled it out so the whole group would know!  It was fun that we had no idea who would find out the gender first!

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Here it is, the winning card!

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IT'S A GIRL!!!

{My attempt at confetti pics, ha}

...and the aftermath :)

Also, those blowing confetti pics you see sure are harder to pull off than I thought!  We'll have to work on that one. ;-)

We are so excited for our little girl!

Thanks for sharing this fun experience with us!  I can't wait to start planning the nursery. :)


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