I am always envious of women who get to have perfect timing with their big announcements, like around Christmas time or Father's Day or whatever. We are traditional when it comes to announcing, we like to wait until the first trimester is over to share. Then before we make it "Facebook Official" we like to make sure immediate family and close friends are in on the big news. AND THEN we make the announcement. So before we left on vacation, we told a handful of friends and family and packed up a special sign I had made, and then near the end of our vacation we took Kinnley out to the beach and captured (with special thanks to my mom) some amazing photos. The pictures turned out way better than I could have ever imagined!
About the sign:
I bought black foam board from Hobby Lobby, but I was unsure what I should use to write with. I remembered seeing a tutorial on Pinterest but wouldn't you know, I couldn't find it and couldn't remember what it called for. So I spent (and wasted) some money on different types of Sharpies. Just so you know, oil based Sharpies do NOT work, ha. I did finally find the tutorial I had in mind and the correct Sharpies to use are the metallics. . I am obsessed with fonts on the internet, and its so easy to go onto dafont.com and download free fonts. In Word, I typed out what I wanted on the board and got it sized out and in the cute fonts, printed them out, cut them down, and carefully taped the paper to the board. Since I was using foam board, I just traced the words with a pen and it left a small indentation in the board. I went slowly, tracing one word at a time and then using whatever color to trace the indentation. I only did one word at a time so I didn't get confused with all the little lines :). It really didn't take long to do, I think I got mine done in the span of two, one hour blocks. Once all the wording was done, with the help of Zach and an X-acto knife, we trimmed it down to less than half its size so it would fit in a suitcase.
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