bachelorette party DIYs

This past weekend I took my monthly trip to my old home of Morgantown, WV for my girl's bachelorette party! It was the first time I've been to a bachelorette since college, so I wanted to actually help out this time. I decided to take it upon myself to create some bar fun. 

A couple years back I remember someone asking me to help them with a photo hunt of sorts. They had a list of things they had to complete that sounded so fun! That was a must. 

I created this one. Each color was a different number of points, from 1-4, in order of black, pink, silver and gold. Some were generic and some were personal to the couple.

It's kind of plain, but I printed them out on sparkly paper that I got at Michael's and they looked perfect. The prize was a simple martini glass filled with condoms and airplane bottles. That's what's important for such parties, right?!?

Unfortunately, everyone was drunk enough by the time we got out that I was the only one that really went for it. Got a lot of the items, got on the mic to do a toast and ask for more.... basically called game over from the beginning.

I should learn to be less intense sometimes.... maybe.

On Pinterest, I saw these personalized tats that were perfect. They said you had to order them from Etsy, but I decided to research a DIY version. Turns out, all you need to do is order tattoo paper for like $3 a sheet and, as the bride said, YOU HAVE ENDLESS FUN! 

They printed out kinda blurry because I didn't make the Photoshop file big enough, but they still looked great once they were transferred on!

With the other sheet, I made some fun ones to define us in a way. For the bride, the bridesmaids, and the single people who can do all the real penis activities that night. [If you ever want to print these out yourself, you have to use the backwards one.. which is why I'm sharing it.]

Because I'm classy, I put mine on my neck. 

They came right off the next morning, almost like a sticker. Pretty sweet. I think I'll be ordering more of this paper. All you do is print it out, put the adhesive on, and BAM! PARTY TIME, YO!

It was a prettyyyy solid weekend that made me feel like a cougar around all the younger college kids but also like I can still hang with all of them.

What I've needed to come to terms with is that you keep your damn mouth shut when it's the Bachelorette's weekend. What she wants to do, you do. Whether that be raging, napping, eating all the things, etc etc. I'm so used to planning activities that sometimes it's hard for me not to suggest things.

I'm growing up..... like .02% a day.

love,
elizabethany

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photo diary: scavenger hunt with the company

Last week, my boss declared a "mandatory fun day" in the office. EVERYONE, from sales people, to on-air personalities from every station, to managers, was not allowed to work for the entire day. [Unless, of course, you're lucky enough to have the morning or night shift, which is beyond working hours....]

We met up at a restaurant on the beach for lunch, then he let us know we were being split up into teams and going on a day-long scavenger hunt. We had 4.5 hours to complete a long number of challenges by racing around the 757 and taking pictures with an iPad. Each one was worth a certain number of points, and whoever had the most at the end of the day won a pile of prizes. Second place got nothing.

[First thoughts: I was going to have to look like these fools taking pictures with iPads all day: ]

I had used the app in College Station before, so I took over the iPad and let my teammates figure out the best ways to zip around the cities. Here are some of the completed challenges:

 

Those are just a FEW of the challenges. We also got into a bank vault [but that's illegal for me to post], had to make strangers do different things with us, and SHOT A FREAKING GUN.

Yeah, I shot my first gun, and I got the target right on the throat. The sales manager who was in charge of that challenge said I had one of the top 3 shots of the day! It's kinda like I'm meant to do it or something. [Woah, CHILLLL, EB.]

It was a BLAST and I LOVED the team I had. Luckily, I knew everyone pretty well going into it, so I think it helped to all work together. Unfortunately, we got second place.

The team that got first place ended up executing the exact plan we had from the beginning, before our ADD got the best of us and we got off track. Slightly heartbreaking to realize that, but it's our own fault. The team that won even found a way to sneak on to the infield of the local baseball park.

Oh, we also made a sweet music video, with strangers, at one of the challenges. Here's the montage of all the teams:




Days like this one make me so thankful for the company I work for. Radio is a scary business, and I've been lucky enough to work for two amazing teams.

love,
elizabethany

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