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Countdown to VDay
valentine airplane{Disclosure: yes, I did post about this last year. If you already read about it [and you know who you are, all three of you from back then] skip ahead to the list}.
These airplanes are so, so easy and always gets a lot of comments from their friends. All you need is two lifesavers, a stick of gum, a roll of smarties, and a longish thin elastic band per valentine. We also usually put a couple of heart stickers on the wings and attach a white tag on a string with a message.
You can pretty much deconstruct how to assemble these little numbers from the picture. We usually start by threading the elastic through the two lifesavers, then we put the smarties through the middle between them. Next we slip the gum through the elastic loops. After a while you get into a good rhythm and it's quick and easy. (I originally got this idea years ago in FamilyFun magazine. I just checked and they talk about them here.)
Just for fun, I've been putting together a list of my favorite romanticish movies. Are yours on here?
An Affair to Remember (old version with Cary Grant & Deborah Kerr)
Dr Zhivago
Truly Madly Deeply
Funny Face
Wimbledon
Somewhere in Time (four words: Come back to me. Also a favorite from my early years.)
Roman Holiday
Once
I know I'm forgetting some...jump in with your own, too, please!
Friday, February 8, 2008
Reader Comments (8)
Don't forget Anne of Green Gables. I loved Chocolat. I haven't thought about that movie forever.
Those Valentine's airplanes are so cute. Way to be the creative mom in the sea of uncreative ones like me who buy the box of cheap Valentine's cards.
Another vote for Anne of Green Gables from me. I liked Ice Castles, and Somewhere in time from way back, and now you've made me want to check out all the movies on your list!!
I have to say "Love Actually," minus the gratuitous porno sex scenes. Even though it's a Christmas flick, it's always going to be one of my favorites.
LOVE the airplanes.
"Say Anything" and "Return to Me" and "When Harry Met Sally"
I can't believe you make those planes for every kid and their friends! wow.
I love the movie "The Notebook". Also "Love Actually" and 'Notting Hill". Movies set in London always seem more romantic, don't they?
Annie - I had to smile when I saw "Ice Castles" on your list! I loved that movie. I saw it at 13 and thought it was the epitme of romance! Okay, try not to laugh too hard but Ken and I danced to that song during our reception. In his defense, I must say he had no idea that I had no idea of its origins. And I'm quite certain that he never saw the movie since he was 17 when it came out back then!
Happy Valentine's Day! -Stephanie
Bridget & Emily--how could I forget Anne of Green Gables? A favorite.
Stie--I feel the same way about Love Actually.
Gab--I LOVE those movies! I just saw Say Anything again this year; can't beat the scene with the boombox :)
Stephanie--I agree. Anything in London makes it more romantic somehow. Thanks for the Ice Castles memory. That's so sweet! At our wedding we had a small Glenn Miller-type band and they played "Can I Have This Dance for the Rest of My Life?" a corny country western song that I would usually not care for at all, but ever since we danced to it then, it's been one of "our songs".
I love your list and would add My Fair Lady. Most any Audrey Hepburn is a win. I guess there is Wait Until Dark. Save that one for a little after Valentines!
"Lucky Partners"( circa 1942) with Ginger Rogers and Ronald Colman is a romantic comedy no living romantic should miss. As for musicals and romance, Cyd Charisse is mezmorizing in Brigadoon......as well as Ann Blyth and Mario Lanza's incredible voice in "The Student Prince."