Valentine's Suggestions

[laurainlimbo]

Hi - I think I mentioned awhile back that I help put together a semi-monthly newsletter for my team at work - it's mostly just fun stuff like movie suggestions, crafts, facts about holidays, recipes and other fun ideas.

I'm in charge of the media section and the creative corner (arts, crafts, etc.), and our theme for February, of course, is Valentine's Day.

I'm not much of a fan of romantic movies (in fact, I don't like romantic comedies much at all), yet I want to come up with a list of good movie suggestions for Valentine's Day.
So that's where my friends come in:

Please post a comment with your favorite romantic movies, or the best movies you can suggest for Valentine's Day. These can even be anti-Valentine's Day movies (one that comes to mind is War of the Roses with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner), for those who hate the holiday! Whatever you can suggest would be great!

Also, if you're a crafty person, can you suggest any fun craft ideas for Valentine's Day - not necessarily for kids, but for anyone?

Thanks in advance!!!

Comments

[sorceress.livejournal.com]

I dislike romantic comedies too... and my sense of romance is sort of... twisted. My recent... not ex sometimes ex on again off again and I live a loooong way away, so I wrote in a journal every day for him, like a "here are all of my thoughts and ideas" until it was full and sent it to him, he loves it but it took a lot of work and dedication to do. I'm a little bit fanatic :)

I also bought a plush elephant and I've slept with it for months now with the intention of giving it to him but he told me to keep it since I was going through a bit of a rough patch with work. I've bought a similar plush bear and I'm going to send him that close to his birthday!

Anytime I send him anything or give him a gift I always include a paper crane. I've told him the story of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes and that he'll get a wish once I've given him 1000 :) I'm not even sure how many he has now- they're all kept in a gift box!

Here's an idea though- get a lovely Valentine's day card, write a really sweet and heartwarming message... it's got to be really emotional. Place the card opening facing the opening of the envelope and pour quite a bit of (but not TOO MUCH) fine glitter into the card and seal.

I don't know anyone who opens cards carefully (except the people I've played this trick on) most people will open the card and shower glitter all over themselves. And as you probably know- glitter is VERY hard to get rid of.

It's really hard for the person to be mad when they read the heartwarming message, so it's funny to see their reactions :)

I did it to one of my Canadian friends and told his housemate beforehand to keep an eye on what happened when he opened the card- glitter stars went EVERYWHERE and because they have pointy edges that catch in the carpet they're really hard to hoover up. He loved it and had a good laugh :)

[laurainlimbo.livejournal.com]

the glitter idea does sound fun - but only for someone who wouldn't get mad - LOL!