Showing posts with label valentine day ideas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label valentine day ideas. Show all posts

Saturday, February 13, 2016

Movies for Valentines Day

This Sunday to celebrate Valentines day, why not cuddle up with a good romantic movie. Here are some ideas Source

When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Starring: Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan
What It's About: Harry (Crystal) meets Sally (Ryan) when she gives him a ride to New York after they both graduate from the University of Chicago. They part ways, deciding that a man and woman can't simply be friends without romantic feelings getting in the way. They run into each other several times over the years, always facing the same question: Are they just friends, or is their relationship something more?

Pride and Prejudice (1995)
Starring: Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle
What It's About: In this adaptation of Jane Austen's classical romance, when Elizabeth Bennet (Ehle), from a middle-class family, meets young and wealthy Mr. Darcy (Firth) at a local ball, it is hatred at first sight. Though Mr. Darcy is proud and reserved, his fondness for Elizabeth -- and her attraction to him -- is slowly revealed, despite the prejudice between 19th century classes.

Love Story (1970)
Starring: Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal
What It's About: A wealthy Harvard Law student (O'Neal) falls in love with a music student (MacGraw), despite their opposite backgrounds. His family disowns him when they marry, and they continue to build their life together, only being able to rely on each other.

Pretty Woman (1990)
Starring: Richard Gere and Julia Roberts
What It's About: A successful and wealthy lawyer (Gere) travels to Los Angeles for a business trip and hires a female escort (Roberts) to accompany him for a week of swanky parties and business dinners.

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Starring: Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard
Run Time: 115 minutes
What It's About: A struggling writer (Peppard) moves into an apartment building on Manhattan's swanky East Side and becomes intrigued by his pretty and quirky socialite neighbor (Hepburn).

Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Starring: Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan
Run Time: 105 minutes
What It's About: A recent widower (Hanks) and his son move from Chicago to Seattle to escape the grief of his wife's death. OnChristmas Eve, he calls in to a national radio show and pours his heart out about how much he still misses his wife. This catches the attention of a Baltimore-based newspaper writer (Ryan), who falls in love with him immediately, despite being engaged to be married.

An Affair to Remember (1957)
Starring: Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr
What It's About: A handsome playboy (Grant) and a beautiful nightclub singer (Kerr) have a whirlwind romance on a cruise from Europe to New York -- despite both being engaged to other people. They agree to reunite six months later at the top of Empire State Building, but fate deals them a complicated hand.

Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)
Starring: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, and Julianne Moore
What It's About: A middle-aged husband's (Carell) world is turned upside down when his wife (Moore) unexpectedly asks him for a divorce. He meets a young bachelor (Gosling) at a bar, who teaches him how to rediscover himself by picking up girls at bars. 

The Notebook (2004)
Starring Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, Gena Rowlands, and James Garner
What It's About: A poor and passionate man (Gosling) meets a wealthy and adventurous young woman (McAdams) at a carnival one night. They fall in love, but are soon separated against their will by social differences. Fate brings them back together years later, and they try to make their summer love transition into lifelong commitment.

Love Actually (2003)
Starring: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Laura Linney, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, and Keira Knightley
What It's About: During the frantic month before Christmas in London, Love Actually follows eight couples -- all loosely interconnected with each other -- as they fall in and out of love, some finding themselves with the wrong people and others still searching for the right people.

Casablanca (1942)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman
What It's About: Rick Blaine (Bogart), a cynical American expatriate, runs a nightclub in the Moroccan city of Casablanca during the early days of World War II. Ex-love Ilsa Lund (Bergman) unexpectedly comes back into his life, but she's now married to a renowned Czech Resistance leader. Eventually Rick discovers he's not so cynical after all, giving up all hope of reuniting with Ilsa by making it possible for her and her husband to safely leave the country.

Ghost (1990)
Starring: Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore
Run Time: 127 minutes
What It's About: A bank executive (Swayze) is murdered during a botched mugging after a date with his girlfriend (Moore). He then finds himself walking Earth as a ghost, and seeks out help from a spiritualist to communicate to his girlfriend the danger that she is in.

While You Were Sleeping (1995)
Starring: Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman
What It's About: A lonely young train ticket collector (Bullock) rescues an unconscious commuter (Pullman) from certain death after he falls onto the rails. While visiting him at the hospital, a nurse tells his family that she's his fiancee and she doesn't have the courage to correct them -- will she be able to keep up the charade?

Say Anything (1989)
Run Time: 100 minutes
What It's About: An improbable couple -- the class valedictorian with an overprotective father (Skye) and a well-meaning underachiever (Cusack) -- fall in love after their high school graduation, and have to go against the opinions of their families and friends to be together, in addition to having to make a big decision at summer's end.

Dirty Dancing (1987)
Starring: Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey
What It's About: A privileged doctor's daughter (Grey) falls for a dance instructor (Swayze) while vacationing with her family at a resort in the Catskills. She fills in as his dance partner and they fall in love as he teaches her the routine, a love that is tested by a complicated turn of events and pressures from her family.

Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes
What It's About: A young Shakespeare (Fiennes) is struggling with his latest work and is in search of a muse. A wealthy woman who is about to be married (Paltrow) auditions for his latest play disguised as a man, but he soon sees through it and they wind up caught in a forbidden romance.

Notting Hill (1999)
Starring: Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts
What It's About: A travel bookstore owner in Notting Hill (Grant) falls for an extremely popular American actress (Roberts) when she enters his shop. They eventually become friends, with the possibility of romance on the horizon, until her very public life starts to get in the way.

A Room with a View (1985)
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Maggie Smith, and Julian Sands
What It's About: A young Englishwoman (Carter) travels to Florence, Italy in the early 1900s with her chaperone (Smith). There, she meets a quiet and eccentric man (Sands). Upon her return to England, she must decide whether to follow through with her marriage to her stoic fiance, or follow her heart and her growing attraction for the man she met in Italy.

Return to Me (2000)
Starring: David Duchovny and Minnie Driver
What It's About: A happily married man's (Duchovny) life changes when his wife dies from complications after a car accident. A young woman (Driver) is given a second chance at life with a heart transplant, and helps her grandfather run an Irish-theme restaurant. The two meet at the restaurant and fall in love, but complications ensue when the woman learns her heart transplant came from his wife.

Out of Africa (1985)
Starring: Meryl Streep and Robert Redford
What It's About: A Danish woman (Streep) marries a friend for the title of Baroness and moves with him to an English colony in Africa to start a coffee plantation. There, her husband becomes unfaithful and she becomes taken with a big-game hunter (Redford) who doesn't want to settle down.

The Sound of Music (1965)
Starring: Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer
What It's About: In 1930's Austria, a young woman (Andrews) leaves her convent to care for the seven mischievous children of a retired naval captain (Plummer). The two eventually find themselves falling in love, even though he is engaged and she is still a postulant.

Emma (1996)
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, James Cosmo, and Greta Scacchi
What It's About: A young woman (Paltrow) in rural 19th century England plays her town's matchmaker in an adaption of Jane Austen's classic novel. Her rather unsuccessful attempts at matchmaking on her unsuspecting friends lead to complications, especially as she finally realizes the person she truly loves.

Bull Durham (1988
Starring: Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, and Tim Robbins
What It's About: An aging minor-league baseball player (Costner) is brought to the Class A Durham Bulls to mature the team'spitcher, a wild rookie (Robbins). The team groupie (Sarandon) romances them both, creating a comic love triangle. 

Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
Starring: Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson
Run Time: 94 minutes
What It's About: A nerdy high schooler (Dempsey) makes a pricey deal with one of the popular girls (Peterson) to be his girlfriend for a month and help him get noticed by the cool crowd. As the month passes, she slowly starts to fall for him, but he is so consumed with his newfound popularity that he doesn't notice.

Somewhere in Time (1980)
Starring: Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour
What It's About: A young writer (Reeve) uses self-hypnosis to will himself to 1912 after seeing a photograph of a beautiful young woman (Seymour) and deciding he must meet her.

French Kiss (1995)
Starring: Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline

What It's About: Fear of flying keeps a young woman (Ryan) from following her fiance to Paris for a medical convention. While there, he becomes smitten with a French woman and calls off their wedding, so she boards a plane to get him back. A petty French thief (Kline), who sits next to her en route, hides a few things in her bag to get it through customs. An interesting turn of events finds the two traveling together to Cannes -- each with a different motive -- which changes the course of both of their lives.

Monday, February 13, 2012

Ideas for Valentine Day for kids

Children love to celebrate Valentine’s Day with their friends. This is the day of the
year that they can show their friends how much they mean to them. One of the  best crafts that your children can do is to make homemade Valentine’s Day cards to hand out at school. There is no need to spend money on the boring store bought  cards when your children can make cards.

Start out by helping your children to cut out card sized hearts for the cards. The hearts can be cut from red and pink construction paper. The front of the heart can decorated with stickers, glitter and even ribbon to make each homemade Valentine card special. A personal note written on the back and signed by your child finishes the back of the card.

Your children will need a way to carry their homemade Valentine’s Day cards to school. A special Valentine’s Day tote bag will be the best thing to carry cards to school and bring all of their cards back home. Start this simple craft with a paper grocery bag. Attach ribbons to the top of the bag to make handles for the Valentine’s Day tote bag. The tote bag it self can be decorated with cut out hearts, markers, ribbons, glitter and stickers.

Your children can make special treat bags to go with each of the Valentine’s cards that they hand out. Start by choosing either chocolate candies or conversation hearts to fill the treat bags. You can get pink and red color tulle from your local craft store that can be cut into squares to make the treat bags. Place the square of tulle on the table. In the center of the square, you can help your children to place a small pile of candy. Finish off the treat bags by pulling up the sides and tying them together with ribbon.

Create homemade chocolate candies for friends. The school may not let you bring these treats because they are homemade but your child can take them to a Valentine’s Day party at a friend’s house or a church gathering. Many stores offer kits that include the candy molds and instructions for melting the chocolate. Another idea is to create chocolate spoons. They can be used as stirrers in hot chocolate since February is technically still the winter season.

Many children like to give Valentine’s Day gifts to their teachers. There are a few gifts that your children can make for the many teachers that they have. The first gift idea is to give the teacher her own special candy stash. This usually works best with small chocolate candies but can be done with any type. Start with a clean dry mayonnaise jar with the label removed. Fill the jar with the candy that you have chosen to use. Cover the lid with a square piece of fabric in colors that remind syou of Valentine’s Day. Tie the cloth onto the lid with a ribbon. You can help your children to print up labels for the jar saving a special message for the teacher.

The second gift that you can help your children make for their teachers is cookie bouquets. Start by helping your children to bake heart shaped sugar cookies. Before you bake the cookies you will want to place a wooden dowel into them to make the stem for the heart flowers. Ice the cookies with red and pink icing and allow the icing to set. Place a piece of floral foam in the bottom of a container to set your flower cookies in. Arrange your heart cookie flowers to finish this gift with your children.

A final gift option for your children to give their teacher is a Valentine’s Day apron. Start out by getting a plain apron from a craft store or cooking store. You will want to make sure that the fabric that you choose for the aprons will take paint. Have your children use paint pens to decorate the Valentine’s Day apron for their teacher. This is a great craft to let your children’s creativity flow.