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5 Fandom Friday: My Comfort Films

Welcome to another round of "5 Fandom Friday," a writer's-block-busting initiative to build community among geeky female bloggers, spearheaded by The Nerdy Girlie and SuperSpaceChick.

"The basic idea of 5 Fandom Fridays is to write a weekly Friday blog post in the form of a top 5 list based on a predetermined topic. It'll give your readers a deeper insight into your fandoms and your blogging personality. It's a great way to avoid bloggers block and sleep well knowing that you have at least 4-5 planned posts for the month."

I'm a day late, but on target for this week's topic: Comfort Films. Going off Nerdy Girlie's post, "Comfort Films" are movies you keep going back to, over and over. And wouldn't you know it - I taught a layout on this topic, back when I was teaching Book of Me scrapbooking classes. I called it, "Everyday Movies," as in, what movies could you watch every day and never get tired of them?

Here's my layout.

The page featured a cool scrapbooking product that is now no longer available, a Paper Adventures' PageFlipper. It was like a page protector-pocket-flap that you adhered on top of the page protector, to give you extra room for photos or journaling. I used it for extra journaling in this case.

My Everyday/Comfort Movies:

• Top Gun
• The Princess Bride
• Pretty Woman
• LA Story
• Far and Away
• The Fifth Element

I did this layout probably around 2002-2003, so I have some addendums.

• That was before I discovered "Firefly," so I think I would add "Serenity." I never tire of quoting it.
• "The Muppet Christmas Carol" - I gave it to David for Christmas in 1993 (on VHS!). I think I didn't include it because we only watch it seasonally, but we watch it every year with the kids after Christmas dinner. A classic. I quote that one a lot, too, year-round.

I'm probably forgetting others, but these are a good representation. What flicks would be on your everyday list? Leave me a comment below with your list!

Other 5 Fandom Friday posts:

• Funko Figures
• Character Names
• Presents I Want Santa to Bring to Me
• Geeky Clothing

Repost: Cookie Sheet Advent Calendar

It seems like a good time to post a link to one of my more popular posts: Cookie Sheet Advent Calendar.

A shot of the Advent Calendar with all the numbers magneted on.  Click the image for a closer view.

A shot of the Advent Calendar with the magneted numbers removed - behind each number is a small printed photo from past Christmas celebrations.  Just like above, click the image for a closer view.

Feel free to share links to your advent calendar examples in the comments below!

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Blogging for Scrapbookers: Scrapbook Someday

Prompt #12 of Shimelle's Blogging for Scrapbookers class suggests we create a new blog post category called something like "I will scrapbook this".  Because I like alliteration, I came up with (and created) a category for "Scrapbook Someday".  As in, "someday I will find/make the time to scrapbook, and when that day comes, I will scrapbook about this topic".

I had actually recently started a list for just this purpose - with real pen and paper, no less.  But I do like Shimelle's idea of blogging the list and/or individual topics, too.

Creating a list of layout topics really helps me be more productive at crops - not only is there less thinking involved at layout-creation time, but I can also track my way through an album-project, and make sure I don't leave anything out.  Plus I also like the satisfaction of crossing out or checking off (depending on my mood on any given day).

Shimelle's prompt actually encouraged using individual blog posts as a sort of 'placeholder' for the elements of an actual scrapbook page, when one doesn't have the time to actually scrap.  But I thought I'd use this post as a sort of 'brain dump' of pages and projects that are on my mind, and that I'd like to Scrapbook Someday.  As time goes along, I may create posts for individual projects (see my previous post, Cultural Education for Kids, for example), but the list idea is working for me today.

To Scrapbook Someday

1. continue with pages in my son's Boy Scout/Eagle album:
2. • Uniform Inspection 2002
   • Cub Scout Den 2003
   • Pinewood Derby 2003
   • Raingutter Regatta 2003
   • Pinewood Derby 2004
   • Troop picture 2005
   • Bartle 2005
   • Bartle 2006
   • Bartle 2007
   • Bartle 2008
   • Philmont 2008 (token layout, to mark its place in his scouting 'historical timeline')
   • Bartle 2009
   • Eagle Ceremony 2010 (fingers crossed!)
3. Philmont 'speed-scrap' pocket page album
4. Philmont digi photobook
5. Vegas trip 2008 (or was it 2007?  obviously the memories are fading already!)
6. Digi-scrapped Memory game for my niece
7. Colorado vacation photobook
8. school art project "portfolio" photobook
9. "A Love So True" grandparents tribute album
10. "Introducing the Classics"/Cultural Literacy album
11. First Day of School album
12. Charity crochet/knitting projects layout
13. Star Trek movie premiere, opening night May 2009
14. Mother-Daughter pedicures
15. High School Debate layout(s) - I'd love for this to be a full album, showing the chronology like the Boy Scout album, but don't think that many pictures will find their way to me.
16. "Fell" - pictures showing all the autumn leaves on the ground in our back yard

That should keep me busy for a while!  :)

Do you have any scrapbooking/memory-preservation goals or plans? Feel free to link to a similar list on your own blog in the comments!