Snagged [The Fridge Door Project]
As soon as Toni posted her ref-door challenge last week, I gamely took snapshots of our fridge. Kaka-excite, kasi our fridge door is the only thing in our cavern of a house that isn’t bare. Anyhoo, heto, better late than never, may I present to you: our fridge door.
Hubby and I started collecting fridge magnets since the day we started travelling together. The tales behind these travels, through the eyes of my daughter, can be found Here.
I would have wanted to take home some special (i.e. bigger) “artifacts” from our travels, pero hubby wouldn’t hear any of it. Kalat lang daw sa bahay (nyah!). So, me being the collector freak that I am, I compromised with fridge magnets na lang. Kaysa wala, di ba? So basically, everything that you would see on our fridge are souvenirs from our pasyals here in the US. Whenever we travel now, hubby automatically homes-in on any souvenir shop just to get a magnet. O di ba, well-trained na, hehe? Plus, he has his own “magnet-project” pa! See pic below.
The bottom part of our fridge holds the magnets of (supposedly) all the states we’ve set foot on. This is hubby’s “collection”. Although right now, hindi na updated ito because we couldn’t find any stores nearby that sell these type of magnets (or we just haven’t had the time to look around). So we’re still about 4 states short of being accurate.
One good thing to come out of this project, too, is, since the states are placed at Ninna’s eye-level, it doubles as a geography lesson for her (and for me, too!). Well, yes, kulang pa. I know, I know. There’s a huge gap between IL and NV (and believe me, they’re not as near as they look in real life), and we still need to do a lot more exploring over at the West Coast as well as the smaller states of the Northeast. So then, I think we really need to do more travelling for the sake of the completion of my Ninna’s geography lesson, di ba? *cough cough*
Anyway, I’m happy to know that our fridge door serves a greater purpose than just being a simple, huge, and otherwise boring appliance in the kitchen. It’s our testament to our family’s makating nunal sa paa, as well as our humble efforts to document our footsteps and explorations. Thanks to our ref, we are reminded that there’s a big world out there yet to discover and conquer, including and beyond what’s for dinner tonight, of course.
MrsWorkingGirl :: Apr.17.2006 :: SnaggedTag :: 14 Comments »
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Ang galing! Kareerin niyo ang US map tapos ang next World Map naman!!!!! :) Thanks for joining this mini project. :) It’s so interesting to see how different bloggers’ ref doors look like!
hi toni, naku world map!! gusto ko yan :D ang galing ng mga ideas mo! ang saya tuloy sumali :D thanks! ~m
Meeyah…ref ba yan kala ko whiteboard. Ang galing…very educational ng ref mo. Mahusay na mommy ka talaga :D
hi jeanny, salamat! sana may ganyan din na pilipinas naman ano? mas gusto ko yata matutunan ni ninna yun. kaya lang mas mahirap yata mag-memorize ng 7.100 islands as compared to 50 states, hehe. ano itsura ng ref mo? :D ~m
I like the US collection….punuin niyo pa…galing nga! Malamang maging traveler yung babe niyo :)
hi justice, thanks! don’t worry i vow to complete this project *cross fingers*. and yes, my daughter too, i think, has her own nunal sa paa. i wonder where she gets that from? :D ~m
hi meeya! naku at gawin daw bang excuse ang geography lessons ni ninna, hehehe!
love the states’ magnets! :)
your hubby’s mini project is a good idea! galeng galeng ;)
hi jojo, i know! minsan nahahawa din sa akin si hubby ng kagalingan, oooops. hehe :D ~m
cool magnets, especially allan’s collection! ako rin nagko-collect ng magnets… kaso wala pa akong sariling ref! hahaha. :D
ninang judy, malaki nga ang problema mo, haha! :D ~m
this is nice, reminds me of my own fridge project that i need to get started with na. when that time comes (whenever that is), i’ll post photos too!
went to check out ninna’s blog… ang cute tlaga ng anak mo. :)
hi cynch, o sige hintayin ko ha :D thanks for visiting ninna’s travel blog. e kanino pa ba magmamana kundi sa ina etc etc? :D ~m
I used to have those fridge magnets on the cities that I visited in the US… but have to leave them behind when we migrated… now, I am restarting my collection.
My fridge contains drawings of my kids and their school calendar.
hi jo, mommyng-mommy talaga ang character ng fridge mo. di bale, in a few years malamang ganyan na rin ako. as for your travel magnet collection, there’s nothing better than a clean slate. o paano, canada naman? :D ~m
AMAZING neato collections. I think mine would be collection of shames. Well there’s this free take-outs whenever I buy my ci at 7-11, I get snoopy-clip fridge magnets.
Cute!
hi k, i left a note on your flckr :D ~m
What a great idea for a geography lesson! My girls had those letter magnets all over the ref when they were smaller.
hi jmom, thanks! my ninna naman learned her alphabet using those foam letters (the ones that stick to the sides of the bathtub when wet), which we play with during bathtime. o di ba, multi-tasking: taking a bath na and learning the ABCs pa, hehe :D haay, the things people invent to make their kids smarter… and we moms are suckers naman for ‘em :D ~m
ay kami rin kami rin! since then souvenir magnets from places we visited din ang nicocollect namin! ang saya diba?
pero magandang idea rin yang geography lessons na yan ha.. hmmm… :)
hi elapot, oo nga masaya tignan na unti-unting natatakpan ang malaking pinto ng ref, hehe. :D alam mo, ang laking tuong sa akin ng magnets na yan para maalala yung US geography ko. as in nire-research ko pa sa map yung exact pwesto, including distances ng mga states (in driving time) sa isa’t-isa. kaaliw, hehe. ~m
i like the map fridge magnets. i think it’s pretty cool. i hope you get to complete it.
thanks, evi. i hope so, too! :) ~m
Hi Meeya,
Ang cute ng mga collections mo and well-arranged. And the maps, wow, first time ko makakita ng magnet na ganyan..really cool! Thanks for sharing with us..
Cheers!