Next month is September, which means one thing: time to celebrate the plane crash date of Flight 815!

Oh, what?
Sept 22 is on a Tuesday!?! Damnit!
Bleh… okay fine, we’ll have it on Sept 19 since it’s the Saturday before the 22nd -_- *mutter mutter mutter*

Anyway, I’m planning a LOST party and I wanted to share my resources and finds with everyone!

Why a LOST party? Well, especially since it’s LOST’s last season in 2010, I’m taking extensive measures to fully take on the LOST experience to the max! I love the show, how it’s educated me on a lot of topics, and how it’s the first tv show to make me THINK on a completely new level.

Last year, Brent and I went on an all-out LOST tour on Oahu, driving around to the various spots where they’ve filmed the show. This year, we’re hosting an all-out LOST-themed party!

Also, I think it’ll be nice to celebrate LOST while we’re patiently waiting for its return in 2010. Gotta keep ourselves busy and entertained!

What have I found already for planning a LOST party? I did some thorough research for websites that give some tips for fellow LOSTies and, man, they’ve come up with some really GREAT ideas!

• Neatorama’s “15 details to help you throw a Lost party”
• Fun-Theme-Party-Ideas.com’s LOST Party ideas
• Jon Griffith’s “How to Throw a LOST TV Show Theme Party”
• Squidoo’s “Hosting a LOST/DHARMA Party”

I’m LOVING this party idea (if even just for myself to celebrate on my own!) because it’s proving to be a combination of things I love: creativity, LOST, arts and crafts, food, and event planning!

The Boarding Pass Invites

JonGriffith.com put together some pretty fantastic faux Boarding Passes that I’ll be using as the party invites! Just fill out the form to request a copy of the boarding pass file, and you’ll get it soon enough! I received mine within a few minutes.

NOTE: Editing his files requires a .png file editor (i.e. Fireworks). Griffith doesn’t have instructions yet for folks that don’t know how to edit the file. Here’s what I did! (No idea if this is most effective, but it worked for me!)

How to Edit Jon Griffith’s .png Boarding Pass File:

1. Download and install the 30-day trial version of Fireworks CS4 here: http://www.adobe.com/go/tryfireworks
2. Open the extracted “Custom Boarding Pass.png” file from Griffith’s .zip, provided in his email response. FILE > OPEN > wherever you extracted the .png file.
3. Click once on the text that says “THIS BOARDING PASS WAS DESIGNED WITH…” Press “Delete” on your keyboard.Yay! White text should now be gone!
4. Click once on the dark shaded box that remains. Press “Delete” on your keyboard.Yay! Now we can see the actual boarding pass!
5. In Fireworks’ tools menu, click on the “Type Tool” icon. Looks something like this: Then double-click on the “LASTNAME/FIRST” portion of the boarding pass. You should be able to type and edit those words to enter your own name.
6. Do the same for the second instance of “LAST/FIRST” on the right side of the boarding pass.
7. Feel free to edit whatever else in the same fashion!
8. When you’re done, you can save the file as a .png again. If you’re more familiar with Photoshop, you can also save the file as a .psd file to edit later too. Just some options~!

Two small details to note when editing the boarding pass (that I cared about, at least!):

• The boarding pass doesn’t list the flight date as September 22, and the flight time should be 2:15PM–thaaannkkk yoouu Lostpedia for that info! (Though, a screencap of Claire’s ticket lists the flight as departing at 2:55PM. Hmmmm!)
• Also, the “Date of Issue” should be a date before September 22, 2004. It’s currently noted as “26JAN06.”

Also another thing to note: the Oceanic Airlines boarding pass is a different style. Here’s what Claire’s looked like:

Next part of the invites, I’ll be attempting are the boarding pass ticket jackets! Will keep y’all updated about how I’ll try to make these! O_o