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The Quiet Book of Fierce Majesty doth continue to grow slowly! After finishing the cover and the Gringott’s counting page I decided to go ahead and get one of the easiest pages done and out of the way. To promote manual dexterity, and all that, I decided to make a Chess board page harkening back …
I can’t say exactly when I first started being pulled towards hand embroidery. I remember pinning several “geeky” themed embroideries on Pinterest like this Harry Potter Themed hoop by pinkleo on Craftster. For a long time though I pretty much dismissed hand embroidery as impractical, purely decorative, and non-functional. I mean, I have limited crafting …
I am starting to think that the “crafting bug” one hears talk of, where you get an idea and have the urge to create something, is more like a particularly virulent virus for me. I don’t know what it is but when an idea floats through the air of my psyche and happens to fall …
Well I think my work indoctrinating my niece with my love for Harry Potter is done … my niece and my sister read through the first Harry Potter book that I got for her last Christmas, accompanied by a ridiculous number of small themed presents. Not long after they finished I was talking to my …
The rest of the crafting details… Snitches The snitches are Lindor chocolate and caramel truffles and I used this printable for the wings…. Dragon egg I originally made this dragon egg for my Harry Potter party but decided to re-purpose it for my niece. I purchased a paper mache egg at a craft store and …
In these 2 blog posts I’ll go into a little bit of detail about each item I constructed for my niece’s Splendiferous Harry Potter Christmas Present. So without further ado… Trunk I found this decorative trunk at a crafting/ decor store and decided to add a lining. I used 4-5 square sheets of scrapbooking paper …
Welcome witches, wizards, house elves and goblins! to this, my first ever attempt at a video blog! Congratulations, you are about to watch me be awkward and ridiculous 🙂 My niece’s Christmas present is now done and I wanted to take you on a quick tour through its various parts so that you can shake your …
In grand and impressive fashion, the universe has conspired to pepper the fortnight before and after my birthday with a veritable plethora of merriment…. much of it bearing a decidedly Harry-Potter flavor 🙂 Prepare thyself for oodles of exclamation points and let the festivities begin! Stardate 10/3/2017: The Illustrated edition of Harry Potter and …
But it didn’t stop there! There were house elves and the Gryffindor Tower, and school trunks and magic bathrooms, Oh My!
Many years ago I didst undertake a massive crafting project. My fellow zookeeper friends and I had a series of movie nights to watch the Harry Potter films once they were on DVD. We rotated around to different people’s houses and it was decided that when we got to the last available movie (Harry Potter …