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After completing several embroidery courses on Domestika.org, I decided to use some of the stitches learned to design a work of my own. I have loved Tolkien’s world for years and after seeing some amazing interpretations of hobbit holes I decided to attempt one myself. I envisioned a foliage rich, super textured piece, almost completely …
When in doubt, you do like Hermione does, and you go to the Library! I’m pretty biased towards libraries, but then I think everyone else should be too. How many times did Hermione save the boys’ posteriors by finding exactly the piece of information they needed in a book? Many, Many times!! That’s how many! …
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 Dragon egg I originally made this dragon egg for my Harry Potter party but decided to re-purpose it for my niece.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 …
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 …
Harry Potter lives in my blood, as surely as Lily Potter’s protection from Lord Voldemort lives in Harry’s. (That’s right, that’s the level of geek you’re about to wade into…. PREPARE THYSELF!!) From the first paragraph I read in the dim, dark past of college I have loved this world. J.K. Rowling is my favorite …