Entertaining Madness

Harry Potter Crafts

I like many of you went this past weekend to watch the final instalment of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2.  I loved it and me being a very sensitive person cried like a baby.   Of course I don't want my Harry Potter madness to end yet so I've looked around the web and found a lot of fun crafts that people have made.  Thought I would share some with the rest of you. 

A Great walk through for a Harry Potter stencil

Super cute Hermione hat from the first part of Deathly Hallows.  I cant' wait until I know how to knit enough to make this one. 

Make your own wand from paper and hot glue.

Tons of paper craft Death Eater masks. Print, cut, glue, easy.

Never read a book without a house elf sock. Here's a knit bookmark just for that occasion.

Make your own secret box from Tales of Beadle The Bard

Your very own Monster Book of Monsters except less bitey

Here's a Harry Potter candy box with links to the candy recipes too.

A really great Time Turner out of simple items

A fair isle Gryffindor knit bag

Knit hat inspired by Ginny's Goblet of Fire hat.

That should keep you quite busy with a lot of Harry Potter goodness.  I can't wait until I have time to make some of these things myself and I have a Harry Potter project of my own that I'm planning later.  Why must all of my ideas be big things that take forever?  Oh well. 

Happy Harry Potter days all!

Crafts and Inspiration

Well I had a lovely 5 day weekend over the 4th of July holiday.  I decided to get some crafty things done because I had found so many tutorials that needed to be tried.  I have also found some wonderful inspiration for other things too.

First project was this little knitted winter headband.  It's perfect for those days that you don't want to mess up your hair but need to keep your ears warm.  Found it by way of this lovely tutorial at CraftSnob.

  It was a perfect project for a beginner like me.

 

Next up was a desk organizer.  I had been at the store a day earlier and passed the color duct tape and thought, oohh what can I do with those?  Lucky for me I found a wonderful tutorial on how to make a duct tape flower and turned it into making a whole desk organizer.  I only used duct tape and foam board.  It took some time to make because there is a lot of measuring and getting things taped correctly but I'm really happy with how it turned out.  The lovely how to is here at How Joyful.

 

The pretty silver flower.

 

Last project was a reverse tie dye t-shirt using bleach instead of dye.  You can find instructions here at the very creative Honestly WTF

One of the days was spent antiquing with my mother and I found a few little things.  I don't have enough money to afford most of the things I see that I love.  I already know what I'm doing with the bottles, especially the pretty purple tinted one.  Not sure about the buttons yet and the cameo is a pin so that can be worn many ways.

I'll leave you with a few of my inspiration finds.  Not going to say what I'm inspired to do because you might think of something wonderful yourself.

Sunbeam, purple flowers and sleeve pictures taken by me.

Flower chandelier and bookmarks found Here

Wall photos found Here