By the time you read this, I’ll be working on making sure all loose ends are tied up in the crafts gallery so that the next crafty witch or wizard who takes the job of uploading photos of creative and wonderful Harry Potter related hand-crafted items can have an up to date gallery to begin …read more!

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So, I don’t know about everyone else, but I don’t do your typical “Spring Cleaning” and very often I find myself under a mountain of STUFF. You know the show “Hoarders?” How about “Clean Sweep?” Any of those shows where you see a mad collection of stuff that gets cleaned out and organized…that’s me. I …read more!

I started my Christmas crafting last month … and it’s not going well. I did a few bits, and then a friend asked me to make a blanket for her friend who is expecting. So I started that, and then my husband found me a cross-stitch pattern that he wants me to do for him …read more!

With the release of Deathly Hallows looming ever closer I’ve found myself quite torn. I’m so very excited to see the movie; yet, at the same time, I’m horrified by the thought that this is all ending. It’s made for a lot of mixed emotions, and even more reflection.I find myself, this morning, thinking back …read more!

By the time you read this, a couple of weeks will have passed since I wrote it but it seems that the birthday of JKR and Harry Potter is an appropriate time to put some thoughts that have been bouncing around in my mind together. About a week ago, I took a few days vacation …read more!

size=”3″>As I type these lines, I am two hours away from being on holiday for a full week, and I really can’t wait to be off! What’s even more fun is that since my boyfriend (otherwise known as The Muggle) is going to be working, it will just be me, myself and I (and my …read more!

This summer, I returned to beading. All things bead-a-licious. With the opening of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, I felt a certain amount of bittersweet regret. Why? Because, I was supposed to go. I felt a certain teariness as I bid my fellow Feltbeats-ers farewell, and bon voyage, and all that good stuff. And, …read more!

Yes, it’s a real thing. For a crafter on a budget, at least. July rolls around, and with it an internal clock with an alarm set to what I refer to as “panic mode”. Every crafter knows this alarm. It always hits early in July. You’ll wake up one morning, roll over, and then the …read more!

My boyfriend, more commonly known as “The Muggle” among my Potter friends, recently told me that he couldn’t take his two-week holidays at the beginning of August as planned. He chose to work through those weeks instead. Upon hearing this, I was faced with the choice of cancelling my own summer holidays and work like …read more!