How I made quick and easy Harry Potter inspired winged keys

Whilst on my travels in the Pinterest universe, I stumbled across a rather beautifully made winged key that was being sold on Etsy.  It's truly beautiful and  I loved the detail of the key and could see why it was on Etsy.   

Unfortunately, for the number of keys I wanted for my tree, I couldn't justify buying a bulk batch from Etsy, so I made my own

Top 5 Homemade / Charity World Book Day Costumes

Over the years we have made many costumes for World Book Day, Comicon and parties.  Here are five of my favourite homemade outfits, some on a budget and some from charity shop finds.

Dressing as Finnick from Hunger Games for World Book Day

This year is the last year my son will be dressing for World Book Day at school.  He is now in year 6, the final year, of his Primary School and many of his peers have already stopped dressing up or opting for spy costumes.

My son wanted to go as Finnick from Hunger Games, a challenge in a completely different way to his megamonster costume.

Gang Beast Collectable toys and plushies

Sinco Creations have a host of Gang Beast collectables to suit a variety of budgets, from key rings to plushies to collectable figures and these have become a firm favourite in our house.

Buying Pokemon Elite Trainer Boxes

Who knew that buying Pokemon ETBs (Elite Trainer Boxes), would be so stressful!  For any parent/carer of a child who is heavily into collecting Pokeman Cards, they will know trying to purchase the latest season's trainer box is a sport all in itself! 

How I created my MARVELous spiderman wreath

Following on from my rather spectacular Dr Who Wreath (I know how that sounds, and I'm not one for blowing my own trumpet usually, but I do love it so).  I thought I'd make use of the spare polystyrene wreath and make a Spiderman one too.

This was a lovely easy wreath to make, although I'm not entirely sure if the Spiderman fabric worked.  I don't know if it's because I'd been working on it all day, or if this is one of those cases where the fabric doesn't quite work.

Have you seen the new Harry Potter Magical Capsules?

These rather fantastic collectable Harry Potter "Blind Bags" are now available to buy from Kaptoys.com, major toy shops and Tesco for £9.99 and we need to collect them all!

#Gifted

How I Decorated My Steampunk Hat

I love the Steampunk fashion and have longed to make my own Steampunk themed top hat.  I've kept an eye out in charity shops and car boots, but top hats are not something so easily found.

In the end, I bought one on eBay.  I didn't want anything expensive in case I messed up the design also, as this is just for fun, to purchase an expensive top hat is a bit excessive!

Why I love these Harry Potter products

Many of us are aware of a high street chain that sells Harry Potter fandom gifts and homewares, but did you know there is a rather amazing website that sells these products and much more?

How I made The Sorting Hat

When you purchase an old witch's hat from a car boot sale, there really is only one thing to recycle it into!

Marvel's Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N. at Excel in London

With the much-awaited End Game hitting the cinema, we thought we'd take a trip to London's Excel for a Marvel experience to heighten the anticipation.

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Dressmaking course to TARDIS dress in 6 months

At the end of 2017, I made the decision to take a dressmaking course!  It's something I've wanted to do for a while but I've always found an excuse not to do it, and in the meantime, continued to battle with my sewing machine!

Why I made a Star Wars Wreath

At the end of last year I made a Dr Who Christmas Wreath, which I loved, and so did my bestie!

Super cute Kawaii Box Unboxing

It will come as no surprise to my lovely regular readers that I LOVE a subscription box, and one of my favourites is cute... Kawaii Box.

Surprise Squishy Box!

It would appear that Squishies have become rather popular!  I'm seeing them everywhere and even being advertised on TV, so is it any wonder that the wonderful owners of Blippo have created a website dedicated to Squishies?

I have been fortunate enough to be given a sample of the squishies that you can purchase from SquishyKiosk.com and by far my favourite is the big pink Bear!  [I'm thinking Blippo know me too well.....].  My son loves the yellow poop and has the ice cream hanging on his noticeboard.

How to make a quick and easy Dr Who Christmas Wreath

After making Halloween wreaths last year and thoroughly enjoying myself, I decided to make a Christmas wreath this year, and you just know it's not going to have standard Chrismas decorations on it!

London Film & Comic Convention Summer 2017

July 2017 saw us revisit London's Film & Comic Convention.  We haven't been to the summer event for 3 years!  The last time the 4 of us went to LFCC was to see Stan Lee, so what could top that.....?

Let me just start by saying as a huge Marvel fan, visiting LFCC when Stan Lee was there was an amazing and memorable day and the first time we took our son, who would have been 2!

This year I watched the lineup as I do every year, and it just happens that the last 2 years I've not got my butt into gear to get tickets to go.   Then I see Mark Sheppard is going to be there......interested!  As a HUGE Supernatural fan - (those boys got me through some horrid times back in 2008/2009 and will forever be a fan) getting 'Crowley's' autograph would be pretty cool......

But, those who know me know my all-time number 1 favourite movie is Stand by Me. It holds so many dear memories for me, of when I was 15 going to the cinema with my friends to watch this coming-of-age movie and developing the biggest crush on River Phoenix.

When it was announced that Wil Wheaton was also going to be at LFCC - this was happening.  We were going this year.  My fondness for Wil stems back 30 years!  I couldn't be 90 minutes away and not see him, to speak to him and to get his autograph!

So that's what I did.

Standing in line, waiting for him to return.  Chatting with one of my besties (who'd just been over to see Kevin Smith ..... having seen Jay 3 years earlier)...I came over all emotional!  I thought back to being a kid, to being a teenager and having fun with my friends!  From crushing on River to Halloween..... to following Wil through the Star Trek years to suddenly being an adult with a child, and my teenage years a dusty memory in the back of my mind.

I may have choked

I may have been rather nervous!

I needn't have been!  Wil was lovely.  Softly spoken and kind was very interested in my film montage that I asked him to sign and give me a warm big smile as I left.   Still may cry!

So you see as much as I admire Stan Lee and that was one of the best Comicons I've been to, this year's was the best!

For that, I'm grateful.

It's going to have to be something pretty bloody epic to top that!

Blippo Surprise Bag Review

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I do love Blippo!  I love the Kawaii products that are produced in their Kawaii subscription boxes, the delicious candy from the Japan candy box subscriptions and now, the fabulous surprise bag!

This bag can be purchased from Blippo as a one-off, it's not a subscription, it's a mystery bag of goodies for only £13.22, and considering how many items I got in my bag, I think this is a bargain!  You can see how much I love everything from my vlog below.


If you watched the above video you'll notice I can't count and there was in fact 16 items (including the bag) how fantastic is that!!!  Also, as promised below are the items that were in my bag ... and on my head!

Purses and accessories, no less than 3 purses and a card holder!

Bag accessories, luggage tag, comb & mirror and an animal spray bottle

Plush, key ring, mobile phone charm and jewels

Fashion Accessories - Glasses, Fan, Hair Grips and Bracelet

So as you can see from above, there is a lot of Kawaii products for your £13.22.  But, what's even more exciting guys, is I've teamed up with Blippo to offer a surprise bag to one of my readers!  How lovely is that!!

All you need to do is complete the competition widget below to be in with a chance of winning a rather Kawaii bag for summer.

Craft: How I made my Harry Potter potions

Anyone who is on my Facebook or Twitter account would have seen over the past week I have spammed both with my potion bottles - I'm not sorry, I love them and still have empty bottles at home......

Harry Potter Potion Bottles

The bottles come from various car boot sales averaging around 50p each.  The love potion is actually a perfume bottle (and my favourite).

I bought some Florabase Natural Raffia from Hobbycraft which cost me £2.59 and used it to decorate the necks of the bottles

The labels are from Overthebigmoon.com

The "potion" itself is just water with food colouring in (so much fun with these)!

And that's it!

Several sizes later and I have my potion bottles ready for Halloween - and I think they can just live in the kitchen after that :)