Get the Look Vol. 22 Harry Potter version

 

As a big Harry Potter fan this blogpost is really late but I never realized we have so many Harry Potter style pieces in our shop! This scene from the first movie in the resctricted area of the Library at Hogwarts shows Harry with a lantern. I wonder if other HP fans purchased some of our lanterns as we sold quite a few.

(©2008 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. - Harry Potter Publishing Rights © J.K.R)

See? Our vintage brass lanterns fit right in! We still have a few left and some gas lamps and such as well, perfect for the magical world that has no electricity. Sadly the one in the movie breaks as Harry gets caught and drops it :)

This Trunk was from the fourth movie where the real professor Moody was locked up.

We have a similar looking trunk and it is actually big enough to fit someone in lol :)

Professor Snape's class room and potions storage room is full of bottles and glassware of which we have a few ourselves. Like this instant collection of pharmacy bottles.

And these spirit burners and old pharmacy tools also fit right in.

The beautiful pale green glassware pieces are just like vintage bottles and pharmacy glassware which we also have in the shop.

See our vintage bottles here.

Trunks are always a classic in Harry Potter, no modern suitcases in sight. We have a few beautiful vintage trunks and chests in the shop.

And beside bottles, cauldrons and fire there is no potion making without a good pestle and mortar to grind some tough ingredients.

Do you think our pieces would work well in a HP movie? And are you a fan too?

(©2008 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. - Harry Potter Publishing Rights © J.K.R)

Birds Bring Spring

A fun little experiment gave some lovely results. Yesterday I burned some copper scrap wire to remove a plastic protection layer and give it a rustic vibe. They have these funny wiggly shapes as they were tests from our course from 2 years ago where we had to exercise making sharp hooks :)
After that the entire mass got cleaned in the tumbler.

After a few hours of figuring out these adorable earrings were the result.

The flowers and leaves are very fine mother of pearl. The eggs are pearls and finally vintage plastic birdies.These pretties are available at StaroftheEast.

They are one of a kind and I can't get over how cute they are :)

Funny enough I had this book right near me when I made it but I did not realize how much they matched before mum pointed it out. I did not look at it so it is just a fun coincident.
As a Potter fan I had to have it of course :)

Hogwarts Library - Book Review and other Magic

As a big Harry Potter fan I treated myself for Christmas with the Hogwarts Library book set, which contains three books:
Fantastic Beasts & where to find them
Quidditch through the ages
The Tales of Beedle the Bard

All 3 books are mentioned in the Harry Potter books which makes it extra fun, however these books are not Harry Potter related but more extra details of the Magical world for us Muggles to enjoy :)

The books have some fun details, to my surprise I enjoyed Quidditch through the ages most, it explained in so much lovely details how Quidditch started and evolved.
I bought the set on Amazon, and highly recommend it, also a lot of the profits go to charity of these books. P.s. did you know that J.K. Rowling is the first Billionaire who lost that title because of the huge amount she donates to Charity? Something more to admire her beside her amazing penmanship!

During Christmas we sold out our lovely Feather Wingardium Leviosa inspired bookmarks, but they are back in stock and even more fun now.

Now you can choose the color of the house you belong in, if you are not sure if you are a Griffindor, Ravenclaw, Slytherin or Hufflepuff, you can do this quiz to see in which house you fit in best :) (I came out as a Ravenclaw).

While magic is still in the air we made this magical dragon necklace, we bought two of these dragons in Spain a while back and they have been waiting to be made ever since. While I was reading Fantastic Beasts & where to find them I remembered them again and now finally it turned in a magical necklace, I think Daenerys Targaryen would approve too :)

It is a limited edition of 2 and available in our StaroftheEast shop.