Never Leave Home without your Companion Cube!

Now, I know that last blog I promised a flashy new blog all on how to make your own hogwarts robes.... but lets face it I lied....

Not entirely though, I do have the robes sitting here in front of me, however after trying them on again they need a bit of tweaking, and I somehow managed to sew the clasp on WAY to high and now it crushes my windpipe when I close it. So this has to be fixed up, and soon, because its nothing but the best for my readers! See how much I love you? No shoddy photos or half attempted projects here!

Now for the last few days I have been sick with some virus flu type monstrosity... which had my sneezing and coughing and running a temperature, and totally NOT feeling up to sewing minute details onto silk, or using too much effort on anything at all, so I decided to keep myself busy while I was in bed, I would make a Portal themed project!

Introducing the Companion Cube from Portal.... in a handy take it anywhere you freaking feel like it size!

This Image here (with the hand) Is what I have made. The Image on the right is my reference which I got from HERE! It was fairly simply to make, required very little materials, and looks pretty darn awesome if I do say so myself!


So I started off with some of those needlepoint squares, the plastic ones.  As you can see in the next photo (also using my hand as a size reference for you all!) I'm not sure of what the proper name for these little babies are so If you know please comment on it for the other viewers! Then I had some pink yarn, light gray yarn, and dark gray yarn, and a black texter. Following the reference I marked out the pattern for each color, on 6 different squares, and started sewing until my heart was content. I used a large yarn needle that I had to pull through the holes, but don't worry these plastic thingies have plenty of give. It doesn't matter how the back of each square looks, it can be messy it can be neat, as long as you tie off your loose ends when you have finished using a color. I left some long tails of the light and dark gray yarn to stitch up the edges so it wouldn't look so lumpy. And be careful how tight you pull your yarn, even though the plastic has some give it can still break and this would be bad!
 Leave one of the edges open when you are stitching up your sides to finish, and you can put anything you like inside it. I just used some craft stuffing, but you can put anything inside it to make it weighted.

ENJOY!!! and believe me the Hogwarts Robe Tutorial is coming soon. I do apologize once again for delaying it, but as I said I was sick and didn't feel like fixing any of my problems just then.

Don't forget to watch my Deviant Art Page, everything that goes up here also goes up there so it would be a good way to keep track of my entrees!

Coolio Free Font!

I finally found an awesome font for my invitations. (CLICK HERE FOR FREE FONT) You can even preview what you want to say and how it will look in the font!

I was busy trying to make out my invitations for the big night.... but none of the normal fonts really seemed to be "magical" enough, so I went searching on google for something that would peak my interest. Here I was thinking that I was going to have to hand write the whole thing a whole bunch of times, but nooooo! In a weird twist of fate I found this website, and ,while it wouldn't allow me to type my entire life story at once, it did allow me to create my invitations with a more professional look to them. No I wont be putting up pictures of the invitations until after they have gone out, because I know pretty much all of my invited guests are on facebook and that some of them will read my blog. I do want some things to be a surprise, like the invites and the menu.

But still, I'm getting all my pictures ready for my big DIY Hogwarts robe, making sure that I can find the video, and that it still fits right.

I'm going to have to watch the video again however, there are a few things that I have done to my "cloak" to make it look a little more fancier than the one on the video and I'm gonna have to tell you what I did!

Le Hufflepuff Bags!

So once again I present to you the Hufflepuff Bag Set (free pattern by clicking here)! I'm still working on the scarves but they will be up soon.

Now you may notice that this set of bags differs a bit from the others, this is because I used two different types of yarn. The black yarn is just a normal 12 ply where the yellow is the very soft baby type yarn used to make blankets or baby clothing....
This made it difficult to do the fringe at the bottom, as every time I tried to pull a bit of yellow yarn through I ended up pulling the fluff off of it and was left with a few threads, so the fringe for the hufflepuff bag is a solid color, and the fringe on the scarves will be the same.  Lately I have also been looking around for some decoration ideas. I have found quite a few! There's the Hogwarts Crest that I have put on the top of my invitational letters, and used GIMP2 to turn it a nice green color to match the ink in the movies. There's the Potion Bottle Labels that I plan on using for my lollies and drink bottles, which will be easily done. I plan on getting a few of the glass water bottles from a cheapy shop and placing a label on it for drinks, and getting a few of the glass jars for the lollies.
There are the Butter beer labels which you can print off for free, and I will also be putting those on some of the water bottles, but I plan on getting some glass beer mugs and placing a label on each one of those as well, as a party favor for my guests.


I do also have my slytherin cloak finished entirely now, but as I am home by myself at the moment and would need someone to model it for me.... well it will just have to wait until some one else gets home, because I highly doubt that any one wants to see it on my puppy! There will be an awesome step by step video for the next blog so stay tuned!