Harry Potter Wand Bookmarks Framed Set

A few months back I made these colourful iron bead wizarding wand bookmarks. These were for the characters of Harry, Ron and Hermione, Dumbledore, Voldemort and Bellatrix, and Neville, Luna and Fleur. As I already have quite a few bookmarks I found I wasn't really using these and they were just left in a sad little pile on my desk. I wanted to do something fun with these and thought they would look cute displayed somehow and this is what I can up with.

I had this old picture frame that I think used to be gold, but it was not looking great, so I gave it new life with a few coats of white paint. After that was done and sealed I gave it a white backing board, as I wanted a nice clean looking frame for these colourful wands, and added the wands. I originally thought to add names under the wands, but once I had the wands placed I decided to leave the names off as it might have looked too cluttered.

This is the finished look hanging on the wall, which I am very pleased with. It's a nice and simple alternative to having a set of real full sized wizarding wands hanging on your wall, especially if you don't have the space, or funds, for that. I have patterns for each wand available if your interested in making a set of your own, either to display as I have, to use as bookmarks, or for any other purpose you desire. Click to find patterns for Harry, Ron and Hermione, Dumbledore, Voldemort and Bellatrix, and Neville, Luna and Fleur

Pocket Witch Dolls

Just a quick little something, Halloween inspired, are these pocket sized witch dolls or totems. These little witches are very small, the standing witch measuring 7cm tall and the witch on broom is 5cm tall. This miniature size made these quick to hand-sew but very very tricky when it came to turning the sewn fabric inside-out, or right-side-out. Stuffing these was also quite fiddly.

For these pocket witch dolls I decided to use a floral pattern, keeping the witches more abstract in design. As it is technically Spring here in Australia where I live, I liked the idea of softer colours for these little dolls as opposed to the traditional witchy colours of orange, green, purple or black. The actual design or pattern for these comes straight from a couple of witch cookie cutters I own, only I shrank the image to making these smaller then the original size.

Mini Hanky Pouches

These sweet little pouches were actually made from a paper printable. I have printed onto fabric a couple of times before with some success, seen HERE and HERE. So I decided to print these very pretty vintage inspired hanky designs onto fabric also. This was done by taping the fabric to a piece of paper before putting it through the printer in order to give the fabric more stability. Unfortunately there was one hanky design that misprinted along the top edge. So when sewing these pouches together by hand, as I do with everything I sew, I instead decided to use velcro to complete that pouch.

For the other two pouches I used a waxed cord to make the drawstrings. These pouches are only small, with the two drawstring pouches measuring about 12cm by 12cm, and the velcro pouch measuring about 12cm by 10cm. Originally these paper hankies were designed to be letter writing sheets for guest to leave messages on, then they could be hung up, bunting style, as decoration for that celebration as an alternative to a guestbook. However I'm sure there are many creative ways this Freebie can be used. Download from the Eat Drink Chic blog HERE FREE.

Faery Rag Doll #7

It's been a about a year since I made one of my faery rag dolls, but I recently had the desire to make another and so I did. This new beautiful redhead faery doll has found a home next to my brunette faery doll on my bookshelf amongst some of my favourite books.

This lovely faery was made in the same way as my previous faery dolls, and I'm finding the more of these I make the faster I am getting at making these. This is a good thing because I plan on making more of these and as a hand-sewer, sewing anything by hand takes a long time.

As with all my other faery dolls, this faery has a blanket stitched fringe, embroidered ears and black safety eyes. I just adore her bright red hair with her blue flowered dress, and the floral wings are the same material used for my previous brunette faery rag doll.

The full height of these dolls are about 24cm from head to toe and the full wingspan is about 16cm. All my faery dolls have reinforced wings that allow them to hold up one their own without flopping over but are still soft enough to allow them to be squashed and played with by little hands.