Golden Snitches, Chocolate Frogs, and Butter Beer Mustaches....

     October is one of my favorite months....pumpkin picking, hay rides, spooky decorations, pumpkin carving, trick-or-treating, fall festivals, costumes, Starbucks' Pumpkin Spice Lattes, and of course festive movies.  Which to me includes Harry Potter!  I am a huge Potter Head!  So I invited a few friends over, whipped up some Harry Potter snacks, and we watched "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2."  It was a lot of fun bringing one of my favorite movies to life in my table scape and food!  All my friends had a great time and left full of tasty treats and Butter Beer mustaches!

Got to represent the houses.  

(The Griffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff Banners are from Amazon)

See my Dementor in the corner??  (This is one of my Halloween decorations)

Hagrid says to just "follow the spiders...."

(Some spiders from the Dollar Tree, others from Walmart)

I made some floating candles like in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". (They are made out of toilet and paper towel rolls that I painted and wrapped around a plastic a LED tea light I got from the Dollar Store. I glued it with hot glue.  Then used more hot glue around the tea light and let it drip down.  After it dried I painted the cooled drippy hot glue to look like dripping wax.  Then I used fishing line to hang them) 

I found some fun candies I thought HoneyDukes would've carried.

(The scarf, wand, and glasses are from the Spirit Halloween Store, 

the Apothecary Jars are from Amazon)

Dumbledore's favorite...Lemon Drops

Some Chocolate Licorice Wands

And my version of Fizzing Whizzbees, but really just some fizzing gum balls.

Hedwig guarding the Golden Snitch Truffles

Mischief Managed....

Downloaded the Marauder's Map from Sweet & Simple, 

then had it printed on light tan paper, then I crinkled it a bit to make it look aged.

There's the other two houses' banners.

Are you Griffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin...let the Sorting Hat decide.

(The hat is from Amazon)

Now on to the snacks....

The Food Label Cards & Mug Labels I downloaded and printed from Sweet & Simple.

How about a tall glass of Pumpkin Juice

Or a warm mug of Butter Beer

Or a frosty mug of Butter Beer

To go with those delicious drinks, I made some Cornish Pastries.

How about trying some Polyjuice Potion...

(Just queso & chips)

These Pumpkin Pasties were amazing!

There were excellent the next day for breakfast with a cup of tea.

We had to try Harry's favorite dessert, Treacle Tarts

Enjoy one of these Snitch Truffles, that's if you can catch one first!

(These are just Ferrero Rocher chocolates with velum paper wings taped to the tops.)

We had to have some Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans which I put in these awesome boxes that I downloaded from WizardShack then had printed at Office Max.

 

Who could forget when the chocolate frog jumped out the box and onto the window....

I made my own with the Chocolate Frog Mold I got from Amazon. 

Then put them in these downloaded and printed Chocolate Frog Boxes.

After all my guests had left, I took off my Griffindor Shoes, 

grabbed another warm mug of Butter Beer and a few snacks, 

then popped in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1" into the Blu Ray.

(My Griffindor Pajama Pants are from Hot Topic, my socks from the Halloween Spirit Store)

It was another fun movie night with the girls!

Can't wait for the next one!

Divergent Movie Night

     With the recent Blu Ray/DVD release of Divergent, I decided to host a movie night party for my friends and I.  I wanted to create a table scape with a section for each of the factions, Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Erudite, and Dauntless, that are featured in the Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant books.  I had a great time coming up with ideas for each section from the color scheme to what food and drinks to serve to decorations.  It was a lot of fun and I think it turned out amazing! 

Here are the Factions....

For Abnegation I wanted to focus on the simplicity of things...

Gray table cloth, stones, clear serve ware, bread, and water.

Along with a image I found on Tumblr that I had printed then Mod Podged on a canvas.

And of course a "choosing bowl" with stones to complete the look.

I made some Selfless Bread

and some Benevolent Butters.

I also printed some of these labels I found on Bringing Up Burns,

 then Mod Podged them on some water bottles.

For Amity I wanted the focus to be warm and friendly...

 A bright yellow and red table cloth, a wood plank, a basket of red apples, wood create,

apples chips & dip, hard apple cider, and another Tumblr image.

And the "choosing bowl" of soil.

The Peace Rings are just Apple Chips,

and the Harmony Dip went with them perfectly.

I found these cool labels too on Bringing Up Burns

 that I Mod Podged onto some Angry Orchard Hard Cider bottles.

For Candor I did a play on the black and white theme.

I found a black and white stripe cloth, glass, black & white food, 

and the Candor image from Tumblr.

The "choosing bowl" full of glass.

I made of these Truth Tidbits which were quite tasty,

and some homemade Probity Pastries.

Erudite was fun to decorate too....

Found a blue and white chevron material, some beakers, plastic glasses, 

set up the dictionary (opened up to the definition of Erudite, of course), blue soda, 

some healthy snacks, and the Tumblr image.

A bowl of water set out for the "choosing bowl."

The little beakers I found at Hobby Lobby, 

which I just drew on the lines and numbers, then filled with some blue wine cooler.

Since the Erudite are all about learning...

I made some brain food, Knowledge Nibbles.

For the non alcoholic drinkers, I got some Jone's Soda that 

I wrapped some newspaper around for decor.

And lastly, Dauntless, it was easy to decorate for this one too.

I laid out a black cloth for the table, some black plastic guns and knives, 

some paper targets, burgers, chocolate cakes, and a Dauntless Tumblr picture.

The "choosing bowl" was full of stones shaped like coals and some candles.

I got the plastic guns and knives at the Dollar Tree, then spray painted them black.

In the book, the Dauntless ate hamburgers, 

so these Bravery Burger Bombs are a play on those.

They also ate chocolate cake, so I had to make some mini Fearless Cakes.

I found these cool labels on Bringing Up Burns 

that I printed, then colored in a bit and put on some wine bottles.

I was so happy to discover some temporary tattoos in my new Blu Ray!

I decided to go Dauntless for the party...and a couple days afterward.

 (They were stuck on pretty good!)

It was a fun night! 

I loved planning it all, the decorations, the colors, the food, the drinks.

And especially getting to spend it with some great friends!

Can't wait to plan my next movie night...