Dobby ears

So halloween (as well as pub crawls) approach this month!
With a Harry Potter theme going and very little time and money decided to whip together this Dobby outfit.
(sorry the pictures are not aesthetically pleasing/ Pinterest like the lighting is not magnificent in this flat nor do I currently posses the equipment)

You will need:

•  2 xA4 nude? light pink? card (60p - paperchase)
• 1 A4 card (any colour it is for a template)
• 1 hairband (£1- poundland)
• glue gun
• scissors
• pencil
• pen
• sellotape

1. On the plain card copy the template (will be linked at somepoint), draw your practice Dobby ear, and cut it out. 

2. Try folding it and sticking it together to see if it makes desired shape

3. draw round the template onto both of the coloured pieces of card

4.cut along lines and fold in. Stick with sellotape / glue gun

7. Using the glue gun secure the side flaps of the ear onto the headband by folding it over 2 times.

8. Draw the inner ear design on with a pen

the only full photo I actually found of the outfit

How to make wands

This is a simple way to make wands. I heard this from a friend who saw it somewhere so it isn't my idea

you will need:

• Chopsticks
• aquvarell paint (brown,black)    
• gluegun
• beads

1. Heat up your glue gun, and cover the parts of your chopstick that you wish to use as the handle, you can use all sorts of patterns where you wish the wood to come out a bit, if you wish when its cooled a bit you can use your hands to shape it. Also you can add beads of different sizes to add a bit of character to the wand.




2. once the glues set you can start to paint them. then leave them to dry. I added another layer so the glue was completely covered.


3. And then you're basically done! now you can do some extra tinkering. for example i added the gold streak at the end when trying to make Hermione's wand.

Harry potter time turner

So for my cousins 10th birthday I'm making a trunk full of all things Harry Potter-y this is just one of the objects that i might put in it (though I do feel greedy and might just keep this one) I'll be uploading the rest of the stuff as well, once I've made them

I got the Idea from here although i didn't follow instructions just saw the picture and figured it out (as you know  don't like following instructions) so it does look different but i like mine :)