In order to make our Harry Potter Christmas tree perfect, a lot of DIY ornaments had to be created. This was a fun exercise to think about visual cues from the movies and books that could be re-created into ornaments to embellish our tree!
From Harry's Hogwarts letter...
to small versions of the Daily Prophets, there were a ton of fun ideas that we explored.
We even went way back to the first book, when Harry, Ron and Hermione ran into the Flying Keys obstacle when trying to find the Sorcerers Stone. I was able to find a collection of antique-styled keys in all different shapes. Then to create the idea of wings, I simply tied glittered gold string in a bow around them. Simple! Alohomora!
I also bought plain red ornaments to draw Harry Potter icons of the stories on.
HP, ⚯͛, the lightning scar, and the deathly hallows were all perfect visuals to help make our tree come to life!
Mark was an awesome sport through all this DIY-ing. Always listening to my new ideas, and going to Michaels and Joanns with me to get all the supplies I needed to create them. One day while we were at Michaels, Mark found these mini corked glass bottles. He grabbed them and said "these would be cool for the viles that hold memories for when you want to watch them in the pensieve."
It was a fab idea, and I was so excited that Mark came up with it! So we grabbed the supplies we needed, and went home to make them. They turned out to be adorable.
This experience of our first Christmas together has been such a blessing. We are creating such wonderful memories that we are now able to store away in a vile and keep forever - no pensieve required!
