Party plans

We've decided to throw a big Halloween party, sans the super-scary and brutal. The theme is Hogwarts. With that in mind I began a while back collecting ideas on the internet for Harry Potter Parties, as well as coming up with some of my own. So far, most of the online orders for party goods or tools have come in. (There's been a mixup with my costume hat. We'll see what the Warner Brothers Shop does to remedy the situation.)

Meanwhile, the living room ceiling has been covered with strings of white lights and landscape fabric and tiny pumpkins dangling from fishing line. The pumpkins will hold electric tea lights on party night. The idea is to recreate the image of floating pumpkins and the night sky on the ceiling of the Great Hall at Halloween. The Mirror of Erised has been recreated using foam board and gold foil (the kind used to line cake boards). All that's left there is to put the words along the top and mount this frame to our hall mirror.

There's much to do... including the last coat of stain and protective coat on the bathroom door (a leftover construction project) but the process has been creative and challenging, with many lessons learned. Hopefully, I won't forget the lessons before the next time they are needed.