My Harry Potter Collection

Harry Potter Month is hosted by Faith at Geeky Zoo Girl and Micheline at Lunar Rainbows Reviews. The event runs throughout the month of July in honor of The Boy Who Lived's birthday. You can find out more about it here.

I've wanted to do a post which showed the fruit of my HP obsession for a while now. Harry Potter Month seems like the perfect time to showcase all the HP stuff I've collected over the years. I am also really proud of the fact that most of these items I found at yardsales, thrift stores, flea markets, etc. I'm not posting a picture of my books because they look the same as every traditional Scholastic HP books.

 

The booklet at the top is a crazy cool planner/notepad/address book that was made for the year 2003. The Chocolate Frog pin actually opens up and has a inedible chocolate frog that smells like chocolate (YUM!). My Deathly Hallows Necklace, a HP ornament, and a stamp booklet (they're still selling them at post offices in the US).

I felt kind of dorky buying these, but I couldn't help myself. And yes, I have worn the big backpack to a college class before. 

 My sister bought me the bookmark and posterbook and I am eternally grateful to her for them. I haven't used either of the journals yet, but I'll figure something out.   

 The trivia game is pretty awesome but I never got the chance to play HP Clue because it's missing the Vanishing Cabinet card. I know, I find it ironic also.

 These were part of my Luna Lovegood costume that I wore to the Deathly Hallows pt. 2 midnight showing. The bag I found later and has no HP connection other than the fact that I thought that's what Hermione's beaded bag should look like.

 I finally finished my collection of hats this year! I was so proud of myself when I finished the Gryffindor hat because IT ACTUALLY RESEMBLED A HAT, despite being too big. I thought, here's something I can do better than Hermione :) (pattern here)
The scarf was made by an awesome friend of mine <3

 The binder I bought for $2 at a yardsale and contains someone's collection of articles related to HP and goes back as far at the PoA movie. I'm also in love with that pop-up book.

 A T-shirt, a misspelled Syltherin(e) picture frame that I made, a crochet Buckbeak (pattern here), and what was supposed to be the Sorting Hat (pattern here).

 

Here's a collection of my HP related books.

 So, there it is. I'm hoping to one day have a bookshelf that I can devote just to my HP books and all the random things I've collected and made. Until that happens, I'll continue to add to my collection.

          -Christina

Doctor Who Air Date

As most of you have probably already heard, Doctor Who series 8 premiere date is August 23rd! IT'S A NEW SEASON! WITH A NEW DOCTOR! I'm going to miss Matt Smith as the Doctor, but I feel like we've been through this transition before, like, 11 times, so we should be used to this who regeneration thing... right?... I don't know... but I haven't disliked a Doctor out of the 3 that I've seen, so bring on #4!... or, should I say, #12!

When they announced that Peter Capaldi was going to be the 12th Doctor I was excited to see an older regeneration of the Doctor than we've seen in a while. I'm interested to see what they do with his personality, whatever it is I'm sure he'll still have that addictive energy and kooky personality like always.

I heard that they're also bringing in one of Clara's co-workers as another companion. I never really warmed up to Clara (I still miss the Ponds, but I try to like her. I really do)  but I'm hoping I'll like her better in a group dynamic. Everything's better when there's 3, remember the episodes with Rose and Jack? And the Ponds? And those episodes with Donna and Martha together? It's the Power of 3 (I love that episode!)!

What are your thoughts on the future of Doctor Who? Are you as excited as I am?
          -Christina