Harry Potter Fangirl *Squee*!
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craftgrrlI recently made a purse out of a book for a friend's birthday. I'm not 100% happy with how it turned out, but it's impossible to re-do it. It was just waaaaaaaaaaaay harder than I expected and the instructions I had weren't very clear. I figure she'll have the purse for a novelty item, not for something terribly useful. Here's hoping she likes it!
Spoiler alert: If you haven't read the 7th Harry Potter book, I discuss some very spoilery things within.
Oh, did I mention we're both Harry Potter fangirls? I actually made this whilst listening to Order of the Phoenix on audiobook!
Firstly, the gift box. I took a shoe box and the "guts" of the copy of Deathly Hallows I sacrificed for the purse. The top is just a bunch of the book pages torn up and decoupaged with Modge Podge along with the title page and a bit of the cover. I tried to tear up bits with interesting word groupings...so you have "Harry is bleeding", "The dark lord ascending", muggles, Voldemort, and more frolicking all over the lid.
The inside of the lid...can't have a Harry Potter-themed box without a golden snitch.
A shot of the box in its entirety. The bottom half actually has full pages glued all around the outside (the bottom is a piece of red construction paper with a happy birthday message and the date written on it). I chose my favorite bits of the book...my favorite lines. So around the box is the deaths of Snape and Fred Weasley, the bit where Snape admits his eternal love for Lily, Dobby's burial, Harry and Voldy's final battle, Harry's walk through the forest when he sees the spirits of his mom, dad, Sirius, and Lupin, and "Not my daughter, you bitch!" I literally got chills making this part of the box because there were so many awesome scenes that I got to re-read! The epilogue of "All was well" ended up on the lid...partially obscured...but then, the epilogue wasn't my favorite part anyway -- it was all the stuff leading up to it!
Inside detail of the box -- a Firebolt broomstick.
More detail...a wand. It's brown, not black like it looks.
The inside of the box, tipped up -- so the glasses are the very bottom of the box...the rest are along the sides. I wrapped the purse in red and gold tissue paper and put it in the gift box.
The purse itself! I had a great time picking out elements for the purse, from the red and gold cord for the strap to the gold button I sewed onto the white ribbon to make it look like a golden snitch.
Better view of the snitch. I really love how pretty HP books are, even without their dustjackets -- an excellent candidate for a book purse!
This is what the purse was lined in. Not exactly keeping with the color scheme, but look at it! It's perfect! Found the fabric at Hancock fabric, btw. The lady working there, upon finding out I was an HP fangirl, made me write down all the house colors because they get questions about it all the time!
Inside of the purse. I tried to make velcro closures for the purse but it just didn't work out too well. Like I said, I think this is going to end up being more of a novelty item than a useful item.
Ta-da!
I want to try making another purse...I bought a used copy of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (Everyman's Library edition) to try out next, for a friend who really likes Virginia Woolf.
Spoiler alert: If you haven't read the 7th Harry Potter book, I discuss some very spoilery things within.
Oh, did I mention we're both Harry Potter fangirls? I actually made this whilst listening to Order of the Phoenix on audiobook!
Firstly, the gift box. I took a shoe box and the "guts" of the copy of Deathly Hallows I sacrificed for the purse. The top is just a bunch of the book pages torn up and decoupaged with Modge Podge along with the title page and a bit of the cover. I tried to tear up bits with interesting word groupings...so you have "Harry is bleeding", "The dark lord ascending", muggles, Voldemort, and more frolicking all over the lid.
The inside of the lid...can't have a Harry Potter-themed box without a golden snitch.
A shot of the box in its entirety. The bottom half actually has full pages glued all around the outside (the bottom is a piece of red construction paper with a happy birthday message and the date written on it). I chose my favorite bits of the book...my favorite lines. So around the box is the deaths of Snape and Fred Weasley, the bit where Snape admits his eternal love for Lily, Dobby's burial, Harry and Voldy's final battle, Harry's walk through the forest when he sees the spirits of his mom, dad, Sirius, and Lupin, and "Not my daughter, you bitch!" I literally got chills making this part of the box because there were so many awesome scenes that I got to re-read! The epilogue of "All was well" ended up on the lid...partially obscured...but then, the epilogue wasn't my favorite part anyway -- it was all the stuff leading up to it!
Inside detail of the box -- a Firebolt broomstick.
More detail...a wand. It's brown, not black like it looks.
The inside of the box, tipped up -- so the glasses are the very bottom of the box...the rest are along the sides. I wrapped the purse in red and gold tissue paper and put it in the gift box.
The purse itself! I had a great time picking out elements for the purse, from the red and gold cord for the strap to the gold button I sewed onto the white ribbon to make it look like a golden snitch.
Better view of the snitch. I really love how pretty HP books are, even without their dustjackets -- an excellent candidate for a book purse!
This is what the purse was lined in. Not exactly keeping with the color scheme, but look at it! It's perfect! Found the fabric at Hancock fabric, btw. The lady working there, upon finding out I was an HP fangirl, made me write down all the house colors because they get questions about it all the time!
Inside of the purse. I tried to make velcro closures for the purse but it just didn't work out too well. Like I said, I think this is going to end up being more of a novelty item than a useful item.
Ta-da!
I want to try making another purse...I bought a used copy of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (Everyman's Library edition) to try out next, for a friend who really likes Virginia Woolf.
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