Hi everyone.  We know you are probably super sick of hearing about Harry at this point but we felt funny about letting him go without spending some time talking about HOW we created him.  I always like to know how something was made when I see a finished product and we figured some of you

As we’ve already said (probably too many times), we think one of the easiest ways to make an event special, or in the case of a Harry Potter party, authentic, is with good signage.  I spent a ridiculous number of hours over the past month making all of the signs for the party, from the

When Colleen and I first started discussing having Harry Potter be our Halloween theme this year, I was very concerned about it not being creepy enough.  You see, I like my Halloween to feel quite creepy.  But Colleen assured me we could include some scary elements from Harry Potter as well.  After all, anyone who

The day of hosting a party is a funny thing.  Here is how it generally goes.  You wake up early, trying to remember all of the 50 million tasks left to complete.  You run around like a headless chicken, checking off task after task.  You start to feel pretty proud of yourself, and like you

In an effort to make things as Harry Pottery as possible around here for our Halloween party, we have been making lots of signage.  In our humble opinion, signage is one of the best ways for helping things seem like Hogwarts without actually having to reconstruct my house.  Which I would gladly do in the

I don’t know if you guys noticed, but our “quote of the week” has had a theme recently. Our theme for the month of October, and for our Halloween party, is none other than Harry Potter.  We have wanted to throw a Harry Potter party for many years and have been entirely too excited to