Mischief Managed!

I've been meaning to do a Harry Potter themed-set since forever but I finally hunkered down this week and nailed one down in between working on custom orders.

I think................I like it. lol

Took a couple tries on everything (except the 'house colors' stripey beads) to tweak the details - Hermione's hair in particular was a humdinger to work around the bead hole nicely. But I think it has all the important bits, right?

The husband thinks they look rather glum but, ummm, he did see the same movie I did, right? To say this last movie is glum is an understatement! (The words bleak, depressing, oppressive, and downright morose also come to mind............GOD I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE IT AGAIN THIS WEEK!!! lol)

I'll have a set up for sale sooner vs. later - I just want to work up another one to really get a sense if 1) I want to make any additional changes and 2) how much time it takes to do it all in one bit for pricing. I'm not sure I'll include the Deathly Hallows symbol though? Yay or nay on that? It adds to the price (which won't be too cheap because these are tricky to  make) and I'm not sure it's really needed. All the other beads cover ALL of the movies/books, while that one is particular to just one bit. Oh well. We'll see how I feel when I come to it. :)

Hope everything had a nice Thanksgiving weekend and/or just a nice weekend in general! Our weekend was full of work, work and more work but the holiday itself was blissfully quiet AND lazy. It was quite nice! I didn't burn the house down or anything making dinner so that's good too. lol 

I definitely didn't overeat at all but I did eat 2523623512341234234123 more carb grams than I've been used to of late. Oof. HELLO BLOATY  McBLOATerton. Not loving that. Back to low carbing............right after we have pizza for dinner tonight. lol (What can I say? We ran out of leftovers already and I wasn't mentally prepared yet for cooking dinner again.)

Some stashing & Potter thoughts.

I wavered so much on getting a skein of Bugga yarn at that Stitches East because it is sooooo hard to get a hold of, and ultimately decided not to get one because, really now, I don't neeeeed anymore sock yarn. 

Well, what do you think popped up this week in the last package of this year's The Loopy Ewe Sock Club?

A skein of Bugga!

And all was right with the world. lol

It's not a color I would have gravitated to on my own but I do like it. (I just never seem to make a grab for many blues when it comes to yarn.........not sure why??)

I also got the two newest Lizzie Kate patterns this week. I love the colors and the fact that they aren't your typical 'holiday' type colors, you know? They're very bright and bordering on tropical and I really do hope to work up at least ONE of these soon. I wasn't planning on working up the scissor fob as an actual fob (I think it would be just darling as a ornament or cube finish) but OMG HOW FREAKING CUTE ARE THESE SCISSORS?? I've never seen these kits in person before so I was not in anyway prepared for how_freaking_small these scissors would be. They are like scissors for fairies! Or garden gnomes! Sooooo cute! I think they would drive me nuts if I tried to use them with my big, beefy, Irish potato-picking, in-no-way-graceful peasant hands but +9823 points for cuteness! lol

I was just organizing the 'stash to see what I had/wanted to do for a couple Xmas stitchies and, wow, I need to cull the stack a little. Stayed tuned for a giveaway of goodies soon!!! lol

Oh yes. We went to go see Harry Potter last night and..............it was really really good but really really unrelentingly dismal. Wow.  0_o The book was pretty intense (I remember having to throw it down here and there and walk away because it was just too much at certain points) so I should have expected that but the movies, by and large, are more about CGI effects than intense emotions so it was surprising to me, I guess. (The book, as always though, is still a hundred times better. Heh.).

This is full of WIN though:

Don't look at me Bill, I'm heeeedeous. lolol

*squeee*

Almost here almost here almost here almost here.........

I probably won't get to see it until next Wednesday though so I have to hold on just..a...little...longer....
This post is mostly an excuse to get OMG EXCITED and use ridiculous post tags. (I do so love ridiculous post tags. It's bordering on a hobby of mine at this point. lol)