A Day Out at Harry Potter Studio Tour.

Hello there, I hope you all had a good weekend, can you guess where we went???? Yes, on Saturday we went to the Harry Potter Studio Tour, London, we had bought Paige tickets for her 18th birthday, back in July.

Paige is a massive HP fan, she watches the films and reads the books over and over again, another big fan is my friend, Kerry, so it went without saying that I would ask her if she wanted to come with us!!!! I have never read the books and have only seen the first film, so I was the tag along.

We decided to catch the train down there, it was only an hour on the train and so much easier than driving. Even though Paige's birthday was a couple of months ago, we treated it as a birthday celebration, Kerry packed us a yummy breakfast picnic. We had Bucks Fizz, smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels, Danish pastries and Paige had her sausage butty.

Once we arrived, there was a courtesy bus to the studio, everything was so effortless. We actually arrived an hour before our time slot but we asked if we could go through early, which they were absolutely fine with. In fact, all the staff were so nice and helpful, nothing was too much trouble. We asked if we could have a HP passport so we could have them stamped in each area. They are only for children, normally but as soon as they knew it was Paige's birthday gift, they brought us one each and a "Happy Birthday" badge for her and every member of stall wished her a Happy Birthday, when they saw her badge.

Diagon Alley

Seeing if Harry Potter is at home.

Ron Weasley's bed at Howarts, look at his sweet hand knitted blanket.

Drinking Butter Beer, I was the only one who liked it.

We had to have a couple of fun photo's taken.

When I walked into the Model Room, it took my breath away, there was a 360' view of a hand sculpted 1:24 scale of Hogwarts, it was amazing and blew me away. We had such a fantastic day, I didn't realise the work that goes init making a film, down to all the tiny details. I'm a Harry Potter convert and can't wait to watch the films and read the book, now. I would highly recommend going, we are hoping to go back nearer Christmas to see Hogwarts in the Snow.

Have a great week.

Deb x

A Perfect Wedding............

 I hope you are enjoying the weekend, I just wanted to pop in and share some of the photo's from the wedding I attended, last weekend. It was my best friend's son's wedding and everything was just perfect from start to finish.

It was held at Himley Hall, an 18th century building, which was once the family home of the Earl of Dudley, it is set in 180 acres of Capability Brown landscaped parkland and is a gorgeous place to have a wedding.

This is a very heavy photo post!!!!

 After the reception, the evening guests started to arrive and the evening kicked off with a live band, who were amazing !!!!

When the band had finished, we were all taken outside and they had the most amazing firework display around the lake, with two of their favourite songs playing by Take That and The Killers. Everybody was singing and dancing, while the fireworks were going off, it was just a fabulous, happy atmosphere.

I nearly forgot about the photo booth, they are so much fun!!!!!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

 xxxxDebxxxx

18th Birthday Book Card.............

Phew, it's been a busy week, with lots of celebrations, including our 25th anniversary, my birthday and last but not least, Paige's 18th. I can't believe my youngest is 18!!!!!! She had a wonderful day, 21 one of us went to Drayton Manor Park and Zoo and hit the rides then had a big family picnic.

I'm going to show you the card, I made for Paige. I used the tutorial from my friend, Gina's blog. Paige loves 50's fashion and loved her card.

After doing the construction of the book, I started decorating, the front cover is using some dress making pattern papers, sorry not sure what company it is, I found it in my stash. I cut a square of red gingham on the front with added "18" chipboard and some tape measure ribbon.

The inside is decorated with G.C.D. Melody Ross Homespun Chic, I love the dresses.

I adhered the tape ribbon around the front of the book and added a little jar of buttons and some cotton reels.

It's week 4 of Our Beautiful World and the theme is DETAILS, so here's a close up of the inside of the card.

Here's a few photo's of the birthday trip.

we got a bit wet on Storm Force 10

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy the rest of the week, I hope to be back tomorrow with some FO's.

xxxxDebxxxx