I’m so excited to finally share the photos of Emma’s Bellatrix Lestrange Costume that I made for her Oz Comic-Con Cosplay this year. Emma has always enjoyed exploring the ‘dark side’ of all the fandoms she’s been interested in, and after cosplaying as Ginny Weasely and Luna Lovegood, her favourite pure-hearted female characters from the Harry Potter universe, it was…
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Recently one of my kids, Gwen, announced that for Halloween she would like to dress as the Nintendo gaming character Linkle. Now, I’m something of a fan of The Legend of Zelda, but I hadn’t heard of Linkle. After a little research though, I discovered that Linkle is the gender flip of Link, a male character from The Legend of…
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Emma has always been fascinated with the Mexican Day of the Dead celebration and imagery. When she was in kinder she even organised a Mexican festival day for the whole class with music and dancing. Now that Dia de los Muertos is approaching, I thought it would be fun to create a FREE printable Sugar Skull colouring page to keep…
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Fact 1: Halloween is not far off. Fact 2: With two kids who love dress-ups, and my growing fascination for cosplay, almost every day of my life is Halloween. In the big lead up to Halloween I asked the kids which fictional character they would like to dress as. My youngest decided on becoming a Korok. What is a Korok? Well…
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Warning: The following post contains and egg-cessive amount of egg puns. Those of you that egg-hibit egg sensitivities may want to look away. It was book week at Emma’s school, the brief was to dress up as something that started with the first letter of your name – of course Emma went as an egg because it was an egg-ceptional…
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Today’s Halloween Craft idea is brought to you by Emma, who has recently discovered that she loves making slime after we were sent a package of products to try from Elmer’s. After lots of slime making experimentation, she had the great idea to make some green glitter slime with googly eyes in it – perfect for Halloween! Because she is…
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Emma’s love of all things Harry Potter has yet to subside. As she delves further into the books and movies, her interest in the more peripheral characters is growing. Her latest character crush is Luna Lovegood – a free-spirited Ravenclaw who always seems like she is ‘off with the fairies’. Emma describes her as ‘dreamy’. “The girl gave off an…
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I’m so excited to finally share the photos of Emma as Ginny Weasley in her finished Hogwarts Robes, that I made for her Harry Potter Birthday Party. The party was weeks in the planning (and making) and you can read all about it on My Poppet LIVING now. Emma is really into all things Harry Potter at the moment,…
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