Made this for @Tapestry in the Harry Potter Ornament Swap. My son actually came up with the concept of a coin-operated fortune teller version of Trelawney, and I totally fell in love with the idea. To the point that I could not help myself from going way overboard (as I tend to do anyway!) The swap was supposed to be for a small. Um… maybe not!
I didn’t take many progress pictures, but here are a few.
I started by making the interior elements. Trelawney is a wooden “pumpkin” that I turned upside down and stuck into a piece of styrofoam. Painted her face, added glasses (black wire and a metal eyeglasses-shaped brad) and hair (various threads and yarns). Her arms are vintage plastic doll hands, and I made jewelry out of craft wire and beads and tiny pieces of chain.
The crystal ball is a small Christmas ball with the interior paint removed. The base of it is an old ring.
The booth itself is a dice box. I stacked a few layers of thick craft foam under it to give it more height so I’d have room for text on the sides. I used a heated pin to poke a hole through the top of the box for the ornament hanger.
I used scrapbook paper to cover the outside, and added some trim to the top and bottom.
A little envelope on the back held two fortune cards, modeled after Zoltar cards from actual coin-operated fortune teller machines, but with the text from Trelawney’s trances.
The “Lucky Numbers” on the cards are actually the dates when the foretold events occurred.
I tried my hardest to keep the materials as light as possible, but it’s still a bit heavy for an ornament. Overall, I’m so pleased with it and look forward to making another one for my son. But it will be even MORE over-the-top, because we intend to try to make Trelawney move and make the crystal ball light up! Wish me luck with that!
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Nice, nice, baby! This awesome project is one of this week’s features! Congrats!