@Abbeeroad, I just realized my original proposal is specifically for a garland of stockings, and in true AntBee form I have been all over the map and am now settling more on a countdown wall hanging. Do I need to re-propose a new design, or will the fact that it’s a “Countdown Calendar” suffice regardless of style?
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No need to re-propose! I just have “Christmas Countdown Garland” listed, which sounds like it still fits! Ideas grow and adapt as we work through them…it’s all good!
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Advance Studies Friday:
Frog City. 
End of report.
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I’m sorry luv.
Thanks, it’s ok. One of the hazards of making things up as you go along.
#YarnRebel
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Class or Challenge Title: Detention: WIP
House: Slytherin
Project Name & Page Link: Husband’s Christmas Socks
Brief Description: Started last year for a fun seasonal knit these bad boys are ready to Rock around the Christmas Tree this year.
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These are brilliant, I love them
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Thanks!
Wonderful 
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Thanks!
Hello friends! I promise I haven’t gotten lost while visiting Albania. Or been taken by Death Eaters. For those of you who don’t know, in October my husband & I decided to move. When we contacted a realtor in our neighborhood though, she advised us to get the house on the market by Thanksgiving, rather than wait till spring. That meant we had just 4 weeks to repair, declutter, pack, clean, and stage our home. It also meant I had to pack up my entire studio. 
But there has been some crafting & creativity anyway. Here’s some of it…
Class or Challenge Title: Apparition
House: Gryffindor!
Project Name & Page Link: Mantle Christmas Decorating
Brief Description: The realtor advised us to repaint the portions of the room that were light gold, to match the cream walls, and to stage the house for the holidays, in simple, neutral colors. We took the opportunity to ditch our very old falling-apart couch & rug, and got a new Lovesac couch in taupe (it can be taken apart & changed around to create new shapes!) and Ruggable rug in deep teal, rust, and brown. Here’s the new living room as reference.
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And here’s the mantle and & entryway decor. I tried to keep it seasonal and festive, but stay soft and neutral. Much of it has wire string lights inside to glow at night. (I was so excited to find the stockings, including one in teal velvet, at Homegoods!)
Here’s a pic from last night, with the lights on.
I also did our entryway table. DH hung the cared flower mandala for me, and I filled the lantern with more wire lights and cinnamon scented pinecones. Most of the little trees are from Target & Homegoods.
Class or Challenge Title: Arithmancy
House: Gryffindor!
Project Name & Page Link: Studio to Teen Bedroom
Brief Description: It broke my heart to pack up my studio, but we knew the shelving & desks we installed wouldn’t appeal to most buyers. So it all came out. Jim repaired the walls, and I built a fake bed! It includes 12 small moving boxes, a queen air mattress, lots of towels and blankets to fill the dip in the air mattress, and then some bedding. I tend to think of it as my Abbeeroad room. The quilt came from Tuesday Morning, and the kantha throw and matching pillows were from Darn Good Yarn.
I’ve wanted them for ages, and used up the Karma points that I’ve been saving all year to get them for $50 off! All the bedding will become the foundation of a future guest room.
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Class or Challenge Title: Astronomy
House: Gryffindor!
Project Name & Page Link: Christmas Tree & General Decorating
Brief Description: My Christmas tree is missing the million handmade ornaments from all of you crafty HP friends, but it still shines. I used some icicles from my stash, and picked up some mercury glass, and deep teal glass ornaments for a few bucks on sale, and grabbed the salmon ones from a neighbor who was giving them away. The tree skirt is from Bargain Hunt, where it was clearanced for just a few bucks, from Target because it had a small stain that I was able to get out. I used more of my own decor in various spots around the house, like my glass trees in the kitchen.
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Class or Challenge Title: Charms
House: Gryffindor!
Project Name & Page Link: Repainting Porch Table
Brief Description: This table had a purple top with a gold mandala pattern on it. But the paint had faded to a gross brown, so I repainted it to match the navy blue cushions on the love seat out there. It now has a pot full of pansies on it. (See below for more of the porch transformation.) I also re-highlighted the legs and edge with some antique gold Rub n’ Buff.
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Class or Challenge Title: CoMC
House: Gryffindor!
Project Name & Page Link: Office to College Guy Bedroom
Brief Description: I wish I had a before image of Jim’s office. It’s just 10x10, and was pretty cramped with a large armchair in there. His desk setup was more than twice as wide, and took up a whole wall. After some destashing and packing, we got it down to a managable size, and I created another fake bed. This one is made of 8 bed risers, 6 collapsed cardboard boxes, a ton of packing tape, and a twin air mattress, covered in queen sheets and bedding.
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Class or Challenge Title: DADA
SPEW or LC Contest: Halloween Costume Challenge 2022
House: Gryffindor!
Project Name & Page Link: Godzilla Bebe Costume
Brief Description: I posted Ada’s Halloween costume in the Challenge entries, but forgot to share it here! Rawr! 
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Class or Challenge Title: Flying
House: Gryffindor!
Project Name & Page Link: Floral Arrangements
Brief Description: The photographer came yesterday to get pictures and video to do a 3-D walkthrough of the house. I decluttered so much that a few spots looked empty, so I created 2 floral arrangements. One for my bedside table, and one for the dining table.
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Class or Challenge Title: Herbology
House: Gryffindor!
Project Name & Page Link: Back Porch Revival
Brief Description: I normally fill the pots on the porch every spring, but as I was busy having Ada that never happened this year. Now that it’s November, I was upset that the porch wouldn’t look like a happy outdoor oasis. But my mom and her green thumb came to the rescue. We filled the pots with winter hardy pansies in a riot of colors (purple, maroon, gold, white, and deep pink), and rosemary. Then added some new throw pillows and a new rug in similar colors, and cleaned the glass hanging ornaments so they shine like new. We found the blue glass water bulbs in my stash, and mopped up the pollen.
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Class or Challenge Title: Muggle Studies
House: Gryffindor!
Project Name & Page Link: Apple Bread
Brief Description: One of the last messy things I made in the kitchen before packing up most of what’s normally in there. I had a few bruised apples and so I made a double batch of this apple bread, with a crumble topping, and stashed one in the freezer.
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Class or Challenge Title: Detention - Stash
House: Gryffindor!
Project Name & Page Link: Re-Guilding Windchimes
Brief Description: While I had the gold Rub n’ Buff out to fix the repainted table, I decided to use up the last of it to give the wind chimes and crystal chandelier some love. Here’s a before and after of the grody old moon wind chimes.
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And the formerly silver chandelier which is now gold.
Class or Challenge Title: Headmistress - November
House: Gryffindor!
Project Name & Page Link: Front Yard Decorating
Brief Description: Like the back porch, I hadn’t filled the pots on the front steps in March like I usually do. The pots were also badly cracked and wouldn’t have survived another winter. So I replaced them, and mom and I went nuts cleaning up the front yard and refilling them. The porch has wine red & white pansies and boxwoods, and I found a matching boxwood wreath at Tuesday Morning.
More pansies on the steps and in the mailbox planter. There’s a pot of rosemary behind the mailbox. We replaced the mailbox numbers, raked & bagged 18 bags of leaves in the front yard, trimmed the shrubs and trees, remulched, and finally I added some disk lights along the walkway and beds for some added curb appeal.
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I’m sure there’s other stuff I’ve done this month, but that’s all I can remember right now. And since the photographs have been taken, and the house doesn’t officially go up for sale till Friday (it will be listed tomorrow & Thursday as “Coming Soon”), I’m taking the rest of the day off! I’m just going to watch some Netflix, drink lots of tea, and play with Ada.
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Headmistress Jennie casts the House Points Charm!
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Wow Jennie, you have done an amazing job on the house. So much work and with a baby on hand. You are a superwoman. I hope the house sells really fast x
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Thank you! We got the website, complete with professional photos, from the realtor last night. I worked really hard to make the house look its best, and somehow the photos make it look even better than it is. LOL
And now Jim is stalking our house on Zillow, checking to see how many Views and how many Saves it has. 
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Class: Apparition
House: Hufflepuff
Project Name: Faceup for Fuwmao
Project Description: I got a sweet little Imomo Fuwamo doll. I’m not very practiced at all at faceups, but I gave her one, and am really happy with it! Here you can see how she looks before and after. After spraying her head with matte Mr. Super Clear, I used brushes to add powdered chalk pastel blushing to her cheeks, chin, nose and eyes, then used a super fine little brush and acrylic black mixed with acrylic bronze to do her eyeliner and mouth.
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Class: Arithmancy
House: Hufflepuff
Project Name:Acorn Embroidered Stain Hider
Project Description: I got hot glue on one of my fave sweaters so I had the idea to freehand a little acorn design to cover it up 
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Class: Astronomy
House: Hufflepuff
Project Name: Blue and Silver Sweater For Fuwamo
Project Description: This sweater is made from yarn with some sliver sparkle in it. (on the left)
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Class/Challenge: Alchemy
House: Ravenclaw
Project Name: Pair of Llamas
Brief Description: For Alchemy, I crocheted a pair of llamas using a written pattern (Ravelry link).
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Class/Challenge: Care of Magical Creatures
House: Ravenclaw
Project Name: Green Beanie
Brief Description: For this class, I crocheted a green hat based on this pattern (Ravelry link).
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Class/Challenge: Herbology
House: Ravenclaw
Project Name: Macrame Plant Holders
Brief Description: For Herbology, I made some macrame plant holders.
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(pattern, Youtube link)
(pattern, Youtube link)
Class/Challenge: Study of Ancient Runes
House: Ravenclaw
Project Name: Beaded Memory Wire Bracelet
Brief Description: For this class, I made a beaded memory wire bracelet with a secret message in Morse code. It says “it’s locked”, a quote from the Nancy Drew computer games.
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Class/Challenge: Transfiguration
House: Ravenclaw
Project Name: Banana Bread
Brief Description: For Transfiguration, I changed bananas & other ingredients into banana bread using this recipe!
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In case you didn’t find them, it looks like they’re all planned out in Hermione’s Homework Planner (the link is in the first post - I just remembered to check there today ).
@Moonflame in not familiar with the term face up. I’m assuming it comes blank and you paint it. Is it changeable? Because it looks great.
@jellybean I love those two Dino’s.
Advanced studies completed
House Ravenclaw
Project Italian Renaissance dress.
I did some long hours on this, the bodice is boned and the eyelets at the sides all hand sewn. The sleeves were a mistake which I realised when I put in the last stitch. I used the wrong side of the fabric. But there was no way I was unpicking this so I’m pretending it was planned. Lined with red and with fake puffs of white added. And all the ribbons have aiglets at the ends. This is the finished outfit with a fur and partlet
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Your gown is beautiful, I so admire your costuming skills. I wouldn’t have even noticed the sleeves if you hadn’t mentioned it.
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