Our First Christmas

Our first Christmas together is Harry Potter themed and, of course, I was extremely excited to make several ornaments. After scouring Pinterest and devoting an entire board to the different ideas I had found, I set a budget of $50 for myself. I decided to make potion bottles, the Golden Snitch, the key with the bent wing, and Ron's howler from Mrs. Weasley.

Our Little Christmas Tree

Now, the $50 budget included buying the Christmas tree and all of the supplies for decorations. I found this little Christmas tree at Wal-Mart for $20 plus tax. I thought since we are most likely to be in a small house or apartment for the next couple of years that this tree would work perfectly. So this leaves me with just about $30 to buy supplies for decorations.I waited for Hobby Lobby's Christmas supplies to go on sale for half off and then I bought my supplies. 

There's this cute brand of tiny ornaments that I found called A Tree For Me that had these little red and blue ornaments I thought would be perfect to reflect our Hogwarts houses Gryffindor and Ravenclaw. The tinsel was from my Christmas tree I had last year that I bought at Wal-Mart for a $1.

I also bought small glass bottles and glitter to make the potion bottles.  In order to make the winged key and the snitch, I bought a key from the jewelry section and some wings made by the same brand as the red and blue ornaments. 

The Howler I made was based off this Howler I found here. I thought it was interesting to have the Howler floating inside the ornament since in the movie the Howler floats as well. I bought a plastic snap-together ornament to make this decoration. 

"How dare you steal that car!"

I was in Hobby Lobby long enough for Creed to text me asking if I was lost in the store. After I had gathered everything for my Harry Potter Christmas, I only ended up spending about $25 which leaves me $5 to buy a First Christmas ornament for us. I'm quite proud of myself for staying within budget. Hopefully, I'll have time after finals to post the tutorials for some of the ornaments I made.

Have a magical holiday everyone!