Showing posts with label potions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label potions. Show all posts

Sunday, August 18, 2013

Advanced Studies S13: OWLs Part 8

I love OWLs!!

First up today we have Marushka with her History of Magic OWL. She created this blanket to be donated to St. Mungo's in honor of the St. Mungo:

 
She knit this shawl to represent Twilfitt and Tatting's in Diagon Alley:

 
And for her third location she knit this shawl to represent the Lovegood's home:

 
What a great way to do HoM with locations instead of people!

KristiRose also completed her History of Magic OWL with three pairs of socks. She knit socks inspired by Draco Malfoy:

 
Socks for Hermione:


And finally socks for Dolores Umbridge:


WomblingStar conquered the Cruciatus curse with this adorable sweater! In lace weight! Talk about brave. 


Next up is TinySticher who completed her Potions OWL with this large and colorful blanket!


And finally we have a spinning owl! mma spun all this beautiful yarn to represent the solar system for her astronomy OWL!


Don't forget! You can propose a NEWT any time this month and prepared your OWL proposals this month so they're ready to go September 1st!

Friday, August 16, 2013

Advanced Studies S13: OWLs Part 7

Yay OWLs!

nwheatley completed her Astronomy OWL by interpreting her daughter's horoscope with this beautiful sweater!


midwestAliceAnn completed her Potions OWL with her awesome intarsia dinosaur sweater intended for her granddaughter. Rawr!


Next I'm excited to show of my DADA Cruciatus curse OWL: the spiral blanket of awesome!


SuperM wove some beautiful floral towels for her Herbology OWL

 
Finally today we have Lanismom who completed her Astonomy OWL with projects representing the spiral galaxy and northern lights:



Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Advanced Studies S13: OWLs Part 2

It's time for more OWLs!

torsparkles completed this beautiful yarn for her Care of Magical Creature bowtruckles OWL:


As this is a learning OWL torsparkles proposed her spinning by number of hours per week (5 in her case). 

Another spinning OWL this term was Head of House JMN's potions OWL! Look at all the colors!

This was JMN's 12th OWL making her an OWL mistress, look for a post dedicated to her later this month!

Marifly hatched a Antipodean Opaleye dragon egg and created this beautiful shawl for her Care of Magical Creatures OWL:



PprmntMochaMama defeated the Cruciatus curse this term by created this very intricate and beautiful gingerbread house and tree!


Her turn in is like Christmas in July!

Finally for this post we have brighteyesjessy's Divination OWL with this beautiful shawl:



Keep your eyes open for more OWLs here on The HuffleBlog!

Sunday, May 19, 2013

More Amazing Hufflepuff Talent

Hi everyone! I’m back to bring you some glimpses of how amazingly talented we Hufflepuffs are with our craft!  Check out some of these homework assignments being turned in!  You’ll be inspired for sure.

Transfiguration
Practice your conjuring with the Floris Hippurus spell: Conjure a fish or flower. Craft a fish or flower, or something with a fish or flower motif. Non-Ravelry crafts may be accepted on a case-by-case basis.

Lucamama used the colors of fresh flowers to dye her yarn and then transfigured it into fish shaped bath mitt.


Scrapdash and her Den mates are recovering from a bought of  seasickness after her transfigured school of white fish decided to learn to air swim.


Texaninalaska conjured this adorable flower and attached it to a headband for her granddaughter.  I’m sure she’s going to love it.



Potions
Craft something related to a potential use of The Draught of Living Death and/or Wiggenweld potion. Spin the bonds of sleep, knit a lacy shroud for a sleeping victim, crochet something that reminds you of the Muggle Sleeping Beauty story. Or take a more practical turn: how would you use these potions to thwart (or assist!) the dark wizards of the First Wizarding war? Craft a representation of your plan!

The Draught of Living Death is a complicated potion. Study the recipe and craft something that represents one or more ingredient, potion stage, instruction, and/or piece of equipment. Spin counterclockwise, craft something lilac, weave a complicated, time-consuming pattern, crochet lace that reminds you of Valerian flowers, knit with beads that remind you of chopped Sopophorous bean.

Non-Ravelry crafts may be accepted for this class with prior approval.

TexasRachel Did an awesome job brewing up the Draught of Living Death.


KristyRecycles has been hard at work crafting something useful while under the spell of the The Draught of the Living Death.


JMN has been busy drafting her potion as well as and in honor of the vivid purple and hot pink color, she crafted a coordinating bottle cover!  Great job!




History of Magic
Option 1: Insane bravery. Show us how brave you are! Make something epically huge or epically tiny, or intricate and complex.

Option 2: Cadogan’s pony. Craft something using your second-choice materials. Maybe it’s a fiber you don’t usually like to use, or yarn you acquired long ago when your tastes were different or as a gift that didn’t quite suit you, or a type of dye that you’ve struggled with.

Option 3: Second try. Take another run at a project that failed in the past. Start the project over again, changing something to make it more successful.

JessiaSott proved her bravery and paid tribute to Sir Cadogan by knitting this incredibly tiny bunny!

One would never suspect that that VampiratKnits used second choice materials to craft this adorable little guy! What a cute kitty!

trapeze12 showed how brave she was by honoring Sir Cadogan and working up this very lovely and very tiny beaded purse!

Well that’s all we have time for today.  Check back next week, when take a glimpse inside a few more classrooms to OOH and AAH over more awesome crafting!

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Sometimes it's an Exact Art and Subtle Science, Other Times You Let the Magic Guide You

The whispers have gone 'round the Den - The Order of the Phoenix is selecting certain bright young students to travel back in time!  Not only that, but to possibly try to recruit key Dark Mark individuals *before* they go bad!  One such student is 6th Year Slytherin, Severus Snape.  Surely no Hufflepuff would be chosen for this task - or would they?

You are lab partners in potions class with a 6th year Slytherin named Severus Snape. Convince him to join the Order before he takes the Dark Mark by crafting something that shows him what the side of the light has to offer.
 
You decide to try for the assignment.  And, as one key factor in Severus's turning to the Dark Arts is his lack of friends and family, you decide that, if you are recruited to try to win his trust, you will invite him over to the Den for a good homecooked meal.  Mind made up, you *leviosa* your stack of cookbooks over to you and start leafing through.  Hmmm, this looks likely!

Spiffied-Up Baked Mac-n-Cheese, by FlyKytten
You will need:
2 big boxes/packages of noodles (FK used a package of Rotini and a package of Orzo)
2 cups of plain greek yogurt OR 1 cup greek yogurt and 1 cup sour cream
2 cups of cheese (FK used parmesan)
and if desired, a cooked meat of some kind, or a vegetable (FK used spiced ham)



Boil the pasta.  While it's cooking, mix the yogurt with the cheese.  Add the hot drained noodles (and the meat or veggies, too).  Mix it all up well.  You can eat it now, or you can stick it in the oven at 350 degrees Farenheit for 30-60 minutes.  YUM!

 

Please note that this makes a Very Big Amount, so if your family is small (say, <6), you may wish to half the recipe.  And it is Very Easy!  (And Very Customizable.  ;P)

Friday, April 26, 2013

Winter 2013 NEWTs

This past term we had two awesome Puffs complete their NEWTs!

WomblingStar designed and knit this awesome sweater for her History of Magic and Herbology NEWT.

And minsue did some amazing colorwork (and stash busting) to create this beautiful blanket for Potions and Transfiguration.

A round of applause for these amazing Puffs and good luck to those who have already started on their NEWTs this term!

Friday, April 19, 2013

OWL Week Continued

Randi88 finished her Charms OWL with this beautiful shawl!

Jenstc2003 transfigured a lot of yarn with these two crocheted blankets for her Transfiguration OWL!

texaninalaska competed a Color Affection and a woven scarf for her Potions OWL!

ScarletFever created this beautiful blanket with 2,099 yards for Transfiguration!

And msoyster interpreted a dream to create this sweater, hat, and socks for a Divination OWL!


We had 38 awesome OWLs turned in by our Puffs during winter terms! Keep up the great work for the Spring!

Up next...NEWTs!

















Wednesday, April 17, 2013

OWL Mistress - kimanneberly

Our very own kimanneberly became an OWL mistress by completing her final OWL with this term's History of Magic OWL.

This blanket represented Teddy Lupin:

And these two elephants represented Tonks and Remus Lupin.


And now for a blast from the past: kimanneberly's other OWLs:

Ancient Runes

Astronomy

Charms

Care of Magical Creatures

Divination

Herbology

Muggle Studies

Potions

Transfiguration