Hello friends
It was a Harry Potter dominated day yesterday. As mentioned we headed off to
studios. It is suggested that 3 hours is normally adequate to look around ...
we were there for 5!
If you are a fan it is incredible. We hired the digital guide - it is an iPhone with audio,
videos, photos and more. Along with the amazing sets, I didn't know what to look at first.
I took photos - over a 100! It's okay, I'm not going to post them all but there is quite a few today!
(Apologies if you are not a Harry Potter fan!)
We had a little wait before we started the tour so we took a look in the gift shop -
Elliott checking to see what is inside the Sorting Hat.
Does it suit me?? Yes Gryffindor!
The Great Hall - where is all the food??
Here is some - chocolate bunnies.
Potions Classroom (every one of those bottles is labelled!)
No.4 Privet Drive.
Diagon Alley 
Not your everyday supplies!
I did sneak into one photo...
The Bridge.
Wanted: Bellatrix Lestrange
(this is where Bella got her name - similar hair to be honest!)
The huge Hogwarts model - detail is amazing.
Wand anyone??
Purchases of the day:
Elliott decided upon the Marauders Map.
A chocolate frog and
Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans
(and yes, there is ear wax, dirt, earthworm along with sherbet lemon!)
I insisted he have a wand (I'm waving that furiously right now!)
After serious deliberation....
he chose Professor Snape's rather elegant black wand.
One of my favourite place in the books and films is The Burrow.
Here knitting gets done by magic...
It was such a great day, total escapism and fun.
I will be back soon...with craft!
Take care friends.
50 comments:
How fun that must have been to go there! It looks like you had a great time and I love the treats and things you decided on! Lots of Hugs and smiles, Teresa
It really sounds as if you had a Happy Day with Elliott - the stuff real memories are made of. So glad you got Elliott a wand!
Morning Looks like you had loads of fun. Will be checking out tickets.
Hugs
Amanda x
Wow, it all looks fantastic, would Elliott like to go again and take me with him. Make sure you put that wand to good use.
Love Chris X
Morning Christine and Elliott
Thanks for sharing your great photos, it looks really good, i would love to go.Really pleased you had a magical day.
Sending lots of hugs, I'll be thinking of you Elliott and have everything crossed. You'll be fine.
Lots of love
Kim (Brody's Mum) xx
thanks for sharing it looks fabulous, Elliott you look great!
Hi Christine
Great photos, looks like you both had a wonderful day. I love the goodies and souveniers which Elliot chose to buy.
I'm sure he won't mind you borrowing his wand from time to time :-))
Thank you for sharing some of your memories with us all.
Janice x
I'm not a hp fan but it looks like you had a great day. I couldn't help looking at the photo of the wand storage and thinking it would be a great space to fill with crafty stash! Juliat x
Hi Christine, Really pleased you and Elliott had such a great day it looks so well done.
Elliott's map etc looks a good choice,keep waving that wand. Take care. x.
Hi Christine. I'm not a Harry Potter fan but your photos make me want to go and see all those fantastic things for myself. Having no grand children I'll have to borrow a child from somewhere or maybe Elliott would like to go again?
Looks like you both had a fantastic day out.
Val in Spain xxx
Lucks fantastic glad you both enjoyed it love Jean Z xxx
Morning Christine,
Wonderful photos of your day at the HP studio. Looks like you both a great time. Bet Elliot had trouble choosing his mementos I know I would have.
Take care and put that wand to good use.
Lydia
X
Morning Christine, ooh it looks fantastic, didn't know you could actually buy every flavour beans or a sorting hat, thank you for sharing the photos and i am a big HP fan. Im glad you both enjoyed the day, a great escape. Emma
Hi Christine. Wow, what an amazing day you both had with lots of very happy memories~I'm sure you must feel a scrapbook page (or two!)coming.Love all of the photos and would love to go myself. Take care xx
Hi Christine, looks like you both had a wonderful day out! Thanks for sharing it with us!xx
Morning Christine
What fabulous photos you both certainly had a great time. Love the wand, wonder if there is one that does the housework lol
xxxx
WOW! what a day you both had, wonderful to see Elliots happy face, thanks for posting the pics.
Keep smiing
Love Pam XXX
Hi Christine - so pleased the trip worked out well. It does look rather exciting... (5 hours!!!)
Hugs
Heather W
x
Oh what a magical, wonderful day !!
Thank you for sharing it with us Christine
The picture of Elliott with the hat is a lovely one for the scrapbook album ,
To have a Magic Wand would be wonderful
wouldnt it ? im not sure i would try one of those sweeties though .
Elaine H X
Hi Christine, what a great day out you two had. It looks amasing even to me,who like so many of your followers I have neither read nor watched any of the films maybe when my grandsons are a little older.
Nice little job for Elliott, making a scrapbook of the day out with all 100 photo's.
X Ros
I am so pleased that you both had such a fantastic day out.
I am not a HP fan, but your photos make it very appealing, so perhaps one day I might go and see for myself I would have to watch some of the films first though.
Enjoy the memories both of you
Sue xx
Looks like you and Elliott had a fantastic day out, Christine! The sets look amazing - so much attention to detail! I would love the Burrow in my house...magic knitting, how cool would that be! Not sure about the all flavour jelly beans, mind - I know kids eat the most disgusting things, but ear wax and earthworms?! Mind you , my eldest and I dared each other to eat a dried mealworm...not the worst tasting thing in the world, but I shan't be having them for dinner any time soon! Lisa x
Morning Christine, The piccies are fantastic, everything looked brilliant, so glad you got Elliott a wand.
Lots of love from Patricia xx
Wow! It looks amazing. Glad you both had a good day. Hugs, Barbara
Glad you both had a good time. Photos are good too. Take care. Janice x
Hi Christine
I can imagine that must have been a great day for you all.
The pictures look amazing as if you`re in the movie.I love all the Potter movies.
Greetings Cindy
Soooo pleased you both enjoyed the day. Great pics, esp. Elliott in the 'Hat'. Thank you for sharing your great day out.
Oh and by the way, trust you to find the chocolate Bunnies!
Crafty best wishes,love and hugs, Carolyn x
I am so glad you had such a wonderful day! I bet Elliott loved it! I would have too - I am a huge Harry Potter Fan! xx
Hello dear friend,
I am so sorry to have been away so long and missed all your fab craft and the news too.
To me this sounds like the perfect day. I adore the Harry Potter books and films, though I prefer the books as they take the reader on a long intimate journey of the senses and imagination.
I am so pleased that you both had so much fun, I bet it lifted your spirits no end and has given you some stories to tell for a long time to come.
If I may I'd like to speak to Elliot.
Dearest Elliot I am sorry to be so tardy writing to you but I have been away from blogland for a long while. Nevertheless, I felt I should write to tell you that you are in my thoughts and I will pray for you and your family as you travel this difficult road.
If there is one thing that my illness has taught me it is this.... Take each day as it comes and remember whatever our health, good or bad, each and every day is a blessing. So enjoy every minute of everyday as I truly believe positive thinking is our own natural defense. (I was told after the surgery on my spine that the disease would put me in a wheelchair within 5 to 10years, well I am in year 13 and still walking..... and no crutches either!)
If you think about it, we're all living each day as it comes never knowing what's round the corner, so really nothing has changed has it. So precious one, carry on living, doing your best to greet each day with a smile and if any day becomes too hard share a bit of the burden with your mum or other loved one and carry on. You are blessed with a loving family, so use them and they will see you through this.
(sorry for the essay, I tend to talk a lot.. lol!)
Sending lots of love to you all.
Linda xx
Hi Christine i am so happy you both had a fantastic day,what a wonderfull place to visit.
hugs to Elliott .
Smiles
Ita
Lovely pictures Christine glad you had such a fab time xx hazel
Fabulous day out and Thank-You both for sharing it with us. I'd love to have been there too. Hugs Rita xx
Looks like you both had a wonderful day. Great pictures xx
So pleased you both had a great day at H P studios. It's a young boys magical dream place,(adults also!-of course). Elliott has such a huge grin on his face that I'm sure he will remember this day forever. Thanks for sharing the pics Christine.
Val C xx
Glad you both enjoyed yourselfs such a lot to see now both have a rest and put that wand to some good use .Melanie
Oh Christine it looks fabulous and I want to go, right now!
It looks as though Elliott is having an amazing time!
My girls would have wanted to buy loads. They would love it though. We are all H P fans in our house and were a little sad when it was all over!
I hope that Elliott is going to use that wand to ensue he has a speedy recovery and not to try and make Mitchell disappear ! Haha.
So pleased your day was so much fun, another fabulous memory made!!!
Love and hugs to you all
Sandra xx
Wow, it looked like a fantastic day. My favorite is there, Diagon Alley. Trouble is I would have wanted an Owl as well as a magic wand. Don't know what my cats would have thought.
What a great way to spend the day,
Love Carol xx
Looks like you had a lot of fun
hugs Linda
Knew you'd love it. Only 5 hours how speedy. xx Margaret
Oh Wow it looks fantastic! I have got to get there some time! Thanks for sharing your super photos, Carole Z X
Oh boy looks as though you and Elliot had a fab time, a great place to visit. Get Elliot to wave his wand lots. Thanks for sharing your day with us, the photos are great.
Wilma x x x
It sounds as if you've had LOADS OF FUN. What a tonic for the both of you - and I'm sure the rest of the family will benefit from that as well.
Don't worry about Crafty things for now, Christine. We've got enough to look at - for my part I enjoy looking at old blogs as well as new ones.
Please keep us informed about Elliot's progress...we care!
Hi Christine
So pleased you had such a wonderful day. Your pictures are amazing it looks fabulous my Daughter is a real Harry Potter fan (she is 42yrs old) :-) I would dearly love to take her there it all looks so real amazing how they create those sets.
Take good care Luv n hugs Annxx
It looks like you both had a fabulous day out Christine! I am sure the wand will do its stuff with Elliott! Sending hugs Susan x
Hi Christine,
It looks like you both had a fantastic day out at the HP studio, what fantaastic phot's memories to cherish forever, I like the treats that Elliot bought, I hope that wand will give you both some magic.
Love and Hugsss Sue x
Hi. Christine and Elliott
It looks like a fantastic time was had by all. Loved seeing all the photographs.
Anne xi
Looks like you both had a fabulous time. Good to escape into a fantasy world for a short while! Just remember Christine when using the wand it's Swish and Flick!!! Lol! Janette
What a fantastic day!!
Bella is much cuter than Bellatrix. Must book up and go.
I didn't even know that was there, but it looks like a ton of fun!
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