I've been having a lot of fun with the Cinema Brittahytta backyard movie night series this year. Not only is the patio looking very nice and so usable with the new wetbar, but I've been updating my director's clapboard each time with the evening's film title & date, and thinking up silly food & decoration ideas when I can ( Read more... )

I made it on the Sunday Sweets edition of the CakeWrecks blog! The blog started with horribly hilarious professional cakes gone wrong, but then she decided to take a break each Sunday with a different theme of really nice cakes. Last week's theme was Harry Potter, and they mentioned they'd do a second round this week, so I humbly submitted my ( Read more... )

I recently saw that the Spanish version of the Muggle's Guide was no longer available on Amazon
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From the promos airing this week on FoodTV, it looks like the Duff Goldman edible Hogwarts that Robert alerted me to awhile ago will finally be airing on Ace of Cakes in the next few weeks. Interesting how the form factor is very similar to my gingerbread Hogwarts, rectangular base, castle high up on the cliff with the cliff about as tall as the ( Read more... )

I created a YouTube account just to host my NBC11 interview in hopes of saving our webserver traffic load...For those of who you haven't seen it already, enjoy! :)

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I got email late Saturday night from an editor at Epicurious.com asking how my party went and if I had any new recipes...here's the article live!

http://www.epicurious.com/features/blogs/editor/2007/07/harry-potter-re.html

:D

We're still collecting party photos from people, plus I did clean up the absolutely necessary stuff, but decided to relax & read vs. thoroughly clean up & take decor photos yesterday (no spoilers please since I'm only 2/3rds through!) but there are quite a few good pix here already:

http://gallery.britta.com/Year7I don't have the video yet of my ( Read more... )

It's all over! 78 total guests throughout the party! 5 less than the Year Six party, with a lot more room to move at this house, plus thankfully only in the 80s vs. 100+ degrees! Only 15 of them were kids, then plus Bud the dog again, who even got Sorted this year ( Read more... )

After going to sleep at 5am (ugh!) I set my alarm for 8am so I could iron my white shirt for my Gryffindor student uniform while my eyes were waking up enough for my contact lenses. Still in my bathrobe at 9am, at my door arrives Kevin, aka Kevvy the House-Elf who already cut all the butterbeer labels for me last Saturday, saying "I thought you'd ( Read more... )

Oh my gosh...NBC11 just called and their feature reporter really wants to do the story but he's the live at 10am guy, so he'll be here with the truck & broadcast mast at 9:30!!! I gotta set my alarm to be hair & makeup ready before they get here ( Read more... )