Harry Potter: The Beginning of the End

{ via Entertainment Weekly }

I just got this week's EW in the mail today and when I saw this on the cover I immediately flipped to the article. I laughed and welled up with emotions. If you're not aware of it yet, the beginning of the end is near! This month Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 comes out in theaters (desperately excited over here).

I grew up adoring Harry Potter. When the first book came out I was 11 and I was in the 5th grade. For Teacher's Convention weekend (ten years ago this weekend holy cow!) my Mom took me on a trip to Paris and I spent more time with my nose in that book than I did looking at the city! My Mom would always get me the book and we would fight for who got to read it first, since she was also a fan. She would check on me every half hour until I fell asleep, and then she would have to pry the book out of my fingers.

Harry Potter holds some very dear memories for me and I can't believe it's really really really coming to an end! I'm glad that they're doing two installments since the final book has so many amazing parts to it that deserve screen time! Not to mention - there's so much that's crucial to the story line in the final book.

If you've never read the books I highly, HIGHLY recommend them. They are really quite amazing and by far are not children's book. They're magical.

Working on: Screen Printing & Vector Art

Right now I'm working on this self portrait vector. It's been so long since I've done a vector, and I'm glad to be doing one again :) I'm not doing the whole picture, just going to finish the hair and do some of the shirt and shoulders. It'll be like a bust or something. Of sorts.

I'm also very excited because two books I ordered came! Printing by Hand (which is AWESOME, so much inspiration in that book!) and Printmaking and Mixed Media. I've been dying to try some screen printing. One of the projects at the top of my list is some pillows for my bed! Do you screen print? What do you like to make?

Here's some projects from the books:




{ images via Google }