Harry Potter Awesome Art Roundup Vol. 8

I can always tell when my least favorite season is ending and Fall is almost here with the arrival of my favorite holiday - Harry Potter's birthday! While I meant to make this post for that day, now works just as well because I'm a busy lady and you know...life? 

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Instagram was partaking in #potterweekprompts2019 and it has provided me with a million things I want to post here. 

So here are my favorite most awesome Harry Potter art pieces!

(all artists are linked under their art, unless it says so all usernames are from insta)

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I can't get that lil arrow off Vera's adorable Harry & Hagrid, so annoying sorry!

Vera Zaytseva Illustration

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Julie has sooooo many I would love to post,

here's a favorite - just some chatty hats!

professors love sweets too!

julie_rada

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!!!this trolley cart!!!

Anastasia Romakhina

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another wonderful cart, with trolley witch!

Katya Beskova (magicforestory)

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more sweets!

Mori Raito (mori_raito)

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love this Luna

Samantha Fowler (samillustrates)

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I am OBSESSED with Ellie's style so you're getting her

whole week of promts!

Ellie Morlino (elliemation)

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I love Alexa's style, here are a few of hers!

Aleksandra D. Chabros (alexadelaida)

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I can't find the real artist for this one,

but I love Herm's side eye 

please holler if you have the source!

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it looks like this was taken off etsy

since I saved it but just look at his smile!

Melody wang (etsy)

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I'm not big into Fantastic Beasts but this was too cute.

Asta Wu (asta-art on tumblr)

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what's a roundup without Nastja?

Nastja (dasstark)

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one more Newt for fun

trechos-of-books (tumblr)

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headcannon of future looks accepted

plus some leapin' Weasleys!

plus plus one more Newt

Helder Oliveira (holiventrae)

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alright how do I wrap this up?

 I have enough art to keep going forever, 

but let's end with my loves, the trio!

plus Sir Nicholas for good measure =)

Anastasia (ealince)

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I hope you guys enjoyed this roundup, keep your eyes out for vol. 9

coming soon!

til next time,

Maggie

HP Bakes: Pumpkin Pasties

So...I'm going to start with a disclaimer. There is no pumpkin in these pasties. 

Hear me out...they taste like pumpkin! AND they're more flavorful than any other pumpkin pasties I've ever had! So we're going to cheat a little and call them Pumpkin Pasties because we all love some Harry Potter food! =)

These pasties were a contest winner at work and I ate one and fell in love. They're amazing, and even better when they're hot! You can find the original recipe here , I've only added a little pumpkin spice to make it nice!

Ingredients

4-1/2 cups self-rising flour

3 tablespoons sugar

1/2 cup shortening

2 Eggs

1 cup milk

FILLING:

3 cups mashed sweet potatoes

2 cups sugar

3 Eggs, lightly beaten

1 can (5 ounces) evaporated milk

1/4 cup butter, melted

3 tablespoons all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon Pumpkin Pie Spice

Oil for deep-fat frying

Confectioners' sugar, optional

Directions

1. In a large bowl, combine flour and sugar; cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Combine eggs and milk; add to crumb mixture, tossing with a fork until a ball forms. Cover and chill several hours.

2. In a large bowl, combine the seven filling ingredients; stir until smooth. Divide the dough into 25 portions. On a floured surface, roll each portion into a 5-in. circle. Spoon 2 tablespoons of filling on half of each circle. Moisten edges with water; fold dough over filling and press edges with a fork to seal. Prick tops with a fork 4-5 times.

(OK here's my MK edit, after you fill your pies I recommend freezing them. It's so much easier to fry them in a consistent way! You don't have to, but think about it.)

3. In a cast-iron or electric skillet, heat 1/2 in. of oil to 375°. Fry pies, in batches, until golden brown, 1 minute. Drain on paper towels. If desired, dust with confectioners' sugar. Store in the refrigerator.

For your next HP party, make these and TRUST me they will be gone in minutes. 

Let me know if you try them!

til next time,

Maggie

Harry Potter Awesome Art Roundup Vol 10

Hiya and welcome to the Harry Potter Awesome Art Roundup...volume ten!

Since this is the tenth anniversary roundup I'm going for all the arts!

First off,
"Under the stairs" by George Bletsis

those lil lenses.




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Fang and Buckbeak would be friends! by Georgie Monica

Georgie also does adorable 3D art like these cute Hermoine, Ron, Nevelle and Luna trunks =)

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I used to be really into Pinterest, but they took away a lot of great features that make it user friendly.

For example, this photo was uploaded with no link and no artist tagged! what the heck!

and there are SO.MANY.PINS like this!

Here are my "lost inks" of Pinterest, if you know the artist please let me know and I'll add credit!!

This style is so cute, I love their concentration

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BB's!

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this JJ watermark is doing nothing to help me...but I love the art!

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Thank god Lily Lu put a watermark on her art because 

beautiful HP watercolors are my kryptonite 

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speaking of great watercolors

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this must have been a set of wonderful phone lock sceens

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why ya trying to make me cry random person??

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Searching the watermark also led me to this great sketch of the trio by Miranda Moorhead

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totally into Atalienart 's style and wonderful works. 

Love this lil Lupin gif art

Halloween Harry 

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Stephen Byrne did an entire group work of the cast animated style!

He's got a great portfolio if you check him out with HP, Avengers, etc. PLUS by finding this I found out Meg Cabot (of the Princess Diaries) is writing Black Canary! Awesome!

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Naomi Lord is just wonderful. So. Many. Prints. I want to buy.

throwing my baby avengers in here just because.

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I think I've put PetitPotato on this roundup before but 

I don't recognize this cute one. ALSO I can't tag the blog because my

work computer thinks "tit" in petit is bad...

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Jannplansthings 's instagram is full of wonderful doodles.

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o0o0o0 more gif art. Thanks J. Park!

ALSO this captions make the art even better. 

Like Oliver Wood and Family:

"I remember reading a post saying that Oliver Wood would have seven kids just so he can have his very own quidditch team and it compelled me to draw this. So here, he married Katie Bell because I remember reading some really lovely fics about these two back in my HP fandom days and they’re both cute so they might as well be cute together   ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  (and, once again, the original Gryffindor team is everything)"

"A small family reunion! 

Re-reading Deathly Hallows has gotten me emotional over the Weasleys all over again. Fred’s death and Percy’s reaction to it really did a number on me. And while I highly doubt George and Percy became BFFs after the war, I do have a headcanon where Percy has a very special connection with his nephew, Fred. He’s still most likely super uptight and strict regarding just about everything but, whenever he sees his nephew getting a little mischievous, he’ll secretly sort of love it. "

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ALRIGHTY

So last but not least are ten wonderful portraits I can't really find credit for.

Figures.

Here's where I found them, but I don't think that's the artist.

That's all for this tenth awesome Harry Potter art roundup!

I hope you enjoyed it, 

until next time,

Maggie