"You're just as sane as I am."

Last night I dressed up as Luna Lovegood for Halloween. For a while I thought about dressing up as Hermione Granger, but everyone convinced me to go as Luna. I'm glad I decided to go with Luna because I had fun putting everything together, plus I came up with more ideas for Luna than for Hermione.

I re-used most of my uniform from last Halloween, except for the tie and patch which had to be switched to Ravenclaw. I was going to get a new skirt because the old one wasn't accurate, but I couldn't find another one and I ran out of time to make it myself. I wanted to get new shoes as well because the ones I had have flowers stamped onto them, but then I thought "Luna probably would have flowers on her shoes" so I just decided to wear those.

I made the radish earring using these instructions a couple of months ago. The butterbeer cork necklace is just a cork attatched to a blue ribbon. I wanted to do a double-stranded necklace with blue seed beads like in the movies, but it would have taken too long. I found two covers of The Quibbler on Google and I just printed them out and attachted them to construction paper.

The wand was carved from a wooden dowel rod and the handle was painted with dark brown paint. I spent three days working on it and I am very happy with how it turned out. The only problem was that it wouldn't stay behind my ear.

This is Luna's wand from the films and I think I got pretty close to matching it.

I have decided to go as Luna to the midnight showing of Deathly Hallows because I am nowhere near completing my Hufflepuff cardigan. I may still wear it to Part 2, but there is no way that it is going to be done in time for Part 1. The only thing I will need to make is a Ravenclaw bag to keep everything in and that shouldn't take too long, I just need to get the yarn.