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The Tales of Beadle the Bard 

JK Rowling

Available to pre-order now. Release date: 4 December 2008

The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Collector's Edition (Offered Exclusively by Amazon)

by J. K. Rowling

Amazon Price: $100.00 (as of 09/05/2008)

The Standard Edition features all five fairy tales from the original The Tales of Beedle the Bard , a new introduction by J.K. Rowling, illustrations reproduced from the original handcrafted book, and commentary on each of the tales by Professor Albus Dumbledore.
The Collector's Edition is exclusive to Amazon. The cover design resembles the handcrafted original, bought by Amazon at auction. The book is contained in a special box that looks like a Hogwart's wizarding textbook. The Collector's Edition includes a reproduction of J.K. Rowling's handwritten introduction, as well as 10 additional illustrations not found in the Standard Edition. Your copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard is contained in the book box, inside a velvet bag embroidered with J.K. Rowling's signature. The book is designed with a metal skull, metal corners and clasp, replica gemstones, and emerald ribbon.

Make a Harry Potter cloak 

Use a piece of black sheeting and an equal sized sheet of the house-colour you wish to make the cloak for - red for Gryffindor; gold/yellow for Hufflepuff; blue for Ravenclaw; green for Slytherin.

Sew three sides together inside out.

To make it quicker and easier to sew the final side, turn the right way out and sew the final side and glue or sew a black or matching coloured ribbon folded over the raw edge to hide it. This is the bottom edge.

Optional hood:

Sew two smaller squares of black and coloured fabric together.

Fold in half with the colour outside, and sew across the top.

Glue matching ribbon over the seam to hide it as this will show when the hood is down.

Glue or sew black ribbon around the outer raw edge of the hood to neaten it.

Attach the hood to the cloak and arrange so that the cloak has some slack at the shoulders.

Finishing off:

Sew four or five buttons down the front of the chest area and sew a corresponding loop of ribbon on the other side.

Glue or sew the appropriate house badge on the left side of the chest.

See the instructions here for all the Harry Potter accessories.

The image seen here is the fibre-optic cloak from Costume Craze.

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Gryffindor Cloak from Costume Craze

Hooded satin-lined velvet cloak in Gryffindor colours with embroidered emblem. Official licenced merchandise.

Slytherin Cloak from Costume Craze

Hooded cloak in black and green Slytherin colours with embroidered emblem. Official licenced merchandise.

Hogwarts cloak from Costume Craze

Hooded cloak with battery-operated fibre-optic effects. Official licenced merchandise.

Gryffindor Quidditch robes from Costume Craze

Hooded crimson Quidditch robes with Gryffindor emblem. Officially licensed product.

Harry Potter hats from The Village Hat Shop

Get your very own Sorting Hat! Or how about Professor McGonagall's or Professor Dumbledore's hat?

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Harry Potter accessories

Instructions for making all the Harry Potter accessories. Or go through the lenses one by one below.

Part 1: Make a wizard's wand

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Part 2: Make a flying broomstick

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Part 3: Make Mad-Eye Moody's mad eye

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Part 4: Make Hogwarts house badges

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Part 5: Make a wizard's cloak

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Part 6: Make Hogwarts house tunics

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Part 7: Make Hogwarts house scarves

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The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Standard Edition

by J. K. Rowling

Featuring all five fairy tales from the original The Tales of Beedle the Bard , a new introduction by J.K. Rowling, illustrations reproduced from the original handcrafted book, and commentary on each of the tales by Professor Albus Dumbledore.

Amazon Price: $7.59 (as of 09/05/2008)

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Tell us about the Harry Potter accessories you've made! 

EelKat I just made a new group, for CosPlay-Anime-Manga type lenses. Sending along an invitation to come join it! http://www.squidoo.com/groups/CosPlay Posted March 29, 2008

Tiddledeewinks I like the cape! Nice job. Posted February 03, 2008

Music-Resource Hi Daoine, Wonderful HP Cloak lens. I used to love to design my own varied Halloween costumes. This lens brings back the memories. Thanx :) ~Music Resource~ Posted January 21, 2008

EelKat Great lens. 5*s. I make capes and robes of pana velvet. Glad to see others doing this too! I've got a HP group you can join if you like: http://www.squidoo.com/groups/S-Snape-Lovers-A-Nonny-Mouse Posted August 18, 2007

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