it’s been almost a week since Christmas and I have finally found some time to sit down and write this to tell/show you what I got for Christmas. the first gift I got was a Pickett Funko Pop! since the Crimes of Grindelwald funko pops came out I really really wanted the baby Nifflers and pickett because they are one of my favorite beasts and they are so cute! then I got the original screenplay book from Fantastic Beast and the Crimes of Grindelwald. since it came out I saw it in a few stores and a lot on Instagram but I had to contain myself not to buy it because I asked it for Christmas. I love it so much I already read 2/3 of the book. next I got this Crimes of Grindelwald official 2019 calendar. 4 weeks earlier I bought the new harry potter calendar, when my mom saw that I asked this calendar for Christmas she said ‘I thought you just bought a calendar?’ I said yes but I’ll hang the harry potter one in my bedroom and this one in my workroom/harry potter room and she just laughed. I love all the arts they did in this calendar it is probably my favorite calendar I have ever had. And as last gift I got was the archive of magic: the film wizardry of Fantastic Beast and the Crimes of Grindelwald. I absolutely love this book all the story about the characters, places and all the beautiful photos. I highly recommend to get this book if you haven’t gotten it yet. this year I didn’t ask for a lot of gifts but I am so happy with the gifts I got and had a wonderful Christmas and I hope you did to!!!
I also wish all of you a great 2019 and let’s see what great and fun things 2019 brings us!😊❤️🎆
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Last week me and my friend (Marielle) went a day shopping in Eindhoven. After almost 2 hours with the train we arrived in Eindhoven. First, we went to eat something the place we went to was zoet&zout (I leave a link to their website) if you ever plan to going to Eindhoven I defiantly recommend this place. After lunch we to the PRIMARK to see if they had any of the new harry potter stuff they released recently. On the first floor with the women’s clothing and beauty I couldn’t find any harry potter stuff. Then we went to the ‘basement floor’ where most of the home stuff, nightwear, shoes and underwear was and we found a huge section at the home wear with harry potter stuff. They had all the new house pillows and blankets, mugs, pillows, amortentia candle, muggels candle, honey dukes candles, pajamas giftset, duvet covers, notebooks, pencils, bunting, week planner, quills, pencil case, gift bag and honey dukes lights. As you can red and see on the pictures they had A LOT of harry potter stuff. Then we moved to the second floor with more women’s clothing and accessories and again by the accessories the had 2 small displays with harry potter stuff. They had all of the house pins, the backpack with patches on it, ‘ don’t let the muggels get you down’ keychain, Buckbeak keychain, monster book of monsters keychain, all house uniform keychains, Hogwarts letter bag, house scrunchies, Hogwarts black backpack, brown satchel bag, all house headbands, Slytherin lanyard, snitch head band, all houses head bands, various ring sets, ‘ wingardium leviosa’ necklace, the knight bus jewelry set, 9 ¾ coin purse, button set with all of the houses, Hogwarts crossbody bag and a few snitch birthstone bracelets. They didn’t have a lot of harry potter clothing items: a few t-shirts, all of the houses sweatpants and all of the houses sweaters. Again, they had a lot of harry potter stuff here to. The things I got are the advanced potion making pencil holder/box I bought this one more for decor then to use it as a pencil holder, one of the honey dukes candles in the scent sherbet lemons, muggles candle, the Slytherin ring set and a Slytherin uniform keychain, Slytherin note book because you can never have to many note books. I also 2 non-harry potter things 1 set of matte grey fake nails and 1 set of black holographic fake nails. After PRIMARK we went to van Piere my #2 favorite bookstore. we looked around for a bit and then we headed to the harry potter section ;). I saw that they had the illustrated version of harry potter and the philosopher stone in paperback (it cost between 20 and 25 euro can’t remember the exact price) I was debating on buying it but I think I’m going to put it on my Christmas list. I did get ‘the tales of beedle the bard’ to complete my collection. Then we went to the same comic book shop I went the first time I went to Eindhoven called EPPO. They have a lot of comic books and collectors’ stuff. There I found Ginny in her quidditch outfit. After going to another few stores I decided to go back to the PRIMARK to get some more harry potter stuff. When we went there they had stocked up some more of the harry potter stuff. I got another honey dukes candle in the scent sherbet lemons, Slytherin sweatpants, house button set, the Hedwig mug, they also had a few pajamas and socks (I didn’t make photo of those). They also had some house themed slippers perfect for the cold weather, I did get a pair of those. After that we ate some dinner and went back home. And here are close up photos and the prices of the things I got:
the tales of needle the bard paperback €7,50 Ginny Weasley in quidditch uniform €15,99
Last Friday me and my friend (Mariëlle) went a day shopping in Amsterdam. After a 2 hour long train ride we arrived in Amsterdam. We ate something and made our way in to the city. First we went into the Primark in search for harry potter stuff. I found these beautiful slytherin pins so far these are my favorite pin set Primark has made so far. Next my eyes saw the cutes keychains I have ever seen. I absolutely love the design of buckbeak and the mandrake, Sadly I couldn’t find the pin set with some of the animals. And i also found a new button set I hadn’t seen before. I'm defiantly gonna decorate one of my bags with the pins, buttons and keychains. Then we moved on to the home decor section of the Primark, when I saw the harry potter section I almost ran towards it.
They had a lot of the new stuff and stuff that has been there for a while. Primark is really killing it with all of the new harry potter stuff.One of the new items Primark brought out I really wanted where the honey dukes lights and the harry, Hermione and Hogwarts express photo clips/holders. And they had them!! I was so happy that this Primark had them. The paint job on the photo clips/holders is amazing and the lights are so cute.Then there were all of the pillows there were so much to choose from. I couldn’t choose which pillow I wanted so I let Mariëlle choose one and she choose the pillow with the glasses and lightning bolt. I really love the back of this pillow with all of the glasses, lightning bolts and stars. Then I went looking for the harry potter candles, sadly they didn’t have them but I did found the trinket dish by the sale stuff. They had a lot of other Harry Potter stuff at this primark wich you can see in the pictures down below the Harry Potter home decor section at the Primark in Amsterdam After the Primark we went to a few other stores where I didn’t buy anything but Mariëlle did. Then we went to one of my favorite bookstore; Waterstones. I absolutely love this bookstore I gives me the feeling of an really old bookstore/library which I love. Like always they had a lot of harry potter stuff. I picked up the last 2 books I was missing to complete the whole series of harry potter books. Then I saw ‘houses of Hogwarts creativity journal’ when I flipped through it looked fun to do when you’re on vacation or in your free time. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter Houses of Hogwarts creativity journal After Waterstones we went to lush where I bought secret arts jelly bath bomb. I already have taken a bath with it and it smells amazing. The bath turned a beautiful black with pink and it had glitter which made the bath sparkle. The jelly felt kind of weird but funny. The only down side was that it stained the bath and myself a bit. I spent around 10 minutes getting the residue of the bath and I had some residue around my neck and shoulders. But besides that I really liked it and highly recommend it to try out yourself. Secret Arts Jelly Bath Bomb After we were done shopping we walked around Amsterdam a little more and then we decided to go back to the train station and start the journey back home. When we arrived at the station we had to wait around 45 min until the next train came, so we decided to go to Starbucks and get a drink. I got a coffee Frappuccino and Mariëlle got a strawberry’s and cream Frappuccino. When we seated in the train we talked a bit and both read some out of our books and enjoyed the view.
XX Merel Here are some more pictures: Yesterday me and my mom went shopping in Eindhoven which was super fun. 1 of the reasons for me to go to Eindhoven was the Primark because of all the harry potter stuff they have and let me tell you they had a lot. They had a whole harry potter section nearby the beauty things. They had a lot of pajama’s a few t- shirt these really cute tote bags with each one of the house crest on them and also one with the Hogwarts crest. Also they had a 2 different backpacks with the Gryffindor or Hogwarts crest, make up bags in each house, shopping bags in different sizes, and brown or black handbags with the Hogwarts crest on them, lot of different socks but most of the sock hung in the sock section of the Primark. And the primary reason why I wanted to go to the Primark where the homeware things which are mugs a white one with the Hogwarts crest on it or a mug with ‘don’t let the muggles get you down’, mason jar made out of clay whit all the house crest on them and polyjuice potion, a small chalk board, 4 coasters with the house crests on them, a black blanket with white H all over it, a door hanger with ‘no muggles beyond this point’ which they also had in a fantastic beasts version with the lock of his case with ‘muggle worthy’ and a duvet cover with on the front the marauders map on it and on the other side different symbols from harry potter. That’s most of the stuff I can remember and probably all the harry potter stuff they have. I was really disappointed that they didn’t have the light box with the Dumbledore quote but in a week I’m going to Rotterdam with my family and hopeful they have it there. Of course I bought some of the stuff that I listed above and here are pictures of things i bought with the prices: Polyjuice potion mason jar €5,00
And here are some things I didn’t buy but remember the price from: Coasters €5,00 Blanket €6,00 or €8,00 Mugs €3,50 Duvet cover €20,00 T-shirts €8,00 Socks between €3,00 and €5,00 Most of the pajama’s pants and tops where between €8,00 and €10,00 After the Primark we went to a store my mom really wanted to go to after that we went to a bookstore I wanted check out because there they had a lot of English books and in bookstore’s in my neighborhood they always have a really small section of English books or I have to order them online. If your planning on going to Eindhoven I would really recommend going to that bookstore because its huge and has a lot of different types of books from fantasy to literature, cookbooks, children’s books and travel books. And I would definitely recommend it if you like to read English books because they had a lot of them. Downstairs in the right corner of the bookstore they had a bookcase full of harry potter and fantastic beast books in Dutch and English. There I found Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone it’s the first Harry Potter book I have and are going to read. You can say that I’m not a real harry potter fan because I haven’t read the books but when I got into liking harry potter I didn’t really had the time or didn’t feel like it to read the books and a movie was easier because you could play the movie while doing something. But because I have more free time and I read a lot on Wattpad I thought why not read the harry potter books and the book I was reading (fantastic beasts and where to find them the screenplay) I finished on vacation so I needed a new book. I probably will finish it soon because this school year I have to go with the train for an hour (Bergen op Zoom-Rotterdam) so then I have time to read. They also had these different sticker kits, I already have the golden snitch one from when I went to Amsterdam with a friend and this time I saw Hogwarts castle snow globe which I thought was really cute. Also a thing I liked about the bookstore was that in the bookstore they had a little café where you could drink some coffee or tea and the whole downstairs part of the bookstore smelled like cinnamon. if you want to visit the bookstore I will leave the address and website somewhere on this blogpost. And here are the things I bought:
I really like the cover of this one. I was also doubting to buy Quidditch through the ages but I will probably ask it for Christmas. After that we walked around a bit and bought some party stuff because my father’s Fiftieth birthday is today (11 August). The last store we went to was a comic book bookstore where they sell old comic books and also funko pops. For a while I wanted the newt and picket funko pop but online it is €20,00 plus €5,00 shipping costs so I was wondering if they had it there and maybe the price was a little lower. when we found the funko pop section in the store I was surprised because they had a lot of funko pops. There were a lot of different one you had Disney, tv series / films, games, famous people and more and the prices of most and probably all of them was €17,99 even Ron weasley with his Christmas sweater was €17,99 which normally is between €20,00 and €25,00. I searched for 10 minutes between the 100+ funko pops they had but couldn’t find it so I gave up the hope of finding it but we walked around the store to look if they had more funko pops on a different location in the store. We couldn’t find other funko pops in the store so I again quickly took a look at the funko pop when I finally spotted it! I was so happy to find it and was happy that the price was €17,99 and not €20,00 or more so here it is: Newt Scamander and picket funko pop €17,99 If you want to visit this store I will also leave the address and website somewhere on this blog post.
After that we went back to the railway station and we went back home. I also have few questions for you guys: Of what character (HP or FB) should they make a funko pop? from which country are you? And what do you think of my blog/website? Please leave your answers in the comments I hope you liked this one and help you if you go to Eindhoven. XX Merel. Bookstore: Boekhandel van Piere Nieuwe Emmasingel 48 5611 AM Eindhoven Telefoon: 040 2492002 Email: [email protected] Website: https://www.libris.nl/vanpiere/ Comic bookstore: Eppo stripspecialzaak Kleine berg 33 5611 JS Eindhoven Telefoon: 040 – 2 441 882 Email: [email protected] Facebook: EPPO STRIPS Website: http://eppo.nl/ On February 12 I went with my dad to Harry Potter the exhibition in Utrecht. It was so cool to see all the stuff from the movie’s in real life! We were there at 11AM and it was already really busy. We had to stay in line for about 15 minutes. While we were inline we were asked if we wanted to make a picture I and my dad got each handed a wand (I got the elderly wandJ) and we had to stand in front of a green screen and they made a picture of you and at the end of the exhibition you could pick it up. Our tickets were scanned and we had to wait a few minutes until the group before us was done and we were let in. we got in a room where the sorting hat was when everyone was in the room there was a small sorting ceremony. After the sorting ceremony we were led into another room there we got to see a video with some fragments of the movies. Then we were led into the exhibition and we walked by the Hogwarts express. these were my dad and i's ticket for the exhibition The first thing you saw when you entered was the fat lady it was so cool and you could actually hear her up to the Quidditch part of the exhibition. The exhibition was really busy and you actual had to stand in a line to see everything. The exhibition was divided in different themes there was the sorting, Gryffindor common room, Hagrid’s hut and the great hall. It was really cool and fun to walk around and see all the movie items and clothes from the movie’s. it took me and my dad about 1 and a half hour to walk through the whole exhibition. these are some of the pictures i made At the end of the exhibition we picked up our picture and I bought some souvenirs. I have to say that the souvenirs where quiet expensive for example a chocolate frog €10 and the marauder’s map €30. I bought 4 pins and a t shirt. I also made a list of products that I remembered some of them are with a price and some without a price maybe that will be helpful for you if you want to visit the exhibition. The exhibition is in Utrecht until June 30. these are the thing that i bought at the exhibition. down below is the list with the other souvenirs you can buy at the exhibition. Souvenirs with price Hoodie ( Hogwarts crest) € 25,- T-shirts ( Ravenclaw, Slytherin, Gryffindor or Hufflepuff crest, “have you seen this wizard”, Hogwarts crest, Quidditch keeper) € 20,-/€ 25,- Scarf € 22,- Quil € 8,- Hedwig keyring € 8,- Marauders map € 30,- Robe’s € 75,- Lemon drops € 10,- Pins ( all house crests, ministry of magic, Bertie botts every flavor beans, chocolate frog, Hogwarts crest and the death eater mark) € 7,- Keyrings 12,- Pygmy puff 15,- Hedwig plush 20,- Wand 40,- Note book + pen 25,- Tour book from the exhibition NL/ENG 15,- Chocolate frog 10,- Souvenirs without a price Ravenclaw, Slytherin, Gryffindor or Hufflepuff pen Wanted wizard poster Ravenclaw, Slytherin, Gryffindor or Hufflepuff tie Mugs Peppermint or fudge frogs Bertie botts every flavor beans Ravenclaw, Slytherin, Gryffindor or Hufflepuff lanyard Harry’s glasses And the also had cd’s or audiobooks I couldn’t see it very good. Pictures For the backgrounds you could choose between 6 different designs Hogwarts at night Hogwarts at day Hagrid’s hut Great hall Hedwig and the Hogwarts express prices of the pictures 1 picture € 15 3 pictures € 30 6 pictures € 65 i hope you like this and maybe even helpful
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