Planning a wake for...

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Mhochberg at a... wrote:

> 
> 
> Thank you so much! I hadn't looked at the Potter Parties link
> in a very  long time and there is so much more there now! There
> are a lot of ideas I can incorporate too. ...
>  
> Making magic books is certainly easy plus I already have a box
> of books and bottles I use to decorate for Halloween (for example,
> I remove the labels from bottles of cranberry juice and replace
> them with one that say "Dragon's Heart  Blood."  Apple juice 
> becomes "Acromantula Venom," etc. There are canning jars filled
> with large plastic lizard tails, plastic bones, etc, and  
> appropriately labeled too. ...
>  
> ---Mary
> There's no thief like a bad book. --Italian  Proverb


bboyminn:

Butterbeer recipies are nice but few of them actually come close to
the apparent delicious taste expressed in the books. However, Vanilla
Cream Soda is a good substitute, and there are a couple places on the
internet when you can get labels to paste on soda (or beer) to turn it
into butterbeer.

At this costume website, they scanned the labels from two different
brands of vanilla creme soda and edited them in a graphics program to
make butterbeer labels. They are very very nice.

http://www.costumes.org/tara/1pages/harrypotterbeer.htm

Here is a butterbeer label (very basic) that was made from scratch in
a graphics program.

http://www.jedigurl.com/hp/ButterbeerLabel

If nothing else this might give you some ideas. 

Also, to make a tollerable Butterbeer, add a few drops of butterscotch
flavoring to Sprite/7Up, ginger ale, root beer, or vanilla creme. The
butterscotch flavoring can either be ice cream topping, or
concentrated flavoring from the bakery section of your grocery store.
Though I think you wil find, a little flavoring goes a long way.
Despite how great the books make it sound, butterscotch soda is not
really that appealing.

Just a few thoughts.
Steve/bboyminn