Hallmark

[Brooks R]

No: HPFGUIDX 4516

My minor-mall-right-by-work combined Hallmark-cards-&-ornaments/
bookstore said they had the Harry ornaments in back, and they would
be 
out on display by the end of theweek - 

So I went to the major-mall-closest-to-work after work to the full 
scale Hallmark store there, and i barely escaped within a credit
limit.

There are beautiful little two inch snow globes, depicting the 
different challenges of the obstacle course to the Stone from Book I; 
they had the pewter ornaments; they had girl's diaries with morphing 
covers depicitng 'wizard props' and Hermione; they had notepad
holders 
of clouds and Harry on broom after Snitch (with tape around his 
glasses!); they had a Gringott's bank with a smiling goblin, and the 
bottom had a transparent front - where your coins landed was a vault, 
with a picture of Harry peering in through the door in the back wall
of 
it, and mounds of silver, gold and bronze molded onto the vault
floor!  
There was giftwrap and gift bags and a calendar (which became a
picture 
frame with Hogwarts once you used up the calendar) - the B. Daltons
and 
the Waldens bookstores at this mall also had the long-expected
calendar 
-
there was a Hagrid door plaque saying 'Wizards only' (think I have
also 
seen this at WB) - there were metal bookmarks with character pictures 
on them -  and there was more in the catalog the attendant showed me, 
that is not in yet, including the bookends with Harry and Hermione.  
There were pens that light up - the mugs they are getting will be 
different from the WB ones - 

I might have actually bought more than I did, but I had also happened 
to find some of the Sandman collectibles had been marked down to half 
at the comic store I stopped at earlier, and, well.... there went my 
budget already this evening.....I bought the Endless pewter set for 
half price......

I warned Vicki 'as you value your budget, stay away from the Hallmark 
store'.....( a line from that great Sherlock Potter classic, the
Hound 
of the Dumbledores.....)

-Brooks