My Latest Project

I've gone back to work this fall, and my creative projects have taken a back seat to teaching 12-15 preschoolers for 7 hours a day. Which is exhausting, btw.

But I've had the urge to make a Professor Sprout costume for the past several years, so I finally did it. Why? Beats me. Maybe I'll wear it for Halloween. Maybe I'll wear it when the new HP movie debuts in November. Maybe I'm just a nerd who likes the idea of having a Prof Sprout costume hanging in my closet in case of emergency. Doesn't really matter. It's done.

Of all the Hogwarts characters, I feel closest to Pomona. In every online Sorting Hat poll I've ever taken, I'm always placed in Hufflepuff. No, I don't have a green thumb, and I try to stay relatively clean. But the rest of her description (as taken from the WikiPotter page) and her attitude towards her students seem to fit me well:

Professor Sprout was described as being a small and squat woman with grey, flyaway hair.^[6] She usually wore a patched and battered hat.^[6] Her clothes were noted to almost always be covered in dirt and earth, as were her dirty fingernails.^[6] Sprout also almost always had a smile on her face.^[6]

Professor Sprout was noted to be very cheerful, positive and loyal,^[6] but was also very professional and just and would chide her students if necessary.^[38] Thus, Sprout possessed all of the virtues and aspects belonging to Hufflepuff House. She was kind and nurturing to the students...

Besides, I got to make a baby Mandrake root. I found the most gosh-awful looking baby doll at a thrift store, poked a giant hole in its head, shoved fake greenery in it, covered in in dirt and threw it in a pot. Score!!!

The brown graduation robe was also a thrift store find. The pattern for the hat? 99 cents at a Hancock's sale. The Mandrake label? Printed off someone else's blog. All-in-all, a fairly reasonably priced bit of silliness. Yes, I know I need earmuffs. A pair is on its way via Ebay as I type.

What do you think?