Well, hello there and welcome to October! As the kids would say, “it’s been a minute” since I’ve posted on Self-Care Sunday. I’m excited to be back with a whole new self-care series. Years ago, before I moved away from home for the second time (this time for my husband’s job), my brother and I had made some props of potions – mostly Harry Potter inspired. I ended up leaving them with him because I didn’t want to risk them breaking on a cross country move.
So, with Halloween around the corner, I had this idea to re-create some of the potions we made and add some new ones. I love being crafty and it truly nourishes my soul. I thought I would share my versions of these potions with you over the coming months. I will be posting once a week, and let’s just say, there will be many new Self-Care Sunday posts because once I started making them, I’ve just kept adding new ones!
Almost all of the potions that you will see are my take on potions created by Cooking and Craft Chick. She is incredibly creative and offers the best tutorials I have ever seen on YouTube. In each post, I will add her video for reference, so you can follow along if you’re feeling crafty, too. If you like this series, please go check her out and subscribe to her channel – she is amazing!
On to our first potion for the series…Gillyweed! This potion allows a witch or wizard to grow gills on their neck and webbing between their toes and fingers so they can breathe underwater and navigate easily.
Ingredients that I used:
- Glass Bottle
- Green Dish Soap
- Silk Greens (I got mine from Michael’s)
- Cooking Skewer
- Jute Twine
- Potion Label
Speaking of potion labels, C&CC (Cooking and Craft Chick) is kind enough to link all of the labels she has created in the description of her videos. If you use them, please don’t sell them or anything you make with them on it. They are for personal use only. I print the designs out on shipping labels (Avery 8165). You can get them here.
I opted out of adding moss to the bottle, but I like how it looks with the different seaweedy looking greens.
Here’s my finished Gillyweed:
Did you try to make this potion? Have you made any others? I would love to know in the comments!
