The Great Hall Party Room

For the Hogwart's Great Hall I bought 3 packages of  “Design-A-Room Mad Scientist Wall Background” for the walls. I won a bid on ebay.com for 2 LED flame lights to hang from the walls along with the house banners that I was able to borrow from my piano student. Of course no Great Hall would be complete without floating candles so once Halloween came, I purchased tea lights in bulk and proceeded to wrap them in cardstock and used my hot glue gun to create wax along the tops of the candles. As the hot glue dried, I attached invisible string to the candles so that when they were hung they would look as if they were floating. To hang the candles in the Great Hall without damaging the paint on my ceiling I used Command Decorating Clips and had my brother 30 min before the guests arrived switch on the candles using a chopstick. I was EXTREMELY blessed that my brother’s girlfriend had read all the Harry Potter books and knew exactly how I wanted my living room to be decorated with all these supplies I had prepared, because I had to put all my time into the Hogwart’s Castle birthday cake on the day of the party. She and my brother did a wonderful job! The room looked truly amazing when they put up all the decorations and set the tables with the gold goblets and gold paper plates.