Handmade Quidditch Brooms

Our family partook in one of our 

FAVORITE October rituals

this past weekend with a 

visit to the town of 

Waterford's Craft Fair.

Kettle Corn,

Apple Butter,

Caramel Apples, 

Candle Dipping,

and this year....

Broom Making!

My two little 

Harry Potter-obsessed girls

each got their own

custom-made

before our very eyes,

heirloom quality

(and for a FANTASTIC price)

brooms.

One of the vendors ths year, 

Marlow,

from Friendswood Brooms 

(go check out their site and look at their gallery of gorgeous brooms!)
from Leicester, North Carolina

was more than happy to help the girls

select broom handles and straw,

then sat down with his antique foot wheel

and made our brooms before our very eyes. 

The girls

(and their mama and papa)

were in hand-made heaven!

"C" picked all hand-dyed

blacky-blue bristles for her broom.

"E" chose to mix the black-blue with the natural straw.

The handles are made from branches collected 

along the banks of the French Brood River

in Asheville, North Carolina.

"C"'s is Hawthorn wood

and "E"'s is Beech.

Both are lovely. 

Mama is saving up for her own

cobweb or sweeping broom next year! 

We even got to make our own 

tiny brooms

for our Barbie dolls.

The coolest part...

is that Marlow's birthday is October 31st

(Halloween)

how very fitting for a 

gifted maker of magical brooms!

Fondly,

pink and green mama