Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, White Queen Costume

So after seeing Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland this year, I was determined to make a costume to be the White Queen, played by Anne Hathaway. I always make my costumes, and swear against using any "off-the-store-shelf" costumes. This costume was definitely the hardest I have ever made, and took over 50 hours of work.

Difficulty: Moderate
Time to Make: 20-50 hours
Time to get ready (day of): 1 hour

What You Will Need:

-A ballgown wedding dress: I started with the base of a used wedding dress. It really is the only way to go unless you are insanely good at sewing and can make one, I would find something to start with. You will need a ballgown style dress with a fitted top. Although the dress in the movie looks white, in pictures it seems more off-white/ivory, so I got an ivory dress with silver threading.

-Fabric to modify the dress: I had to take the sleeve off of the dress and add the organza flowing sleeves instead. It took me 4 yards of organza (more because I played trial and error with 2 yards tho)

-4-5 yards patterned lace: you can buy it by the yard I found a good match at JoAnns

-4-5 packages beads: A small pearl, large pearls, standard metal cylinder beads, I used a silver metal beads for the pearls, with small clear beads as spacers

- Needles and strong thread

-A sewing machine will make it easier, but depending on how many modifications you are making, it may be possible without one. I only used the machine when I re-did the sleeves, so if you are not doing that part, the beads and lace, I did by hand.

-Optional Under Skirt/Slip/Crinoline: I got another poofy slip to go underneath the dress and add fullness. They are 50-80 dollars new, but if you look at local classifieds for ones included with wedding dresses, some people may be willing to sell you just that piece. That is what I did and got my crinoline for $25.

-A white blonde wig: Like I said, I stay away from standard costume stores. Costume wigs also never seem realistic and get tangled and look cheap. I got this wig at The Accessory Store, (I've seen them in a lot of malls) and it is called White Goddess, and was $40. If you are looking elsewhere, you need to be careful finding one that is not too blonde, but also not all the way white. It will be tricky, I looked at a LOT of places before finding this one. You will need one that is 36+ inches with loose curls and preferably a part in the middle.

-Optional, White cap: My hair is really dark, so you could still she a dark base with the wig. I just got a little white cap from Wal-Mart for $1.50 and wore it underneath. It also helped the wig not itch my head so much.

- White foundation make up: DO NOT GET HALLOWEEN MAKE UP!!! I tried this first and my face was flaky and disgusting within 4 hours. For my second trial I just got the whitest real make up foundation and a white powder. I used L'Oreal Visible Lift Liquid Foundation in 102 Soft Ivory and then Revlon's Photo Ready Translucent Finisher in 001 Translucent. I don't think it is really supposed to make you whiter, but if you apply it with a sponge rather than the included blush brush, you will get the needed result. I also used a redness reducing base before (since I have a naturally redder complexion). You will want to put the make up on your face and neck (and back or your neck/shoulders) down to the dress line. Then on my arms I mixed the foundation with a regular body lotion for easier application. (Also, though I am pretty white normally, so you may need to do full make up still on your arms and hands)

-A dark brow liner: A liner may look too thick and unnatural, so you might wanna try a dark dark brown powder and brush it on your real eyebrows instead. This is what I did and then just filled in a little more than normal.

-A dark burgundy lipstick and liner: In the movie her lips are purple sometimes and red other times. In pictures it is a dark red and that is what I went with, although I tried purple too. The best purple was Revlon's Super Lustrous Lipstick in 663 Va Va Violet. The burgundy I used and liked the most was L'Oreal's Infallible Lip Colour in 790 Kate's Plum. This one was good too because it is a stain and then has a gloss included. It lasted all night, whereas the purple needed to be reapplied every hour or so.

-A pearl choker. I started making one from leftover lace from the dress, but it scratched my neck and was uncomfortable so... some kind of choker is necessary though.

-Black nail polish: on a short nail.

Costume Directions:

You've probably figured out most of the directions just from the supplies you will need. I started with a wedding dress and then added lace and beads to look like the dress from the movie. You need to add lace in the same of a "V" down the front the a renaissance style. Make the point of the V go a little lower than the nature waist line of the dress. and spread it wide. Then string the beads you would like and run the beads across the front in parallel horizontal lines. Measure first. Then probably leave one side untied, try on the dress and then pull it to where it needs to be to be even with the other beads. (I tried to just measure it, and then when I got it on, the beads across the bust were tighter than all the rest.)

I also added lace around the waist off the dress. I took the sleeves off and made organza sleeves like in the movie. I am not a professional seamstress by any means. This is what took the longest, so if you can find a work around I would suggest pursuing some other options. I created a pocket like seam at the bottom to run a ribbon through and bunch up and tie.

That was most of what I did on the dress, and I talked about the make up in the supplies above. I had to style the wig, it was all ready parted in the middle, then I pulled back the front and secured it with bobby pins with a decorative flower.

And that's about it. I loved my costume when it was done and had tons of people asking to take pictures with me and such. It was a fun project, but is no small undertaking. If you are up for it though, good luck and have fun!

Why Potter Palooza?

I have been a fan of Harry Potter ever since reading the first book at age 13, however I didn't mature enough to accept the full burden of fan-dom, until the 7th book or so (since by then I was already married, I didn't need to worry about scaring away the opposite sex with my immense nerdiness). As I grew into the adult side of Harry Potter love, I saw a whole new world open up to me. This shift in life allowed me to take things into my own hands and show the world what being a supporter of Harry James Potter really meant. Therefore, Potter Palooza was born. A celebration of the life and times of Harry Potter, in honor of the final movie release (would have been great to do this for the books as those are the truer representation of HP, but as mentioned, I was not prepared at that point in life just yet). So here are the details of the event ten years in the making: Potter Palooza 2011!


THE PREPARATIONS:
In preparation for PP11 I created a Hogwarts acceptance letter and Marauder's Map  of what my Hogwarts would look like (keep in mind this is before I had set anything up so I was crossing my fingers that it all worked out as planned). I sent these around as links, although I would have liked to mail them on parchment with wax seals and everything, or delivery by Owl post but that didn't work out so I ended up with this: 

This was really difficult and took 16 hours or so to make.

This was pretty easy using Word and images I found online

 THE DECORATIONS:
I wanted to have classrooms spread out around my house where people could do different activities (see below) so I needed a lot of decorations to scatter around.

For Potions I got glass potion bottles and corks at all the craft stores in the area, and had around 20. I filled them with colored water, soap, oil, and some slimy eyes and things I found at PartyLand. I also found some small brass pitchers and knick-knacks at the local thrift store (Deseret Industries). Then some Halloweens skulls added to the appeal. Luckily I had a stone wall already equipped with fireplace and antique shelving to suit the Potions Class needs.




Transfiguration was easier because most of the space was taken up by the chalkboard (over my TV see below). Also, since I was doing an Owl craft, I used a few owl knick-knacks and other standard objects that might be transfigured in the books. The wire owl shown here came from Hobby Lobby (my new favorite store) and the other things from JoAnns. On the other side I has a tea pot and some books.

Divination

I really wanted Divination to be flowery, flowing, and organic. I used a square end table, and overstuffed arm chair, and the corner piece of my sectional for the furniture in this section. I tpoped the table with an ivory lace cloth, crystal ball, tea pot and cup with saucer, an incense burner, and Tarot cards (found at Barnes & Noble). I also hung a curtain behind each chair to kind of close of the area. I also had two floor lamps pulled from another room to kind of book end the rounded sectional piece. It turned out really good.

Runes Course Books

Ancient Runes was pretty easy except I had a huge table and not that many decorations. I found some craft and thrift store items, and then I made these 'text books' from a cheaper photo album set from Walmart. I just drew on them with a gold pen and made a set of Ancient Runes Course books. Also, since I was having the guests to an anagram activity here (see below) I knew people would need pens or pencils to use, but Muggle utensils like that would not suffice for PP11 so I made quills by getting roller pen refils (from Office Depot) and quill feathers (Hobby Lobby) and hot gluing them together. The result was rather nice, if I do say so myself.

Herbology was really cute, but I didn't get pictures before the wind forced it down. I just had a bunch of plants, pots, flowery boxes, and curly willow all around. I also put the edible Fruits and Fungi's out there a pudding dirt cups.


In the Great Hall I made as much space as possible and as much seating as I had. All the food was on my regular kitchen table, its good because it's a large square counter height table, already antiqued for the job of acting in a Harry Potter movie. Then I had the Pumpkin Juice and Butterbeer on the island. People could meander around and get food and drinks and have a place to sit too. This is where were read the answers for the anagram and Bertie Bott's Bean challenge and also held the Wizard's Duel (see below).

Coming off the Great Hall is a second level deck which I turned into the Quidditch Stands. I just set up a 10x10 canopy and some taller chairs and stools so people could sit out there and look down onto the quidditch pitch. No one really went out there though, so it was kind of a waste. Here you can see the quidditch pitch down below and the quidditch stands on the deck:

THE ACTIVITIES:
All I really had in mind when I started planning Potter Palooza 2011 (PP11) was that I wanted to have classes where people do different activities and get points for a House Cup like competition. This stayed intact through all of the prep, and I ended up with 5 'classes' and a couple other areas of interest:
Tansfiguration
Potions
Divination
Ancient Runes
Herbology
Defense Against the Dark Arts (just the Wizard's Duel)
The Great Hall
Quidditch Pitch (and Stands)
Wee Wizard's World

When people arrived they were sorted by the sorting hat and assigned to a house. I had people put a sorting hat on and draw out a plastic ring with the house crests on them. This worked good and gave the people something to wear to remember their house. I wanted to do buttons but I couldn't find them pre-made and didn't want to have to make them. These rings are just cupcake toppers and were $3 for 12.













Throughout Hogwart's there were signs describing what could be done in every class and how many points you can earn.

Activities that took longer were worth more points, while quick or easy things were less. Full activity details are below.


TRANSFIGURATION:

There were several color combos to choose from

 I was planning on this class being the main time consumer and was therefore worth 25 house points. Witches and wizards could transfigure an owl out of common every day items and have it to take home. I was worried that adults wouldn't really enjoy this as much as kids but it was almost the other way around. (I would say this is appropriate for ages 8+). This is what the finished products looked like: (full details and instructions below)

And of course I had to make a Hedwig

Owl Craft Instructions
To make 20 owls you will need:
2 packages yarn for each body color you want
1 package yarn  for every tummy color
(I had Brown bodies on Beige tummies, Black bodies on White tummies, and Gold Bodies on Beige tummies)
Wooden dowels to use for threaders. 2 per owl.
Cardboard stencils for the pom-pom maker. 2 per person. (I only made 8 and people switched off).
Brown/Tan Twine (for feet, tying off the pom pom, and hanging)
Scissors
Hot glue gun
Feathers
Small black bead which will fit on the twine
Sticks
Card stock for beaks (Golds, Oranges, Browns, and different textures)
Something for eyes. Here I used Big Time Brads with buttons glued on. There were also pre-made glass animal eyes which were popular.

Instructions:  

Instructions directly on the stencil will help.

In preparation before, make a cardboard stencil about the size of your hand and in an oval shape to look more like an owl. Cut a circle (not oval) in the middle about the size of a 50 cent piece. This needs to be big enough to feed your yarn stick through, but not too big that it takes away all the length of the owls 'feathers'. This is what it should look like. I also wrote the instructions right on the cardboard to help. As mentioned you need two per owl making, but you only need to write instructions on one, the other is just the backing. I suggested to to the body first since it makes it easier to thread.

I also had signs on all supplies to make it easier

You'll want to make a yarn stick for the bodies and tummies. Simply get a wooden dowel and wrap yarn tightly around it (needs to be tight or it will slip off while you're threading). Make it just small enough around to fit through the circle on your cardboard stencil. Bodies usually take up almost the whole dowel and are just smaller than the stencils circle, whereas a tummy is about half of that. This will be some trial and error. I made several examples beforehand to know how to do it right.

I also made the feet attached to the sticks beforehand to make it even easier. Get a small stick and wrap some twine around it closer to one side and slide a bead on the twine every other twist. I did three beads (talons) per foot and did the two feet about two fingers apart on the stick.

Once these are prepared, everything else is really easy:
1- Guests choose a tummy and body color and wrap it around the stencil as instructed
2- Lay the stencil flat and cut between the two layers of cardboard all the way around
3- Tie some twine around the middle of the yarn VERY TIGHTLY.
4- Remove the card board, fluff, and accessorize.

Since it was for Transfiguration class, I made the instructions into a chalkboard so everyone could see them at all times. I got 6 feet of black butcher paper and used the matte finish side. I cut it in the shape of my 42'' flat screen, added a bulletin board boarder (found at JoAnns) and viola:

This made it so I didn't have to move my heavy TV. Whew!

Accessories:
These are just guidelines as everyone will want to personalize their owl. You can really do whatever you want from here.

Feathers: whites and owl looking feathers can be found at craft stores in small bags. Use three for wings and two smaller ones where eyebrows would go. (The eyebrows are what really made it took like an owl I think). you can also add a few for tail feathers if you want.
Feet: If you have already made the stick feet combos, just glue the stick and feet to the bottom of the owl. You may want to trim a litter yarn around them so they show.
Eyes: You can use brads, buttons, glass eyes, or a few other things. Just wander the aisles of your craft store for ideas. It's best if they are bigger than a quarter. Then glue them in place to the yarn first and then, with a TINY bit of glue, glue the eyes together in the middle.
Beak: just cut a triangle out of paper and glue under the eyes and to the yarn.


That's it! Now you have your very own postal delivery service.


POTIONS:
After spending a lot of time, effort, and money on the owl crafts, I didn't want to do anything too elaborate for Potions. I found these Pop Rocks Magic Potions experiments at PartyLand and just had people do one for 10 house points. They had to take them outside to do because they got really messy. Also, people had to wash their hand afterwards so plan on having space for that.

The Food of Potter Palooza

So the food is usually the most stressful and hard part for the party planners, and a lot of times the least appreciated by guests, especially when the party is an afternoon or after dinner thing, since people aren't starving for a real meal, the food is usually just for grazing... Unfortunately, the party host usually doesn't take this into consideration and just makes a ton of food that isn't really necessary (like I did). I will list all the food with instructions/recipes below, but keep in mid if you are doing a party that is not meant to serve a meal, it is fine to scale the food back a bit.

Cauldron Cakes:
Makes 60 Cauldron Cakes (even though they are small, people will usually only eat one or two. Don't overdo it)
You will need:
1 box Devil's Food cake mix
Colored frosting (I found sparkly frosting in a small tube already make perfect at JoAnns. There are different colors, but I liked green for the 'potion'. It will take 2 bottles of those)
Sprinkles for the top (The ones shown here also came from JoAnns. I had never seen anything like that before and was planning to just do the colored sugar sprinkles but then I saw these which are perfect for 'bubbles' in the 'potion')
Mini muffin pan

Just make the cake mix as usual and cook your mini muffins. This can be done 1-3 days in advance of the party as long as you keep them in an airtight tupperware in the meantime. The night before the party you can frost them and they will still be good the next day (not crusty or crunchy I promise, just use the tupperware). To frost, cut the top of the muffin off, a little bit above the ridge when it comes over the pan. This is left to be the brim of the cauldron. You don't want to make a crater, so be careful or you'll have to fill it with frosting and this frosting isn't very tasty so... Then apply the frosting to the cut top (I did it in a swirl pattern) and then sprinkle with the bubbles. I think it would also look good if you let a few drops of frosting run down the side of the cupcake and you stuck bubbles to that (like it was bubbling over) but I didn't have a lot of frosting so get three tubes if you want to try that.

Pumpkin Pasties:
I got this great recipe (and a lot of other ideas) from this website: The Hogwart's Celebration
although I changed a few things with what I found when I tested it out: 
Makes about 3 dozen miniature pasties.

2 eggs, slightly beaten
3/4 cup sugar
1 1 lb. can pumpkin
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ginger
1/4 tsp. cloves
1 2/3 cups evap. milk (1 can)
1/2 tsp. allspice
9 oz pie crust pastry (enough for two single standard pie crusts)
OR try this Pie Crust recipe:
4 c. flour
2 c. shortening
1 c. water
2 T. Sugar
2 t. Salt

Bake the pie filling only (no crust) in a large casserole dish in oven (425 degrees) for 15 minutes. Keep oven door closed and reduce temp to 350 degrees, and continue baking for 35 minutes or until table knife inserted in center of dish comes out clean. Cool on wire rack.

Make or purchase pie crust pastry. Roll thin and cut into circles approx 4" in diameter. Put a spoonful of the cool pumpkin mixture towards one side of the center of the circle. Fold over the crust into a half-circle and firmly crimp the edges closed. Slice three small slits in the top for venting, place on a greased cookie sheet, and bake only until crust is a light golden-brown. Great served at room-temperature.

A couple of my own  notes here: You can make the pumpkin filling 2 days before if you store in the fridge, which actually makes it easier to get into the pastry. Same thing goes for the crust ( I know because I made everything the day of and killed myself, then two days later I decided to cook up the leftovers and they were just as good).Also, this is a little dry (like pumpkin pie usually is for my taste) so you might want to serve with cool whip.

Licorice Wands:
You can make these the day before, and use your hand dandy tupperware to preserve freshness.
You will need:
Licorice (I am partial the Red Vines and I hate Twizlers. Red Vines also had red, black, purple, and brown licorice available at PartyLand).
Melting Chocolate (One bag will do two boxes of Red Vines)

Melt the chocolate in a saucepan. Then pour it into a tall skinny container of some sort to make dipping and covering easier (I used a champagne glass).  Then just dip the licorice  in the glass, twist a couple times, then set out on some wax paper. You might want to pop them in the fridge for 3-5 minutes to fully harden, and then when you pull them off if there are little pieces sticking out (from being flattened) just hit the chocolate side on the pan and the extra breaks off.









Chocolate Frogs:
You need a frog mold (Amazon for me) and melting chocolate (I used dark and light green pre-colored from a craft store) but you could do brown like in the movies. 
Just melt, pour, refrigerate and pop 'em out. I saw a lot of easy boxes to make but I didn't get around to it. If you wanted to also have each frog in a hexagon box though, that would be cool. 

Acid Pops:
You will need
Sour blow pops
Sour pop rocks
Small bowl of water
Small treat bags
Twist ties

Unwrap the blow pops and dip them in the bowl of water and set down for a minute or so. You can keep dipping more pops in water while you wait and just be on a cycle. After the water has dried a little, sprinkle the pop rocks on the blow pop while twisting it around for full coverage. (We tried dipping them into a bowl but the bowl of pop rocks got wetter every time and was eventually a huge rock hard clump). Then slide them into a treat bag and tie. Done.

Treacle Tart: 
Ok this one was a huge flop. I really wanted to make Treacle Tart since it is Harry's favorite food in the books, but no where in my area sells genuine treacle (which is a British molasses I guess. ) Also, when reading the recipes, it seems pretty gross since it is really just breadcrumbs soaked in treacle or golden syrup with some lemon added and baked in a pie... I had always pictured it like a raspberry type pie or something so that is what I made, but I messed it up some. I found a can of popyseed at the grocery store while getting the Raspberry and thought I could add that as well to make it darker and more textured. The mistake I made was adding the whole can of poppyseed. It was way to saturated with the stuff and didn't taste good at all. I think I was on the right track though, and if you wanted to try something like that  I would do this:
1 can raspberry pie filling or real raspberries turned into pie filling if you're ambitious enough
1 can poppyseed filling (but only use 3 Tablespoons or so)
1 T. Lemon Juice
2 T. Molasses 
Some whole black or raspberries for the top
A quiche or tart pan (I found the most awesome one at JoAnns. The bottom pushed up so after you cooked the crust you could take it out without messing it up. Amazing!).

Make up some pie crust like in the pumpkin pasties recipe. Roll it out about a quarter of an inch thick and get it into the tart pan. Bake that at 350 for 15 minutes or so until the crust looks done (slight browning, hard to touch). Meanwhile you can mix the other ingredients up in a bowl and when the pie crust is done, add that mixture to the inside and bake again only for 10-12 minutes until the middle is firm (when you touch it, it shouldn't stick to your finger. It will look like pudding that has a film on the top when it gets left out too long). When it gets to that point take it out and let it cool. (You can put it in the fridge if you need, but it will be fine sitting on the counter for a few hours.). When you are ready to serve carefully take it out of the pan and put it on your serving dish (this one was $10 from BB&B). 
THIS IS THE HARD PART: use a bread knife to cut the pie into slices. Cut in a sawing motion (back and forth, back and forth) you don't want to force the knife straight down or you will break the crust. Use caution in the corners especially. You also might want to wipe your knife on a paper towel every few cuts into the middle since you will accumulate the filling on the knife which will get into clumps in the cracks if you leave it. Once you have cut your slices, place the berries around the outside edge one on each slice. I put a dollop of cool whip in the middle as well with some more berries mainly just for looks.  


Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans:
There are some places online where you can buy actual Bertie beans which have earwax, vomit, and dirt for flavors. I just went with standard Jelly Belly's to save on shipping and stuff but that was fine. I only needed 1 pound of each to fill these, and I had quite a bit leftover. If you are doing a challenge you'll want to make up some boxes with numbers on them. There are a lot of templates online already, and I just pulled pieces from a few to make this one. 





Pumpkin Juice: 
This will make 20 servings and you can make this up to a week in advance and have it ready to go. This was pretty good and you can drink it anytime. To keep it cold without watering down, I froze a few ice trays with apple cider, and used those instead of water ice cubes when I served it.
You will need:

2 Quarts apple cider, divided
1 piece fresh ginger, sliced into 2'' chunks
1 cinnamon stick
1/2 teaspoon whole cloves
1/4 cup honey
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 28 oz. can pumpkin puree
Directions
Pour 3 cups of the apple cider into a saucepan; add the ginger slices, cinnamon stick, and cloves. Bring the mixture to a boil, turn down to a simmer, and cook for 15 minutes. Remove from heat, add the honey and brown sugar, and stir to dissolve. Refrigerate the mixture until well-chilled, or up to a week.

When ready to serve, strain the apple cider mixture into a large pitcher to get out the ginger and everything. Add the remaining apple cider and the pumpkin puree and stir. One 'problem' I saw was the pumpkin kept settling. It didn't taste bad or anything, but you might want to stir it every now and again to keep it looking nice.

Butterbeer:
Ok, this will of course be the shining star of your feast so you gotta get this right. I found 5-6 recipes which met the criteria I was looking for which were: 1) needs to be carbonated 2) needs to be COLD (this is July) 3) needs to have a foamy head on the drink like beer 4) needs to be non-alcoholic (this is a family party)
This is the recipe I came up with which is a combination of several. It is pretty easy, and the mixture can sit out at room temperature and just be added to the soda right before serving. It also makes a foamy head on its own even though it originally called for whip cream to be added on top. This was entirely unnecessary (since what you see here is foam just with the soda and butterscotch mixture) and also because it was already so sweet, that whip cream would have knocked even the Cookie Monster into a sugar coma for three weeks. Here is the recipe that worked best:

Servings: 8

1 cup light or dark brown sugar

2 tablespoons water

6 tablespoon butter

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon cider vinegar

1/4 cup heavy cream

1/4 teaspoon rum extract

¼ t. vanilla extract

Six cans cream soda (6 cans will make about 8 servings because of the added foam and mixture)

In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine the brown sugar and water. Bring to a gentle boil, stirring often, and cook for 10 minutes.

Stir in the butter, salt, vinegar and heavy cream. Set aside and let it cool to room temperature.

Once the mixture has cooled, stir in the rum and vanilla extract.

To serve, add about 1/8 cup mixture and 1/4 cup of cream soda to a glass mug (16-20 oz). Stir that up and then fill the glass the rest of the way with cream soda. Presto!


Herbology Food:
I also made a tray of fruits and veggies for the Herbology table along with some pudding dirt cups. Here are those simple recipes:
Fruits:
Pineapple
Kiwi
Melon
Strawberries
Blackberries
I also included a bowl of half cool whip and half vanilla yogurt. All the fruits were laid out on a bed of purple cabbage, and the blackberries were just sprinkled around the top. I wish I had a picture :(
Veggies:
Brocoli
Carrotts
Celery
Mushrooms
I also included some Ranch dressing and Chipolte Ranch and then laid everything out on mustard greens.
 Dirt Cups:
I just layered chocolate marshmallow (rocks), chocolate pudding, oreo cookie crumbs, and a couple gummy worms in a clear cup. Easy and popular.


And that's it for food. Like I said, I think I went overboard with it. There were a ton of leftovers and people just wanted to try like a bite of everything so I didn't need as much as I'd thought. I also should have made almost everything 1-3 days before and just cooked and heated that morning. Oh well, lesson learned but now there are no more movies to throw parties for and apply by wisdom to...