'Harry Potter' Fan Spends Three Weeks Painting J.K. Rowling's Book Onto Wall in Fun DIY Project
Meredith McCardle painted the first page of Rowling's first novel in her office.
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— -- One Potterhead took her love for the "Harry Potter" franchise to a new level after she spent nearly a month painting the first page of J.K. Rowling's popular book series on a wall in her home.
Young adult author Meredith McCardle recently moved into a new home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and decided she wanted to turn her home office into a haven of inspiration to write.
She originally wanted to stencil a French poem on her wall, but a friend suggested to the mother of two to instead "pick something that means something to you."
"'Harry Potter' was one of those books that I read when I was in college and I fell in love with it," she told ABC News. "It kick-started my love for young adult literature and that's what I write now."
McCardle, 39, said it took immense planning to pull off writing the first few words of Rowling's 1997 novel "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."
Instead of buying a stencil, which she said would've cost thousands of dollars, McCardle said, "I just decided to do it old school. My mom's a teacher so I borrowed her projector to create a stencil."
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The author then "painstakingly" filled in each stencil with black paint onto her wall.
"I did it all myself," she added, proudly.
But what she thought would be a quick four-hour project, turned into a three-week effort.
"I made a serious miscalculation," McCardle admitted. "But I'm not a quitter."
McCardle's hard work paid off. After sharing the now viral photos on her Twitter account, she even got the attention of Rowling herself.
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"I thought, 'There's no way she'll see this in a million years,'" she recalled. "But she eventually saw it and she favorited it and from that point it exploded. It was a really cool moment. It felt very surreal."
For now, McCardle doesn't have any other "Harry Potter" DIY projects in the works.
"I'm taking a break," she revealed. "I'm very sick of painting."