Are you a HP fan?

Then, are you at Pottermore?
 J.K.Rowling finally launched the beta of the site and it's now open!!! So excited, and it is so tempting ^^""
They decided to make it RPG-like, and even if I'm not a nig fan of this, it's all pretty cool. But I have to say, the main reason I'm there is because of the insight pieces of information.
Like the original names of some of the characters.
Or the first meeting of Vernon and James.
Or, ok I wasn't expecting that, the love stories of Minerva!

For now only the first book info is open, and this is great, or else I'd be stuck to the laptop.
But seriously, if someone is there, feel free to say hi. There I go under the *riddikulus* nickname OakHolly17009 because they don't let you pick you own login name. And really, if you know how to open the first location before Diagon Alley, please share

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Хари Потър фен ли си? А в Pottermore ли си?
Роулинг най-накрая отвори дългоочаквания сайт, на който бе обещала да пусне още информация, която да разшири света на ХП. Засега е още бета, и още само по първата книга са качени, което всъщност е чудесно, защото иначе би било твърде изкушаващо и времеконсумиращо.
Сайтът са го решили като РПГ, по което по принцип не си падам, но не е зле. По пътя откриваш различни парченца допълнително иифо, като да речем
Оригиналните имена на някои от героите;
Първата среща на Върнън с Джеймс;
Какви други вълшебни перони има освен Девет и три четвърти;
и, това наистина не го очаквах, любовните истории на Минерва Макгонъгол!

Ако наистина някой е там, може да се обади, аз се подвизавам под абсурдното название OakHolly17009, защото не ти дават сам да избереш ник нейм. А ако освен това споделите как се отключва първата локация преди Диагон Али, ще съм много благодарн

Mail, mall and minigames

Stupid title again. I should get over it already.

This will be a heavy-picture post, let me warn you!

Mmm, let's go one by one...

First! Today I sent my bracelet! I'll wait till it arrives and post a photo then. Special thanks to my sister who took a photo for me, because I was in real hurry today. I hope the letter will reach its recipient safe and sound. To be honest that's my first time sending something abroad, but I hope everything will be okay! And it's the neighbour country, so I hope it'll arrive fast! Wish my letter luck on its journey!

After sending it my best friend and I went to the mall for various goodies, including eye candy and just normal candy! :D My hopes were broken when I saw that they have closed the Yves Rocher shop which I really loved and noone knew where is it now T___T So candies for solace were just so needed and our last stop at the mall was The Chocolate Kingdom:

Only one packet make it home. The other mice... ran away...

In the other packet there was a small toy collection :D I like best the circus elephant in the bottom left but he can't be seen well >.>

Artificial Intelligence! 

Mmm, chocolate is nice for recharging too, and I was so exhausted XP We ran through the whole town... my legs still hurt... Well enough for the outside world :D Now back in home I want to show you my new (that's actually recycled old one!) notebook:

Look what my sister drew :DDDD LOVE IT!!! PUFFLE MANIA!!! The cardboard I used to make the cover is silvery and glittering so the photo doesn't look too good, but I can assure you, in reality it's more than awesome :D

Do you remember the game Plants Vs Zombies I talked about before? We're still playing, but lately it's only the Zen garden we care about ^^" Just let me show you my Tree of wisdom:

And my sister's:

It's name is Dudley and as you see it's 62 feet tall now. I don't know how many meters 62 feet are, but I got the feeling Dudley it's slightly taller than my tree. (I should name my tree too. Maybe Fidancho "Lost Cause" Wiseleaf  (fidancho would be the diminutive form of sapling...) But just let me tell you that to grow her tree this tall, my sister mercilessly exploit her other flowers in the Zen garden! I'm not like this! I fight for equality between all species!!!

But truth is Plants vs Zombies isn't the only game we're playing lately. We got hooked on the games of the searching type. I got all my games from NevoSoft or other Russian sites so I got into the Russian "terminology" for the games - they mostly call the searching games Iskalki and I really like this term, lol :P

First is Mystery Legend: Sleepy Hollow

 I didn't have the time to get screenshots myself, so this is from the net. I ADORE the Sleepy Hollow movie (Johnny Depp!!!!! ) and I really enjoyed the game, thought it really followed the legend, not the movie. Everything is very pretty drawn..except... Ichabod Crane XP He really killed me... The destination where you have to search are interesting too and not all the objects are easy to see! I wish I had taken I screenshot of the Sleepy Hollow tree decorated like a Christmas tree with the portraits of the victims of the Hessian. 

Second is Mortimer Beckett and the Spooky Manor. This time I took some shots:

Topcho playing!

It's iskalka too, but the idea is more interesting than simply finding objects. First, all the objects are broken and you have to find the pieces. Then you have to put the assembled items on their places that sometimes are in other rooms of the manor. Other objects you have to use - for example you have to gather the pieces of oiler and scissors, then find a oil tank, fill the oiler, find a whetstone, use the oiler on it so you can sharpen the scissors and so on. The main idea is to find all the pieces of a machine that will chase the ghosts of the house. Oh yeah, there are ghost too. They weren't that much of a bother during the game, so I don't really thing there was a need to chase them away. 

Like that ghost of alcoholic in the corner who died of cirrhosis and now tries to drink all the wine in the house just to keep you from his fate.  support the good cause and give him the bottle of wine. 

The only bad thing about the game is that it's really short - just when you're getting enthusiastic it comes to an end! But it seems there's second part too - this should be checked out!

Thirs and my favourite is SUPER COW!!!!

I LOVE THIS GAME!!! 

The story - the evil prof Duriartty (or smth) runs from the jail and takes over the farm! Now only Super Cow can bring the piece back! I laughed a lot on her diary, and the voice of the cow is  awesome. The voices of most of the other animals irritate me, but they too were chosen well to match the characters (specifying - I play the game in Russian) - for example I really liked how the rabbit was lisping . For now I saved the animals up to the rabbit, and my sister, of course, finished the game. If you have a look at her DA page, you'll see her love for the Super Kefir (Kefir is kind of milk drink that in the game gives health to the cow)

Have a lookie in my trophy room:

My favourite one is the champagne from bulls - fans! :DDD Oh, and do you want me to tell you a secret - Super Cow is getting married in the end! (as you can guess I'm watching my sister play).

Last words - those mini games are seriously addicting ^///^ Nyaa, but it's a vacation, still!

 

WIPs and... zombies! Plants too :D

Let's start with something I did right after finishing Marvin but forgot to post :

Gatchacaz inspired me with her works and showed me some pretty nice starter instructions for starters in blackwork.  This is my first attempt  - a first part of Circle of seasons serie - the spring. I like it pretty much, but for now the completing of the whole project is on hold due to Christmas presents :P

And now few word for the maybe disturbing presence of zombies in the title! I am the last person to call himself game lover, but lately a found a mini game that got me absolutely and helplessly addicted.  The Plants vs Zombies is just a "tower defense" type game with simple mouse click control. What you have to do is to plant some genetically modified flowers and vegetables in your lawn in order to protect your house from the waves of zombies how want nothing more but to eat your brain.Simple enough, and in the same time, it's somehow impossible to get boring. :D

It has 50 levels in the main mode on three stages (but when you play in the night is a whole different thing). around 40  plants to collect( I think, I didn't go through the whole game yet, but my sis did, Unlike some people, she has the free time to do such things) and 30 (again not sure) zombies. But as you play, you can open more mini games, puzzles, get a zen garden, zombie aquarium, Tree of wisdom and a bunch of other things that can help you buy thing from your crazy neighbor. Once you finish the game, you can (according to sis) to start over again, but now let the Crazy Dave choose your plants and win chocolates to feed your snails (if so, I'd like to be snail too)

I love the animation, and the game is filled with awesome sense of humour.  I found this out right away after I checked the Help section that was "brought to me by the zombies". By the way, with all this, there's no way not to get just a little fond to the zombies too.

Dear, they're trying so hard!

And the game ends with one of the cutest songs I've heard

Makes me wanna sing along! :DDD

And to finish all this, I want to show what am working at the moment. When finished, it should look somewhat like this:

This is made after my sis' avatar on DA (yeah, I'm still under the puffle influence ) but apart form the original one I made some modifications...  that I won't be able to show here, because I don't wont to spoil the Christmas surprise! And I like so much to post wips T_____T 

I personally think that the whole puffle thing is super cute, and it really is a pleasure to work on this project. The puffles seem to be charas of an  online game Club Penguin, that I know little about (but one think I know for sure - the creators made huge mistake not making the puffles main characters). Anyway I prefer my mystic way of puffle creation.

I sent this pattern to Deejay Beta for her site, and so, eventually, when her computer is fixed and she can post again, you might be able to find it on the site :) I added a .pat file too, so the ones who want can more easily edit their puffle design (it's so much fun!!!)