My PhotoSite

Oh woe is me! My PhotoSite is going to be shut down. :( Well, the whole site is actually shutting down, but still, I must be the one most affected by this! ;) Ah, how I loved my PhotoSites...I had 2 or 3 of them. So easy to use, so nice and professional-looking. I even paid for one of them. Well, go on and enjoy the gallery, relive the good ol' days, until September 27, I'm not moving over to Snapfish. Sigh.

Harry Potter Bust Up

I must apologize for being such a very bad blogger! All work and no collectible hunting has made me very cranky. Grrr.

So, in honor of the new Harry Potter movie and of course, the book, I present a little bauble. I picked this up at the mall last week while I was searching for Harry Potter treats (for some goodie bags I made for the movie). Anyway, it is the Timeless Collection Harry Potter Bust-Up by Gentle Giant.

Little Potty comes in six pieces, and is very easy to assemble. At about 2.5" tall, I have to say it's not quite worth the $6.99 and tax I paid, and I probably won't be getting any others, but I do like it. The likeness is fair and the quality is consistent with something this size, though I wish the shirt was a bit more white (it's kind of peachy in real life). I found the box a bit confusing, what with all the pictures of other Bust-Ups. I feared it was one of those "randomly inserted" things, where you have no idea what figure is actually inside, especially since the box was taped up.

While I'm on the subject of Harry Potter, I'm actually hunting for a good spice cabinet, preferrably one with glass doors. Why, you ask? Well, I am wanting to put together a potions display for a class I might possibly teach next year. Something like this (for under $30, I forgot to bid on this one on Ebay) would be ideal. Even better if it comes with bottles. Let me know if you find one! Otherwise, I suppose I'll haunt the flea market. Ooh, and a birdcage! Oh, but I'm getting ahead of myself again...

I might be dressing up for the book party Friday night, you all should too! Happy Deathly Hallows-Eve!

POTC

A girl is allowed to have an unhealthy appreciation for pirates, right? :)




I just got these yesterday, a gift from a friend. It's some sort of promotional material from the POTC online game, which I believe she got at the Pirates showing at the El Capitan in Hollywood. There was a Beta disc (which my brother will get to play with) as well as this litho (game artwork?) inside the envelope.

Since we're on the subject of pirates, I picked these up at Disneyland a while back. I really like the artwork they did for the playing cards, based on the ride, of course. The keys I thought were useful as a prop for school. They appear to be made of metal, they're pretty heavy.

Leonidas Helmet

I saw this.

I want it.

300 Arrow

I recently learned that the 300 Spartan shield is rather limited, an appropriate edition size of 300. Silly me, I thought I could just pick this up later on down the line. Alas, it appears to be sold out everywhere and is going for upwards of $1000 on Ebay. Grr. I wouldn't even have sold it if I had one, but I would also not pay $1000 for it. :(

Since I couldn't have the shield, I let my brother buy me an Immortal's arrow. :D Since the box was kindof an odd shape, I declined a bag. The clerk seemed to think I was a dork to carry it around the mall like that, but I don't care. :P The packaging is pretty flimsy, and there's just a small rectangle of styrofoam to protect the arrowhead. The shaft and fletchings are left to fend for themselves.

I'm having a hard time not damaging the feathers (not sure if they're real). My arrow doesn't seem to be painted right, the darker coloring at the head does not extend all the way down the shaft but kinda stops about an inch or two above where it should. Maybe I'll be brave and paint it later. Also, the arrowhead, which is a separate piece, does not sit well on the shaft. I might have to putty it in. I do really like it, and I'm glad to have it, but it seems a bit pricey ($40) for an arrow, especially when the Immortal mask only cost me $30. Maybe I wouldn't mind as much if I could stick it in a shield...hmmm...

The store also had a set of the Immortal Swords in, but they were opened and sitting on top of the display case with what looks like their last mask. I wouldn't be surprised if someone had set them aside. I didn't even see a box or a price. Maybe that's a good thing. They had a small selection of other collector goodies as well, such as the Gentle Giant busts (including Strider).

Britannia

So I walked into this pub last Saturday...and stumbled out several hours later! My group of friends had the upstairs section to ourselves for a while, it's quite cozy and there's a pool table.

I can't say what the food is like, as I didn't eat anything other than Guinness. ;P After a Guinness, a Newcastle, 4 shots, and a Bacardi and Coke, it was no surprise to anyone that I found myself sitting on a beer keg (sorry to the sweet British guy who was trying to talk to me!), or that I closed out my personal tab at $60, including a shot on the house. My friends and I recommend the Britannia and Red-Headed Slut. Our waitress was awesome, and the horrid karaoke downstairs was much fodder for our amusement! Our designated driver, who remained completely sober, took many incriminating photos which I refuse to share! :P

Somehow, I managed to not only make it down the street, but up five flights of stairs to the car! Oh, and in the morning, I woke up without a hangover and went to work for the next eight hours. Oh the joys of being me! Hehe...

It was so much fun, but I suspect you will need to bring a rowdy group of friends, a lush like myself, and down enough booze to die of cirrhosis to have as much fun as we did!

Grab yourself a pint at Britannia Pub in Santa Monica:
http://www.britanniapub.com/

**btw, that's not us in the picture, I grabbed that off their website.

The Blue Fairy

Sorry to be so lazy about checking in, work has been crazy!

My friend Ithilethiel sent me this fairy. I was walking around the house with it, looking for a place to put it, and I nearly banged into a wall. I'm a clutz! I especially like the wings and the little gazing ball.

I think this is the only Blue Fairy in my collection. Sideshow never released a Froud Blue Fairy, even though my avatar (see profile) has been a Froud painting for ages! In case anyone wonders, the avatar was supplied by my friend Gideon, who happens to have owned that painting, I think.