It's Just a Model

Still having more fun in Avalon. Here's some pictures from my travels: 

A crushing blow to the Jabberwock

A glitch that I keep running into, but rather like

Me and my camel, Abu

I happened to get a Raven pet

 I was able to get my Basilisk pet a level early. Ooh. Glitchy. So I reported it as a bug (and if you can get your level 78 pet you should do the same). But now I'm level 78... so... 

 This sword I thought was pretty decent! I got it from the Winter Wyrm in the Wild.

 EMPs! 

You know, I can't help but sing this song every time I go and talk to Queen Gwendolyn and company out in the knight's hall. 

Our command performance

Haha! Yes! Another song from Abbey Road! Muahahaha!

I will never run out of songs from this album!!!

*evil cackle*

~Heather

Say it with a sign

I guess there shall be double posting today. Oh well. *shrug* Just don't get used to it.

You've probably already heard, but the test realm is up currently for some little things.

Panther mounts are now available for in permanent for 5,000 crowns.

And also they've added these cute little signs with pre-programmed messages for your house!

 They range from 500-1,500 crowns each.

Here are some of the winning phrases:

And of course:

Overall they have very nice options but they are really missing an obious one.

"Don't feed the plants".

Please? A girl's got her Menken & Ashman fangirl needs!

(if you're not farmilar with them-- you are. They did the music for insane things like The Little Mermaid. And if you have not watched that, or one of their other classic disney movies that you did, you are dead to me. DEAD TO ME! Just sayin'.)

I mean... Little Shop is so prime for a KI corny quote!

My Fly Trap garden needs that sign. Really badly.

I think you should all help me pester KI to add that option. Hehe. ~.^

~Heather

Slapdash

Up here's a slapdash of updates from Wizard101.

I downloaded the Test Realm on my laptop and everything was loading up.

Here's a screenie.

Hehe!

I started gardening on my alt Vicky. I want to get her up to Prickly Bear level (4). :) They are the bestest.

Oh and she also got a new holiday wand from Mr. Oni.

I call it her "pea-shooter". It's too small to actually look like a crossbow. It's a pea-shooter!

Miss Darby got to level 20! Okay, this happened weeks ago, but still! It's a big milestone. 

Yay for her new princess outfit!

 Oh and I'm getting close to finishing up crafting for the CL observatory. (I hope they don't change anything. That would totally suck at this point.)

Gus is so happy! Look! He did a backflip!

All I need to make is 6 crystal street lamps. Woot! I'm on a role!

~Heather

Garden Party

Amber and Donna and I had a lovely afternoon chat in the garden.

So ladylike, so refined.

:)

~Heather

P.S.

Oh. Are you suprised I'm not dead? Me too.

The Greenhouse Effect

I don't know where you keep you're garden, but personally I'm keeping mine in the greenhouse in my Royal Estate (the big MB house).

I have learned a few things about making this space more efficient.

Mainly:

Use pots not plots.

When you make a plot (of whatever size) in your greenhouse rows, you only have enough room for one row.

Like so:

Silver Trumpet Vines, in medium sized plots.

 However, you're greenhouse rows actually have room enough for two side-by-side pots!

Like so:

Two empty medium pots.

This is also true of the small sized pots as well.  

Pink Dandelions in small pots.

Of course if you want to be really efficient you'll arrange you're pots in a hexagon or something. I haven't really explored that yet. For now, keeping my garden confined to my greenhouse is just right for me.

~Heather

Trashing Treasure Cards

If you're like me, you don't use treasure cards all that much.

The occasional Satyr when you're in trouble and you don't have one in your hand is about all the usage your treasure card deck gets.

Well now with gardening and Celestia, we're getting a lot more treasure cards.

In fact I keep maxing out my treasure card deck (or if you want to call it by it's proper name: "vault").

Well you can get rid of treasure cards you aren't using a couple different ways. First off, you can go to the Bazaar and sell them. You can only see non-enchanted cards though. Not really practical if you have a lot of enchanted ones. If you have a lot of enchanted ones or ones you cannot sell at the Bazaar like moon treasure cards, you'll have to  "trash" them. You can do this by right clicking on the card...

 ...then a little window will pop up asking you to confirm.

You can rid yourself of all your unwanted, unused treasure cards and Harold Argleston's face popping up every time you get a new treasure card.

~Heather

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Hi guys and gals! I'm on snow/thanksgiving break. :)

So you might have heard about the test realm being up. Yup yup. Well it's all "Harvest Moon" over there in test realm land. Only it's like a mash-up of Farmville and Harvest Moon.

And did I mention there were gnomes? 

Cassandra calls it the "gnome shrine". :)

Paige is the one with the really awesome garden.

I haven't really gotten that deep into farming/gardening yet, but I have learned a few things.

First, unlike two-year-olds, plants will tell you what they need.

So this plant needs some watering and music.

After you address one of it's needs, the message will go away.

Second, you can see plants needs at your friend's house.

Paige's shroom needs some music here.

So make sure all your plants are well taken care of before holding your garden party! Because if you don't, we'll all know that you're a slacker! Ha!

Personally I'm interested in this update, but it's a bit slow moving for me. We'll see though, maybe some plants give you really nice pet snacks! I could always use some more pet snacks.

Do you like the new update? And more importantly, how does YOUR garden grow?

~Heather