One thing I’ve always wanted to do was to make something and sell it. So, I finally sat down with a couple ideas I’ve always had in my head and put it into fruition.

Ever since I watched The Other Boleyn Girl, I wanted Natalie’s necklace. It’s actually historical because it was based off the necklace Anne worn in her portrait.

This is my modern version.

Also, some hair clips based on World of Warcraft, or whatever else you want to clip on. It’s special because you can change them using the snaps.

Aaaaand, a moogle clip.

I’ve added a wordpress page up top! It says “store”. It will point you to my etsy site, or you can find it directly here: thelnie.etsy.com

Mr. S: By the way, Mrs. M (the other teacher I work under), her husband plays that game. He gets together with friends and they like…play. WoW right?

Me: Oh! Yeah. Does she play too?

Mr. S: Nooooo noooo…she…..she hates it. It’s the bane of her existence.

Me: Ooooh haha…I know how she feels…

Later on, in the second class, this kid goes

Kid: OMG you went to BlizzCon too?! What, what do you have?

Me: oh…..<sheepish> a priest…

Kid: I’m Undead Warlock! Dude! <calls out to other kid> She plays WoW!

Other kid: What?

<unintelligible shoutings back and forth of I don’t know what but it had something to do with the armory…and the fact that Kid1 was still level 72, and he was denying it…>

Then, I went to Mrs. M’s class

Mrs. M: Do you play World of Warcraft?……

Me: Yes…

Mrs. M: I’m a WoW widow…….okay???? It’s…..it’s just….wow. I catch him sneaking around to play that game…he gets together with his friends, because they work at Blizzard…

Me: >_<

Girl: ooh my brother plays too, he used to play Everquest also…

I think if you got all the WoW players together, they would be a small country…like Sweden or something. That might have changed since last year by now though. A little bigger. Soon, nobody will do anything but play in the alternate reality of WoW. Raiding is a full-time job and we’ll be fed by tubes in our chairs. And conflicts between countries will be resolved by 5-man arenas.

At this time, Taiwan hadn’t gotten WoW yet, so they didn’t really know how to play it. I was actually able to sign onto my US account from there too. Epeeeen. And I got to embarrass the guys there by teaching them how to play. kekekeke.

Trying to do the MC Hammer/ Male Orc dance. Can’t touch this! Daa na na naa. na na. nana. Can’t touch this!

Well, I didn’t intend on dressing up. I really didn’t. But I had the paper mask laying around from BlizzCon, and the tabard is something I made for last year’s BlizzCon, and the mark was laying around too….So I put it all together. I was going to wear my pirate costume…but I thought it might be a little too much. Unfortunately, I decided I wasn’t going to wear it to pass out candy because…I just didn’t think the kids would get it. So I only wore this around the house for awhile. hehe.

Aaaaand I video I threw together

The front of the Anaheim Convention Center. BlizzCon wooo. If you look closely you can see my hunter’s mark on the bottom left corner. We were 20 minutes early, but parking made us late. There was a huge line and we had to circle in a line all the way around and up top to parking spaces that weren’t really parking spaces, but everyone parked there anyway.

Some of the banners up top.

We watched Fnatic vs. Made in Taiwan. I was partial to Made in Taiwan because…well…gotta represent! But Fnatic had an asian girl on their team…I felt like how I do at an Angels vs. Yankees game. Taiwan lost though…it’s okay! I’m sure they were happy to be here. They all had team jackets with “Taiwan” in the noticeable public-relations-tourism-graphic font they like to use.

Frostmourne, yours for $400 bucks. The price is going to be raised near the holidays too. Arena winners and the costume contest winners receive one of these. Nihilum won the arena tournament…they are a EU team. I wonder how they are going to get this 16 pound ish sword onto the plane…

Got a croissant during lunch so I could snack on it later in the afternoon. When I think or see a croissant, I think of Burgle and Arloma. Cwaaasooooon.

Mograine and Whiteman. Rise, my Champion!

Kerrigan. She almost makes zerg hot. But they are still gross.

I didn’t see these get used very much. I did take a picture with it but I don’t have it on me yet.

Ooing and awwing.

mMmMmm…..glowy monitors…..not many people on beta since many people were on wotlk beta already for months.

People playing the World of Warcraft card game. I have a deck. Played it about four times. The instructions are confusing.

This was the mini-game created by J!nx. You choose a class and you get as many balls and special balls according to your class, and you throw them, either a head shot or in the chest. The interesting part are the special balls. If you get them in, they are either a crit, or it means it’s a greater heal (for priests) and you subtract 2 balls from your opponent…or other specials that make sense for the class. You compete with the team next to you and you move on for prizes. I got in 1 out of 10…it is harder than it looks.

Arts.

This guy was dressed up as a pimp orc and walked around with a swagger and a cane. I only caught the back of him <: (.

Drool.

Slurp.

New for Diablo 3.

She reminds me of Padme

There is the throne and people could wait in line to pose up there with the helm and the frostmourne. I never got around to waiting for this.

Yes, that is what it looks like.

Scary….

Another picture of a mass of people.

The Diablo 3 section. Wouldn’t it be cool if we could play a 40 man raid like this? All together in one room?

Whelps, I’ve been at work again at the schools. So far no cute or funny stories. I went to a high school that I hadn’t been to last year, and saw some of my eighth graders that had gone up to ninth grade. They would be like, “Hey! I know you!” And the teachers are always have a thankful look when I walk in the room and would be like “omg thank goodness you are here. We’ve been waiting for you!” Maybe all teachers should get a tutor. Or just get paid more.

It’s raining today. Sporadically. I love going to schools when it rains. Rain just makes everything more interesting.

does it feel like they’re trying to make WoW a little too fair when life in general isn’t? Trying to make every class be equally represented? hm.

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