Updated my Etsy store a couple days ago with two new scents for our caffeine soaps, added Applemint and Gift of the Wild (Nag Champa). I think my favorite is still Mana Gem (Black Amber Lavender). Store's here if you want to check it out.

The plush Felhunter I made over Christmas is going to be featured on WoW.com, joining his plush Moonkin brothers in World of Warcrafts. I'm proud of the little guy!

Sewed up the feet and antlers for the Alliance Moonkin last night, hoping to have him done by the end of the week. He'll be going up on eBay when he's done, I hope he finds a good home.

ICC is coming out NOW and that's pretty neat. So let's say goodbye to Ulduar with this video, which is pretty neat. I've seen all of these fights on 25, so there really is that much chaos going on when we're in there. Bosses aside, Ulduar is just a gorgeous instance, even if it's gotten really, really monotonous.



But wait, what's that? I know. We've been in Trial of the Crusader for a long time now, and although I'd like to say "goodbye forever" to it, I know that with the gated release system to Icecrown Citadel, we'll be farming ToC for many, many more weeks. Are you really curious to see where Serthida spends most of her time?

( Midwinter's videos from Trial of the Grand Crusader in the cut )

I was going to post something meaningful about how I made leather bracer things with the moonkin shift icon, and priest class icon on them. Or how I'm making my own T9 wrists. Or maybe even how I'm more than halfway done with a full sized Alliance moonkin plush, that will be for sale soon.

But instead I'm going to post this, because it's late and it made me laugh.

It's been a busy week! Raid for the Cure is today, I started work on a properly colored Alliance moonkin, and my deck is frozen and scary. Oh, and we got a new washing machine, so that's neat.

What's been going on in WoW? Oh, so much. Achievements galore, brand new UI for all of my characters, and a moonkin flash mob, ( all inside )

Hey I KNOW THIS PERSON. lol hi guise it's me again on that one WoW site

We lost one of our tanks last night to another guild. That leaves us with two still awesome (55,000 hp) tanks. Bad news - Anub on HM 25 needs 3, since we drop two frost patches, leaving Anub to one tank, then two others to pick up the adds.

And I just respecced Serth to a stupid over the top mana regen spec last night strictly for Anub fights. WTF. Guess it's back to Moonglade to give that greedy trainer more of my gold.

I guess WoW.com is going to put the pink moonkin on their main site in the next day or two as well. That's kinda neat.

Started cutting the dark purple fur for the Alliance moonkin plush. I'm worried that it might be /too/ dark, I guess under the wrong light it would look straight up black. Hopefully when it's contrasted against the black fur on the belly, head, and arms, it'll look different enough. I guess when I do photos, I'll have to do them out in the sunlight.

I guess I should look up how much other "artisan plush" items are selling for on etsy or something. I'd hate to see one of my little creations go for less than it's worth, they take a lot of work.

Pink Moonkin is all done and ready to go to his/her new home, but I have no idea what part of the world he'll end up in. Remember, the only way to get a chance to own this guy is to enter the raffle over at Raid for the Cure.

( Pics or it didn't happen )

World of Logs for October. I've made 96% of the raids this month.

What lasts for 3 bloodlusts, 1024 actions/spells on my part, is long enough for druid battle rezzes to refresh during the fight, and makes paladins re-buff midway through?



Heroic Faction Champs, 25 man, Trial of the Grand Crusader. Takes a very, very long time when half the dps is dead. And I had to take a very, very long break after finishing up tonight. I think my cyclone button may be getting worn out from chasing that stupid warlock so much!

( Achievements, bugs, heroic TotGC, and more )

So I've started running with a new guild the last two weeks and so far I'm really, really happy with them. At first I was super intimidated by them because they're so much more hardcore than my last "progression" guild, but now that I'm starting to know them, it's getting a lot easier to relax. I won't know if I'm a bad enough dude to stay with them until around the middle of October or so, when my boyfriend (Teryx) and I go up for vote. Here's to hoping!

In crafting news, it looks like WoW.com is going to feature my painted bandanas in their "World of WarCrafts" segment pretty soon, which is neat! Sadly the guild tabard bandanas I made for that tutorial are for the guild we just /left/...so I guess I'll have to make new ones if these guys end up working out for us. Heh! I'm wearing my Horde one right now.

Drama wise we had a really bad thing go down two nights ago where the raid leader from our very first guild (when we had just hit 80) was talking trash on us for everything from gearing to dps to attendance, and on and on about how we were generally the most horrible people in the server and deserved to be spit on publically. I know this particular individual has had a massive hate boner for us for quite a while, so it wasn't much of a shock to hear him saying all of those hurtful things, but they still really got under my skin and bothered me more than it should have. I had to send tells to my class leader and (current) guild leader after raid because I was all paranoid with thoughts of "am I really not as good as I think I am?!?!" swarming through my head. Fortunately I was assured that with this level of progression there is little tolerance for scrubs or slackers, and since I keep getting invited back, it obviously is apparent that I am neither of those. I felt loads better after talking with them, I hate that feeling where you go from comfortable with your gearing/playstyle to suddenly panicky about "god do I suck?!?!" Is it just a girl thing? I want to play and be the best moonkin I can be, but I don't ever want to feel like people are having to carry me or tolerate any kind of substandard performance on my part. Maybe I feel like I have to extra prove myself because my boyfriend and I play together, and I don't want to be /that girl/ everyone takes along because they have to.

I finally got to see Hodir, Thorim, and Freya down tonight in 10 (even with some hard modes!). When they were putting the raid together in guild tonight they mentioned hard modes, and they knew I still needed my T8 stuff, so they asked if I wanted to come. I was really embarassed to tell them that I hadn't seen many of the fights and didn't know them at all (though I've read strats and seen videos), and I didn't want to be a liability to their achievements. They had to twist my arm to go - and I'm so glad I did! I only ate floor once, and it's because our OT for Auriaya's adds was pushing the majority of his threat on X instead of Skull, and I had just unloaded on Skull like a good kill-target-following-laser owl.

The rest of this entry is recent achievements, random pictures, and a few pretty screenshots I've taken here and there, but I thought they were neat.

( Many, many, many screenshots, but they're in a cut and it's small versions inside )

Another screenshot on WoW Insider again...

It's not my first time, or even my second,, sadly!