Harry Potter Loot Crate Unboxing (May 2017)

This month's Wizarding World crate caught me by surprise. I am currently in the process of moving, and this showed up giving me a respite from everything that goes along with moving. What also really excited me, was the theme. I forgot this month's theme was Dark Arts!

As you can see the seal is embellished with the Dark Mark. While I am primarily a Good-Doing Ravenclaw, I have a small part deep within that is a dark, dark wizard.

I REALLY love the inside look of this box. 

The Death Eater mask print is sooo pretty. I would buy this and wallpaper a room in my new house with this print if it were a thing! The first thing on top of the box, was this great shirt featuring Percival Graves (portrayed by the ever-so-yummy Colin Farrell). My go-to Harry Potter t-shirt is a Bellatrix Lestrange mugshot tee (told 'ya I have a dark passenger) I picked up at Hot Topic many a moon ago, so I'm excited to have another dark and gloomy shirt in my collection!

This next item I was SUPER PUMPED to find in this box. It is a letter stamping set!

It comes with embossed letters featuring the Sytherin snake door. It is not very clear, but I see what it is. Also, I don't know if they are trying to make gel pens a thing again, but I'm not sure how without gel pens or a silver sharpie I'm supposed to write on black cards.

The Sytherin wax seal is something I've been looking for for a long time. Not specifically looking for Slytherin, but a wax seal in general. I think for special mail, it would be really neat to get a letter with a wax seal on the back! So, this is really exciting and saves me a purchase! The whole kit comes with envelopes, wax, the seal, the note-cards, and a black velvet bag. SO NICE.

The next item (or set of items, I should say) is this collection of Umbridge kitten plates. Now, I was pondering of a theme for my new sun room, and these plates gave me an idea so wickedly awesome I HAVE to do it. Yes, that's right, we're going super girly, super dark, and super evil KITTENS! No, seriously, I'm thinking about making the sun room bright pretty and somewhere Umbridge would enjoy torturing reprimanding students.

The next item is an Azkaban slate pencil case, though I'll be using it as a makeup bag or clutch. It feels like a quality bag, and is SO cool. It'll go great with my new t-shirt included with this box.

And we round off this box with Loot Crate's signature item - a collectible pin. This pin, I am OVER THE MOON about. It is Tom Riddle's Diary AND the basilisk tooth used to destroy it. I like this pin. It is dark, it is creepy, and it goes with most of the things I wear on a daily basis, so I could clip in on my jacket, bag, etc.!

The only thing in this box I was a little sad about was the new way they are doing the product descriptions. As you can see, this month's box did not have a scroll. Instead it was a mock letter that folded open. I would have felt better about it had it actually been in a white envelope with wax seal, but a printed fold-open letter felt less magical than the usual scroll.

This month's box exceeded my expectations. The last box or two have been really great, but this crate blows them out of the water. I hope Loot Crate continues to fill these boxes with quality items with varying uses like this!

Until then, I'll be painting, unpacking, and practicing my defensive spells to tide me over until July, which is when we'll get the box themed: