Showing posts with label Hat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hat. Show all posts

Friday, May 26, 2017

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:

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Harry Potter Loot Crate Unboxing (March 2017)


Welcome back, my little muggles, witches, and wizards! It's time to open our third Harry Potter Loot Crate! Again, this is a bi-monthly service you can order via lootcrate.com. 

This month's theme: HOUSE PRIDE.

This time around, there were no issues with timing or shipping, so perhaps those howlers I sent made a difference in post, or perhaps muggle delivery has indeed started to get with the times. Either way, I was SO very excited to come home and find my magical mystery box sitting on my doorstep, and even more excited when upon opening, I see THIS:



EVERY witch or wizard who attends Hogwarts MUST be sorted into his or her house. This is done by the enchantingly enchanted Sorting Hat. The hat originally belonged to Godric Griyffindor, but each Hogwarts founder (Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin) bewitched the hat to be used for sorting students. If you'd like to know more about the sorting hat and/or the sorting ceremony, I'd recommend visiting the Pottermore page about our worn and torn friend, and while you're on the site get sorted yourself!

If you are a muggle, and not too familiar with the wonderful world of Harry Potter, as mentioned above, there were four founders of Hogwarts, and each founder has a house named after them:



For more information on each house, feel free to click the names above. You will be taken to the Pottermore site that describes each house. 

I've always known I was a Ravenclaw, and Pottermore helped solidify that with its sorting hat ceremony. Speaking of hats... 


The first item I pulled out of the box is this AWESOME Ravenclaw beanie. I was really excited to see this item, because in 2014 I went to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, FL and bought a pair of Ravenclaw gloves and matching scarf. I could only afford two items, so the hat had to be left behind. However, now I have a complete winter set of Ravenclaw goods to sport my house pride! 

Not only will I be able to sport my house pride in winter, the next item (my favorite in the entire box) will allow me to sport it year-round. 


I love, I repeat, LOVE, 3/4 length sleeves. I'm also over-the-moon about baseball tees. This Hogwarts crest shirt is THE shirt I've been searching for all of my life! Loot crate DEFINITELY tickled my inner sleeping dragon with this! The rest of the box had a hard time living up to the shirt and the hat, which seemed to fit perfectly into my life, however I will definitely use the items.


The Platform 9 3/4 lanyard will definitely come in handy for me. My job requires an ID scan to enter our building, so this will be my handy ID holder. I always find myself digging through my purse to find the darn thing, so this included item was something I needed that I didn't even realize I needed. I'm definitely impressed with Loot Crate's Legilimency skill!


The next item I pulled out is this handy, dandy Ravenclaw duffel bag. I'm afraid to say there was not an undetectable extension charm placed on it, but I can take care of that later. This will definitely be used for short weekend trips or as my new personal carry on bag!


As usual, Loot Crate ALWAYS includes a pin in each crate. I'm collecting my Harry Potter pins to create a awesomely nerdy, punk, pinned-out (faux) leather jacket that I can wear around like I'm too school for muggle school! This one was the Sorting Hat, which is great to know I can have the Sorting Hat pinned on my person for any impromptu sorting issues or requests.


Yet again, I am pleased with this crate. I received some items that surprised me with their usefulness, and fell in love with the shirt included. I do wish there would have been a vinyl Pop! in these crates (maybe a notable character within each house), but that's just because I've got the collecting bug for those things.

I am eagerly awaiting May's crate, because, while I am a Ravenclaw, I have a bit of a Slytherin side, and May's crate's theme is:

DARK ARTS



Until then, stay happy, stay safe, and always enunciate when traveling via the Floo Network!