It's an occupational hazard...

[LadyJ]

Originally Posted by amb6883

Love the GoT's wood plaques. What are they from?

You mean the ones with all of the house sigils or the ones with the direwolf on it?

The ones with the direwolf I doctored from an invitation from season 2 and nailed it to our front door. Just printed the image on parchment paper and nailed it to a stained board.

[Forces]

I'm an avid strategy guide collector, currently only at 17 books though, hardcover that is. Any rare ones you have pictures of? Bayonetta???

[Dr_Jengo]

Awesome collection! Very cool-ly displayed as well. Nice to see all those nice art stuff framed up. I hope I can find cheap ready-made frames when it's time to get them all displayed.

[LadyJ]

Originally Posted by Forces

I'm an avid strategy guide collector, currently only at 17 books though, hardcover that is. Any rare ones you have pictures of? Bayonetta???

I can check with him and see... the strategy guides are going to be a bit of a sensitive subject... when we moved into our house we just didn't have room for all of them so most of them (95% of them..) were packed in boxes and left in the garage.

Of course, the water heater decided to rust out and flood the garage a few weeks ago-

Needless to say, a LOT of things were damaged - the boxes of strategy guides being one of them. We haven't had the gumption to go through the boxes to assess the damage yet and it's going to depend on how he packed them - side by side or one ontop of the other... and since they were the heaviest of the boxes in the garage, all of them went on the bottom of the stack. Of course.

Today's words of wisdom: got stuff packed in your garage? Make sure they're packed on pallets! You never know when your water heater is going to decide it's had enough.

It will be a very sad day when we finally go through all of it (Next bulk waste pick up day...) ... I'm sure tears will be shed.

[Forces]

I can check with him and see... the strategy guides are going to be a bit of a sensitive subject... when we moved into our house we just didn't have room for all of them so most of them (95% of them..) were packed in boxes and left in the garage.

Of course, the water heater decided to rust out and flood the garage a few weeks ago-

Needless to say, a LOT of things were damaged - the boxes of strategy guides being one of them. We haven't had the gumption to go through the boxes to assess the damage yet and it's going to depend on how he packed them - side by side or one ontop of the other... and since they were the heaviest of the boxes in the garage, all of them went on the bottom of the stack. Of course.

Today's words of wisdom: got stuff packed in your garage? Make sure they're packed on pallets! You never know when your water heater is going to decide it's had enough.

It will be a very sad day when we finally go through all of it (Next bulk waste pick up day...) ... I'm sure tears will be shed

I'm crying for you already I left my windows open during a storm once...I cried. Sorry to bring it up

[LadyJ]

Originally Posted by Forces

I'm crying for you already I left my windows open during a storm once...I cried. Sorry to bring it up

No worries - it definetely hurts him more than me... I love havnig a collection of stuff out to look at and it makes me happy but things in boxes just irritate me...

He and I have been together for 2.5 years and he's had his (amazing) job for 5 - so I'd say that most of the older stuff (fallout, bioshock 1, any ACBC (Assassins Creed Before Conner) he brought with him. It certainly makes gift buying for him easy - he usually won't spend a ton of money on the collectible stuff because he would rather buy the new games. Usually. There are those times though (Especially now with their business trip coming up) that he will get a lot of the newer games and systems (yeah, seems systems too... yay new toys!!)

As far as the glorious Game of Thrones collection - I started creating that wonderful mess in November of last year so that we could have a premier party on the 31st on March. We had 13 people over all together and it was a TON of work! We made all authentic food from the show (thanks to the amazing cook books I got from Santa..) among a mess of other things. I even wore a costume.

We threw such an amazing party and the prep for it was so much fun - I wrote a blog about everything I did - a very healthy blog with a total of 15 very descriptive posts describing the decor, the food, the Clegagne doggie bags (get it? HA!) recipes, the whole bit. I've become somewhat of an expert on the Game of Thrones parties... so if you need some ideas let me know and I'm happy to help! If you want to check out the blog, it's at gameofthronesparty.blogspot.com.

(Hurry up and finish the books, George!!!) I love GoT...

I'm glad to be here guys! I'm glad I was able to find an online community that covets the coveting as much as I do! Thanks for all the praise - I'll keep you posted on the new and awesome things that will be joining our collection soon! Of course if you have suggestions or questions or need something from me I'm a pm away!

[StayFree( ' 3')]

I knew I was up for pure awesomeness when the first thing I see is that GoT collection/shrine.

[LeX]

Welcome, lots of cool stuffs.
What AC4 map is that? where is that came from?


EDIT: oh right, it is the double sided poster/map, isn't?

[Deathhound]

Really beautiful collection and how you show it off! That's great. Especially your Games of Thrones Wall. Nice stuff

[AndyTheCollector]

Holy Moly... I think I just fell in love with you. Such a gorgeous GoT collection. I really love this franchise so much and Bioshock too.