It's an occupational hazard...

[Stevo]

love the collection

[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

[Texas Fire]

Excellent collection ma'am! Curious as to how long it has taken you two to amass this collection? Very impressive!

TF

[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!

[LyricalOne]

Your collection is impressive

I love the set up, it's amazing.

Also, thanks for the heads up with that GS AC4 Cell. I almost went out to buy a frame for it last week.
Oh custom frames....

[LadyJ]

Originally Posted by LyricalOne

Oh custom frames....

Yes. Custom Frames. Grr. Very very GRR.

Also - is this a hamster with a pancake on it's head???? lol

[Gazereths]

I get the frustration with custom frames, especially when buying from the USA. In the UK we have the A system (A1, A2, A3 Etc) so there are no frames made for American sizes......Every Mass Effect litho I have needs a custom built 24x18 inch frame

[LadyJ]

Originally Posted by Gazereths

I get the frustration with custom frames, especially when buying from the USA. In the UK we have the A system (A1, A2, A3 Etc) so there are no frames made for American sizes......Every Mass Effect litho I have needs a custom built 24x18 inch frame

Thats crazy! I'm pretty sure that 24x18 is a pretty standard poster size around here - at least it is when you're buying bulletin boards... (sorry at work - suplly orders on the brain...)

Those custom frames aren't cheap either. My fiance has this beautiful poster that's about 11 inches tall and 4 feet wide with tons of charecters from tons of games on it together that he got from Game Informer and it's amazing... when we took it in to get a frame? 247$. I told them it might be a good idea to offer their customers a good stiff drink before delivering news like that...

[Gazereths]

11 inches by 4 ft is a quite unusual size so I can kind of understand it being expensive (still a stiff drink would dull the blow LOL).....But 24x18 inches is just a little bit bigger (or maybe a bit smaller, can't remember atm) than an A2 frame, but because it isn't mass produced I have to pay a specialist frame company to make them for me.......fucking sucks.

[LadyJ]

Originally Posted by Gazereths

11 inches by 4 ft is a quite unusual size so I can kind of understand it being expensive (still a stiff drink would dull the blow LOL).....But 24x18 inches is just a little bit bigger (or maybe a bit smaller, can't remember atm) than an A2 frame, but because it isn't mass produced I have to pay a specialist frame company to make them for me.......fucking sucks.

Usually (If it's a bit smaller) you can go for the standard A2 size and just get a custom mat made for it - if you see the Elizabeth picture in my collection, that sucker is a weird size so we just got the standard size frame and had a custom mat cut for it and it was only $30... might save you a bit! Now.... if it's bigger? Maybe you can cut it down??



lol jk, that's bad advice...