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How does your garden grow?

Tonight I went out and did some weeding in our garden and finished up feeling happy, itchy and dirty.  Now, if you are a virtual gardener you probably just end up feeling that sense of satisfaction without the dirt and itch...

The creators of Wizard101 wanted us to have a little motivation to get our virtual spring gardening under way... To help out they are giving 5 Red Barn Farms and 20 seed packs.

Join us tomorrow for the start of the gardening contest!

Get your green thumbs ready.

Vale

Happy Mother's Day

That pretty much says it all...

Without a mom you wouldn't be here!  So they're kinda important aren't they?

My earliest memories of my mom are of her singing or telling me a story from memory.  She knew these things made me feel better when I was scared.  She was always telling stories, making something or fixing something trying to make things last because we were pretty poor.  Of course I didn't know we were poor because she took good care of us. (yep big family)  Some of my best memories are of her reading Chronicles of Narnia to my sister and I every night for at least a month.

Since my mom received her wings, I miss her more than ever.  I try to pass along the same things to my boys... I try to teach them to appreciate stories and good books too.

This weekend I was at a writing conference with about 500 other writers and authors.  I got to enter a story in the contest and I took first place this year.  I know she's proud of me for trying to get better at things that I was taught to love because of her example.  I feel very hopeful that my boys will appreciate that you can dream dreams and make them come true by hard work.  I know their mom is teaching them that by living her dream too.  I hope that whatever they do in life going forward they will take a love of writing and story telling with them into whatever job or career they end up having.

Happy Mother's Day to all moms out there and those that are mom's in their hearts.

There would be no great wizards without a mom so think of some nice way to give back to your mom either by showing her you love her or by honoring something she loved when she was with you.

Vale

Stay tuned for another contest coming up!

Glitch & Winners of the Bonus Part of the Mount Idea Contest

Winners!

For those of you who submitted an idea that won a bonus code in the contest below...

If you don't have an email already waiting with your bonus prize code- please comment with your wizard name and email address in a comment.  I'll moderate your comment so your email address doesn't get picked up by spammers and I'll forward you your code. 

I still have 11 that haven't claimed their prize.

If the prizes are unclaimed within a week I'll have to give them away some other way.

Glitch/Hiding Spot

Check out this interesting glitch pointed out to me by Alexis Jadeheart.  I always like to explore side areas just in case there's something cool an I did notice this area when I first explored it but what I didn't realize is that it's see-through from one side and not from the other. Too bad you can't jump out and surprise a bad guy.

In this picture I'm inside the leafy area looking out.  Kind of like a 2 way mirror but a 2 way mirror made of leaves and vines. (I know that doesn't make sense to me either)

 This is me inside of the hiding spot with the camera angle zoomed around behind me so I can see what someone else would see.  You can see a bit of my dragon's wing sticking out.

 Here's me inside of the hiding spot again but this time the camera angle is rotated so you can see the very edge of the texture and my dragon's wing behind it.

Yep, you guessed it... it's in Azteca.  If you know where this spot is tell me and I'll give the first three people to comment with the right answer an exclusive to Valerian's School wand that you can't get anywhere else in the game on or off the game...

Happy hunting!

Vale

Epic Mount Ideas

Well, I challenged you to submit great ideas on mounts and there were some super awesome ideas.  Unfortunately the comment trail doesn't really let me respond to people by email sooo those of you listed here with ideas that Cody and Logan voted on should leave a comment for me with your email address and I'll send you something cool or COOL (either one).

So without further ado, here are some of your awesome ideas.  Sorry that I can't list all of them. They were all brilliant and very creative.

SwordRoll  - a mount made of smoke like you're being lifted and moved by the smoke  (traveling in Wizardly style!  I like it.)

Vijeyta Revankar  swallowed by monster and the spacebar makes you pop out on its tongue (as long as he doesn't have bad breath this would be awesome)

Keira UnicornSong  furry house cat - we have the tigers but what about a cuddly cat? (who doesn't need a cuddly cat?)

Sophia EmeraldBlossom   mount is your current highest spell (a changing pet would be awesome)

Lunar Fairy  mount might join battle (I love the idea of my mount helping me out.  Sometimes gets lazy and doesn't think to heal me so extra help would be nice)

Tabitha   bear powered wheel barrel - bear carries you in the barrel part (as long as he doesn't dump me out in the dirt, I'm game...)

Al Neuu  flying castle (Only if I get the balcony seat with a cushy chair)

Brave Alex Richmond  - monkey (who wouldn't be cheered up by a monkey? right?)

Tasha Sparkleheart - hamster wheel (if I could ever stop laughing I would probably use this one)

Dylan Sunthief  dreamy cloud (several people had this idea but Dylan was the first to suggest it)

That Guy From Down The Street  - Mammoth  (Manny or not, a mammoth seems like a bigl idea)

Rosie Zhao   Panda (Who doesn't want a panda with or without kungfu, pandas are just cute)

JamesDC  pulling a wagon with mount or pet in it (Sounds like last time we went to the parade)

Jacob Deathhorn  Teleporter bubble that envelops you and carries you around (I love high tech)

Emma Starblood   Luna Moth (A moth would be very cool)

Emily   Owl Mount (Owls are just awesome and Harry Pottery, I love it)

Llewella Life   Swan boat  (I'd for sure use this if Rowan was online)

Georgi Manolev  - Leviathin  (A good scary mount! But will it get dried out in the desert?)

Stacy Igwe  multi-seat caterpillar (It's fun to imagine this one slinking along... an inch-worm would be fun too)

Cameron  Kangaroo (I mean seriously right?  I'd hop along on a roo especially if it jumped high punched too!)

Jordan Lifecaster - floating leaf (sounds relaxing)

Alura Silverdust - poison frog (now that's a fun and colorful idea.  i'm all about jumping high so this one would be fun)

Brandon OwlSword - jumping valentine's heart (this is a super fun idea. I bet this would be popular)

Alexandria Rider - chicken  (rubber or not, don't chickens make you laugh too?)

Tavi - squirrel  (this idea is just plain cute even if you find yourself short on nuts afterward)

Thanks for all the great ideas mentioned and not mentioned.

Vale