First Annual Bunk House Decorating Contest

Argh! Do ye have t' best Pirate101 secret hideout?
This contest is now closed. Winners will be posted in a new Pirate101 Blog post by December 17th,2012 6pm Central US time
Do ye like t' decorate or do ye just have a place t' hide yer loot?


First Annual Bunk House Decorating official contest starts December 1st!! Hurry! You only have until December 15, 2012 to enter.


* This contest begins December 1, 2012 and ends December 15, 2012 at 6pm Central time. 
* You may only enter once.
* You may write a short story about your Pirate hideout (please keep them rated E for everyone)
* No more than 2 screenshots will be allowed (no videos),
* Your Pirate must be in the sreenshots.
* You may only use your Pirate101 Bunk House
* All prizes will be awarded Via email of entry.
* Nobody may win in more than one category of prizes.
* To be fair to all entries you must stay within the Bunk house space. 
* Your Pirate name must be sent with your entry. ( no real names please)

How to enter:

Following the official rules posted above, you will decorate your Pirate101 bunk house, write a short story if you like and submit with no more than 2 screen shots of your bunk house  by December 15, 2012 at 6:00 PM Central US time.

How do I submit entries? Send all entries to Contest@paigemoonshade.com email. Please add title "Bunk House" to email.

( If you are under the age of 13 you need to have your parents or guardians permission.)

Late entries will not be accepted. You may not edit your entry. Please make sure it is correct before sending your entry in. 

Any entry with more than 2 screenshots and more than 1 short story will be immediately disqualified. No exceptions." No editing will be allowed on screenshots.

Please take your time and make sure everything is just how you want it.

Good Luck Everyone! Here are your prizes. :)

All winners are posted Here

Grand Prize

Cutthroat Bundle

20,000 Crowns

Second Place 

Castaway Cove house

10,000 Crowns

Third Place

Cutthroat Shark Companion

5000 Crowns

8 Honorable Mentions
2000 Crowns

7 Random Draws

2000 Gold

Redeem all prizes at Pirate101 Redeem

Special thank you to Kingsisle for the wonderful prizes

Pyramid of the Lost Horizon-Decorating tips

                                         

I have been so busy decorating houses you would not believe how many I am working on. When the new Dino bundle came out from game stop. I started working it this house asap. I have been wanting to create a Prehistoric/ Aztecian style house for a very long time. I thought I would show how far I am along with this house and explain my decorating style.

 As you can see I wont be doing much to the top level of the pyramid . I will add a few of the new cratfed Gold Azteca Columns as those I believe would look amazing in the corner spots of top view. I also added the Sun Dial from MMO that was given out. This house is so amazing with beautiful features.

On the sides of the pyramid are these large land areas that can become a vast forest, stomping grounds for all your dinosaurs  or even a Aztecian village! With some well placed crafted leaning palms and a few of the large willow trees from Celestia you can create a small forest easily. Add in some minor details like logs, plants and flowers and your forest comes alive. 

An Aztecian village can be easily created with gorilla huts from Zafaria and misc details items from Azteca you can create a well lived in village. Added food, weapons for safety and much needed fencing to keep out any unwanted wondering dinosaur sure does bring this small village to live. I even hid the mini tag and zeke games within the trees. ;) I thought this house would be amazing for those games.

On the other side of the pyramid you can find a smaller land area in which I created a flying dinosaur area. These dinosaurs come in the prehistoric bundle from Walmart. It also comes with this amazing tree house decoration. You can actually climb inside this tree house and receive gifts each day. Another smaller area I am still working on will be for those stegosaurus that comes in the Dino bundle from Game stop. I will save that for my finished house segment. I am adding  plant life to give them a very special home.

Last place I can show at this time is this grand entry. This entry has a sunken in area in which I place a crafted stone pond though You can use any type of item in this area. I love the actual throne base Kingsisle has made in this room . I crafted the feather throne, some fans, even a mannequin with the Dino bundle gear on it to be the king of this pyramid. On the top I place a statue and crafted 2 of those crafted Azteca blazers. This is where I have to end this segment and continue on decorating. Until next time. Happy house decorating .

Your friend,
Paige MoonShade

Tales of Merciless Mina De Bouff-1

Merciless Mina De Bouff be a Pirate that me twitter followers created as you can see she has started her adventures in Pirate101 . Skull Island cave has been completed with t' help o' Clever Cole Collins. Mina be now ready t' to receive her um bucket o' bolts. ;) Though she cannot answer why Avery think she should like her new boat. Anyway looks like that be all she will receive so away we go

Mina met her trainer today for t' first time Madame Vadima was very mestic and told her she had much t' learn. Mina learned a cool skill called Mojo Strike and she cannot wait t' try it out. Wait weren't we pose t' receive our boat? I guess Mina needs t' talk t' Skinny Pete in t' Kraken Skulls Tavern, so off we go.

Skinny Pete said Mina needed t' meet someone in t' cellar o' t' tavern. She met Mormo in t' tavern and Ratbeard ambushed her, after Ratbeard ran away Mormo joined her rugged crew o' Pirates and chase for Ratbeard begins!

Mina now has her, um ship? Wouldn't you know, it's called T' Creaky Scallywag. What a fittin' name for such a wonderful ship too. Mina be buyin' parts t' help her ship along today and she will set for t' skyways! Check out this picture o' Mina and Clever Cole Collins. Until next time Merciless Mina De Bouff out.

If you would like to help Mina in her tales please leave a True friend code in the comments. She can also be found on One Eyed Jack realm.

I want to send a great big Thank you to talk like a Pirate Translator. without it Mina's Tales would not be so Piratey.

Thanks from Kingsisle

Thank you from Kingsisle!!

Wizard101 use this link

Pirate101 use this link

To show their appreciation, Kingsisle is giving you free gold to enjoy in both Wizard101 and Pirate101 games!

A chance for up to 5,000 gold in each game!

Each code may be used one time per account, and gives you a chance to be awarded up to 5,000 gold in Wizard101 and/or Pirate101. Get your free gold now, because this offer ends November 26th, 2012 at 11:59pm US Central Time.

Caption This!--contest

Caption this Picture

This contest is now over
Caption this picture is as simple as it sounds. Make a caption for the image above and send it to Contest@paigemoonshade.com with the email with your wizards name and title Caption This by Monday November 26th, 6pm central. You could be one of the winners of a Dino Bundle or 1000 crowns. Winners will be posted in this topic Tuesday November 27th, 2012. 


10 Lucky winners!
2 winners will receive their very own Dino Bundle which can be found at Game stop!

*Aztecosaur pyramid with hidden catacombs.

*Two person Dino mount

*Hunter's bow

*Warrior outfit

*Pet baby saurus

*5000 crowns( sub is not one of the options  this gift only has crowns)

8 Winners of 1000 crowns!!

Winners will be posted here

Ezmee Shadowblade-- Dino Bundle
Dino: I cant see a thing over this statue..
   You: Just move to the left. No,No not the right.
 Dino: Is it left or right?
    You: LEFT!
  Dino: My left or your left.
    You: Were facing the same way, so we have the same left.
Dino: Oh! so which way is left again.
   You: You know what... never mind.

Gavin Stormwhisperer-- Dino Bundle
Red Dinosaur: 3..........2..............1.........READY OR NOT, HERE I COME
1000 crown winners 

Brandon Sandcloud
Excuse me, can you tell me which way is the bazaar?

James Dragoncatcher
I spy with my tiny eyes a triceratops behind this statue! 

Tatiana shadowflame
Dino:: Peek a boo, I see you!!            Paige:: Rex how many times have I told you to stop scaring the locals?

Isaac Swiftblade
T-Rex: If i stand perfectly still he won't be able to see me.

Villager: I tout i saw a T-Wex!?

Alex
ROOAARRRR! Were you scared? Tell me honestly.

Michelle Unicornbringer
the red dino: aghhh a carnivorous rex!.* after looking at the wizard riding it* aghh a wizard on a carnivorous rex! run!

Llewella
knew i should've turned left at Albuquerque!

Alura HexCaster 
Tyranosaurus: Hehe...No one will find me here.
Aztecasuar: Peek-a-boo I see you!
Tyranosaurus: Darn it! My tail must've given me away

Codes will be sent via email of entry. Please have your parents or guardians permission if you are under the age of 13. I will also be giving away 2 more bundles plus crowns via twitter @PaigeMoonShade over the holiday weekend. All 2 with new images.

Good luck everyone!!

Thank you Kingsisle for these wonderful gifts.

Aztecasaurs diorama Winners!!!

First off I want to say every entry won! Wizards you really did amaze me with your creative skills. Here are your diorama winners Congratulations to everyone !! Just so everyone knows there were no random draw winners. All entries I received are posted. :)
All codes have been sent to winners.

Duncan Stormthief & Katherine Nightsong

I have to share how  this was put together.

Here is our azteca diorama contest entry. We would like to say something about the process of making this diorama :) 

All things are hand made, mostly of kitchen products. We made our natural, non-chemical, plasticine, with flour, food dyer (cocoa powder for brown color), lemon juice, and instant powder juice for nice smell :)

We used kitchen nylon for water and volcano, and then dyed it with watercolors. Tree is made from various plants. Nest is made of noodles for soup which is sprayed with water and cocoa powder.. On dinos we used sunflower and pumpkin seeds. Rocks are actually candies, and dirt is also cocoa powder. 

Destiny Mistshard It's a Cake

James DragonCatcher

Steven Titanbringer

Lindsey Goldenglove

Julia Dreamcaster

Michael Ice

Arielle Firecaster

Blaze DragonHunter

Michelle MoonCatcher

Fallon Favenshade

Advanced Bunk House Decorating.

This segment will require Pirates to have access to Port Regal. There you will need to purchase Large pattern rug and the Ornate oval rug. You will also need the walls from Rapa Nui. This segment will teach players how to make items part of your wall or plush against the walls. In Bunk House Decorating Pt 2 I showed how to create different basic themed bunk houses so i wanted to take this one step further.

Take you oval rug and attach to the patterned rug, this will allow you to make items plush against the wall. I will be adding this shelf over my bank , the sink and the stove for my kitchen area. I am also going to use same technique to make a wall snug against the door frame to complete the look of another room.

Place item on top of oval rug the move patterned rug

Continue on with each item

Add walls to complete room

 For this next room I place the rugs in a different set up because I wanted a bigger item to be plush against wall, much like this sofa which did not fit on the end of oval rug. Same technique place and move patterned rug.

Once you have your main items you wanted against wall you can now add all the little details to complete your room look.This room has 27 of 50 items.  I could even go more detailed if I wanted too with; food, weapons or wall hangings. I hope you enjoyed this bunk house segment. Until next time,happy house decorating.

Your friend,
Paige MoonShade aka Perilous Paige

Want to win a Admiral Bundle?? Random draw!!

This contest has ended
To enter send a email to Contest@PAIGEMOONSHADE.COM , along with your Pirate's in-game name (such as Perilous Paige) . When entering this drawing please make sure to add Pirate101 Random Draw contest to your email.

Enter early for more chances to win!! 

Once you win a prize your name will be removed from drawing list for future drawings for this contest. You only need to send your name in once it will be re-entered each day.

There will be only 2 winners! Each winner will receive a Admiral Bundle.
Winners will be announced on

November 17th -- Daniel Thompson
November 24th-- Bold Carlo Nightingale


Bundle comes with

Marleybone Warship, 
Bulldog Companion,
Naval Outfit, 
Military Sabre,
Crow’s Nest Housing Add-On. 


The promotional version of the bundle does not come with additional crowns.

Thank you Kingsisle for amazing prizes.

Good luck everyone!!

If you are under the age of 13, please make sure to have your parents or guardians permission.

Azteca Goes live!!

Azteca a world of lush plant life , beautiful views and dinosaurs has gone to live realm today in Wizard101. There are also 2 new mounts and pets in the crowned shop. :) I really like the look of them. All kinds of new free furniture about and furniture in the shops!! I cannot wait to upgrade my Aztec temple house with all these new pieces. See you around the spiral.

Your friend
Paige MoonShade

Lest we Forget...

To honor all those who have served their countries, we're giving away a memorial Medal Display housing decoration in both Wizard101 and Pirate101. 

From now until midnight US Central Time on Nov 11th you can click the link and log in to get your Veteran's Day memorial housing item. 

Limit one per account per game.
To redeem for Pirate101 go here.
To redeem for Wizard101 go here.
This offer is good until Midnight November 11,2012 You only need to redeem once to receive on both games.

Wizard101 Wall Hanging

Pirate101 Wall Hanging

Stupendor-X

Stupendor-X 

This is where your Pirate turns into a robot to defeat a giant stormzilla.  Just so you know I am not a great guide maker but lets hope this helps some. A few players showed me some guides and a video and from there it took me a few times of trying to complete this task  yet I finally did it. So Let me see if I can make this easier. Hope this helps Each image has a caption of what I did for each.

Go around counter clockwise and destroy all the eggs

Continue each to each egg until you are at top left there you can use a melee  attack to destroy the 2 eggs

Set 2 rows of fire using the eye beams power  

Make sure you are on Op side of the fires than stormzilla

Play Tag make the stormzilla run through the fires 

Continue making stormzilla run through fires until he just wont go in them anymore

Finish him off with powers the basic punch you can use from a distance.

Bunk House Decorating Pt 2

Very First Bunk House

My very first bunk house was while we were still in beta 'Shown above' since then I have been trying out different styles. The above image shows just a basic throw items in a bunk house and move them around to give that little bit of classy lived in feeling. Most of the furniture was bought at Flotsam added to the free items you receive when you first start the game.

 Kingsisle has come up with some awesome pieces of furniture for Pirate101. Here is a guide I created over at Pirate101 Central. I show you the venders, maps where to find them and the furniture pieces they have in stock at this time. There are also some very unique items in the crowned shop for crowns or in game gold. 

Today I will show a few bunk houses I have designed mostly will be themed for the worlds. Themes I went with are outdoor ,more of a Rapa Nui feel, a Mooshu themed, a port regal themed and last but not least a Pirate hideout. One thing to remember in any decorating are the details that complete your theme or finished look. Can you tell me which bunk house fits which theme? Until next time,happy house decorating.

Your friend
Paige MoonShade aka Perilous Paige
Please forgive the bad image quality I am still on a temporary graphics card.

Create a Aztecasaurs diorama. -Contest

2 player Scarydactyl Mount

 What is a diorama?

di·o·ram·a/?di?'ram?/Noun: A model representing a scene with three-dimensional figures, either in miniature or as a large-scale museum exhibit. 

This contest is now over. Winners will be posted Monday November 19th

Make it a family project!!

Have your family help you. See how much fun it can be for you and your family to create a Aztecasaurs diorama together. I found many how to create a diorama guides on the internet, just make sure you have your parents or guardians permission to search. In fact have them help you. :)

Most commonly used in grade school projects; dioramas can be made out of shoe boxes, or built up from a board much like the volcano I made in grade school. You can use any type of box,  wood or even cardboard. Let your imagination fly! Show me what Azteca is like in your diorama.


* Create a Aztecasaurs diorama by using any kind of physical art medium, toys, plants,clay or even food must be three-dimensional, not flat.
* You may paint/color your creation.
* You may add a small story about your diorama.
* Take 2 pictures of your art work with a piece of paper with date and your Wizards name only such as; Paige MoonShade Nov. 1, 2012
* Picture 1 should be of your items used to create your diorama
* Picture 2 is of your completed diorama
* Email entry to Contest@PAIGEMOONSHADE.COM . Please remember you must have your piece of paper with name and date taken with picture.
* Title of email needs to read Create a Aztecasaurs diorama.
* Please remember dioramas need to be rated E for everyone
* All Entries must be in by Nov 18,2012  6pm Central time
* If you are under the age of 13 please have your parents or guardians permission to enter.
* You may only enter once.
* Please ask all questions on this post only
* Winners will redeem codes at Wizard101 Redeem Code.

Winners will be posted in a new Wizard101 blog post by Nov 20,2012 6pm central. 
All prize codes will be sent to the winners via email.

Prizes!!!!!!

First and second place winners will receive:
Prehistoric bundle 
2 player Scarydactyl Mount
Babydactyl pet
Primordial Axe
WildRanger Outfit
Treehouse housing decoration
1  month subscription or 5,000 Crowns

Third, forth and fifth places will receive
1 -Treehouse decoration
1- 2 player Scarydactyl Mount
1- Babydactyl pet
1- Primordial Axe

Sixth - tenth places will receive
1-WildRanger Outfit
1-Primordial Axe

8 Random draw winners (random draw winners are from all valid entries)
1 random prize which can be any of these:
WildRanger Outfit
Primordial Axe
Babydactyl pet
2-player Scarydactyl Mount

Good Luck everyone!!!
Special Thanks to Kingsisle for these amazing prizes

Treehouse decoration

Babydactyl pet

Outfit and axe