Beacon: I'm holding out for a hero

Now excuse me, the last weeks of my life have been such a mayhem - I was planning to post a new text last weekend, but after all I just couldn't find time to do that. But that's ok, we all love to read long messy posts, don't we?

This is "the manga page" I was talking about last time. I've coloured it with my grey Promarkers (♥) and added the dialogue. Don't put this into Google translater, my Chinese is not that good.
So our assignment was to buy a newspaper and do something with it. I'm not specificly proud of the way I used the actual newspaper, but that wasn't the point of this work anyway. I used the newspaper more as an inspiration than really did anything with it. But because I have this thing called conscience I felt that I had to stick those few ugly advertisements into the pic on the right hand side.

I had already forgotten these nails, I just found them from my folder. Åhh, I made them so long time ago. Nowadays my nails are much longer and better shaped.

Finally I did it! These are the very first mittens I've ever made. And the "sausage" (my Swiss host-sister calls it as a "wool wurst") is also my fisrt one. I used quite a thin wool, so I can wear them even when it gets warmer.

And then... Where should I start.

Ansku. If I've ever said a bad word about your games or spending time inside instead of going out... I have to take everything back. You see, few weeks ago me and my host-sister found this old board game. Since that... well. Just check these few pics:

Please notice our 'Lembas' next to the cards

Sauron has been defeated

So. What can I say. We have spent nights playing this game. Although the rules are very complicated - 20 pages about normal playing + pages and pages about exceptions and special rules. And you can bet it took us forever to get familiar with all of them (English is neither of us first language)!
It takes about one hour to prepare the game. There are almost trillions of different cards plus these weird life-tokens, a ring-replica, five play boards and point-shields (with the points you can call Gandalf).
The game itself takes approximately 30 min. - two hours, depending on how well you play. Our last game lasted about 1,5h. And we're getting better and better.

Today we baked Lembas. The elf bread. We also spent the whole yesterday in Birmingham shopping everything (un)necessary stuff: glowing sword for Frodo, hand stickers (Elf-style)... And because Frodo (me) has this supercool glowing plastic sword we had to buy something special for Sam too; a glowing party mug (crap value, we couldn't get it working).

We were planning to have LOTR-marathon today, but because we slept too long and started baking Lembas we didn't have time for that. We only watched The Fellowship of the Ring - but hopefully the others (they are not very interested in the Ring) are going to sleep and we can still watch the second part. Maybe we'll find time for the last one tomorrow.

To make you laugh I'll unveil these secret pictures of our game last night: