Happy birthday Ivey!
I hope your day is filled with joy and that the year to come will be a wonderful one.

Happy birthday Arianna!
I hope you had a wonderful day and that the year will be filled with joys for you.

1. My favourite use for balloons is actually to create shapes. I make bowls out of strips of plaster and to hold the shape while the plaster sets it needs something to hold it up. And preferably something that will give once the bowl is finished so that I can allow the bowl to have a slightly narrow...

I am sorry to only get to you this late Elle, but to answer your question; there are many doll makers out there. Any one of them you wish to use will be fine :) Personally I've always liked using the Dolldivine one, but you by no means have to. Brianna, of course you can always get an alternative i...

The Drabble Babble Challenge Drabble (n.) = "an extremely short work of fiction of exactly one hundred words in length" One theme will be announced per issue. Participants will then write a small piece of fiction (or non-fiction) about that theme. What's the catch? The submission must be a drabble!...

And that brings us on to November! Please give a round of applause to our November top earners: Award Winner: Samanta Grey - 730 points First Year: Daria Summers - 380 points Gryffindor: Iverian Gnash - 320 points Slytherin: Claire Murphy - 450 points Ravenclaw: Samanta Grey - 730 points Hufflepuff:...

I am absolutely a real-tree kind of Ga(i)l. We've always had a real tree - and NEVER watered it. Our foot for the tree doesn't even have a place to hold water and it usually stands for about a month - it all depends on the kind of tree you get whether they need this or not. I find the fake ones also...

I hope you had an awesome day Sin!

Thank you so much! I had a really great day; I had lunch over video with my parents and then cake in the afternoon with my partner and a movie afterwards. It really was a lovely day and I am so glad to see all your wishes here.
Thank you!

Happy Birthday Maxim!!
I hope you've had a fantastic day.

The best gift I ever got was a number of letters written to one of my role play characters - they told a story when taken together and they were all handwritten and looked appropriate to where and when in the story they were written. It was amazing and I love how much thought and work had gone into ...

For years now I've been part of a weekly role play campaign and I have to say I love it. Through our time we've gone through quite a few different systems for playing - we started out with FATE and have since gone through I think five or so different systems that have been tweaked to not be too jarr...

I've been doing some cleaning lately - and by that I mean some serious cleaning, going through a lot of the boxes that have been stored in the attic from my childhood and found... a lot of toys - Who'd have thought. Most of them I've now either donated or thrown out depending on their condition, but...

We are now accepting submissions for our December Issue. Why not submit a Bingo Story or two?

December Issue Deadline: MONDAY, 30th of November

The Drabble Babble Challenge Drabble (n.) = "an extremely short work of fiction of exactly one hundred words in length" One theme will be announced per issue. Participants will then write a small piece of fiction (or non-fiction) about that theme. What's the catch? The submission must be a drabble!...

One of the things I found very helpful is to make sure that the thread I use is good quality. It really makes a difference because the machine will feed it through far more evenly than the lower quality ones. So even if you think the lower quality ones are fine strengthwise when you've used them to ...

As in previous years, we are pleased to present you with the monthly Top Points Winner from each house! As a new addition this year, we will also be recognizing the First Year student with the most points that month. In turn professors will no longer be recognized separately, but along with their ho...

Owls are certainly useful and while at Hogwarts where there is the owlery and they can be taken care of, I would expect they aren't that much work either, but as a pet otherwise... I don't think I'd much enjoy an owl. I just wouldn't want to take care of a bird. I would very much prefer a cat; I cou...

I totally understand what you mean Mia - and for me there's also some excitement missing that was there in the previous generations. For me though I am sure it's not that I am outgrowing playing the sims, but simply that some of the gameplayfeatures I enjoy and which the previous generations often h...

That is a really interesting question indeed. I think I would probably pick another name, unless it was a site where I knew a lot of other HOLers would be as well in which case I might want to be able to be identified by them and therefore would like to go by the same name. For a different fandom th...