Seeking Volunteers For Monthly Crafting Faire

Homes and Tomes is planning to start hosting a monthly crafting faire on Antonia Bayle on our very own Carnival Cruise ship! We are currently seeking a variety of volunteers to help get this up and going and make this a monthly event!

Volunteers Needed:

• Crafters to man the various booths within our Fairgrounds. 
• Roleplay inclined actors to go out and about within designated zones and offer "quests" that can be done to obtain items from our Faire.

We also have several booths at our Faire that are available to be rented! Fee (in status for the guild hall, platinum for future events, or harvests) to be determined on a case by case basis. These extra booths can be for pure roleplay, quests, crafting, or anything else that one might come up with that fit with the theme of a "Faire" or "Carnival." 

For more information or to sign up to volunteer please visit the Crafting Faire planning thread found here. If you wish to volunteer and are not a current member of the guild please register to the site and post to the thread with the name of the character you'd like to help with and what you'd like to sign up for! All questions, thoughts, and ideas are also welcome!

Norrathian Punkocalypse Challenge Extended!

The deadline for the Norrathian Punkocalypse Challenge, hosted by Niboota Bloodyeyes (the lady behind the Evertour Entries) has been extended!

Quoted from Niboota on the Homeshow forums:

So a few people have told me they are having trouble completing their home, so I'm extending the deadline for this contest to 11:59pm CST Sept 30th. I hope that helps!

This gives anyone who wishes to participate more time to sign up, or those who didn't think they'd have time to get it done more time to finish up! All homes muse be completed and published to the leaderboards by the new deadline in order to maintain eligibility for the contest. Find out more about the decorating challenge here.

New August Commission!

Hellos again! It is I, Meeba, bringing you another August commission!
This time it's a creative challenge to turn a New Halas home into a speakeasy!  There's a story to go along with it too, and it pays well!  If you're interested, please go to page two of http://bit.ly/hat-commissions and check it out!

As always, please CONTACT MEEBA about the commissions, NOT the homeowner. This is to ensure that multiple people don't contact the homeowner, AND to allow me to keep track of which commissions are still open. Once I has informed you that you are the decorator on a commission project, THEN feel free to contact the homeowner. Remember, just because you have talked to the client and toured the home DOES NOT mean that you are obligated to take on the request! If you feel this is not a match for you then go ahead and decline, just make sure to let mes know that the job is still open and also let the client know that Meeba will still be looking for someone to match them with.

As of late, the horrible end boss called REAL LIFE has proven a bit difficult for this maus to handle, and my raid party (i.e. family) is needing my constant attentions. If you don't see me sticking my nose in game, feel free to contact me via the facebooks or attach a note to a guild officer or the Jazabelles and throw them at mes. :)


I'm almost as excited as the homeowner to see what you come up with! Thanks again for all your time and creativity! :)

~ Meeba

Sacred Spaces Winners

  Congratulations to everyone who participated in the Sacred Spaces contest. It was a very close contest in terms of judging. Our winners all had nearly perfect scores, and were within a few points of each other. That trend continued throughout all of the scores. Everyone did an amazing job!

First Place

Raainy of Crushbone

Niboota's tour video:

Second Place

Chess of Antonia Bayle

Jazabelle's tour video:

Third Place

Delepitore of Antonia Bayle

Jazabelle's tour video:

  The full list of videos can be viewed at the Sacred Spaces playlist on YouTube. Any new videos will be added to this list, and announced in the Sacred Spaces video tour thread on the Norrathian Homeshow forums.

  All contestants, please be on the lookout for a special prize from Daybreak over the next few days.

  Participation prizes are still being granted, so do not worry if you haven't received yours yet; you're still on the list to receive your prize.

  Mail any questions or concerns to homesandtomes@gmail.com

  Thank you very much for participating in the Sacred Spaces 2015 competition. We hope you had as much fun participating as we did running it!

Boglily: First HoF house on Stormhold

  Boglily of Homes and Tomes on Antonia Bayle, and Better Homes and Dungeons on Stormhold, is the first person to enter the Hall of Fame on Stormhold. Not only is she the first, but that means she discovered the Hall of Fame trophy on Stormhold!

  Congratulations Boglily, on a wonderful job with your Hopsalong Cottage!

  This is the video Niboota did:

  A link to Boglily's consolidated homes thread can be found here. And if you'd prefer to be taken directly to the post about her home, you can go here.

Sacred Spaces Video Tours Update!

  The Sacred Spaces Video Tours thread has been updated with the three most recent videos.

  I highly recommend stopping by the various homes in person. The videos don't do them justice at all, and stopping by means that you'll be able to show your appreciation via the leaderboards.

  As I am on vacation, I will be unable to do video tours of the remainder of the contestant entries until I am back home. Don't worry, they'll be done, it'll just take a bit longer.

  I wish the best of luck to all the contestants,

~ Jazabelle

Sacred Spaces: Reminder

  Ladies and gentlemen, there are only a little under 30 hours left to publish your Sacred Space!

August 9, 11:59 PM PST: Homes must be completed with all requirements met, and posted on the Leaderboards with "SS2015" somewhere in the name.

August 10, 12:00 AM PST: Judging begins.

August 16, 11:59 PM PST: Judging ends.

August 17, sometime during the morning or afternoon PST: Winners announced

August 24, 11:59 PM PST: All prizes to winners should be sent out. If prizes have not been sent out for some reason, winners will be emailed with an explanation and update.

  Please keep in mind that participation prizes are granted after confirmation that your home is published, so it may take a bit longer for them to go out, especially if you haven't yet published your home.

  We look forward to seeing everyone's work over the next eight days as we work hard to judge your entries.

  Remember that the winners are not the "best" homes, just the ones that our judges liked the best--and there's no guarantee that all of the judges agreed, either.

  We wish everyone the best of luck with the judging.

~ Jazabelle