What's Happening This Week -- December 26 - January 1

Big Eagle Application -- Due midnight POT 12/27

Break Month Activities  --  Through 12/31
                                       Slytherin Advent Sock KAL

                                       Holiday Sparkle

                                       The Party Palace

                                       Cozy Color Retreat

First Year/Transfer Dorm Feedback Survey

Ravenclaw Feedback Survey

SORTING   ---  NLT Midnight POT 12/31!!!

January 2017 Classes -- Begin 1/1

OWL applications -- Accepted 1/1  -- 1/22

NEWT 50%  --  Accepted 1/2 - 1/31

Last Week in the Common Room: Happy Holidays to All

Happy holidays, everyone!

More and more and more baking. 

Travel, family time, and gift wrapping are afoot. 

Much plotting for next term and next year, including several Claws setting principles and goals for the year and some accountability buddies. 

What's Happening This Week -- December 19 - 25

SORTING SIGN-UPS! Through NOON POT 12/23

Break Month Activities  -- Slytherin Advent Sock KAL

                                       Holiday Sparkle

                                       The Party Palace

                                       Cozy Color Retreat

Big Eagle Application -- Due midnight POT 12/27

First Year/Transfer Dorm Feedback Survey

Ravenclaw Feedback Survey

Last Week in the Common Room: Ravenclaw Victory!

We won we won we won we won!!  Well done, everyone!  Four in a row!

Lots of holiday baking continues.  The Common Room looks and smells amazing.

The headmistress stopped by for a discussion of NEWTs. 

Holiday prep!  Shopping, wrapping, cooking, and so on. 

Travel safely, everyone!

Quidditch Stats -- Fall 2016 Wrap Up

Today's Quidditch Stats are presented by the illustrious founder of our House, Rowena Ravenclaw!

Greetings and salutations to all my dear Ravenclaws! I am so very happy to be addressing you today, and conveying my praise for your Quidditch achievements this past fall term 2016.

For my beloved House of scholars, devoted to the quest for knowledge, this strong third place finish in an athletic endeavor is admirable! Every single one of those Quidditch points counted toward our stunning win of the House Cup for the fourth consecutive term.

I am very proud of all of our Chasers, and I salute the team leadership for a job well done.

Squad honors go to the Abraxans, who pulled ahead of all the other Flying Horses in the contest for Quidditch points.

Blue - all matches; Red match 1; yellow match 2; green match 3; purple match 4

And here are the final House standings for Quidditch Fall 2016. I shall convey my hearty congratulations to my colleague Godric for his House's fine victory.

Blue - all matches; Red match 1; yellow match 2; green match 3; purple match 4

My dear Ravenclaw students, enjoy your well-deserved break month, and I look forward to your endeavors on the pitch in Winter Term 2017.

SOAR EAGLES!

Thank you to Quidditch stats beater Greenheron and our dear founder for that wonderful summation of this term's matches!

What's Happening This Week - December 12 - 18

SORTING SIGN-UPS! Through NOON POT 12/23

Break Month Activities  -- Slytherin Advent Sock KAL

                                       Holiday Sparkle

                                       The Party Palace

                                       Cozy Color Retreat

Mad Scientist Voting

Firstie (and Transfer!) Friday

It's Firstie Friday (on Saturday, because that's how we roll sometimes!) 

Our Firsties and Transfers had a PHENOMENAL first term in Ravenclaw! 

Huge congrats and Tower hugs to our Firstie Class: 

AFeskimo

BarnOwl

cn32

CymraesCrochet

delana75

Extraterrestrial

gardenmama

Laura909

Lettisia

Mellian

Mumblemee

scrappinrobyn

siouxsieshoe

And our Transfer class: 

ahanson08

TShaya

frithuswith

KhenaSanskula

PinkLemons

yarnfreak75

cubejelly

christinahwest

A big thank you to all our Big Eagles:

Specialkknits

Leahandthedragon

Twistedsticherfge

Snippybits

Morningwynd

Lateclematis

Bigsnakes

Bchapman1017

Wendebular

Lavendarblueskies

Jinxsa

Sumiregusa

Kaypendragon

S2five

Zisch304

Isilsartari

And an extra special thank you to Mama Eagle MissJaneJetson and Auntie Eagle Lash! 

Weekly Showcase Wednesday: Last Showcase of the Fall Term!

This term flew by!  I feel like it's still the beginning of October, and yet here I am doing the last showcase of the Fall Term!  It's been a great term, and I'm very much looking forward to the End of Term Feast to see how it all turned out.  Hopefully projects like these will help us do well in the race for the House Cup!

There were a ton of awesome projects turned in during the last few days of the term, and these have each earned a Golden Pickodile!

treesh spun a lovely purply-pinky skein of yarn for Feeding of Magical Creatures:

PoodleParade crocheted a charming pair of slippers (with a very sweet story to match) for Feeding of Magical Creatures:

lavenderblueskies knit a beautiful pair of lacy socks for Feeding of Magical Creatures:

Bijou3Owl was inspired by the mantis shrimp and spun a gorgeous skein of yarn for Feeding of Magical Creatures:

djmeurer knit three fabulous colorwork mittens with Latvian braids for Grooming of Magical Creatures:

Sonnenblumenimp knit a marvelous pair of lacy cabled socks for Grooming of Magical Creatures:

greenheron knit a wonderful lacy shawl for Grooming of Magical Creatures:

CacaoGoddess painted an awesome set of watercolor Pacific Northwest leaves for Grooming of Magical Creatures:

gardenmama knit another spectacular pair of socks for Grooming of Magical Creatures:

thtr4me knit a cute monster for Habitats of Magical Creatures:

SadieLou crocheted an adorable moomin for Safe Handling of Magical Creatures:

soprano1 made another delightful needle-felted creature, this time a mouse, for Safe Handling of Magical Creatures:

chrissyteenychan made a dazzling bracelet for Safe Handling of Magical Creatures:

bchapman1017 knit a lovely shawl for Healing:

Red knit a wonderful baby sweater for History of Magic:

rondaletts made a cute trio of snowmen along with a kitty ornament for Muggle Studies:

KnitWit685 made a very charismatic Christmas tree for Muggle Studies:

gothknitty knit a marvelous colorwork phone cozy for Muggle Studies:

s2five crocheted a delightful bear ornament for Muggle Studies:

christinahwest knit a lovable fox for Muggle Studies:

Sumiregusa made a charming turtle for Muggle Studies:

omeletsmom knit a cute collection of finger puppets for Muggle Studies:

SarahAlderSign crocheted an adorable toadstool for Muggle Studies:

Momtoaaandm made a wonderful collection of snowmen and gnomes for Muggle Studies:

electronjam knit a beautiful picture complete with a frame for Potions:

LeahandtheDragon knit a gorgeous pair of lacy socks for Potions and also made a stunning pendant which fits inside a clever bag for Quidditch:

caranam made a delightful unicorn cardigan for Potions:

TwistedSticherFGE spun a stunning skein of yarn for Potions:

As usual, several Ravenclaws did the unbelievable and successfully outran the Mallet of Sanity to earn the Pickle of Sanity Badge!

winemakerssister spun an amazing 2604 yards of singles for Grooming of Magical Creatures!

aknittingstory knit an entire sweater, using an unbelievable 1040 yards, in just five days for Safe Handling of Magical Creatures!

AngiePie18 crocheted an entire blanket, using an unfathomable 3255 yards of yarn, in under a month for Safe Handling of Magical Creatures!

jinxsa knit not one, not two, not even four, but an incredible 16 pairs of mittens, using 1149 yards of yarn, all for Safe Handling of Magical Creatures!

And there were some laughs this month as well, which earned the Darth Pickle Badge!

matematichica got me giggling over her story of a tiny totoro who cannot fly, but instead does a faceplant on the sand, for Muggle Studies:

Congratulations to all the badge winners!!!  This has been an incredible term, and everyone should be proud of all their work!  I'm excited to see what you have in store for Winter Term!

Fantastic Beasts -- And We Were Happy to Meet Them!

We're all done hunting Fantastic Beasts for this term.  Thank you so very much to our contributors:

Pumpahkin
PurplePigwidgeon
Kaos127
Allysonpickles
Kaypendragon
Gazebogal
s2five
knotmagic
Caranam
Kadiddly
Xamonster

for introducing us to the creatures that live in your houses. It was so much fun meeting your Ravenpets!

What's Happening This Week -- December 5 - 11

House Cup Staff Application -- Thru December 6

Mad Scientist of Ravenclaw Tower -- Nominations due 12/7

Break Month Activities  -- Slytherin Advent Sock KAL
                                       Holiday Sparkle
                                       The Party Palace
                                       Cozy Color Retreat

Ongoing:

Signups for WInter 17 sorting Remembrall!

Last Week in the Common Room: We need a ward at St Mungo's

 OWLs landed, NEWTs surfaced, and many retreated to their skychairs to rest and relax. 

... and then began plotting next term's achievements. 

An entire ward is being set aside for Ravenclaw at St Mungo's; there appears to be a plot to attempt to confuse the Mallet by attempting the insane en masse. 

Break month is here!  There is levity, though Martin has been given the month off. 

Lots of holiday prep: decorating, baking, shopping ... and we hope the return of Cookiepocalypse. 

Firstie (and Transfer!) Friday

Hello Tower! It's the last Firstie Friday of the Fall term, and we have some gorgeous looking extracurriculars from our Firsties and Transfers to review!

Here's ahanson08's gorgeous mission shawl!

A beautiful lot of spinning by cn32 for her Potions OWL! 

Delana75's amazing Muggle Studies Owl cardigan!

Extraterrestrial's Arithmancy OWL of a whopping 8 house scarves!

Frithuswith submitted both a gorgeous woven Mission AND amazing colorwork socks for an Ancient Runes OWL!

Gardenmama's lovely lacy Charms OWL! 

KhenaSanskula turned in a lovely beaded Mission and a completed NEWT! 

Lettisia's beautiful mission shawls! 

Pinklemons astounding tunisian OWL of many colors! 

Scrappinrobyn's beautiful DADA OWL! 

TShaya's wonderfully cabley OWL cardigan! 

Yarnfreak75's amazing OWL blankets, angels, and bag!

Thanks for a great term Firsties and Transfers! SOAR!