Wand Bling

One of our vacation activities was playing MagiQuest for the first time.  If you've never played, it's almost like a cross between being Harry Potter and being in your own video game.  To play, you get a wand which is yours to keep and contains all your game data.  You use your wand to go on quests, collecting different runes and things like that.  As you travel through the various magical realms in the building, you can activate and collect different things just by pointing your wand at something with the flick of your wrist.  (The flick is important!)  We all played, from my three-year-old son to my sixty-five-year-old father, and everyone had a blast.  There's another MagiQuest in a Great Wolf Lodge not far from where we live so we hope to play again soon.

The only problem?  My son, husband, and I all wound up with the same wand.  Normally they have about six styles to choose from, but the Pigeon Forge one was out of most and only had two styles in stock.  I'm not really a gold person, I'd take silver any day, but the wand that had silver was also bright red and black with big lightning bolts on it - not my thing.  So I went with this one since it was a bit more subtle and I knew I could dress it up.  As fun as it is, MagiQuest is also a money sucker and they sell all kinds of decorative wand toppers and design kits so you can "customize" your wand.  I'll customize my way, thanks.  So I did some quick wire bead links, looped a band of gold wire around the wand, and attached my beads.  It's a start and I think I'll add more as we go along and complete different things, but I like it so far.