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IN THIS EPISODE…
…Michael Webkinz joins Gennelle as a special co-host to chat about going back to school!
What’s In Our KinzPost?: What’s everyone looking forward to about heading back to class?
Spotlight on…Back to School: All the awesome ways to celebrate the return of school in Webkinz World, including new items and prizes!
What’s Next: We’re going to be talking about creativity! How do you express your creativity? Tell us in the comment section!
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sigh dont mention school plz i start school on tuesday the only good thing is everyone reuniting and showing off your stuff i got a sweeet croyon box a back of 96 croyons and a diva croyon pack and the crayon box has a special key anjd lock so you can l9ock it but my fave items are .. all my frozen stuff! i only have a frozen floder right now and i put frozen stickers on the crayon box its a dark blue and today im gonna get a frozen backpack and lunch box today and i have two elsa shirts! careful evreyone im goin pro frozen
I watched Frozen too Lisamarie580! I didn’t know about it until really late, so I actually ended up watching it on the last day it was going to be in theaters! LOL! My Mom took me. It was a good movie! Olaf is so cute and funny!! LOL! I love how he can rearrange himself! Hey, remember when he fell down the cliff after “Marshmallow” chased them, and then Olaf saw Kristoff’s feet, he grabbed them by the toes and said: “Oh no!! I can’t feel my feet! Somebody help me!” And then Kristoff was like: “Those are MY feet!” I started laughing so much when I saw that! I hope I didn’t disturb anyone else in the movie theater! (basicly, I hope I didn’t disturb that one person LOL!) Anyway, that was a good movie! :)
haha frozen rocks :) i have 2 frozen shirts and frozen stickers and my sisters have 2 frozen lunhboxes, backpacks, and the book
Frozen is awesome I loved the movie :) A ton of my friends have had Frozen themed B-day partys :)
Yeah, same with me playnowpuppy, but I never did….yet! LOL! :)
I loved it too. My friend had a frozen themed party
Frozen was pretty good. BTW, I got some My Little Pony notebooks for school. :)
I am really into rubberband jewelry right now and have made some major awesome bracelets and necklaces. I have a friend who does it with me and we have so much fun watching videos and rubberbanding! I also love, love, love decorating my rooms in Webkinz. I have 155 rooms in my Webkinz House and am working on 5 of them right now. Two are jumbleberry prize rooms, one is using the neo gothic furniture, and I doing a super fancy bathroom with the Spree prizes! I love the Let’s Build videos and get lots of great ideas through them. Thanks Mike!!
Yeah, I saw someone doing rubber band jewelry once. They taught me how to do it, and now I have a little bracelet I made myself! :) I have alot of rooms too xoingtoby, around 600 I think. (NOT exagerating) And speaking of Micheal, since you called him Mike, which do you prefer to be called Micheal, Micheal or Mike? I mean, we won’t confuse you with the Mike from Podkinz anymore, so either one!
Michael goes by Michael, although I DID call him Mike in this episode… a lot of Mikes work here! Haha.
Lol! Anyway I do a ton of rubberband jewlry! I have 3 looms! And how many rooms do I have in my house? Around 578 :)
Wow, all of you have a lot of rooms! And I thought I had a lot…pssh 50. -BT
Still 50 is a lot I have a lot of rooms because 1. I have a LOT of Webkinz! and 2. I’ve been on Webkinz 7 years :)
Yeah…I have been playing since December of ’06…I wasn’t into room designing that much back then though. It’s one of my favorite things to do on Webkinz now though.-BT
thanks for all the free prizes! school started back its pretty awful :( But i love my art class and i love to draw :)
I love to draw too, MidnightFireflies15! I mentioned it in my comment above, it’s the fourth comment. Did you read it?
I read it :) and I love art too MidnightFireflies15 :)
One of the ways I like to be creative is photography! I love taking pictures! My Grandmother asked what I liked taking pictures of once. My answer: Everything! I like taking pictures of people, animals, places, and I especially like taking pictures of the sky! we were about to go eat one time and it had just rained so it was cloudy and there were raindrops on the window of our car, I took a picture of the sun coming out of the clouds and I LOVE it!
Yeah, it’s nice making beautiful pictures like that! I enjoy photography too! :)
Oh my goodness I forgot photography! I LOVE photography! You sound really good at it :) I just got a new kinda fancy one for Christmas and have been testing out all the settings.
I do too it’s so fun!
Photography is really fun! Sometimes my mom lets me borrow her big expensive Nikon, as long as I’m careful. ;) -BT
Really? That’s cool :)
I am a very crafty person! I make webkinz clothes, shoes, bedrooms, blankets, pillows, beds, pianos, couches, storage items, and even more! I love doing crafts! I even make most of my webkinz clothes out of socks!!!
That sounds really cool! You sound really talented at art! :)
Same with me, pink100j! :) I do the same exact things! OM-GOSH!
Good idea I just finished sewing my webkinz a sleepover bag, sleeping bag, face mask, jacket, and much more for a sleepover :) but those items were made out of fabric :) still I like to make hats and stuff out of socks for my little kinz :)
Yes! I’ve been working on a School and a library would be amazing! I’m excited for the acorn collection but my family and I go on a vacation all September long so I won’t be able to get on as often. I will still have internet access but I will be out on the beach most of the time! And also, I love to be creative! I got a wreck this journal for Christmas and I love it! I love to draw but I’m not very good at it. I also take karate and I love doing self defense with the instructors!
I also play guitar which is a lot of fun!
I play the piano and you take karate? Cool so do I :)
I’d like to learn martial arts…… (Dang expenses…)
I do martial arts it’s really fun!
Yeah, I have ALWAYS wanted to do martial arts, but I have never been able too.
Really Why? Is your mom and dad afraid it’s too hard or rough for you? Because trust me it’s not! I’ve seen 4 year olds doing it!
No, they have been meaning to find a good class, my sister wants to as well, and we all think that it looks really cool.In fact, my dad and HIS dad, are both judo masters!! My dad has known it since he was a little kid, and grandpa used to teach classes! :) But we can’t find a good class around our area that doesn’t cost too much, or that is not full. :( Well, maybe some day! :)
Oh I see well I hope u can my mom and dad find it pretty important for me to do :) :) :) and it’s a great way to exercise! I started a few years ago and my brother who is older than me is training in something called black belt cycle and hes REALLY close to earning his black belt! I’m so happy for him I hope to get my black belt some day :)
Yeah, I hope so too, playnowpuppy! :) I do think it is a good source of exercise, but at least I go bike riding every day almost during the spring and summer! :)
Good for u prprprprp :)
I show my creativity by dancing ballet and modern! :D
Etncpink, do you still have the Nafaria plush? If so can you please send it to balletbear5M. :) I really need it for my collection, Thank you!
OH yeah, I dance too! Ballet especially! It’s my favorite, so beautiful, graceful and fun to do and watch!
Ballet is my favorite too!
Makes sense :) BALLETbear5M :)
That’s how I got my username! :)
I just LOVE dancing! Instead of sticking to a certain style, though, like ballet, I make up my own moves. :)
I do that sometimes too, dinosaurtracker13! :)
Me too me and my friends love to make up dances and then sell tickets for our preformences it’s really fun we have a ton of lights that flash different colors (thanks to one of my friends) while we dance but most of the time we make our shows free just because It’s fun to dance :)
Hi Gennelle! I have a question for you, when did you start working at webkinz and why! Please answer, thank you!
Good question balletbear5M :)
Yeah, that is a good question, balletbear5M! I wonder about that too.
I express my creativity in my drawings, Webkinz videos, writing songs for the piano, guitar, and just to sing (and singing/playing them), writing books, (I have written 11 so far, lots of action and adventure and historical fiction, but have not been able to learn how to publish. :( Anyway, I also take funny pictures by using my surroundings to make it look like something is doing/looking like something, when it is not (like once I made it look like my cousin had a mohawk by my angle of the camera-it was really someone’s head that was behind him to make it look like part of his hair!) and how I dress my pets, how I make my rooms, and their color schemes, in my book reports,in my paintings, (I have to find a way to show that wave that i painted-when I showed it to my mom she said “where did you get that picture?” all like “I didn’t buy that!! Where did YOU get it??” and I was like “I painted it!” and she was like “Really? Wow! You did a great job with that!”) anyway, also with what clothes I wear, and the crafts I do and activities I pick. Hope you include this comment in your next podkinz! :)
Woah prprprprp I know we sometimes had the same taste but I had no idea u liked all the things I do! I love to make webkinz videos writing songs for the piano, signing, writing books, taking funny pictures (or really pretty ones), and well all the things u do :) P.S. I’m a writer too and there is a ton of Websites that can, well not Publish like to sell, but if u want one (or as many as u want) of your books to have like a cool cover and look proffesinall then u can do that it’s really cool I’ve written a lot of stories so It’s fun to see them look really cool even if they aren’t going to be sold for money :)
Also, you can bind your books! I made 12 copies of a book my cousin and I did together once to give to family. My cousin’s friend did all the pictures and front cover for the book. I hope to become an author someday. :) -BT
Awesome, thanks for the tips playnowpuppy! I will look into that. I would LOVE to have my books like that! :) Thanks again, playnowpuppy! :)
Your welcome :D
Wow big comment! I express my creativity with art and piano/clarinet. The other day I did a contrast killer whale oil pastel drawing, where I switched the color of the ocean with the color of the killer whale! It was really unique and it turned out pretty good. For my clarinet I make up songs all the time-mainly jazzy pieces like Squidward! Except I don’t squeak as much hahaha. One more way I express creativity is my fashion. I love to dress sporty, so it’s fun to mix and match some colorful articles! :D That’s how I express creativity.
I express my creativity in many different ways, but mainly through chalk art. I will take a whole square on the sidewalk in front of my house and draw something on it with chalk. Recently, I made cartoon-style portraits of all my friends, and, next to the portraits, I wrote my friends’ names and their good qualities. Some of the other ways I creatively express myself are drawing comics, drawing pictures with colored pencils (like the one that I drew of my Webkinz Bubblegumasaurus, Stega, the other day!), dancing, mix-and-matching clothes, doing crafts, and making Webkinz Studio movies about my pets.
Oh, and I also sew stuffed animals! I LOVE doing that!
Oh my gosh, dinosaurtracker13, I do that too!! It’s so much fun to sew and knit.
I sew stuffed animals too! It’s so fun I just finished sewing a Webkinz Banana Print monkey :) I have the webkinz banana print monkey so I thought it would be fun to try to sew a look alike :) I got banana print at a fabric store and some buttons for the eyes and some hard felt for the nose ;) I made it smaller than my real banana print monkey so it could be like my banana print monkey’s little stuffed animal :)
Sounds cute! As my brother and I say every time we see a monkey, “OOH OOH AAH AAH!” :)
Yeah LOL!
Usually I make dinosaurs, of course.
Makes sense I need to make some Dinosaurs :)
I can not wait for the school library bookshelf!!!!!!!!!!!!! It will be perfect for my library!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
Oh and, I actually read all of those comments that they read! WOW! :)
Hey, first comment by the way! I am commenting way too much on this Podkinz episode! :)
Thanks for accepting my friend request prp!
you’re welcome Bows22! :)
LoL prprprp :) I read all those comments they read too :) Wish they read my comments but oh well :) I’m really excited about the school library shelf! I can put some in my classroom, princaples office, library, and now I can make just a school library!
Dear Podkinz, I love animals so it would make sense that I exspress my love for them in everything I do :) I love to knit fashionable sweaters for my real puppy, and knit smaller ones for my Webkinz! I also like to draw, paint, and write :) I really like to write :) I have been writing since as long as I can remember and have plenty of notebooks filled with stories :) I love writting animal stories and right now I am working on a story of a Fox like u Gennelle :) On Webkinz I love to make rooms and redecorate my map :) Just this Summer I’ve made 20 new rooms to my house :) Now about u :) I was Wondering Gennelle, How did u hear about Webkinz? I heard u never had Webkinz when u were little :(
That’s cool, playnowpuppy! So far, I can only knit a scarf or a straight line of yarn. :P I have a lot of notebooks full of stories as well, and my computer is even more full. -BT
Thanks Br0ktree :) It takes time but I’m sure that soon u can make blankets, clothes, and much more when u knit :)
and I type stories on the computer too :)
im currently writing a novel!
i can’t knit at all. but I’ve been hoping lately that i could do that kinda stuff on my rainbow loom. but even i could…….. it would take FOREVER… so idk. maybe someday i’ll learn how to knit and make sweaters and stuff like u say u do.i think that idea is REALLY cool!
also i love to write too! I’m working on a book called the ghost of the future…… DUN DUN DUN!
Yeah, they never seem to feature my or your comments. :( But I guess it doesn’t matter! :) Maybe they will some day. Maybe, they will even feature both of our comments in the same episode! That would be AWESOME! :D
Yes that would be awesome! I hope they do they never have :(