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Postcard from Elwin
Dear Hailey, Wow! I am pumped! We finished the album and I just got to listen to it all the way through for the first time! Oh, Hailey! I can’t wait for you to hear it! This really is the coolest thing that has ever happened to me! I think you’re going to be impressed. Well, I know you’re already impressed. Listen – I don’t want to go all goopy on you or anything, but I thought this would be a good time to let you know how much I appreciate all the support and encouragement you’ve offered me my whole life. I am so lucky to have a sister like you, and being away from you has really shown me just how much I always lean on you. Okay – goopy moment over! Sorry! I hope I can get back to Kinzville soon so I can play you the album. I just know you’re going to love it! Gotta run! We’re doing some promotional photos for the tour and my ‘handlers’ are waiting for me! (Ha ha – can you picture me with handlers?) El
The Almost Big Sister
Oh, wow! Let me tell you – it’s not easy being an almost-big sister! This can be very stressful! The baby is due, like, any second and last night my mom started having these pains and I thought this was it! I was running around, boiling water and trying to find clean sheets, (isn’t that what they always do on TV?) when my dad told me to calm down. Calm down? Hello, mister?! There’s a baby on the way!!! He told me to be quiet and stop yelling (I was yelling?) because my mother was on the phone with the doctor. Her pains had stopped by then and the doctor said that it was false labor. Ugh! Now I know what Molly is talking about when she says Millie gets on her nerves – I mean, how could my new little sister or brother do this to me? Then my dad told me that when the time comes I don’t need to boil water or get clean sheets because the hospital will have all of that. And then he made me tidy up the linen closet. Geez – I was only trying to help! Oh, I don’t know how much … Read more
Hailey Interviews Designers
Hailey Interviews Designers Well, I’ve received a pile of resumes from potential design partners so, as part of the interview process, I decided to put forth a design challenge and ask each candidate to design a kitchen. Based on their work experience, the candidates that I asked to provide designs are PJ Collie, Wiggles Pig, and Tabby Von Meow. PJ has a lot of retail experience from working at the KinzStyle Outlet. Tabby seems to be a Jack-of-all-trades after running the Employment Office for so long, and Wiggles Pig is a great designer in his own right. We just need to see if we could forge a partnership. The weirdest thing is that when I received all their design proposals, there was another set of drawings that were submitted. I just found them on my desk and I have no idea where they came from. And the thing about the drawings is that they’re really – well, I’ll let you judge for yourself. So here are the designs submitted by Tabby, PJ, Wiggles and… ? Tabby Tabby decided to go with a country theme for her kitchen. She used the Wind Farm Wallpaper to really capture the country feel. She … Read more
Postcard from Alex
Dear Sparky Hi! How’s it going at your uncle’s shop? I hope you’re not too busy. Science camp is so much fun, but Booger kind of needs to chill. I mean, camp has all these awesome activities, like swimming and hiking and crafting, but Booger gets frustrated any time we’re not doing science all the time. So whenever we have to leave the lab he gets in a mood and is not really fun to be around. The silly thing is – we are doing science all the time anyway. At swimming, we have to try to figure out the time based on the sun’s position in the sky, and when we go hiking we collect samples to study in the biology lab and figure out the height of trees from their shadows. And often our crafting projects are for use in the lab, like when we built this cool volcano out of papier mache and then we made our own lava in the lab. But whatever. Booger usually chills after a bit and we can still have fun. And it really is a neat camp – I’m so glad he talked me into coming. Say hi to everyone for … Read more
Postcard from Elwin
Hey, Hail! Just a quick postcard – things are crazy so haven’t had much time to write. Sorry! Am having a blast! Right now I am sitting in the Craft Services room at the studio enjoying a snack. They have EVERYTHING you could possibly want to eat in here and if they don’t have it, I just need to say the word and they will produce it. A guy could get used to this – I am really getting the star treatment. It’s really fun, recording my album. The only problem is I keep wanting to rearrange all the furniture in the recording studio. I guess I just can’t get the designing bug out of my system! Gotta run – they’re calling me back for more vocals! Later! El
Campkinz Room Challenge
Campkinz Room Design Challenge Hailey here! So I am thinking about maybe working with a new designer since Elwin is gone. I’ve been talking with Wiggles Pig about the possibility of the two of us collaborating on some projects. I also had an application for a summer intern job from a surprisingly young applicant – Plumpy asked me if I would consider letting Nibbles help out around the office while she’s off school. Apparently Nibbles has always had a passion for designing in her own room and Plumpy thought it would be good for her to have something to occupy her while she gets used to the fact that her newlywed big sis wouldn’t be around so much. I could certainly use some help keeping this place in order since I’m on my own now so I thought it was a great idea. I also thought it might be fun to see how my style meshes with both Wiggles and Nibbles by setting us all a design challenge: we are each going to design a Campkinz-themed room! We each started with the same room with Campkinz Flooring and Wallpaper. You can let me know what you think of each design. … Read more
Fun from Science Camp!
Dear Mom, I know that I said I didn’t want to go when you first mentioned it but I am sure glad I did because Booger and I are having a great time at Science Camp! It’s cool having a friend from home to hang out with while I’m here and Booger knows all about science so he helps me out with our experiments. We just finished a project today that was so much fun! We made a volcano! You know when you mix baking soda and vinegar and you get this really wild reaction? Well, the counselors challenged us to come up with the most realistic looking volcano. Both the volcano and the lava were supposed to look real so Booger and I spent hours building our mountain out of paper maché and then we painted. Booger is all about research so he downloaded lots and lots of pictures of real volcanoes and I added the detail to ours really carefully with a tiny paintbrush. Then, the really hard part was coming up with the right mixture for the lava that would look like real lava. Booger had the idea to mix equal parts of white glue and water … Read more
Polly organizes a camping trip
Hi! It’s Polly Panda here and can I tell you – I had the most awesome idea! You might know that I have two little brothers, Peter and Patrick, and a little sister called Penny. In the summer they just love spending almost all their time outside, swimming, riding bikes, hiking. They are non-stop bundles of energy. Every night when my mom calls them to get ready for bed, I swear the three of them come dragging their feet and whining about having to come in. So I just thought – why come in? Why don’t we have our own little camping trip right outside in our backyard? Wouldn’t that be fun? My mom and dad said it was okay, so Penny, Peter, Patrick and I spent the whole afternoon putting up the tent. Here’s the thing – it’s SUPPOSED to take ten minutes to put up this tent. I guess the tent manufacturers never met my little brothers and sister though because that didn’t exactly go according to plan. But we finally got it up in the end. After dinner my dad set up the Marshmallow Pit from the W Shop and we all sat around it in our … Read more
Hailey misses Elwin
Hi there. It’s Hailey here. Things have been pretty crazy for my brother and me lately. I don’t know if you’re a fan of the popular show, Kinzville Sings, but you may have heard that my brother, Elwin, was the winner – which is totally awesome by the way. I mean, nobody is happier to see Elwin fulfilling his dreams than me. I guess it just kind of caught me off-guard because, to be honest, I never really realized that WAS his dream. I mean, as long as I can remember, the two of us both always dreamed of running our own design studio. And things were going along so well when, on a lark (and with a little push from yours truly), Elwin was caught up in this whirlwind of singing and performing. And then suddenly, before either of us realized what was happening, he had won! Next thing I knew he was whisked away to start preparing for his big tour. So that leaves me on my own in this big, empty studio. I don’t even feel like designing. It’s almost like the fun has gone out of it, you know? I’m sure it’s just an adjustment period … Read more
Booger writes home
       Dear Sparky, Science Camp is awesome! Well, I know I just got here yesterday, and to be honest we haven’t actually done any real science yet, but I’m still having lots of fun! I’m so glad that Alex came with me because it’s really nice having someone you know to share a bunk with. When we got here we unpacked in our cabin and then they broke us up into groups and took us on a tour of the camp. You should see the labs! They have every piece of scientific equipment you could imagine! There’s also a really nice beach because unfortunately we don’t get to do science ALL the time. They expect us to go outside and swim and hike and stuff too. Alex thinks that is cool, but between you and me I’m not so crazy about wasting all that valuable research time away from the lab! After our tour it was almost time for dinner and so we had a weenie roast around the campfire. As we roasted our weenies one of the counselors explained how the structural composition of the meat changes when it is exposed to fire. … Read more
It’s Camp month!
      Hi there! It’s me, Roberta. I am really pumped because my parents signed me up for Craft Camp this summer! It should be a lot of fun. We are starting with pottery this week which will be awesome – I mean, what’s the point of doing crafts if you’re not going to get MESSY, right? It’s going to be great because it’s only a morning camp, which means that I will still have my afternoons free to hang out with my friends and with the new baby when it comes along! When my dad and I were signing up for camp we ran into Molly and Millie. It turns out that Millie will be going to day camp this summer and I could tell by the look on Molly’s face that she was kind of relieved about that. Poor Molly. She keeps telling me that she loves Millie and they do have fun sometimes, but that I should really try to set boundaries when the baby starts to get older because otherwise it’s just going to be getting in my stuff all the time. I will try to remember that! Last summer Booger went … Read more
Berry Festival July 18 – July 29
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        We’ve got some Berry good news for you! The Berry Festival starts July 18 in Webkinz World! And this year’s Berry Festival is all kinds of fun! That’s because this year you’ll see six different kinds of Berries floating through Webkinz World, just waiting to be snapped up! Log in every day and watch for: -         Goo-Goo Berries -         Moonberries -         Sugarberries -         Pickleberries -         Jumbleberries -         Polarberries When you click on one of the floating Berries you’ll receive a Berry that you can feed to your pet. You can also win cool Badges like the -         Go-Goo Good Timing Badge You get this Badge by winning a trophy in Go Go Googles during the Berry Festival -          Berry Berry Crazy BadgeYou get this Badge when you click on all six types of Berries during the Berry Festival -         Polarberry Jam Good Timing BadgeYou get this Badge by winning a trophy in Polar Berry Jam during the Berry Festival You can also collect Berries by visiting www.webkinznewz.com! So get ready to collect all the Berries when they come be floating through Webkinz World between July 18 and July 29. It’s going to … Read more
Big City – Day 2
          It’s Cowabelle here on the bus back to Kinzville and am I ever exhausted. What a day! I shared a room with Polly, Purr-cilla and Janice. The thing is, Purr-cilla kind of snores. Actually, when I say ‘kind of’, I really mean ‘totally and loudly’. I think Janice must sleep like a rock or just pretends she doesn’t notice because when Polly very nicely tried to roll Purr-cilla on her side last night, Purr-cilla woke up and got really mad and said she didn’t snore. Then, after much shaking and yelling, she managed to wake up Janice who said that she sleeps over at Purr-cilla’s all the time and she has never noticed it. The two of them managed to get right back to sleep but Polly and I barely had a wink of sleep all night. It was like sleeping with a chainsaw going off in our room. Today we visited the Big City Art Gallery. It was a really beautiful building that looked almost like a castle and it was filled with many exquisite works of art. There was an exhibit of famous Webkinz World artist, Blake E. … Read more
Big City Trip – Day 1
Woo hoo! Stoogles here! I am just stretched out on the bed in the hotel room I am sharing with Alex and Sparky. This is the life! Our room is on the 15th floor and from our window we can see almost all of the Big City. It’s so much bigger than Kinzville! For our first day we got to go downtown and check it out. The girls are all excited because there are so many places to shop. Whatever. I’m excited because there is every type of food you could possibly imagine. I already had three hot dogs, a stuffed pita, an order of chili fries and two cherry sodas. Then we took a double decker bus tour of the city. It was pretty neat because Ms. Cowoline had reserved the entire top floor of the bus just for our class. The Big City is a really neat place. The tallest building in all of Webkinz World is here and we got to take an elevator to the top floor where there is a glass floor you can walk on and look down on everyone below. They look just like ants! Salley was freaked out by the glass floor … Read more