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Thursday June 24, 2010

Its about 10:30 am and I have been trying creating an account in Second Life for the last hour. No success! Its so frustrating! I do not know what's wrong. I tried a variety of passwords which included upper and lower case with numbers. I just don't know what I am doing wrong; it should not be this hard to create an account. I read over the help site and even called their 800 number for support but I actually do NOT talk with the operator even though it gives me an option to select 0. I will try again later or tomorrow. This is really frustrating me. =(

Thursday June 24, 2010

FINALLY!!! Its about 1:45 pm, and I created my Second Life account. There is just so much going on with this community. I visited the House of Blades. I didn't realize that the appearing fog were other members coming to the same place. It was quite alarming at first. I chatted with other people and was able to speak with other avatars. Now, I need to figure out how to earn some money to purchase some things at the various places I visit and buy or built a house. This is truly mind blowing.

Friday June 25, 2010

I have tried and tried again. No luck. I am not sure what I am doing. I am going to use Plan B, which is to go to a different community site for children. My step daughter enjoys going on Webkinz.com. I have observed her play various games and take care of her pets. I have watched her view funny short video clips and earn "money" to purchase a variety of items.

After much investigation, I decided to choose stardoll.com. I know this is something my step daughter will also be interested in learning. So we signed up for stardoll.com and had a blast just creating our avatar star doll. This site is obviously more kid friendly and easier to use than Second Life. I was able to design my stardoll avatar and choose a variety of hairstyles to the shape of her eyes to her nose. There was even a choice of skin tones to eye colors! Something tells me that I am going to enjoy this commnity very much.

Sunday June 27, 2010

This afternoon I decided to go back onto my stardoll.com account. I can't tell you how much fun this is. Today I learned how to earn "money" to make purchases. Each day I will be given 20 tokens and I have an opportunity to earh 5 more tokens by going to other stardolls sites and vote best outfits, best stardoll, best cat walk, best photos, and best designs. There are a variety of games that one can choose to play. I chose to play a game where I had to recycle glass bottles, clothes, or magazines but at the same time I had to use Z, X, C buttons to change the recycling bins accordingly to its materials to earn points. It was quite fun.

Monday June 28, 2010

I decided to take a visit to stardoll.com today to see if I could spend some of the money I have earned in the last couple of days. The store is called the StarPlaza where I am able to select a store I like, select outfits, shoes, accessories, etc., and pay the items with my money. I am able to purchase makeup and redo my avatar's makeup. I also went to DESIGN my own clothing today. I was able to select a pattern and fabric t create a design. Then after that, I was able to select what I wanted to turn my fabric design into. I selected a shirt which then a sewing machine went to work for me and sewed me the shirt I wanted with the fabric material I designed! Very cool!

Tuesday June 29 2010

This morning I went back into my stardoll account to arrange my suite and hang up my newly designed outfits! I finally figured out how to open my closet to hang up the clothes. I think its so exciting that each day that I go in, there is a bag of money with 20 coins waiting for me. **Just wish life was like that too...lol** Now I just have to figure out to buy my make ups.

Thursday July 1, 2010

How frustrating! I didn't realize how frustrating changing clothes on an avatar could be. I had earned enough money to design my own outfits, and purchase a line of clothes from a variety of stores like Dolche and Gabanna (which I will never ever step foot in because its too expensive first of all and second, the clothes were never made to fit plus size people!) Anyways, so in order to change my star doll avatar, I needed to click on her "old" clothes and drag it to the closet. Of course, this reveals her bra and underwear! I couldn't believe this! Then I had to select which "new" outfit she was going to wear, click and drag it over her, and then align it to fit her. Then there are these annoying scroll bottoms to "enlarge" the items or make them smaller that keeps popping up. But the most alarming thing was that I was able to change the bust size of my avatar. There are three settings for the avatar's bust and hip size. Selecting 1 is small and of course, 3 is full bust and hips! WoW!