Bee Sting Bummer
March 25, 2009
The story of a camping trip gone wrong…
Beautiful Blankets
March 25, 2009
Two cats share a love for their favorite things…
Belle of the Ball
March 24, 2009
Maybe Gossip Queen has romance or the brain or maybe she’s got some very lucky friends, but this week was a great one for my good Italian friend, Venetian Belle.
She caled me up and, as usual, got straight to the point. “You know how Romeo and Juliet met?”
“Uh, hi Venetian Belle,” I said, trying to catch my breath.
“Well, do you?”
“They met at a party, right?”
“They met at a ball!” she announced.
Of course, I remembered now. They got together at a masquerade. I had a feeling I knew where Venetian Belle was going with this story. I happened to know that Venice, her home town, was like the Italian capital of balls and masks. Now I just wanted the juicy gossip. “And?”
“Well, there was a ball over the weekend…”
“And?”
“… and I danced,” she said, being completely coy.
“Come on,” I ordered. “Out with it.”
“Okay, fine, and I met a totally wonderful guy who was dressed as Robin Hood!”
I could hear her enthuisasm over the phone, no matter how many miles stretched between us. “Tell me more.”
“His name was Guiseppe and he had the most amazing brown eyes and…” Here she paused. This was totally unlike Venetian Belle, who always had something to say. I thought she was being coy again.
“And?”
“Well, that’s it.”
“What do you mean?”
“His yes were all I saw, come to think of it.”
“Huh?”
“You see, he had a mask on,” Venetian Belle said, sounding completely disappointed.
I laughed. “You know all about masked balls, I thought you’d learned your lesson!”
“Mamma mia!” she cried. “Next time I’ll remember to have him take off his mask at the end of the night!”
“Somehow, I don’t think this is what happened to Romeo and Juliet,” I reminded her. After Venetian Belle went off to sulk into a pint of gelato, I realized that maybe I like boys over here in HandiLand. There are no masked balls to confuse a girl, and you can really meet your Romeo face to face. That’s it for meow!
XOXO
Gossip Queen
Nice Taj See You
March 24, 2009
This week, I got a great phone call from Shahnee, my favorite correspondent from around the world. She had just visited Agra, India, and went to see her very favorite place.
“I love the Taj Mahal, it is the most beautiful place in the world,” she yelled into the phone. I was super excited for her to be having this huge trip back to India. Even though she spends most of her time in HandiLand, she goes back whenever she can.
“I only wish I could see it,” I told her, a tiny bit jealous. After all, who wouldn’t want to see that beautiful building.
“And it’s so romantic,” Shahnee added.
“I bet. Those beautiful fountains, the trees, the sunset over those glowing white marble domes…” I let my voice fade. The Gossip Queen has been watching too many romantic comedies again. I wished I had a tomcat to take me to the Taj Mahal.
“It’s romantic alright. The most romantic tomb I’ve ever seen,” Shahnee added.
This almost made me spit out my iced tea. “A tomb?”
“Duh! Have you been living under a marble slab? Emperor Jahan built the Taj Mahal for his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal, back in the 1650’s.”
“What?” My eyes bugged out of my head and I quickly pulled up some images of the Taj Mahal online. That thing is huge, took 20 years to built and is visited by millions of people every year. “You’re saying the Taj Mahal was for just one woman?”
“Yep. She must’ve been an incredible wife.”
“No kidding.”
“The most I can get my boyfriend to make me is a couple of samosas for lunch!” Shahnee whined.
“Don’t even mention it,” I told her. Not only did my boyfriend not make me a temple or delicious deep-fried Indian food, but I didn’t even have a boyfriend!
“Well, I gotta go. Our tour is leaving in five minutes.”
“Have fun on your trip,” I said. “And be sure to keep an eye out for those cute kids from Slumdog Millionaire!”
I hung up the phone in disbelief. Imagine India, a culture where one amazing chick gets a temple like that for a tomb. I’m buying my plane tickets tomorrow. That’s all for meow!
XOXO
Gossip Queen
Dress Up With Friends!
March 23, 2009
We’ve got a very cool new feature for our awesome HandiLand users. It’s the Dress Up feature we’ve just released. Now cats can collaborate together on each other’s outfits. Whether you’re up for being dressed up or your friend is, together you can choose new outfits, items and backgrounds for each other. And thought bubbles let you express how you’re feeling about your friend’s choices along the way!
Multiplayer Tractor Trouble
March 19, 2009
There’s some good news in HandiLand today for all the people who love playing games with their fellow cats. We’ve added another game to the roster, the crowd favorite, Tractor Trouble!
How to Get Stuff Without Being a Member
March 19, 2009
You don’t have to be a member of the Cool Cats Club to get stuff every day in HandiLand. There are many ways for you to get awesome items if you visit HandiLand every single day.
For example, there are fun games you can play. One is in the schoolyard and it’s called Spin the Top. Every time you play, you can either win Bonus Points, furniture items or clothing items. You can also get the same sort of prizes by playing Chicken Crack Up in the country. We’ll be releasing a similar game very soon, called the Funny Phone Booth. Watch out for it!
You can also trade with other cats. If you’ve got items, you can browse through the collections of other cats and ask them to trade their items. Here’s how you trade:
- Click into HandiLand and click on the Friends button.
- Click on the Box icon under a friend’s picture.
- Here you can browse through their clothes, their furniture and their stamps.
- Select an item and click the “Trade” button.
- Now you can pick out an item of yours that you’d like to trade!
- Send them the trade request and wait to see if they accept the trade.
You can also win stamps by checking off your chores and by doing the daily Scavenger Hunt. Every day, a message arrives in your mail that gives you a clue. With that clue, you can find the stamp of the day!
Another really fun way to win items is to beat 5 people per day in multi-player games like Tractor Trouble, War or Food Fight, or to get on the high score list for any game in HandiLand!
Finally, there are Missions in HandiLand, like the recent St. Patrick’s Day one. Every time you see a Mission in your inbox, you know you have a chance to find a very cool costume or furniture prize at the end of the Mission. Stay tuned for more about Missions and enjoy all the cool stuff waiting for you in HandiLand!
Bluegreen Babe
March 19, 2009
What I really love here, for Squeekyjo’s outfit, is the color scheme. She completely transformed the focus to the colors on her face, on her dress and in her hands. The teal on the flowers really goes well with what she’s wearing, and the beautiful blue of her make-up matches the background she’s chosen for herself.
What I really like is that she’s left herself without hair. This really puts the focus on her outfit and, we here at Catwalk happen to think the hairless look is pretty cute this week, as spring blows in and the weather gets warmer.
Springing In To Casual
March 19, 2009
Now, Miley Beck has discovered an error in our system. If you wear a dress item over a skirt item, you can put them on together. But with this outfit, it works very well! The black skirt of the dress looks like an apron more than a dress, and it gives the skirt some interesting detail.
The Rapunzel hair adds some great movement to the outfit, and the orange shoes match the skirt perfectly. Sometimes, creative Cool Cats can use interesting glitches to their advantage.
It’s All Country to Me
March 9, 2009
BoboDonut knows how to let loose and put on a great show. With his Mexican Mariachi background, a kickin’ leather jacket, the Country Singer hat and the Mariachi guitar, he’s ready to play an open mic.
The shades add another layer of mystery and mystique to BoboDonut’s stage persona.
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