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Create your own avatar with the doll making game

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Do you ever wonder how people make avatars to use for the gravatar.com photo in comments, or avatars that are used in forums, and side bars and in some cases even site headers?

It’s not all that hard really. All you need to do is go to a site such as Thedollpalace.com and click on Dress Up Games and start following the instructions to make your very on “doll” that’s dressed exactly the way you want him or her to be.

You can choose from a number of different doll types- Princess, New Emo, Fashion, Angels, Gothic, Celebrity, Halloween, Preps, mermaids, Christmas, Hippies, Thanksgiving, Shuni, Summer and Winter Fairies, Guys, Unique, Christmas and winter, Fairy, Pirates, original, Community, Emoz, Thematic, Babies, Greek Goddess, Diva, Bonita, Glamour, Goth, lolita and Silence doll types. Isn’t that an amazing number of choices that you can select from? If I’m not mistake you can even mix and match between the styles and doll types in order to create your own very unique doll.

A blogger that I know recently had an avatar contest on her site. She had people make up different avatars that she could use to represent her site, or herself on forums, and in chat groups and she recently picked a winner from all the submissions that she had. I can’t remember what her prize offering was, but it was a good one.

You could use an idea like that to get people to participate on your site. Contests are always a great idea on blogs. Anything that gets people interacting more often and visiting your site is always good.

Little girls always like dress up games and I’m sure you could amuse a child easily but setting them in front of the computer and showing them how to use the Dollpalace.com site. In fact you might be surprised at just how good they might be at creating new designs! Before you know it they’ll be hooked on Dollmaker.

Give the site a try. It’s easy to use because everything is drag and drop. It’s kind of fun too!





Free Crossword puzzles online

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I used to love doing crossword puzzles online all the time. I guess you could call me a crossword puzzle junkie. I mean if I really let myself play all the time again. I used to do two in particular every day when I’d turn on my computer. Hmmm maybe now I can do that again.

If you enjoy playing crossword puzzles online you can at the Free Puzzle World. If you’re really daring you can even make your own custom crossword puzzles online. Then you can invite your friends and family to play your puzzle. This could even work if you were having a contest on your blog – make a really hard puzzle and the first person to prove that they completed could win whatever prize you are offering.

If you want to, you can place the code for your custom made puzzle onto your myspace page.

In the near future Free Puzzle World will launch a Free Crossword Puzzle Contest where the first person to successfully solve it will win great prizes. When they do begin their crossword contests you’ll have to register to become a member. You can also sign up for their mailing list so you’ll be notified as soon as their crossword puzzle contests start.

Have fun playing those puzzles! Maybe I’ll see you there.

I got me some swag!

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Finally!

P Swag

P has been giving away some of the P branded items to registered members. I think it’s there way of saying thanks to all of their posties for doing a good job promoting the company. I believe that the majority of P members will eventually get some free swag.

I’m not actually sure when it arrived.

You see, we found it on our enclosed front porch on Friday evening near the door, but tucked behind a chair. The green box was post marked January 9th, and the package was coming from Florida by Global Priority mail. I have no idea if that was express delivery or regular ground delivery, but I would assume that it would normally take a week or a bit more to get to me here in Toronto. So …. I have a feeling that it might have been sitting on my front porch for most of the week.

Remember it was hidden behind a chair, and whoever delivered it (probably Canada Post?) didn’t leave any notice of a package.

I had been keeping an eye on the porch just in case it arrived. I live in a pretty good neighborhood and unless something is marked with a specific value the postman often leaves packages in our enclosed porch. Usually they aren’t hidden quite as well. As I said I had looked out there every now and then glancing at the table and the surfaces of the two chairs but I didn’t see anything. Now I know why!

Anyway, as you can see the box contained one large foam finger. Maybe I can use that in one of the photo or video at some point. There was also a T-shirt that says “spreadin’ like peanut butter” , a gigantic 13 inch pen! I tried to write with it and because it’s so big it’s kind of heavy so it wasn’t that easy to write with. My husband didn’t have any trouble though. Maybe since I’m a lefty it’s harder to use? There was also a Pingo calling card worth $2.50. We can use that to make a long distance call or two. There was also a gift card for FamilyRecRoom.com but the site isn’t loading for me right now so I’m not sure what they sell. The final object was Mighty Minty Mints which I’m sure I’ll enjoy.

Take a look at the photo above. You see the rectangular box like object that’s under the round mint container? That’s the T-Shirt. I just unwrapped it so I could see what size they sent me since it doesn’t say on the outside of the package. Well the the shirt is somehow compressed into a crinkled rectangle. LOL I decided not to open it up fully because I want to show it to my husband when he gets up this morning. I hope the shirt is a small or a medium, but it feels kind of heavy like it might be a large or even bigger. Oh well, if it’s too big it will become T-shirt pj’s.

My husband also does work for Pay/perp0st on his website too. I wonder if he’ll get some swag as well? That’d be cool.

I had added up how much money that I’ve made with Pay/perp0st since I started with them in early October, and I also added how much my husband has made since he started and do you know how much we’ve made together in just a few months? Over $3,800! That would put us at number 4 on the top earners list if we weren’t two separate people! LOL

If you’ve been reading my site you know I’m not working due to my illness and that I’ve also got an $1100 medical test to pay for that I just had this week. So we can use that money.

Rank my tattoos

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I just came across and interesting site. I know that a lot of my readers have tattoos. Yeah you do, I’ve seen you talking about them on your own blogs and even showing pictures of them sometimes too.

That’s why I thought of my tattooed readers when I saw this website that’s called Rank my Tattoos. I know some of you like to show off your tattoos, or maybe you want to get other peoples opinions on the design that you just had tattooed onto your skin. Well, now you can post your photo on the rank my tattoos site and have your tattoo rated.

I think this is a cool idea. If I had a tattoo I might think about doing it too. Well, depending on where exactly I ended up getting my tattoo of course.

Hey, let me know if any of you try this site out. I’d be happy to go and rate your tattoo.

Enjoy the luxury of a wake up call

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You know one of the things that I absolutely love when I travel and stay in a hotel? It’s the wake up call that you can get the people at the desk to give in the morning. I get tired easy when I travel and I always worry if I’ll wake up on time. Oh sure I bring my own little travel alarm clock with me, but it’s failed a few times – just plain didn’t work. If I’m traveling and I simply have to get up I can’t be relying on an alarm that may or may not work. Same thing with the hotel room alarm clocks – they don’t always work well either. So I ask for a wake up call. It’s so nice.

Do you agree that wake up calls are nice? Maybe even that they’ve saved your butt a few times? Yeah I thought so.

I bet that you’ve even thought that it’d be nice to have a wake up call at home sometimes too? I’m lucky, if I sleep in my husband usually wakes me up, but if he’s already gone to work or if he’s out of town? Yeah – I’ve been late for work because I’ve slept through the alarm. luckily that’s only happened once or twice, but still, you just feel awful when that happens.

I’m pleased to be able to tell you that you can have a wake up call at home if you want to. Yes, I’m not pulling your leg. There’s a site that you can go to, it’s located at Snoozester.com . This site provides a service that will provide you with wake up calls anywhere, any place, any time.

Just log into the site and sign up for an account. Once you’re registered you can start scheduling your wake up calls. You can schedule the wake up calls to go to any phone number or cell phone that you’d like. You just register and an account, add in your phone number and perhaps your cell number and start schedule wake up calls. It’s that easy. You can even choose to have your wake up calls delivered to you by Snoozester Characters. The characters are fun voices that greet you when you answer the wake up call. You can select from a number of Character voices whenever you schedule a wake up call.

Then there’s a service called Secure Awake – it’s for people that know they don’t wake up easily. This feature tells Snoozester to repeatedly telephone you until you answer the phone. It will call you every three minutes for 20 minutes. When you answer you can select number 1 to confirm that you are awake, or push number 2 to tell snoozester to let you sleep for a while longer and call you back.

The site is very easy to use – just follow the steps in the registration process, and then follow the step by step process to begin scheduling your wake up calls. You get 10 free wake up calls when you sign up with Snoozester. You can sign up for a variety of packages that provide you with a certain number of calls per month. The packages range from 3.99 to 14.99 per month. They even have gift certificates available in case you know someone who could really use this service.

You can learn more about this service by reading through their site or by visiting their sleep blog. Also, if you own or work for a large company with employees that might need regular wake up calls you can visit their Corporate Snoozester site. Contact their customer service if you have questions that aren’t answered on their site, they promise to reply very quickly.

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