Blast to the Past: The Leis

Hello penguins! I don't know if you noticed, but there is a new lei available in the Penguin Style catalog this month, and looks exceptionally great.

This lei is actually a new version of an older lei. So let's look at all of the past leis, shall we?

In 2006, the first party of the year was the Winter Luau. At this party, one free item was given out. That item was the Hawaiian Lei.

The Hawaiian Lei, commonly dubbed the Red Lei, is a rare item and has not been available since. It's the only lei that I don't have.

The next lei to be released was the Blue Lei. This lei is an all blue version of the Hawaiian Lei, and was available originally at the Summer Party in June 2006. It was then available again at the Summer Kickoff Party in June 2007, where it was last seen for many years. It was then re-released for the 10th Anniversary Party in October 2015.

The Blue Lei available at the Ski
Village at the Summer Kickoff
Party in June 2007.

We didn't get any new leis for a while, until the summer of 2013.

At the Teen Beach Movie: Summer Jam, a new lei was released called the Friendship Lei. It was available at the Beach starting on August 26th, and looks dissimilar to all of the other leis. Instead of being puffy as the other leis do, this one looks akin to the Star Necklace.

After the release of the Friendship Lei, the community freaked out and when the next lei was discovered in November 2013, it looked like the first 2 leis.

The Golden Lei became available on November 14th, 2013, and can only be dug up with a golden puffle.

And finally, that brings us to the Island Lei, which was released on August 31st, 2016 in the September 2016 issue of the Penguin Style catalog.

Dashing!

That's all of the leis! Which ones do you have? Which one is your favorite? Goodbye!

Thanks to the Club Penguin Wiki for a few of the images.

Club Penguin Customs - Puffle Party (Vol. 3)

Hello penguins! Today I will be unveiling something amazing, and you will never guess what it is, unless you cheated and looked at the title of this post. I will be displaying four new rooms for my fully customized Puffle Party! Yay! So let's begin, shall we?

So let's begin with the room I changed the least, the Coffee Shop. For the Coffee Shop, I used the Puffle Party 2015 variant. All I did was remove the Club Penguin Times sign above the Book Room stairs. After all, the Book Room doesn't hold the newspaper office at this party. See Vol. 1 for images of the Book Room. I also tried to change the archway to blue, but that didn't turn out well.

This is an update to the Pizza Parlor. You may be thinking, "But Icystorm 9, you already showcased the Pizza Parlor in Club Penguin Customs - Volume One! Why would you showcase it again?" Well, hear me out. This one is a lot better than the other one. The flaming puffle on the giant Hot Sauce bottle has shading added to match the shading already present before, and the red puffle next to it has been rescaled to be the same size as the other puffles. The menu on thecounter is a different color, having been changed from green to pink. The tables in the center of the room have been slightly changed, color-wise. A Jolly Roger flag has been placed on the left side of the pizza oven. I recolored the lightbulb and the shading by the pedestal, and set a small surfboard on the front. The balloons have been updated to fit more, since I erased some of the white on them. The red puffle atop the piano has been fixed so the layers follow physics. Most importantly, I have added a box of free Puffle Bandanas in front of the piano.

This is my version of the Plaza. I updated the ground to have snow instead of the yellow mats. I recolored all of the ground (while messing with the Puffle Park archway by accident) and made it gray. I edited the shading of the sidewalk just a bit as well. Finally, I added the puffle design in the snow from the Puffle Party 2012 (with a bit of recoloring, of course).

The Mall is definitely my favorite out of Volume Three. The first thing I did was I removed the snack cart sitting atop the escalator, and instead placed a matte painting of a yellow puffle painting on the wall. I then added the lights shining upon it from above, giving certain parts of it a lighter tint than others. Next, I changed the costume shop sign to have a happy puffle, as well as a nervous white puffle, whereas before the puffles were uncolored. I cropped in the tower seen at the stage in the Puffle Party 2009 Lighthouse, and enlarged it. Since the puffle was enlarged with the tower, I edited the princess puffle out and replaced it with a new puffle of the correct size. After that, I placed the stump down. I thought that the yellow puffle paintings should be included, so I placed them for free (backgrounds) by the doorway. I placed a crown atop the head of the mannequin in the clothing store, and added a sculpture of the Modern Art next to the cash register, as well as placing a snow sculpture of the Super Puffle next to the downward escalator. I recolored the paint can yellow in the Anvils + More shop window, as well as turning the cash register yellow. The entire Fragile Things, Inc. store has been removed and has since been replaced by a puffle painter, who paints your character. The Fragile Things, Inc. sign has been replaced by a sign displaying a paint set. To the right of the paint stand, the play director sits. This puffle directs the play occurring on the main floor. The puffles on the costume trunk have all been colored yellow. I recolored one of the hoodies in the bottom-left corner yellow and did the same with the Costume Trunk catalog icon. Finally, I placed a fish burger on the cutting board in the food court because my brother told me to do so.

This was definitely one of my favorite sets to make, especially the Mall and Pizza Parlor, which took 12 or more hours total between the 2 of them, not including updates I made for Vol. 1. I hope you enjoyed this set of customs. What room should I make next? Goodbye!

All elements are either hand-drawn or come from the Club Penguin Wiki.