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The 2nd Jenga game is underway!

This is a chronicle of the second Squidoo Virtual Jenga on the SquidU forum.

This one is an "About Me" quest started by Robin.

What a great way to find out more about the fascinating people who write on Squidoo!

(graphic courtesy of GreekGeek)

The Virtual Jenga 2 thread at SquidU

Here's how the game works

Photo of a Jenga tower from Wikimedia Commons, courtesy Jason7825

One lensmaster chooses another lensmaster and suggests a lens for him/her to make. For this particular quest, all of the lenses will have an "About Me" theme, where the lensmaster will be telling something about themselves.

If you are chosen for a challenge, you have 48 hours to make the lens that was requested. After you make the lens, it's your turn to challenge someone else.

Think of the lenses as a tower, just like in a Jenga game. If someone fails their challenge (doesn't make the lens in 48 hours), then the tower collapses and has to be started over. A lensmaster who is challenged also has the option of passing on their challenge (opting out), but if more than 5 people pass, then the tower also crumbles.

See the history of the first Jenga game!

Virtual Jenga #1 was a ton of fun and produced some amazing lenses. Take a look at all the lenses that were created!

Sign up to play in Round 2!

If you're a Squidoo lensmaster and you want to be a part of this Jenga quest, there is a lens where you can tell us to count you in!

Chemknitsblog has made a "Tag Me, Please!" lens with two guestbooks:

One guestbook is for signing up if you DID NOT get to play in the first Jenga quest

The other guestbook is for signing up if you DID get to play in the first Jenga quest

Here are the tower lenses for Virtual Jenga 2!

#1 - Aerome tagged Fitzcharming

Since Aerome built the last lens in the previous Jenga tower, Robin chose him to start the challenges for the new tower. He started things off by asking Wanda (Fitzcharming) to write a lens about her childhood pastimes. Wanda is a native of Florida and decided to write about all the fun places she visited in Florida during its pre-Disney World days.

#2 - Fitzcharming tagged Kimbesa

After sharing with us about her favorite childhood vacation spots, Wanda decided to ask Kimbesa to be next and make a lens about a favorite dinnerware pattern. Kimbesa blogs about dishes and took the opportunity to make a lens about the first dinnerware pattern she ever bought for her very first home. There's a video in the lens, too! Check it out!

#3 - Kimbesa tagged Norma_Budden

After showing off her dinnerware, Kimbesa called on Norma_Budden to make the next lens and tell us about living in the arctic area of Nunavut, Canada. Got your warm hat and mittens on? Then read all about it!

#4 - Norma_Budden tagged OhCaroline

After sharing about life in the Arctic, Norma took us to a place that's as different from Nunavut as you can get! She passed the baton to OhCaroline, asking Caroline to make a lens about how she felt when she moved to Florida.

Caroline turned out a great "About Me" lens on the subject. Moving to Florida was more than a simple change of address for her.

#5 - OhCaroline tagged Tssfacts

With the story of her journey to Florida completed, Caroline chose Towanda (Tssfacts) to make the next lens. The subject: Towanda's favorite hobby and how she started in it.

Lucky for us, Towanda's hobby is one that makes a visually stunning lens! Be sure to check out her quilt pictures!

#6 - Tssfacts tagged DecoratingforEvents

After showing us her quilting work, Towanda picked Mandee (DecoratingforEvents) to go next, asking her to make a lens telling us what she wants to be when she grows up.

This was a VERY well-timed request, for reasons that you'll see when you read Mandee's lens!

#7 - DecoratingforEvents tagged JeremiahStanghini

With her "when I grow up" lens done, Mandee commissioned Jeremiah Stanghini for the next level in the tower. She asked Jeremiah to write a lens about living on the island of Kauai. Prepare to eat your heart out as Jeremiah describes life in one of the most beautiful spots on the planet:

#8 - JeremiahStanghini tagged ItsAngel

Having given us a glimpse of life on Kauai, Jeremiah selected ItsAngel to make the next lens. He asked ItsAngel to write a lens about the novel she wrote. Here's her story of her writing journey:

#9 - ItsAngel tagged Serenia

After creating a lens about her novel, ItsAngel passed the challenge on to Serenia. She asked Serenia to make a lens about her love of Western Europe. What Serenia loves most about Europe is the history, and her lens shares some of the history of her favorite spots.

#10 - Serenia tagged RLivermore

After writing about her favorite spots in Europe, Serenia called on Rebecca (RLivermore) to build the next lens, a lens about the four different US states where Rebecca has lived. The result is a deeply personal lens telling the story of the life changes that brought about each change of residence.

#11 - RLivermore tagged TheCureForYouthMinistry

After crafting her lens about her moves in life, Rebecca asked Paul (TheCureForYouthMinistry) to share a success story from his work in youth ministry. Paul came back with an inspiring lens that shared several stories of his work with young people. His lens has already received a purple star!

#12 - TheCureForYouthMinistry tagged Genglo

After sharing his stories of youth ministry, Paul passed the baton to Julianne (Genglo), asking her to write a "Vegan for Beginners" lens. Julianne stepped up to the challenge, and here's her primer!

#13 - Genglo tagged Titia

With her vegan instruction lens done, Julianne chose Titia to make the next lens. She asked Titia to give us a photo tour of the Netherlands. Here's Titia's camera-eye view of her homeland, the Holland that you may not see in the tourbooks:

#14 - Titia tagged Tandemonimom

After showing us the other side of Holland, Titia tapped Carma (Tandemonimom) to make a homeschooling lens. Carma gave us a very personal lens telling the tale of her pursuit of a teaching degree and how it inspired her to never send her children to school.

#15 - Tandemonimom tagged _Joan_

Yes, that's me! Carma produced a great lens about her reasons for choosing to homeschool. Next she wanted to see a lens about some consequences of choosing to homeschool. She challenged me to make a lens about our family's homeschooling success stories. Here's what I came up with:

#16 - _Joan_ tagged Tiff0315

After making my homeschooling successes lens, I extended a challenge to Tiffany (Tiff0315), to tell us about her field of study, psychology. Tiffany had mentioned one one of her lenses that she and her husband like to debate about which is superior -- psychology or social work. Here's her lens about how she chose psychology as a profession and why she thinks it measures up to social work.

#17 - Tiff0315 tagged LissaKlar

With her psychology lens done, Tiffany called on Missy (LissaKlar) to make a lens about a favorite childhood memory. Fortunately, Missy 's favorite memories of childhood were well documented with photographs, producing this beautiful lens!

#18 - LissaKlar tagged Capriliz

After sharing her own family memories with us, Missy asked Carmen (Capriliz) to write a lens sharing an episode in her life as a single parent.

Carmen chose a conflict that she dealt with while her daughter was growing up and used it to give us a glimpse into the challenges of raising a child alone.

#19 - Capriliz tagged BevsPaper

With her single parenting lens done, Carmen passed the challenge to Bev (BevsPaper), asking Bev to tell us how she became interested in Native American spirituality. Bev shared with us some of her family history as well as her spiritual journey in this captivating lens:

#20 - BevsPaper tagged Thrivingmom

After finishing her spirituality lens, Bev has tagged Wendy (Thrivingmom) to go next. Bev had seen something Wendy wrote about an experience where she encountered an angel. It turns out that Wendy has had three angel encounters, and she tells us about all of them in this unforgettable lens.

#21 - Thrivingmom tagged BuckHawk

With her angel lens done, Wendy commissioned the next lens for the tower, challenging Susan (BuckHawk). Susan makes lots of lenses about her love of animals, but Wendy asked her to write about another interest she has -- quilting. Here's Susan's quilting lens:

#22 - BuckHawk tagged Susan300

Having finished her quilting lens, Susan wanted to see another quilting lens from another Susan! She challenged Susan300 to write a lens about how quilting has impacted her life. Susan300 says that quilting IS her life! Here's her lens on the life lessons that she finds in making quilts:

#23 - Susan300 tagged Duke

With another great quilting lens done, Susan300 passed the baton to Bella (Squidoo name: Duke), asking for a lens about her experience working with a no-kill cat shelter. Here's Bella's story:

#24 - Duke tagged Resabi

After writing about her experience working with animals, Bella has asked Rebecca (Resabi) to write a lens about an animal book. Specifically, one with both an animal and a human main character. Rebecca brings us the mystical tale of a man and his dog:

#25 - Resabi tagged Luvmyludwig

Having finished her lens about a cool animal book, Rebecca tapped Crystal (Luvmyludwig), a woman of many interests, to make a lens about one of her newest ones. It turns out that Crystal's latest interest is exercising! She shares her motivations with us on her lens, appropriately using the new Bubblegum Squidoo theme, with all the hearts in it. Keep that heart healthy, Crystal!

#26 - Luvmyludwig tagged Cloudiosify

After making her lens about her reasons for exercising, Crystal has called on Wan Muhammad (Cloudiosify) to make a lens about his homeland, Malaysia. Wan Muhammad chose the FOOD of Malaysia as his topic, starting us off with two exotic recipes and promising more to come!

#27 - Cloudiosify tagged Javrsmith

With his recipe lens done, Wan Muhammad passed the challenge to Vaughn (Javrsmith), asking him to write a lens about his involvement with computers. Vaughn took us back to "prehistoric" times, with memories of how computers were back in the '70s and '80s, and then sharing with us what are the most important things we should know about the computers of today.

#28 - Javrsmith tagged RinchenChodron

After making his lens on "primitive" computers, Vaughn looked to Marsha (RinchenChodron) for the next lens, asking her to write about some aspect of Buddhism. Marsha produced this lens on yoga, meditation, and hypnosis, giving the lens a very sexy title:

#29 - RinchenChodron tagged Chemknitsblog

With her altered consciousness lens done, Marsha called on Rebecca (Chemknitsblog) next to make a knitting lens. Rebecca went very personal, producing a beautiful lensography featuring 10 gorgeous (and often original) knitting designs. Don't miss the knitted Squid!

#30 - Chemknitsblog tagged Blanckj

After giving us a tour of her knitting, Rebecca turned to Jessica (Blanckj) for the next lens. Jessica specializes in cookies and cookie lenses, but Rebecca wanted to find out something about her outside of the cookie business. Jessica produced a lens describing her passion for music and cars. Drop by her poll and talk about your first car!

#31 - Blanckj tagged Flynn_the_Cat

Following her personal interests lens, Jessica has chosen Flynn-the-Cat as the lensmaster to take up the mantle for the next lens. Jessica asked Flynn to write a "where I grew up" lens. Flynn actually grew up in a lot of places, but this one is the most cherished (and also a fabulous example of how to write a lens about a location):

#32 - Flynn_the_cat tagged Aerome

After writing a lovely hometown lens, Flynn passed the challenge to Aerome to write a lens about photography. Aerome gave us this lens with his story of how he got started in photography, some of the work that is required to do it right, and some absolutely gorgeous photos. Don't miss it!

#33 Aerome tagged MissMerFaery

With his photography lens done, Aerome asked MissMerFaery to write a lens about her Squidoo journey. MissMerFaery produced a great lens with the story of her entire writing life, from childhood through to Squidoo and more.

#34 - MissMerFaery tagged PaulOnBooks

After making her lens about writing books, MissMerFaery asked PaulOnBooks to make a lens about reading books. Specifically, she gave him a "desert island" challenge, if he could only have five books what would they be? Well, here they are!

#35 - PaulOnBooks tagged Gods_grace_notes

After making his desert island lens, Paul called on Connie (Gods_grace_notes), asking for a crafting lens. Connie has made lots of crafting lenses, but she went really personal with this one, talking about the history of her interest in crafting, how her crafting affects her life, and how her life affects her crafting (just read it, you'll understand).

#36 - Rms tagged Catbehaviors

Things are uber-busy in Connie's life right now, including the soon arrival of a new grandchild, so she asked Robin to do the next tag. Robin chose Catbehaviors and asked her to make a lens about one cat product that she wouldn't be without. Some people would have taken that as an opportunity to hawk some kind of expensive stuff, but Catbehaviors shows us how to make something your cat will adore without breaking the bank.

#37 - Catbehaviors tagged ACreativeDream

Catbehaviors, having finished her "indispensable cat product" lens, passed the baton to Irune (ACreativeDream), asking her to write a lens about her experience in web design. Here's Irune's primer, drawn from her experience:

#38 - ACreativeDream tagged Tia2

After making her web design lens, Irune chose Tia2 to make the next tower lens. Irune wants her to write about how she makes entertainment lenses. Here's how Tia2 describes her strategy:

#39 - Tia2 tagged Termit_bronx

After making her lens about her passion for entertainment lenses, Tia2 challenged Mitja (Termit_bronx) to write a lens about his passion for soccer, which he calls "football", of course. Here's his very personal lens about playing football and futsal (BTW, I got the quiz question right!):

#40 - Termit_bronx tagged EverydayMiracles

After sharing his love for soccer, Mitja tapped Becki (EverydayMiracles) to make a lens about her Squidoo journey and the meaning of her Squidoo name. Here's the story of EverydayMiracles:

#41 - EverydayMiracles tagged ShandiGP

With her Squidoo journey lens done, Becki selected Shandi (ShandiGP) to build the next block in the tower. Shandi's challenge: a lens about her favorite kind of car. Shandi takes us for a thrill ride with the Tesla Roadster!

#42 - ShandiGP tapped Geekgurl

After giving us a ride on her car lens, Shandi asked Kimberly (Geekgurl) to build the next tower block, making a lens about her favorite Korean recipe. Kimberly shares with us her recipe for a staple of Korean cuisine:

#43 - Geekgurl tagged Jayszeman

With her recipe lens done, Kimberly issued a challenge to Jayszeman to write a lens about one of his favorite things in Chicago. Jayszeman's favorite thing in Chicago wasn't a landmark or a tasty dish, but rather a bit of sports history, which he shares in this entertaining lens:

#44 - Jayszeman tagged Lovelylashes

After writing his Chicago lens, Jayszeman called on Lovelylashes to write a lens that relates to her love of hiking. Lovelylashes gave us this lens that tells us what hiking means to her and gives us pointers for how to hike successfully.

#45 - Lovelylashes tagged Calliope

After sharing her hiking tips, Lovelylashes has passed the baton to Kathleen (Calliope) to give us a lens about her work as a playwright. Here's Kathleen's story of how she experiences writing drama, along with her tips about how we can do it, too.

#46 - Calliope tagged JS0425

Now we go from writing to writing. That is, from the composing type of writing to the handwriting type of writing. After Kathleen gave us her lens about writing short plays, she asked Justin (JS0425) to make a lens about his experiences doing calligraphy. Here's Justin's personal testimonial and his guide for others who want to get started in calligraphy. (BTW, Justin's lens is a great example of how to do good product recommendations.)

#47 - JS0425 tagged Michelle89

With his calligraphy lens done, Justin tapped Michelle (Michelle89) next. He wanted Michelle to share with us why she decided to become a teacher. Michelle came back with a Top 10 list describing the rewards of teaching:

#48 - Michelle89 tagged PastorSam

After writing a lens about her professional life, Michelle turned to PastorSam and asked him to write a lens about his non-professional activities. Finding time for hobbies isn't easy for a pastor (being a pastor's daughter, I know this first-hand). What PastorSam came up with was suggestions for how all of us busy folks can make time for a little recreation:

#49 - PastorSam tagged JenniferV

After making his hobbies lens, PastorSam handed it off to Jennifer (JenniferV), asking her to write a lens about her favorite movie. Here's her tribute to an '80s classic:

#50 - JenniferV tagged LadyLovelace

After telling us about her favorite movie, Jenn looked to Cecilia (LadyLovelace) for a lens about her favorite book. LadyLovelace's favorite book is actually a play, one written by Dylan Thomas. Here's her description of why she loves it so much:

We did it!

Congratulations to all of the lensmasters who participated!

The NEXT tower!

According to Robin, the next Jenga tower will have a "How To" theme. The thread hasn't gone up yet on SquidU, but stay tuned!