The September round of the Arcade

The Arcade – September’s Gacha Event Poster, a photo by thearcadesl on Flickr.

So the Arcade Gacha event turns one with this round of gacha madness! I am super excited about the previews I’ve seen thus far. To help keep up with the ads that are coming out before the event I have started a pin board on my Pinterest. So if you want to check out what ads I’ve seen so far so you can get excited with me too here is a link to the board and all the pictures!

The event starts at Midnight on Sept 1. for more information and a count down clock to the Arcade can be found on there website here.

Together for Sway is now OPEN!!

Together for Sway is officially open! So go one over and grab yourself some awesome stuff for a great cause! Here is your taxi!

I will add pictures to the blog once I have a free moment from RL of some of the amazing items there!

~Together for Sway~

A fellow Sler, plurkie friend, and designer I love has had some disheartening news delivered to her. Doctors have found a brain tumor and she needs to have it removed. This friends name is Sway Dench and you may know her from her stores on SwayLand featuring her home products, animations, cookie bears and her quirky clothing.  Like many people I know in SL, SL is her only form of income and with Sway’s upcoming surgery she will have to be offline for quit awhile while she recovers from her massive surgery. This is where you and I can step in and help Sway through this very significant and life changing event. Valena Vacano has graciously created a charitable event that will help Sway raise some much needed funds to help her to stay “a float” while she is in recovery and unable to create new items.  The event is called Together for Sway and will run from December 15th- December 31st, I will update this post with location information once that becomes available or you can check in with the Together for Sway blog.  The charitable event will include different designers selling products, there will be an auction, and different music events with 100% of all monies raised going directly to Sway.

Here is a message that Sway sent out :

Today I have another kind of news. It concerns me on a personal level and will influence not only my RL but also my SL.

Some of you are already in the loop and I want to thank you guys for being there for me.
Not only have you been listening to me, giving me strength thereby and encouraging me, you also have thought of something exceptional.

Since I can’t contact everybody personally but I think that you should know whats going on I’ve chosen this way to tell you.

Some weeks ago I was diagnosed with a brain tumor. With a high probability the tumor is benign. Presumably the surgery will take place on January 28th 2013. Until then I’m gonna try to be online as often as possible but unfortunately I won’t be able to work as much as I used to.

After the surgery I’m gonna need some time to recover so I will not be able to work for a few month.
I was discussing the fear of loosing my Sim and Shop with some Friends on Plurk and they surprised me with an incredible plan.
To save SwayLand and Sway’s and to help me through this challenging time they have created TFS.
( http://togetherforsway.wordpress.com )

I am overwhelmed and practically speechless about the level of support I have experienced so far.
Thank you all from the bottom of my heart.

♥ Sway

Valena Vacano is looking for people who want to sell items and give 100% of proceeds to Sway, or for bloggers to blog the event, if you want to help out please contact her. If you are not a creator but want to help out we encourage you to visit SwayLand and purchase some of Sway’s cute products or visit the event once it has opened and pick up some items!

We love you Sway and we wish you a speedy recovery.

Cheeky Pea Summer Sale

Run do not walk to this sale. Isla Gealach of Cheeky Pea is having her third annual Summer Sale running now till July 29th! All items at her main location are 50% off!!!!!

So make sure you go one over and scoop up any items that you have had your eye on!!

Zinnia’s Paper Bag Luminaria

So I seem to becoming a Zinnias exclusive blogger 😀 I will be honest I can’t help myself when these pretties are dropped on me I can’t wait to show everyone else. Today I bring you Zinnia’s newest release of Paper Bag Luminaria. There are 4 style sets to choose from (see below), all of the sets have 3 bag choices in them, all of them are mod/copy/no transfer and have an on and off touch command for the glow.

Over all I really like these luminaries and I really think that they would compliment the Zinnia’s Fiesta Party Deck really well if you sat them up and down the deck’s stairs!

Also out now at Zinnia’s are these freebie Pennants. They come in 2 groupings. the first is the just the top row of both pictures. The shadow and the pennants are separate so you can remove them if you like. The second set is  3 different pennant strings. These pennants as displayed in the picture on the left have 1 giant shadow that works for all 3 strings, however just like in the first set the shadow is removable and you can steal the single shadow from the first set to break them up and have a shadow. I know this is horrible of me but i have 2 small complaints about these – (1) because the pennants are alpha the shadow and the pennants mess with each other make the textures looks unclean (2) a couple of the flags there appears to be a boarder of some sort along the edge of the square that makes up the prim that is away from the actual pennant -it is not really noticeable I’m just way annal about stuff like that. Anywhos they are free so go grab them while you are picking up the Luminaries 😀

Cinco de Mayo, Fiesta Deck

This coming weekend is Cinco de Mayo and in celebration of this Mexican holiday Zinnia’s has released a Fiesta Party Deck that will help you celebrate!

This set can accommodate up to six avatars around the table in all sorts of varying poses from talking and eating to swaying to the music. You can also access poses from the stairs including a playing guitar pose. All of the poses are menu driven and can be adjusted to accommodate your avatar. The set also offers props for you to use to enhance your celebration, you can get a sombrero, cerveza (beer), burrito and a guitar. The sombrero giver is the sombrero that is sitting on the deck and the other items can be obtained from the pose menu.

The set will be offered at half price ($149L) at Zinnia’s main location until Sunday May 6th so go snatch this set up and celebrate Cinco de Mayo in a festive colorful surroundings. 😀

Zinnia – Mexico A Go Go Hunt item

I’m a little late with the start of this hunt but I suppose later is better than never :D. So over last weekend I received a surprise blogger pack from Zinnia Karu owner of Zinnia’s which carries more of a southwestern type style of decor. The hunt item costs 1L but is well worth the cost 😀

Here is a little information about the hunt (I’m being lazy and am pulling the wording from the note card for the hunt :D)

“Mexico A Go Go Hunt
Hunt Dates:  April 7 – May 5, 2012

It’s time for a little friendly competition!

Hunters can vote for the designer who makes their favorite prize for the Mexico A Go Go Hunt.

Award recipient will receive an award placard to display in their store, as well as a complimentary Sponsor slot in the next [covert.hunts] hunt, Cleaving Cliches Hunt.

Hunters can only vote once per computer so there should be little issue with “vote stacking.”

Best of luck!  Let the competition begin!”

You can visit the hunt organizers website here and make sure to vote for Zinna to help her win 😀

TFUH: The Fresh Uknown Hun- Prt 2

As promised here is the second part of the TFUH stuff the cloths & accessories (or anything your avi can “wear”) part 😀 Remember the hunt starts tomorrow, March 1st, in the mid afternoon (I’m guessing noonish even though I know some people have their gifts out already {shhhh I didn’t tell you that}) Here is your taxi ride to location number one SleepingKoala Also please remember each hunt item costs 1L and you are looking for a flower check out the hunt blog if you need more info.  Now on to the cloths!

TFUH: The Fresh Unknown Hunt- Prt 1

Wowie I’m blogging again with in the same month :O I know shocker right?!?! Well this time I am still going to be blogging some stuff out of my norm & some stuff in my norm. I am covering some of the goodies that you can pick up in the upcoming Unknown Hunt which starts tomorrow, March 1st! The hunt features new stores that opened after November 1st 2011 to help people connect with the new stores. Each hunt item costs 1L, to help the new stores offset the cost of the items 😉

This first post is going to contain all of the items that I would normally blog! The furniture, houses, and the prose props! 😀

A two person pose prop jumping into a pile of leaves – yay for 2 Zoie’s (info about my outfit to follow in the next post)

A fountain that sparkles would be great for a cave dwelling or an ice palace.

Perfect set for a hall entrance

Cute little table, all the extras are movable & the needle work has texture change picture, available via touch.

Simple little table great for a kids room or an art space.

I’m loving the textures on this couch- comes with couch, framed leaning art & 3 different sized candles.

This cute build would make a great hang out for some woodland creatures or a nice cozy house.

A cozy little skybox featuring all the necessities of a home – includes all the furnishings

Patio set – Chairs, table/umbrella, and lights are not linked so you can place them anywhere on the patio

Last but not least is this great vibrant green living room set- the tables are separate and can be moved around freely for each other

For up to date information on the hunt including a full list of stores,  hints, and a picture of the flower that you are looking for please visit The Unknown Hunt Blog.

Out of the Norm

Hello Long time  no blog. Sorry about that but RL has taken a steady turn for the insane route! I was however intrigued by Adorkable Peapod’s blog challenge to blog something out of the norm for you. I have decided to take part of that and blog clothing! :O

Anywhos onto to the clothing! I was given a bloggers copy of the Leggings and t-shirt by the owner of [Sleeping Koala], Evelyn Hartshon, so I thought I would use those as a starting point.  Seeing that the leggings were all really bright colored I decided to pay homage to my childhood growing up in the 80s and go with a crazy bright color theme. Also don’t mind the different photo layouts I was uncertain which style I liked better so I used both (for better or worse lol).

My outfit consists of some individual pieces and some pieces I stole from a full kids outfit because I loved the look of them!

[Sleeping Koala] – Bandage Leggings [Lava Orange] 2 – leggings

[Sleeping Koala] – I ❤ American Boys 2 -tee

**Cute Bytes** – Black Rainbow Outfit –Bracelet, Brat Hand Ring, Sneakers, Skirt, Sock Warmers (not pictured is a shirt & leggins to match as well sold as a set)

>Truth<– Cleo Streaked in hotpink – hair– Was a Halloween Gift

Heartsick – Solstice : Muse : Winter Kiss – skin

Lolapop! – Falling Raindrops Necklace

Up close and personal so you can see the face of the skin a little more clearly & the great hair 🙂

My assorted accessories. (Most of which comes with the full outfit from **Cute Bytes**)

Because the leggings were my inspiration to blog I am showing you the entire range of the Bright colored ones which take me back to my Rainbow Bright days 🙂 They come in 7 colors, 6 pictured below plus the ones I’m wearing in the other pics). She also has Fishnet, Zebra, & Cheetah ones.

Okay, so all this running around the grid buying stuff and trying to find places to take pictures has tired me out so I’m going to just lay here and play in the sand now *waves*

 

***PS all of the above mentioned stores can be found through their blogs/websites listed in my Blogroll 😀