Roawenwood: Design & Craft

April has flown by and it is time to announce the monthly winner for the picks contest!  While we wait for the drumroll and all that jazz take a moment to reflect on how quickly the freekin month went.  My god!  Feels like it just started.  *snickers*

Anyhow……………. The winner for the month of April is Tamira Juran!!  Tamira won the 1000L prize along with the 1000L store credit!  *does a lil happy dance for the winner.*

I’m so glad to have you folks stopping by my place and taking the time to add it to your picks, I adore that ya’ll like my work and enjoy it immensely.  Thank you so much for being a part of my SL.

Also tonight is the start of the SL Discovery Grid Wide Hunt!  Over 500 stores are partipating… it’s huge.  Honestly I can’t imagine doing a hunt this large but I know there’s some out there that will.  My place is wayyyyyyyyy down the list at 390 but if you’re so inclined you can look around to find the lil magnifying glass and get a great freebie.  I made a small bath set, copy/no transfer.  I really didn’t hide the glass that badly… it’s near the front where you tp in, I just hate getting frustrated on hunts when I do them so I was trying to make it simple.  This particular Grid Hunt runs from May 1 – June 30th, so lots of time to wander the different stores.

Take a peek at the picture.  Have a great weekend!!

Tonight I decided to have a little bit of fun and create/put out something different.  I always say that I do things as the whim strikes, well this is a prime example of one of those moments.

Brand new tonight!! Knit Kickers!  I can’t help myself, my dad used to always call my boots growing up s*it kickers, these boots have a sweater/knit top that slouches down over the bottom part of the boot.  So while I was playing around with them tonight I was reminded of my s*it kickers, and have thusly released… Knit Kickers as a strange twist on the words and because I’m probably wayyyyyyyyyyyy over tired.  *laughs*

They’re cute, not that prim heavy, made of sculptured prims and available in 10 colors, some brighter… some more earth toned.

Still working on rebuilding the store, and I also started a kirtle set for those of the north.  Oddly it came about almost on accident while I was working on camisks… I think I’m going to save releasing those for the new store build though.  At the moment there are 6 colors. (I think, like I said I’m overtired.)

So good night, or good morning as the case may be… until we meet again.

Last night very late before I was heading off to bed I released a new camisk.  It is a little different than what I generally release clothing

Zhen in Chocolate

wise but it is something that I wanted to work on here and there anyhow.  I like camisks, simple… basic clothing that usually isn’t that expensive, along with the fact that if done right can be quite pretty.  Silks are nice, but not always practical… especially in laggy sims or around and about.  Zhen is available in 5 colors, Chocolate, Green, Red, Grape, and Blue.

I also released a new gardening chore… simpler than the large garden that I put out last week which has room for 5 workers, the gardening chore is a sculptured prim wheel barrow, a small set of plants, a few accessories and a gardening animation to work.  Can be placed just about anywhere really.

In other news I moved the main buildings of my store up into the sky at about 500 meters and I’m clearing the land beneath it to redo the layout.  For awhile the whole thing has been bothering me (which I think I’ve mentioned before in previous posts and announcements) but I haven’t been able to really work on it.  Part of it was because I just didn’t know what to do with everything while I was working.  It’s really not so good to be throwing prims around peoples heads as they try to browse through the store, and I really didn’t want to close down completely either.  The what if’s started… like… “what if I end up taking longer than I expected.”  or “what if I can’t get it right.”  Well at least if the bulk of it is up above then I can work in relative peace and hopefully unveil a new layout that will work better and be fun to be around.

One thing I’ve always prided myself upon and tried to do is make my place not so much a ‘store’, to make it not feel like a dull spiritless place of commerce but something that had a feeling… something that was relaxing as well as enjoyable even if you don’t buy a thing.  I didn’t want stale, and I’ve never wanted to be just like everyone else.  That’s one thing, I like to be unique at least on some level… which to be honest can be rather difficult within SL oddly enough.  And so that’s where that is at….  I’ll keep updates coming and hopefully when I get things set the way I like, I’ll reopen the main part of the store with some new stuff, new look, maybe a sale and other goodies.

It’s been awhile since I wrote but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been putting things out.  One of the things about me is I am almost constantly putting out new items.  I end up putzing around in my workshop or unable to sleep… something new will come around and out of it.  The past bit after releasing the Flutterbee silks I’ve added a large garden with 5 different spots for workers, a sawing wood chore, and a potters set.

The potters set is rather nice I think.  It has a potters bench that’s a little different than the normal potters wheel, also there’s the kiln which I rather like… a few shelves and some accessories.  It can be bought in part or in whole at my store.

I have plans to be putting out some new clothes of course, and lots of things but I am swamped swamped swamped with plans lately.  I have three hunts coming up, and I have to redo the store.  In between I make little things or work on bigger things but it is these few things that I really need to crack down on and get done.  I am convinced that the creative process becomes a big old stumbling block when deadlines and expectations come up.

I am convinced because yanno… I have -no- idea what to make for these hunts.  *laughs*  I sincerely want to place something in for each of them that makes them worthwhile and something that ya’ll would want to have.  I definately want to make something that is more than just some ugly stinkin freebie…. sooooo now what.

Ahhhh I’ll think of something.  Anyhow…. keep checkin back, and even if you don’t see something here on the blog, there’s probably a really good bet that there is something new in the store anyhow.  Have a great weekend!

Released this evening the new set of silks… Flutterbee.  The name came to me before I even created them.  I wanted a light set of silks, that floated fluttering around the slave girl as she moved, something a little extra feminine.  Iridescent jewels decorating the skirts and the thin pieces of silver… I like how they turned out.  A sculptured drape settles across the breasts smoothly, can wear it with or without the included top.  Covered or not covered, that is up to you.

The silks come with earrings, two different sets of armbands, bracelets, hip skirt, chest drape, and belly ornament.  There are 6 colors available and a limited edition lighter purple version for the RFL.

Can find them on Xstreet or in world at my store.

As a bonus I created half off discount packages for group members at my main location.  Just wear a Roawenwood group tag, pay the special group vendor package and you can get them for 50% off until sometime Friday or Saturday.  I haven’t decided which yet.