Roawenwood: Design & Craft

Couple small updates, a hanging cage that is rustic… a set of three velvety soft rich colored cushion seats.  I have a pic of a freebie I sent through the subscriber group last night so you can see one of them that I will attach.  I really love the deep dark colors of them.  They look like something you could snuggle down deep into, kicking back and relaxing.

See what you could have gotten if you were in my subscriber group!?

I got the textures done on the clothing layers for the silks I’m about to release… I need to get going on those, I want them out by friday so you’ll get another lovely update hopefully.

I am now a part of three (!) grid hunts, possibly a fourth.  I’ll talk more about them as they get closer probably but needless to say I am busy and mulling over the wonderous freebie that I should include for each of them.  I almost was thinking of throwing the idea out to my groupies to see what kind of thing they’d like to see given away and let them decide.  *chuckles*

I also have a huge undertaking coming up.  I’m going to be…. *pauses here taking a deep breath*  redoing my store.  The layout is bugging the crap out of me and it needs to be redone to make it easier to browse or find things.  I’ve gotten large enough where a bad layout can really mess with the whole shopping experience, along with the fact… make it tougher to find what you’re looking for. Soooooooo on that note, I’m going to redo the store.  Hopefully my plans are to really crack down and work on it having it done by the beginning of May.  Seriously I do NOT want to shut the store down while I’m working on it, so I am trying to figure out the least painful way of handling a massive redo while not screwing with the store or closing for a week or two.

Best solution I’ve come up with so far…. Lift the main part of the store up onto platforms in the sky while I redo the ground.  Temporarily of course, just until I get things settled into a newer build.  So I’m thinking that I’ll be doing that at some point.  It may not be as pretty for a lil bit but hopefully it won’t be too painful, I really want to be able to focus on making the shopping experience at Roawenwood something enjoyable… not just another store.

Guess that’s it for now, I’ll be updating again soon.  *waves and heads back to the workshop*

Yesterday I had a rather large release, four brand new chores for your role playing pleasure.  I was slaving away up in my workshop just to bring you something to do, aren’t I nice?  Great for slaves, submissives, or anyone who wants to add a little atmosphere to their area.  Of course they all are nicely detailed with embedded animations, no ugly poseballs on any of them!

Basically released a laundry set.. hanging clothes, washing clothes, and ironing.  Along the way I also did a sewing chore… so I suppose that goes right along with the theme eh?  Mending clothes?  I might be a little bit punchy because I’ve had so much on my plate lately and I don’t think it’s going to ease up… BUT I wouldn’t really know what to do with myself if it did.  I do prefer to have things to do than sitting around wondering what’s next.  I have lots more things on the horizon, chores and furniture… along with a really really beautiful set of silks that I am going to release soon.

I have the prim work done, now I just need to get the clothing textures done for the PG layers and the ad work done.  They really are lovely.  Lots and lots of little jewels sprinkled all over the skirts, and jewelry.  They’re lighter, probably that spring thing still has a hold of me but don’t worry, the next set that I am working on is going to be in darker colors I think.

I alsoooooooooo have joined an RFL team.  I am going to be releasing one of the new sets of silks as an RFL only thing.  I’ve wanted to get involved with the RFL in SL for the last couple years but it always seemed like I’d miss half of it or something came up.  This year I really made sure to contact someone so I could.  I have a kiosk set up at the main store, and I’ll be releasing things very soon for it that you can only get through the RFL vendors.  I do the Relay for Life walk in real life every year, so it is no surprise really that I wanted to be involved in my Second Life too.

And if that wasn’t enough…  I’ve also joined a grid wide treasure hunt for May/June.  It’s the Through the Looking Glass Hunt.  So keep your eyes peeled for that, I’ll add more about that later on.  I’d like to get involved in more hunts if I can… they’re fun and a way to give away nifty lil things to people.  I’m trying my hand at getting into the next Gorean grid wide hunt but I haven’t heard back from them.

I guess that’s it for now.  I’ll do another update sooooooon!