Roawenwood: Design & Craft

Just a few days before Easter and a friend of mine made an egg painting set last week I think…. we both have the same animation so he asks me if I was going to make one.  I said nahhh… I got the anim but wasn’t really planning on making one.  After expressing disappointment about how he’d of liked to seen what I’d come up with instead, bantering back and forth… having some fun with it I wander off mumbling to myself about Easter eggs, and egg coloring.  I wanted to come up with something different… Of course, I drew a blank but that doesn’t mean I wasn’t going to at least make something up.  Was challenged so to speak and I couldn’t just let that lie there now could I?

While mine isn’t really super spectacularly special… it is cute and it is something a little fun.  The way I figure it with only a few days left before the holiday I would release it and leave the price lower than I usually would for an item like this.  Soooo you get to benefit.  I’m releasing the Egg Painting stool for 50L.

So that is just about my only Easter offering this year.  I did put out a cute lil pink bunny for my groupies at the landing point though if you’re interested.

Other fun and releases today too!  An EASTER EGG HUNT!!  I have 10 Easter eggs hidden out and around the Five-Blades sim at the main location.  10 gifts from around my store, some furniture, some clothes.  I tried to not make it too girly.  They will be out through the weekend, then I have to remember where I got them scattered about!  *laughs*

Today saw the release of a few furniture pieces too.  All a part of the same line but technically 5 different pieces.  A set of sponge bath and wash basins.  Each one has 3 different washing animations in it.  One female sponge bath animation… one male sponge bath animation… and then a washing hands anim.

Three of them have their similarities though two are more ornate, while the third is more for rustic types.  The other two were done on stumps for camps and foresty type places.  The forest versions are lower prim, could be used outside of rustic type homes even instead of having indoor plumbing.  I think all have their place if chosen… could be used in infirmaries, for the green caste, in a home, lots of places.  Only limited by your imagination really.  Perhaps I’ll do a slave version… something more beat up.  You never know really…. but I do have a lot coming out soon within that genre anyways.

Some other fun and interesting facts hanging about the wood?  The Ostara hunt is ending today… tomorrow I’ll try to remember to pick up the prim.  The Nature’s hunt ends within the next few days but then the Virtues of Sin hunt starts tomorrow!  My sin was sloth and I think I have a pretty good item out there for it.  There’s a hint thing, and a feather prim ‘footsteps’ to point you in the right direction.

*Taps her fingers on the keyboard trying to think what else* Don’t forget the photo contest!  I’ve got some nice entries… would love to see what else people can come up with.

I guess that’s it for now, I’ll talk again soon.  Actually I will be VERY soon.  Since tomorrow is the first I will at the very least be picking the picks winner for this past month!  Yay!!

Till then!

The gods do not deduct from man’s allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
~Babylonian Proverb

The green is coming back, misty mornings still with a bite as the days get warmer and warmer… the earth awakening under suns bright rays.  This week we’re relaxing… Taking a few moments to sit around the cool water as it ripples sedately a fishing rod in one hand.

Over the winter I released an ice fishing pond… with the changing seasons it only seems logical that I should revamp and redo the ice fishing for warmer weather.  The set is really nice looking.  Added along the edges are cattails, and the snow has shifted to softly rolling hills of grass.  I think I like this one better even than the last.  The pond has room for four people to sit at once, a couple different fishing animations… and a bucket of fish for your catch.

I hope you all enjoy and have a wonderful rest of the week!

Bass fishermen watch Monday night football, drink beer, drive pickup trucks and prefer noisy women with big breasts.  Trout fishermen watch MacNeil-Lehrer, drink white wine, drive foreign cars with passenger-side air bags and hardly think about women at all.  This last characteristic may have something to do with the fact that trout fishermen spend most of the time immersed up to the thighs in ice-cold water.     ~Author Unknown

Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness! come.
–James Thomson

Spring time is finally beginning to shine bright sunlight into my life as the flowers begin to peek their way up through the soil.  The breezes still have that nip to the air even as you raise your face up to the sun to feel its warmth as the greyness begins to retreat… snow melted away and the earth returns to a green carpet of color.

This week saw the release of a new set of silks.  Something with a bold splash of color and the softness of flowers adorning the belts and accessories.  I had the idea for these rolling around a little bit and while they aren’t super fancy or ornate they are not your typical set of silks.  A soft glow surrounds the skirts as you move in gentle rhythm to music as you dance or as you fly through the air.  I thought they’d make a great addition especially during the spring season when everyone is ready for a bit of color and getting away from the heavier clothes.  Available in four different colors… purple, green, pink, and blue.

Honestly I really like these… bold, yet feminine I can see a forest Fae skipping through the woods all the way to the Gorean kajira writhing in the sands for her owner.  I haven’t really done a set of dancing type silks in awhile so these are a little refreshing to create.  Lately I have been working a lot on things for the outdoors… it’s been really good for me, getting me out of those gray winter time blues that can effect everyone as the seasons shift.

There’s been some submissions for the photo contest!!  I’m impressed and looking forward to see what else people come up with or decide to post.  It’s so much fun, I check the pool every once in awhile hoping to see something new.  There’s still a lot of time left because I’m leaving it open to submit photos through April 14th.

I know it takes time to be creative, to get a good picture and then fix it up if you’re of a mind to.  I really hope that people are having fun with it because that really is the whole point to it anyhow.

Remember, you can have more than one entry… I don’t mind, I’m just tickled to see what is put up.

I’ve been promising a contest for awhile so now I’m going to make good on it.

Over the past few months I’ve been getting pictures and things sent to me or linked of people wearing clothes, or using items that could be purchased/won at Roawenwood which gave me the bright idea of having a photo contest.  Some of them are really very interesting and I love seeing what people come up with or what kind of positions they can get themselves into.  *grins*

This is a call to all of the creative types!  Something just for you to stretch those muscles and try your hand at winning some Lindens and Roawenwood store credit.

>> The Criteria & Rules <<

ALL photos or screenshots MUST have at least ONE item that has been purchased from Roawenwood.  This includes but is not limited to clothing, chores, builds, role play accessories.  The photos/screenshots may be reworked in Photoshop or any other graphics program you use.

By posting and submitting your photos or artwork you accept the terms that said artwork may be used at my (Searlait Nitschke) discretion for display within the Roawenwood Store or store displays.  (( I will of course not profit from them by resell, or redistribution ))  For in world store use only unless otherwise indicated between participating members.

ALL work must be yours and original!  No copying or “borrowing” other people’s pictures and work.

1. Create

2. Upload the picture on Flickr and title it Roawenwood Pic Contest – March/April 2010 – Your Name

3. Pictures must be submitted through Roawenwood’s Flickr Group  (ha! I just made it too!) You can add more than one if you like.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/roawenwood/

If I think of anything else I’ll let you know!

>> TIMELINE <<

You may submit photos for the contest through April 14th

Winners will be announced on the blog and through the update group on April 21st

>>  PRIZES <<

1st place
3,000L
2000L Gift Certificate for Roawenwood

2nd Place
1,500L
1000L Gift Certificate for Roawenwood

3rd place

750L

500L Gift Certificate for Roawenwood

Honorable Mentions
as many as I want
250L Gift Certificate for Roawenwood

There has been A LOT released at the store but I haven’t been keeping up with the blog.  New clothing lines… a new knit kirtle set.  I know it’s late in the year for it but I do like them and figured it was best to release it rather than leave it sitting in my inventory.

Also a set of prim silks, called Taunt, they’re recolorable so you only have to buy the one set and then you can have them look however you want.  They’re draped with tons of silver jewelry too.

There’s been an herb garden, a new peeling potatoes/suls chore… and then today I released the Forest Meadow set.

I’ll add some pics real soon.