Roawenwood: Design & Craft

It’s the first of May and I haven’t forgotten that one lucky winner that signed up for the picks contest is to be announced today!

I rummaged, and worked… and we have a winner!

This past months winner of the 2000L and the 2000L Store Credit was……  Nurana Karu!!  Congrats!

Remember it is easy to get in on the chance to win, all you have to do is come down… click the sign at the landing point while keeping Roawenwood in your picks.  The list has once again been wiped clean and everyone has a fresh month to try again!

You know…

Last month the first one I picked didn’t have Roawenwood in their picks so someone else won.

This month I had to go through 4 different names… picked one, nope.  Picked a second…. nope.  Damn!  Third… fourth… finally on the fifth name I had someone who put Roawenwood in their picks!

You CAN’T win if Roawenwood is not in your picks… that’s how it works and I do actually check.

Congrats again Nurana!

Have a great rest of your weekend and I’ll talk to ya’ll again soon!!

1st  Prize of 3000L & 2000L Gift Certificate to Roawenwood

~~~~~ Fairweather Sorbet!!! ~~~~~~

CONGRATULATIONS FAIRWEATHER!!!

2nd Prize of 1500L & 1000L Gift Certificate:  Bess Barbosa

3rd Prize of 750L & 500L Gift Certificate:  Rachael Schnyder – Laying on the Log

Special Honorable Mention winning 500L Gift Certificate: Mythica McCann – Basketweaving pic

Honorable Mentions winning 250L Gift Certifcates to Roawenwood: ssinss iredell, Cecily Cordeaux, & Nikki Evanier

Congratulations to all of you!

I really did have a lot of fun with this and hope to do something similar in the future!  Next time I want to see even more entries even though ya’ll didn’t make it easy on us to decide me and my faithful top secret panel of judges can’t wait to see what you are going to challenge us with when we have another round.  All winners have been contacted and received their prize packs, I hope to see you all for the next one!

Submissions for the photo contest have been closed and now the hard part for me.  I have to sift through all of the lovely entries trying to decide which ones should win the prizes.  You guys haven’t made it easy on me…. I’ve even enlisted some top secret outside help to try to help me make some sort of decision here, and I’m not dissuaded!  I will have your winners for you this next week on the 21st like I promised.

Hump day releases this week were delicious… the Alamea camisk and then a twist on the grooming/make up table that I had created awhile back.  I had intended to make up a fancier version of the vanity for the Lady of the house or for a more lavish kennel or slave area but never really set aside the time to do it.  Well with the release of the sponge bath stuff I revisited this and got a couple of them done in the same gorgeous wood tones that they are in.  Two different color woods, and decorated to be pleasing to the eye as well as functional enough to save on prims if you need to or create a well thought out scene.

Onto the camisk.  Ohhh this little pretty isn’t for the faint of heart.  Sweeping downwards exposing one breast then sweeping across the hips exposing well…… quite a bit more, *coughs* this is a rather risque garment to wear.  Swirls and decoration across the belly accent the richly toned fabric.  It is available in 7 different colors for sale, and one deep dark plum color that will only be in the lucky chair either until the end of the month or until I take it out.  It will not be available for sale so this limited special color can keep you set apart just a little bit.

The lucky chair version does have a drawback though… it doesn’t come with the jewelry accessories that the for sale versions do.  The sale versions of the camisk also include beaded bracelets for both wrists, and a set of anklets to wear.

I have three different hunts going on right now… wonderful prizes for you to get if you’re so inclined to jump down.  We’re at the half way point in the month so if you haven’t joined in the picks contest for April you should… sign up at the landing point.

I’m going to leave you for now but never fear I’ll be back soon.  Have a great weekend!

Just a quick reminder that it is the last two days to participate or submit photos for the Roawenwood Photo Contest.  You have a bit of time left to get your entries in and see if you win.

It’s a pretty good prize too!

First prize is 3000L AND a 2000L Gift Certificate.

That means you can share with a friend or keep all the loot for yourself!

I hope ya’ll have had fun with this… I’ve been enjoying seeing what came up.

Don’t forget to read the submission guidelines!! I see at least 3 photo’s that are on the table to be disqualified because of improper submission.

I REALLY would hate to do that… I’m such an easygoin sort.

Have a great day and talk to you soon!

Yesterday I realized it was the 7th, a whole week past the beginning of the month basically and I hadn’t gotten to the post here on the blog about March’s Winner.  Ughh…. you know, that is really not quite like me and I apologize profusely to the last months winner of the picks contest.  Though really it probably didn’t upset her all -that- much… I DID do the prize part, which is the good stuff.  *grins*

This past months winner of the 2000L and the 2000L Store Credit was…… KittenAnne Mousehold!!  Congrats!

It was fun, and I got the…. “oh my god I never win anything!”  hehehe makes it even better.

Remember it is easy to get in on the chance to win, all you have to do is come down… click the sign at the landing point while keeping Roawenwood in your picks.  You know… the first person I picked off the list this past month DIDN’T have the store in their picks.  Tsk tsk, so they didn’t win and that’s why KittenAnne got lucky!!

Other up and coming news?  It’s a secret but….. I’m probably going to be rebuilding the store very soon.  I know right?  I know how it is and I like it when I go to a place to be able to find everything where I left it so to speak but hopefully the layout will still keep shopping easier.  I’m having to move some of my more adult content and upcoming content into an adult rated area.  I don’t like it but I’m sure it will work out.  Roawenwood is still going to try to have an atmosphere that I enjoy… hopefully it turns out ok.  Cross your fingers for me.

In the meantime what does that mean to you?  Not a whole lot except that at some point the bulk of my inventory will be put into a temporary store in the sky so you guys can still get to it while I work on the ground level.  I will probably be retiring some merchandise, though I haven’t picked what exactly.  Once that is settled we’ll have some reopening stuff… and hopefully a lot of new fun things for you to peek at!

Newness for yesterday!  I put out a camp set.  The Woodsman Camp Set with a sculpted tent, camp blankets, fire, terrain piece and grass so you can create a neat little scene with it.  The tent, terrain, and grass is copy, while the blankets and the fire are transfer.  I figured this way you can create a camp easily or just use the one.  It’s been an interesting bit getting it together, I think it looks pretty decent and can go in so many different kinds of places.  It isn’t like it is solely Gorean or anything else.  If you live in a desert region even it can be used… just don’t use the grasses and included terrain piece.  The tent still looks great.

It will be on a 50% off countdown vendor for at least another 24 hours, maybe a bit longer so if you’re curious you should come down.

Also, just because I think it is funny and have to poke fun at myself a little bit here… I did a “Hump Day Easter Egg Hunt Whoopsie”.  Last week I put out 10 eggs for people to find with gifts from around the store mostly.  It was a great success and a lot of people had fun with it… well…. umm, you see.  *shuffles her foot across the floor*  I didn’t -actually- write down where I put the 10 eggs and the store is pretty big… and… and… well…. I couldn’t remember where I put two of them.  I figured I’d have no problem, I know my patterns and where I’d stash stuff right?  WRONG!  hahaha

Soooo we had an extra little bit of fun, while poking fun at myself I decided to give a 500L Gift Certificate to the first person who IM’d me with the right locations for both eggs.  I had a few people who sent one, and while only the first will get the 500L one… I’m going to be a stinker and give the ones who tried a 250L one, I just didn’t mention that in the announcement.  *grins*

You never know what I might throw in there so it’s better to give it a shot, you might end up with something anyhow!

The 7 Sins hunt is still going on, and this week another hunt started…. the Celebrating Gaia hunt.  I made something nice for that too.  At least I like it but then again most of the time I don’t put out or give away things that I don’t like.  I’m the sort that can’t put something out there if I’m not at least somewhat happy with it.  I’ll always be the most critical of my work of course but you know how it goes right?

Anyhow… I think that’s enough rambling for one morning.  I’ll talk to you soon!