Roawenwood: Design & Craft

Hiya!  Just a quick note because I’m going to be out of town on a lil bit of a vacation from the fifth until Friday the eighth.

If you need anything done, or have an issue… leave me messages, they get sent to my email and won’t get lost or leave a notecard.  I’ll get to everything when I get back.

Sadly this means….. no updates this week or anything probably.

*sniffs*

I’m so sorry.

But I’ll be back sooon!

Take care and have a great week.

It’s awful quiet on this blog lately isn’t it?  Almost afraid to raise my voice above a whisper.

I have been doing my releases on Wednesdays in world, but haven’t been updating this bugger as much as I probably should.

Whole new lines of fishing items, and there was a Father’s Day fun thing…. *sighs*  I’m slackin.  I should be punished.

*hangs her head*

I’ll make sure to update this when I do my next latest and greatest or just feel like rambling.  It’s been really busy in real life lately….

This past weekend I did an RFL walk at the high school near where I live.  I did a late night shift with my team, from midnight until 6am… so I’m still kind of feeling like I haven’t caught up on my sleep.  Of course I was too stubborn to rest beforehand, so for about 48 hrs I didn’t sleep *laughs!*

I’ll catch up with ya’ll soon, thanks for hangin in there.

I’ll probably write more later… I’m really tired at the moment, and I know I haven’t been keeping up with blogging lately.  Real life has been really tiring lately and I think to an extent I was in one of those spots where I opened it and then did the……. eh, I’ll do this later.  LOL  Am sure ya’ll can identify with that one.

But I HAD to take a minute to stop tonight and post about RFL and the Fantasy Faire.

Tonight I reached out and asked for help from my groupies and anyone else who was wandering by to reach into their pockets… share their lindens for a good cause.  I did one of those Jail and Bail events.  Basically I was locked up in a cage for an hour, vowing to match any donations up to 50K Lindens.  People came down, kept me company… wandered… and I hope had some fun.

It was a great event and I’m humbled truly.

For that hour we raised for RFL a whopping 75,000L.

Ya’ll are great and it is truly appreciated.

This post is going to be a little out of the ordinary and I’m going to be asking for feedback, I don’t think my readership is all that large but I’ll be mentioning it in my notecards to the update list etc…

I have a sincere question about in world groups…. Group slots have generally always been an issue in SL.  When they raised the limit of groups from 15 to 25 (yes, omg can you believe it when I joined it was only 15 I think) people thought their problems were over.  They have yet again raised the limit to 42 with the caveat that they may reduce that count IF lag and/or other issues becomes too much of a problem with people having that many groups.  With the problems of keeping groups between rentals, vip groups, friends, family, land… you get the idea, the update subscribe list became mine and most merchants friend.

With the limit raised I have been considering giving the in world group a few more benefits assuming that folks may be more willing to keep a store in a slot.

Fast forward to now… you have a choice, what kind of group do you think is most appealing?

Option 1: The group is open enrollment, kept that way in general.  Group discounts may be applied, the odd freebie every once in awhile or perhaps group only type announcement or benefit is thrown out there… if a special group only event occurs it may be closed during to make it more ‘special’.

Option 2: The group has a nominal fee to join, say… 200-500L but you are guaranteed some special compensation for paying into the group.  Special freebies available only to groupies, sales, and other things on a rather regular basis… this group could also on occasion be closed during more special offer event type deals if they occur.

Option 3: Closed group by invitation only.  Can only join if given an invitation, also has guaranteed specials, sales, and events announced available only to them.

I have seen all three options used… because I know group space is generally dear and hard to come by along with the fact most people really –don’t- need extra spam I am wanting to ask you folks what do you think works best or would draw your attention from a consumers point of view and give you the most benefit.

Now with all that said… I GREATLY appreciate feedback on all levels, good… bad… or indifferent, so to prove that I’m willing to send a gift to everyone who responds either in world on a notecard to me, Searlait Nitschke, (please title it something like… “Data Mining for Roawenwood [date here]” or commenting here on the blog.  Please let me know your SL name if you comment here and it is not the same as in world.  Thanks very much, till next time!

Meant to get something written up here but yanno I have a lot… like TONS going on and haven’t had a chance to.

I re-opened the sim with a whole new build.  I’ve been considering having a photo contest… either like I did last March where a person does their own photo with something from the store or maybe even seeing what kind of pic’s people can take in and around the sims.  There’s some real pretty spots and it’d almost be interesting to see what people could come up with.

Anyhow… I added some new stuff to the lucky chairs.  Three outfits and a funky pair of shoes.  One is Mardi Gras themed using the colors gold, green and purple.  The other ones are just green…. more for St. Patty’s really.  Also released a scribe’s desk, and a podium for furniture pieces then released the wrapped and netted tops.

This next week is going to be a bit crazy… Twisted Hunt starts!!  Weeeeeeeee, this should be fun.  I’m pondering how to hide my lil box once I get it.  I’ve been considering a bunch of decoys twirling and swirling around the landing point…. I’ve considered building a little something with boxes so ya’ll have to find it in and amongst them.

Of course there is also a mini hunt coming up.  I’ve put out a special area in the new build where the mini hunt is going to be during the Twisted hunt.  Hopefully it all comes together and everyone has some fun.

Have a great weekend and take care!