The long way to a functional fair booth…

We managed to get our booth on the Jewelry Fair 2009 up and running. Really! (^_^) We had – like last year, so we can name it a tradition – so much trouble in both worlds (OF COURSE with ghosting of Olof for nearly 16 hours!), that we had no time at all to get ready in time.

Lucky enough, Olof had started our booth design very early this time and so we had an easy start with setting up our booth. I don’t like all this “self-praising”, which is an inevitable part of a successful business in SL and RL. You always have to say, that your stuff is stuffier (has nothing to do with stuffers) than everyone else’s. But this time I have to say I LOVE OUR BOOTH! (^_^) Look, look!

Our baby (booth): If you teleport with this SLURL you will land in the auction area, which is formed like an “U”. If you fly over the hedge in direction of the open side of the “U”, you’ll be in seconds in front of our booth (#7).

There you’ll find this:

Okay, so what do we offer?! Like last year the half of everything goes to charity, this year Oxfam is the supported organisation:

All our products there have our new scripting system “Facette” inside. The modules it offers (from resizing to texture change, full bright and glow toggle, script removing and so on) differ, so it is important to read, what is written on the vendors. This is the defined minimum. It may happen, that you’ll find more buttons in the menu of the jewelry piece, but never less. There are DEMOs for all items so you can grab them, try them out and come back, if you like and let all your hard earned money with us… (^_^) Even there at the Fair you can buy TRANSFER or COPY versions.

(Facette-Modules: texture change with three different colored rose/flower pictures in blue, yellow, magenta, resizing, toggle brightness (full bright or not), toggle glow (predefined 0.04), resizing, script remove (with COPY items))

The big sister of a jewelry set, many of you already know:

(Facette-Modules: texture change of cabochon (7 colors), toggle brightness (full bright or not), toggle glow (predefined 0.04), resizing, script remove (with COPY items))

The little book works like a locket, but the inside is not a picture, it is a fully primmed little garden. The well even has floating water inside, and there is a little great tit sitting on its brim. (^_^) (Facette-Modules: resizing, opening and closing of the book, putting an own texture behind the window in the little house, script removing (removes only the resizing scripts, the open/close and texture function will work)

(Facette-Modules: texture change of the little gems and the metal of the moth, toggle brightness (full bright or not), toggle glow (predefined 0.04) script remove (with COPY items))

… includes a two-part daisy hair wreath, a daisy barrette and a daisy hair comb. (Facette-Modules: differs a little from piece to piece, resizer for the wreath, metal change for the hair comb and color change of the daisy’s blossom leaves for all. Of course full bright toggle for all, too.)

The recoloring module is something we are very glad about. It doesn’t need a HUD, it doesn’t take aeons to choose the color you wish, and it doesn’t constrain the possible colors.

We do of course offer a Freebie, too. The Freebie set “Hortensia” was split up in two boxes. On the Fair you’ll find the earrings, in our sky shop the matching necklace:
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Even these Freebies come with Facette and give you the opportunity to choose from 18 blossom, 4 metal, and 9 pearl textures, toggle the full bright, glow, resize the necklace, remove the scripts and hopefully gives you an impression of some of Facette’s abilities.

And at the end – yes, we managed it to give an item to the Charity auction. To give you the opportunity to look at it in 3D and not only to see a plain texture of it, we built a… something in the shop. The necklace is there rotating and you can come and click the item to see, how it can be configured. Maybe you like it so much, that you would like to do something for the charity and get this one-of-a-kind item. (^_^)

Okay, that’s all for today!
CU soon with more News from PRIMALOT

Manya and Olof

Jewelry Fair 2009

Just a short note: We are looking forward to the greateastest, most spectacularest Jewelry Fair ever in our shop’s history. Eolande Elvehjem, Siyu Suen and other brave companions did take the challenge and organized an event, that will take part from 18th-27th of September 2009. It will be located on two Sims and we have – if I remember it correctly – over 130 exhibitors.
.o( o_O No, we don’t panic at all with all those artists around. Nope. *hides under a pebble*)

The middle of the summer

Okay, okay. We are not really fast with our blog updates. But you should see the good will. -_- (At least we are doing it at all, if I think about our desperate trials to keep our RL related blogs alive… Nah, I don’t want to think about it! :/)

Again the summary of our last two releases (13th of July and 7th of August) in one entry:

Back from the other life

March 2009 Life hit my (Manya’s) family quite hard, which I shared to some extent with our subscriber group. I experienced a lot of positive reactions, many very nice people tried to convey comfort. And I’m very thankful for their words and the things and thoughts they gave me. As a consequence of these personal circumstances, we stayed away from SL for months and logged in only from time to time for customer support and to answer some IMs. The situation is not better than some months ago, but in June we decided to try a gentle comeback.

The results of our new work have meanwhile been published in two messages to the group. I’ll collect those two release packs here in one blog entry:

Shamrocks. But not only.

In the meantime since our last blog entry we had two release notes to our group.

The NCI shamrock hunt celebrating St. Patrick’s Day started! We are one of the 42 shops, which participate and we placed a little shamrock out in our shop, too. You’ll find two boxes in it. One for the male and one for the female avatar. A little earring and necklace set for the Ladies and a celtic cross necklace for the Gentlemen.

The St. Patrick’s Day also left it’s footsteps in our Lucky Chairs.

Oops! 2009 already?!

And not only 2009, no, nearly March now. That shows clearly, it’s a long time ago, that we posted our shop’s updates here. We had a lot of personal “involvement”, and so we didn’t find the time and energy to create or comment something.

Now that this time of suffering is over, we made the whole update trip through the shop’s categories. I.e. we updated the FDC board, the Lucky chairs, had two big releases AND remodeled the shop a little bit. I guess it is this “new Year, new luck” feeling. Or the rise of the spring.

One of the consequences of our rebuilding is a little longer way between the FDC board and the Lucky Chairs. But we won some place and prims for the first and so we can keep more of the products available. (Only the Seasonal Freebies will rotate and have to retire after a certain time span.)

New on the (now bigger) Freebie panel:

November.

Yesterday was again time for another “global” update. We released some new jewelry items, updated the Freebie-Dollarbie-Cheapie-Board (FDC Board) and the Lucky Chairs, had an announcement and sent out a groupgift. Now for the details:

Releases

Four new jewelry sets now decorate the walls. “Rising sun” is LOW ARC jewelry with a pair of earrings and a matching choker. Gold, silver or bronze metal combined with tiny colorful beads. The choker is resizable per touch script. It has a little touch of native american jewelry. The whole set is not only low arc, it is low price as well and you can choose from a lot of colors.

The Expo, Halloween, and a Cliffhanger.

On the last day of the Jewelry Expo we put out some little things for shop and group. There was our Steampunk seahorse, one of the huge amounts of ideas for the aquatic themed Expo, which did not make it into the booth. So putting it out was a kind of closure of this whole experience, at least for this year. The second thing was a bracelet, that I “invented” when I was very young in SL and experimenting, what makes jewelry in Secondlife glistening and look like made of diamonds and crystals and so on. The “Fence” bracelet, which has its name from the architecture of the used prims, did a very subtle glistening – at least in my client – and so it seemed worth to not get lost in or deleted from my inventory. And god, a LOT got lost since then.

Long entry – Jewelry Exposition 2008.

Last year, when we were fresh and quite newborn in SL, the fate blew us to the first SL Jewelry Exposition and we were amazed and stand there with avatar eyes wide open and could not believe, that something like this was possible. Now only one year later, we are exhibitors at the second SL Jewelry Exposition. Isn’t this fantastic?

Short entry.

Before the big-big-release entry for the Second Life Jewelry Expo will overwhelm you, here a little addendum from the time BEFORE. Ante Expositionem, so to speak.

We released a retro inspired set of necklace, earrings and bracelet. The ‘0h’-Set. We have to mention, that the “0″ is not a big “o”, but a Zero. OMG, are we cool….*cough*