Wear Gray For A Day ...

Well this was an unexpected project, but one that couldn't have come at a more meaningful time for me. You may have seen posters around some of the shops in SL for the "Wear Gray For A Day" campaign, where residents are being asked to wear gray on Sept. 18 to show their awareness of the need for more research for a cure for brain cancer. Many designers are offering exclusive items for sale, with proceeds of the sales of the items going to the American Cancer Society. While the sale of exclusive items is officially slated to begin Sept. 1, many designers, including myself, have already set out gray or brain-themed items for sales. Proceeds of the sales go directly to The American Cancer Society. RGK's items are set for 100% proceeds to go to this cause.

I just learned the other day about this campaign, and created a unisex chain necklace for the fundraiser. A picture of it is here, the ad pretty much says it all so I won't retype it LOL.

All of us have been touched by the devastation of cancer in one form or another. I can come up with a lengthy list of names of friends, family members and acquaintances who have been diagnosed with cancer. Some won the fight, and all too many have lost. Very unfortunately, I recently learned that a friend of mine was diagnosed with brain cancer. She is the mother of two teenage children, a former newspaper reporter and she just finished her licensing to become a nurse. This news has been devastating to her family, of course, and has staggered all of us, her friends. So, this campaign is one that I grabbed on to with the hope that it will give me a sense of well ... control I guess ... over the situation.

Whether it is this necklace you decide to purchase, or other items from any of the many designers who are also participating in this event, please consider supporting this campaign. Their Wear Gray For A Day blog has a list of images of exclusive items offered and slurls so you can go grab them. Show the world that this is a cause we all need to pay attention to, wear your gray on Sept. 18th! And I thank you in advance for your support of this very important effort on the part of those organizing it.

Hunt Prizes!

OMG Hard to believe but in just a few short days, wait, no, make that in just one week, August will be gone and it will be SEPTEMBER. I can't even stand it! If you've read my bio here, you know I'm a teacher in RL so I am FREAKING OUT (as all teachers do this time of year ... probably more than the students do). Anyhow, that's not why you're reading this blog LOL

The other reason September is important is because it marks the beginning of two new hunts! The Addiction Hunt and Freaky Fall Hunts both get going on Sept. 1st. I've got both prizes all done up, woot! Take a look at the links off to the right of what I've written here, and you'll see the blogs to those hunts, as well as to Maleficient Benoir's Hints blog. I'm not sure if she will put up the hints for these two hunts, but she sure seems to cover everything else so, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if she did.

There are some pretty awesome stores in both of these upcoming hunts, so be sure to check them out!

The "Psycho Killer" belt is for the Freaky Fall Hunt. I think it'll be worth your while to grab this one! Got lots of details on it, and it has a two-way chat menu with some good, freaky, chat options ;) As I usually try to do, there are lots of details to this belt -- grenade, sculpty heart in a plastic bag, sculpty brain in a jar, brass knuckles, and hunting knife all tied on with hemp rope. There's even a lil carrying pouch on the back. Most of the textures on it are courtesy of Alpha-Delta Designs. Vel gifted me a lot of those textures, I can't thank her enough!

The "In Case of OD" leg band is for the Addiction Hunt. It's sister -- the choker -- is on sale at the store, but the legband is for you to enjoy once you've hunted it down. Just like the choker, the tag is personalizeable by dropping in a pic of your emergency contact person in case you overdose :P It has the vintage syringe, bottle of codeine, razoblades and pack of cigs.

The end of August also means that the Midsummer Night Quest is also coming to an end *sniff* That was a fun one to put on, I hope you all have enjoyed it. If you haven't had a chance to take part, there's still time. Just head over to RGK's main store and click on the steaming stone bowl of water for Hint #1. ;)

Next hunts I'm getting ready for: Dark Katz Hunt (starts Sept. 20) and the Pumpkin Prints hunt (Starts Oct. 1). Holy cow! LOL after that I'll probably take a teeny weeny break from being in all these hunts and focus a bit more on just getting some products out that I've been trying to get to but haven't had time to because my own over-commitment. MY BAD. I'll know better for next time :P

New Release .... teaser for hunt prize!

Well, while I was working on the prize for The Addiction Hunt, I decided to make a matching choker for it LOL. I don't have the pic for the matching accessory to this, which will be the actual hunt gift, but figured I'd release this choker ahead of time as a lil' tease hehehehe.

The choker, as you can see, is barbed wire with a large vintage syringe hanging from it. Attached to that is a tag into which you can drop a pic of your 'emergency contact person.' Unisex, and re-size by menu, so easy for all to use!

Hope y'all have fun with it, and check back, cuz i'll be posting my hunt prize pictures here soon!

All moved in!

We're all moved in! Have been for a few days but omg so busy trying to finish up hunt gifts and trying to get non-hunt things done LOL.

The Midsummer Night Quest is still going on strong -- we all moved the moons over to the new place to try to give everyone a seamless transition! I accidentally came across a blurb about this hunt on Maleficient Benoir's blog, and she has such nice things to say! Thanks Mal! We love putting them on ... have some other ideas in the works for down the line, so y'all stay tuned ;)

Speaking of hunts, as September creeps closer, I'm frantically getting gifts for those hunts ready. Starting September 1st, RGK will be hosting a prize for the Addiction Hunt and the Freaky Fall hunt! I'll post pictures for those hunts here when I get them done.

Also, don't forget about the Diversity Hunt that is still going on, and will be until about September 9th.

Finally, wanted to turn your attention to Thunderstruck Radio, run by DJ Thor Barenhaut who is also co-owner of Alpha-Delta Designs. You can always find them playing at Riff Raff Paradise, and you can tune into them now matter where, no matter when at this url: http://brown.neostreams.info:11982 Just plug that in to any media player on your computer and enjoy everything from blues, classic rock, metal and more! If you're in the mood to hear something in particular, you can send a twitter to make your request if you're not in-world: www.twitter.com/thundermusic

Stay tuned, I'll update soon with pics of upcoming hunt prizes!

Moving ... again LOL

OK, so we're moving again LOL. Came to the conclusion that 1/4 sim is really a bit too big of a place for what I need, I really can do all that I want to with a lot less prims. Found what I think is a really nice home for RGK, Alpha-Delta and Rebel Fairey (and all those who want to join us). It's a very pretty sim with some businesses for neighbors, well-landscaped and all. Should be fun :)

We'll still have shops for rent at the new location, and I'm adding skyboxes for rent as well! Here's the classified ad I'll be placing:



The move isn't slated to be finalized for a few more days yet, but those of you who are in the group were sent LMs to the new location for a little sneak peek at what's in store ;) Hoping to have the move completed later this week!

While all this is going on, I'm trying to also prepare hunt prizes AND my return to RL work ... summer's almost over omfg what the hell HAPPENED?

Told ya!

Hahahah told ya it would be a while before I checked in! In the meantime, I've relesed a set of belly chains and one "chain" that really is more of a belt. Three have the "locket feature" to them of course. The "belt" is a unisex one -- bones with a skull in the front with mouth open. The center back piece on the belt is a sculpty pelvic bone, hehehehe. Hubby looked at it and went "ew" so you KNOW it's kewl lol:

In other news, RGK is in the Diversity Hunt which is going on right through to the end of August. I never got any pictures taken of that because I just got way too swamped. I've DEFINITELY overcommitted for hunts this fall! Holy crap! So you want free stuff from RGK, hahah keep comin'!

For Diversity Hunt I've got two angels out -- a blue (that belongs to the blue path) and a red (that goes on the red path). The blue path angel has a complete set of unisex tail and ears with its own chat menu. No other tail I have or that anyone else has made has this chat menu options ;) There's a matching collar that goes with it, AND for the non-neko guys, there's a copy of "Dogged," the gold dog-tag on a heavy gold chain.

In the red angel, there's a non-resize menu copy of "Spring Fling".

Projects under way now are getting gifts done for Freaky Fall Hunt and the Addiction Hunt, which both start Sept. 1. I'll put up links to those two places here in a bit, so you can see who all is participating. Both of those hunts should be really fun ;)

Gotta catch up on my blogging, so stay tuned ;) more info on products and stuffs comin' down the pipe!