Sweet Sweet Shoulders

Well I completely missed blogging last week's release, LOL, but we had a set of Cupcake Love tees and Elf ears for that. Last week's tee's came with a little bonus snack :) I'll put the pics of those down at the bottom of this blog.

Cuz I wanna focus on this week's sweet releases! We've got a cute tee-shirt, that comes in 6 different colors, and "Good" and "Bad" cuppy shoulder pets! As with many of us ladies -- either because of New Year's resolutions, Lent, or whatever -- I'm on a diet, and the idea of that "Good and Bad Cupcakes" came to me while I was having one of my many internal battles with myself over whether or not to eat that brownie! LOL. Sooo, here they are! The tees are hand-painted cuppies with handrawn halo, wings, devil horns etc., and handrawn shading and wrinkles.

The shoulder pets are available individually, and also have been packaged together at a discounted price. They are made out of sculpted prims, and the angel and devil wings are custom textures, as is the smiley face and "bad" faces that the cuppies make (yes, they make faces while sitting so cutely on your shoulder! LOL), and they have cute chat menu phrases too! There are giant versions of the cuppies available at the Main Store, so you can see for yourself how fun they are :) If you'd like to gift them, they're available on my Xstreet as well!

LOTS of fun stuff in the works! Here is a sneak peek at one of the upcoming changes all ;) Not telling you yet what's going on, but wanted to show off what I've been working on, cuz I'm just so damn tickled over it LOL:












Annnnd, here's the stuff I missed posting last week LOL. These are available in the main store, look for 'em! ;)

HUNT EVERY ROSE!

Hallloooooo! SO EXCITED!!! Soooo excited that the Every Rose hunt starts in just a few short hours, and we get the HUGE honor of being the start location! Also very excited because I LOVE the idea of this hunt, very unique, as are all the hunts that are organized by Dani :))))

This cool hunt is kind of the "Anti-Valentine Hunt." While I think Valentine's is very pretty with the roses and the hearts and all that, I have to say that, I have never, EVER been a "bring me a bunch of roses and a box of chocolates" kind of gal. I have never really been a fan of Valentine's Day, so when Dani came up with the idea of this hunt, I was alllllll over it! LOL.

So, bring out the cynic in you, or with you hehehe, and join this amazing hunt! There are great designers participating in it, you truly won't be sorry!

For our prize, we really tried to keep in mind the spirit of the hunt, our very own cynicism over Valentine's, and also tried to honor the importance of being the starting point of this hunt. We've put together for everyone a unisex hunt prize, complete outfit. The outfit includes jeans with sculpted cuffs (unisex), tee shirt for guys -- although the women could easily pull it off too -- and tattered, bloody tank tops for the girls. The girls' tank top is sooooo tattered that there's a version with a band-aid covering a boobie, and a version without the bandaid BWAHAHAHAHA. There's also a unisex leg brace that goes with the outfit -- leather strap with a realistic human heart strapped to it with barbed wire, and a rasor blade crammed into it just for effect.

Sorry the pics aren't fancy, but I'm short on time :(( You get the idea though, and hope you agree that this is a prize worth lookin' for!

There is a blog with slurls up, the "Hunt Location" blog that is linked to the right of this entry will take you to Maleficien Benoir's always highly-detailed blog. Use that to help you out if you have any issues, and also keep an eye out for boxes that you can click on to give out hints :) Some shops may opt NOT to use one, at their discretion, but if you see it, take advantage!

NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN is the hunt that is wrapping up on Monday, the Shoes and Accessories Hunt! If you haven't hopped on that bandwagon, be sure to do so! This is your chance, ladies and gents, to get your hands on some really amazing free shoes, bags, hats and more! The link to their blog is also available off to the right of this entry ;)

FINALLY, but deffo not least, we've gotten around to setting out the new, menu-driven tint adjusting elf ears out for sale! If you liked the free sample version we had out a couple of weeks ago, but wished there was a better way to adjust the tint, then this one's for you ;) We've got some cute, fun ideas for these coming up, so stay tuned!

Happy hunting everyone, and OMG TGIF pleaseeeee!

Kisses!

Kisses, sweeter than wine .... OK I haven't gotten enough sleep LOL This week's release is small in size, but I hope everyone agrees that what it lacks in size, it makes up in cuteness factor ;)

Chippie has been a WORK HORSE, and will continue to be as we head toward Valentine's Day. We've got a few exciting projects under way that we'll unveil as things move along here ... but anyway. ... Those in the RGK Posse (our subscribo group) got our Valentine's giftie today! The group gift is also our new release, it's the "Kiss On The Nose" accessory ;)

It's nothing too complicated, just attach it, and the pair of sculpty lips with the sculpted word "Smooch" across it pops onto your schnozz. When clicked, the lips make a "Smoooooch" sound, and starts poofing out some alpha hearts! Click it again, and with another "Smooooch" sound, the hearts stop poofing out.

The item in the main store is no transfer, BUT, if you'd like to get a copy for s friend or loved one, you can buy it as a gift by clicking on this link to Xstreet.

On Friday this week, RGK has the GREAT honor of being the starting location of the Every Rose Hunt! It starts on Friday, Feb. 12, at our main store location at Thunderstruck Radio Land, wooo!

One of the projects Chippie has on her plate is/are prezzie(s) [she hasn't decided and won't tell me yet dammit!] that will be worthy of being the first store on the list of awesome shops that are participating. Once she's ready to reveal what the gift(s) is/are, we'll be sure to blog it and let you all know!

Be sure to stay tuuuuuned!

New Release, New Month, New Picks Prize!

This weekend simply got away from me! Gonna catch up here with the stuff that we released this past weekend, and the new stuff that's going on.

So, need to let you all know that February means that last month's monthly picks raffle has wrapped up. We've announced the winner of Karfieds Shapes' prize, the beautiful "Steph" shape, and we are lucky enough to have this month's prize hosted by Rebel Fairey!

Shayne Fairey, owner and designer of Rebel Fairey, has worked up a new line of tattoos, and she is offering up a unisex one for this month's picks raffle. Be sure to stop by Thunderstruck Radio Land, slap us up in your picks, and hit up that raffle jar. It is now accepting new entries! If you were already entered in previous rounds, no need to tap the jar again, just be sure to keep us in your picks and you're good to go ;)

Over the weekend, we released a new teeshirt and shorts set. I'll let the pictures do the talking on that ;)

Also released over the weekend was a new set of Elf Ears for 60L Sunday, which, btw, now starts on Saturday hahaha. In any event, we released the "Pierced" Elf ears in the straight style since it seemed to be the most popular ... although not by a whole heck of a lot. We will be doing the same style in the curved ear shape as well, and have it out to sale sometime this week.

Stay tuned for more developments! Working on ideas for heart-themed stuff (valentine and anti-valentine cuz let's face it, not everyone likes Valentine's day) for nekos, non-nekos, romantics and more ;)

Have a great week!

Elf Ears ... free!

Yep, you heard right. This past weekend, we released two new sets of elf ears ... both for free! The idea of that being, simply, that we wanted to see which style of ears people would prefer. So, until this coming weekend, these ears are set for sale at 0L. The catch is, that to keep our numbers realistic, we're limiting the sale of these to one set of each ears per avatar.

Right now, we've left the ears modifyable and tintable. The flaw in that being -- we realized later, was that when you change the tint of the ears manually, you end up also changing the tint of the piercings on the ears :( We are working on finding a good script that will allow users to adjust the tint via script so you don't end up messing everything else up. Soo, stay tuned :) But we're really excited to make these. I (Raffi) have been wearing elf ears for a while now and I luvs em!

The OTHER cool thing, is that RGK has been blogged by a couple of store-watchers :) The link is HERE, and we are also going to keep them on the list of blogsites we watch, which is off to the side. The blog linked above has the male and female models wearing some great outfits, along with our new elf ears :))) YAY! Must say I think the whole thing looks pretty hot!

Check back, when I hear about RGK being blogged, I'll have links somewhere on here :) And weekend's coming up fast ... that means again we'll do 60L Sunday, which has been extended to include the whole weekend, actually, which is very cool! Sooo, stay tuned!

Here's what we had for 60L Sunday this past weekend. We'll have it out by this weekend too, but at the regular price ;)

Haiti Relief Efforts ...

This week's release is being brought to you on a serious note. As everyone knows, there is a big call for humanitarian aid to go to Haiti to help vicitims of the devastating earthquake there. In SL, there are many designers and builders participating in an in-world effort to raise money that will go to the Red Cross and all the good work they are doing for the men, women in children in Haiti.

Chippie and I have combined our efforts to bring to you two men's, and two women's items this week, with 100% of the proceeds on the sales of all these items set to go to the Red Cross. We decided on using the theme of 2010's Chinese zodiac sign, the tiger, along with the colors red, white and blue for the shirts we made. The tiger symbolizes strength and courage, and red white and blue are found in the Haitian flag. We also used the Chinese character for 'tiger' in the men's and women's necklaces we made.

The shirts and necklaces are available seperately, but we also offered an option where we packaged them together, and discounted the combined price of both by 15%.

If you're not in the mood for one more shirt or one more accessory, there is also a donation kiosk set up by the vendors. Please donate whatever you can, as it all is good and helpful. I want to thank those who already showed their support for this campaign, and thank everyone else in advance for their generosity.

On a lighter note, I also wanted to let you know that we are in the Shoes and Accessories Hunt. This hunt is the first of its kind, and I was so extremely honored to be invited to be in this hunt! It was by invite only, which was so flattering. Be sure to take part, there are some amazing designers in it, including Hoorenbeek (which is the starting point), Iren, and many many more amazing designers. The shoes and accessories you are hunting for are for men and women, and some designers have included prizes for each, or a unisex one. The link to the blog site for the hunt is on the right of this page ;)

You can see that RGK's prize for this hunt is a women's item. Sorry guys! We just couldn't get it together in time to have one of each, as we usually like to do. I promise we'll make it up to you soon!!!!

So that's our news for this week. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and have a great time on all these hunts!

X-RATED!

Well it's just like I promised, LOL, X-rated prize for the Hunt For the Forbidden Fruit. Before I get to that though, wanna make sure I write up a bit about the new release for the week too, and RGK's other big news! CHIPPIE!

Chippie Waffle is stepping in to help me run RGK. It's not that RGK is this huge operation LOL, just that I have a hard time saying 'No', so my plate got overloaded. Chippie will be handling all customer service questions, issues with hunts (applications, problems with them etc.), mall invites (receiving them, scoping them out etc.), and designing as well. Please make sure you give her a quick 'hello' if you do see her around!

This weekend, I finally released a set of camis I started a loooong time ago but never got around to finishing. Chippie found some time to finish them off for me and set them out for sale. YAY CHIPPIE! They're fun camis, 35L each, and come in black, grey, red, pink, and teal. I know, I know, it's not cami time ... but isn't it ALWAYS cami time in SL? LOL

Last, but not least, the Hunt for the Forbidden Fruit prize that RGK is offering up. When RGK was still brand new, one of our friends thought it would be HILARIOUS to send in a 'gag' custom work order. Here's what it said:

"Dear Mrs. Raffi,

I'm wondering if I could make a request for an item. I'm sure that you have already made something like this before. I would like a necklace for my cock ... a cocklace if you will. I want it to hang to about ankle-length ... too long and I'll trip over it. That would be embarrassing. I would like to have the piercing part have a gold skull attached with large heart-shaped pink gemstones for the eyes, and also along the length of the chain ... ooooh make sure they bling, with a colored bling control menu if you have such a thing available. Also, it would be great if one could click the skull and it say sexy random phrases like, 'Click me again bish, and I'll toss you over my shoulder like a sack of taters and haul you off to bed.'

Thanks in advance, I look forward to hearing from you."

Once I realized who this 'request' came from, I laughed hysterically for about an hour. Then, I thought ... Why not? They asked for it, I'll make them sorry they asked.

So I set off to work and a few days later, after much laboring on my part, they were the proud owners of -- as far as I know -- SL and maybe the world's only Cocklace.

While RGK does not usually create Adult-themed items, we DO take custom work of all kinds! And as you see, by all kinds, we really mean, OF ALL KINDS. We've made everything from custom tails, necklaces, T-shirts, furniture and more.

This cocklace HAS been updated from its original -- The chat menu has been removed because it interfered with the color change/re-size/reposition menu that is in it.

Hope you have fun with this hunt! And have a great weekend.