Well, it is almost that time of year again where we raise our pint (or pints) of Guinness for good ol St Paddy and this year Paws 4 Thought is determined to celebrate in style with a complete new range of products as well as some additions to my popular “kitten teddies” range especially for the occasion.

I am using this celebration to finally launch my much anticipated range of tails. The designs come in 4 colours (Red, Black, White and Blonde) and 2 “thicknesses” – Fluffy for those that like a fuller tail and Skinny for those that prefer a more streamlined look.

Currently I only have the “luck of the Irish” set done and for sale, but there are more sets coming, so please keep coming back to check for the new designs. There will also be an exclusive “green tinted” set of tails available as a group gift, so make sure you are either in the group, of slap one of my subscrib-o-matics before the 17th to receive them.

In addition to the new tails, I have several new St Patricks Day themed kitten teddies coming out, the first of which is “pot of gold”. This cheeky little guy with his green hat and bow, is holding tight to his very own pot of gold that he has found at the end of the rainbow. He (as do all my bears) sits at around 1 metre tall, so he will be noticed, and again the same as the rest of my kitten teddies, he has transfer perms to make him the purrfect gift.

There are several other tail and teddie designs coming, including “one for the road” who has his very special drink to hand, as well as a basic kitten teddy with just his bow and hat.

You can find all my St Patricks Day products in my seasonal storeat the Paws 4 Thought Plaza on Nanda.

If you have any suggestions that could be added to the range, please don’t hesitate to contact me either inworld by im or notecard, or via my contact form on the website.

When a good friend of mine mentioned that my former boss Titania Bracken was trying to organise a gridwide treasure hunt my ears pricked up.

Poster Image

This is the first time Tan has tried to organise a hunt of this scale, although she has done several sim-wide hunts before.  This hunt, unsurprisingly given the name – has a weather theme to it, and as such, the vendors participating have been asked to try and make the prize something related to weather (although this isn’t compulsory).

As soon as I heard the theme, my brain went into overdrive and I have built an exclusive prize that will only be available to those participating in the hunt – I have included a picture on this blog. He has had special textures and emitters made and I hope you will enjoy him if you are one of the ones lucky enough to find where he is hiding.

Exclusive hunt prize

The hunt runs from the 2nd of April, until the 30th of April, for more information join the group inworld by touching one of the posters displayed around the grid, or check out the Temptations Blog (be warned, the website has adult content).

Good luck, and happy hunting.

Some of you may remember that last year I participated in the original Dark Katz Hunt on Secondlife, making an exclusive cat gym especially for the hunt. Well I am pleased to announce that the hunts organiser Lolla Denimore has invited me to particpate in the second installment of that very successful treasure hunt.

I am very flattered to be invited back, and will be making another exclusive item for this hunt – the item will not be released as part of my normal ranges so if you want it you will have to join the hunt. At this time I am still forming ideas for this extra special prize and will announce details of it nearer the time along with the details of the treasure hunt itself.

For those of you that are unfamiliar with gridwide treasure hunts, I would highly recommend them as they are a fantastic way to get some really good items from designers that you may not have previously known and make  some very good friends along the way as the groups set up for these hunts are normally full of fun loving people more then willing to give you a nudge in the right direction.

More details of the hunt will come later, so be sure to check back to find out more.

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to take this time to say thank you to all my loyal customers, and wish you all a wonderful 2010! Paws 4 Thought has gone from strength to strength over the past 6 months and it is all down to you, my wonderful customers, I hope that with the new year here, and some exciting (well I think they are anyhow ) new ranges in the pipeline, that 2010 will see Paws 4 Thought continuing to grow.

Product development and releases have been a little slow over the christmas and new year period, with many of the releases delayed – this is because I managed to break my arm just before christmas, making computer use virtually impossible. I am pleased to say that things are healing nicely, and I am able in a somewhat limited fashion to use the computer again.

Hopefully, I will be in a position to release some of the delayed products over the next few weeks and then pick back up on the development side. As always, if there is an idea you would like to see at Paws 4 Thought, feel free to contact me either in world or via the website and I will see what I can do.

A peaceful, and prosperous new year to you, one and all.

Best wishes Zennie =^.^=

*softly sings*

“Sleigh bells ring, are you listening…”

Rudolf Cuddle Kitten

Yes folks, it is that time of the year again – and Paws 4 Thought is getting into the festive spirit. If you visit my mega store on Nanda over the Advent period (1st – 25th Dec) you will find an Advent Calander full of goodies on the wall. Each door has a number on it and on the corresponding day it will deliver the gift inside it – if you click on a wrong door, it will give you a message telling you that it can only be opened on **** date.

One of two BRAND NEW tails

Some of the prizes in the calander have been designed exclusively for it, and can not be found anywhere else in secondlife. There are many ranges in the calander including Furniture, Artwork, Seasonal Items (Wreaths, Snowcats and Christmas Trees) as well as new ranges that have yet to be released including “Cuddle Kittens” and tails (pictured).

So make sure you come on over and be sure to tell all your friends too! And while you are there don’t forget to check out my infomation wall for a wonderful “Christmas Formal” that will be held at the Cheshire sim, and Slapt.me’s New Year Prize Draw.

Most importantly – Have a very merry Christmas!

Ho ho ho =^.^=

Hi Everyone,

Following on from my last post about how Xstreet managed to loose my business - I am pleased to be able to announce that we have found a new online marketplace – slapt.me.

So far I have only registered and verified my account, but I have had an extremely warm welcome from Constanza Amsterdam who is one of the owners, and one of her mod’s Deckheard Cleanslate (and I recognise the name of one of the forum’s other mod’s too - as an old neighbour of mine Sid Nagy).

I will be gradually adding my lines to Slapt.me, so bear with me (still got my RL injury which is slowing everything down a little) but I am confident that this will be a new lease of life for Paws 4 Thought’s online presence.

I can thoroughly recommend Slapt.me to any merchant out there who is looking for an alternative for Xstreetsl after the recent issues on that site and want to send thanks to Constanza and her team for the really warm welcome and prompt response to any questions I had. I look forward to working with you all to help all prosper, starting with the “NEW YEARS GRAND PRIZE DRAW 2009” that I will be donating a prize to

Great job guys!

Zennie =^.^=

As some of you know, I have been offline a bit recently due to a RL injury to my wrist that has made it nigh on impossible for me to use a computer comfortably…

I finally made it back to my digital life today only to discover this announcement from Linden Labs regarding items set for sale on Xstreet SL!

I have been a loyal merchant on Xstreet SL even from back in the days when it was humble little Secondlfe Exchange, so was shocked to see that they are now going to cream what little profit I make from my  items as my ethos has always been high level quaility for minimum expenditure to help those that don’t have a lot of L$ sloshing around. I have many items, most under 50L$ on Xstreet SL which they are now planning on charging me 10L$ a month (per item) for me to list them – I have over 300 items, and do not make anything like the 3000L$ a month needed to list them.

I refuse to put up my prices to “absorb” this cost – mainly coz this wouldn’t help anyhow – I just don’t sell the volume of items needed to cover the new costs.  I am simply going to be pulling  most of my items from Xstreet SL.  It wouldn’t seem so unfair for little fish like me if the charge was a one off “listing activation” fee, and they continued charging a commission on items sold (which I have no issue with) but for now, I will be looking at moving all my items over to other SL online marketplaces. I will add links for you all once I have found and set up a suitable replacement to Xstreet SL.

I urge all you other merchants that use this “service” to do the same, maybe if enough of us bail out they will see the error in their thinking and come up with a fairer solution for those of us that don’t like to charge the earth for our goods!!!!

I intend, at least for now, to leave a few of my best sellers up as an advert, but I am not looking at keeping many on there, and I will re-assess this in a few months. I do understand that they need to make money, they are a business, but also, we, the content creators, are an important source of income for them too, if they drive out the little guys like me, who will become the next big players?

2009 Christmas Tree

Well winter has hit the UK, and as a reflection, has also come to Paws 4 Thought at the new Paws Plaza on Nanda. The snow has fallen, SnowCats sing under the lamplight, and there is a new icy carousel to ride too. I have had a busy couple of days and have made a start on some new winter edition products that can be purchased at the brand new Seasonal Store.

As the name suggests, this store’s stock will change with the seasons, currently it has winter and Christmas based items, but will change to Valentines in the run up to Feb 14th, Easter and so on through out the year, so be sure to landmark it as there will be new stock coming all the time.

One of the 6 designs available in 6 colours

I have several brand new and exciting ranges including Snowcats and Wreaths, Christmas Visitor List Maker Mats,  as well as the new Paws 4 Thought Christmas tree for 2009. There are more ranges to come including “winter woolies” and Christmas based teddies and cuddle Kittens, as well as some more of my popular “standies” kitten teddies.

Traditional Holly Wreath

There is so much more to come as I get the time to build it  and with prices starting from as little as L$15 there is something here for everyones budget, so you can make your SL Christmas shine without having to sell your soul.

Be sure to check out the other stores too, as there will be an Advent Calander in the Mega Store giving out daily prizes from the 1st of December.

Hope to see you there soon

Zennie =^.^=

Attention: This hunt ran from 1st – 30th Nov 09 and has now ended, please see the event page for information on any new hunts Paws 4 Thought is involved with.

Exclusive CKH prize

Paws 4 Thought has once again donated prizes to another treasure hunt. Following the success of the previous hunts I have participated in, I have signed up for the 2nd “Curious Kittys” Hunt. This hunt proved highly popular when it last ran back in July of this year. Like “Hybrid” and “Dark Katz”, this is a grid-wide treasure hunt designed for the Neko of Secondlife, but to be honest, it doesn’t matter if you are Human, Neko, Furry, partially or fully a mouse/dog/fox or other animal, you will still have great fun and get some fabulous prizes.

It is because of the enjoyment I had when I took part in the original “Curious Kitties” Treasure hunt, that I am so keen to be involved with more treasure hunts. So far I have participated in 2 gridwide hunts, and the smaller (but just as fun) “Jabberwocky 30 Question Halloweenie Hunt“.

I  have made lots of good friends who all helped each other out to find the more difficult prizes, and I  have won some truly wonderful prizes thanks to the kindness of the store owners and designers that took part. Infact, I had such a good time I have become completely addicted to treasure hunts and am determined to be involved with as many as possible.

Look for this poster to join in

For this hunt, I have designed a very special exclusive prize – a winter edition, one of my Paws 4 Thought SnowCats (I have several of these ready for sale, but this one is only available for the hunters).  Also in the prize paw is a 75L$ gift voucher that can be redeemed against any Paws 4 Thought product in-world. 

To get involved with the hunt, simply look for the poster (pictured left) inworld at any of the Paws 4 Thought stores (including the Main Store, Gift Store, or our brand new Megastore), this will give you a landmark to take you to the start of the hunt, then once you find the paw, simply touch them and you will then recieve a folder holding your prize(s) and the landmark to the next location.

It is also a good idea to join the hunt group inworld to give you somewhere to go to discuss the hunt, and ask for hints and help from other hunters as well as the designers themselves.

To get more information and clues visit the Official Blog. I also want to thank Bobbi Noel for letting me participate in this fantastic event.

Good luck and happy hunting =^.^=

Now I am really excited about this announcement so forgive me if I ramble.

Many of you will already know that I have had my showroom store at Nanda for awhile now to allow people to try out the poses in my furniture before they part with their hard-earned lindens…

Well after I got back from my holiday, I was catching up with some friends, one of which was my good friend, and wonderful landlord Fortyniner Beck. As conversations went on we got talking about land and shops (as we tend to) and he came up with the suggestion of letting me have the Nanda land to build my own “Paws Plaza”!

This was because we were talking “pipe dreams” of islands, and what we would do with them. I told him it was a dream of mine to have some land somewhere one day to make a mega mall like some of the big designers (ETD hair, HippoVend, etc), somewhere I could really make mine.

Well, things moved quickly, he only had a couple of tenants on his Nanda plot, and has offered them stores on his other developments, and gave that  land over to me.

It has taken me a little while to get it how I wanted it, as well as find the right store for me – but now I have my wonderful ”mega mall”. It is a three storey building,  so that each can be dedicated to a Paws 4 Thought product range – but is a lovely build (not just a featureless box) and I can easily add more floors as and when I need to. 

The ground floor of this magnificent build by MCV will  continue to be my showroom, with examples of my furniture out for people to try the poses, and it will also have the home accessories. 

The first floor has my complete range to date of gifts and teddies – including my brand new halloween editions (Join my group, or visit my store in world to recieve a cute little wearable flying witch).

The top floor remains empty for now, but will soon have out my range of neko accessories, which is currently hand-made tails, soon to be followed by some scripted ones and other “body parts”.

The rest of the land area has also been remodelled, so that I have a few other shops at the far end from my big store, some friends of mine will be selling clothes and there will also be my “bargin basement” store, where I will be putting out things from my inventory and my older ranges at knock-down prices. 

In addition to this there is a small park area with a 7seas compatible pond so you can hang with friends and have a chat. Come by and take a look and watch this space for details of the opening party that I anticipate will be early November.