I have decided that due to the slump in the SL economy at this time to downsize with them, you will still get the same service levels, and all the ranges will still be available – and of course, new ranges will be coming out still too, but I will only have stores on one sim.

As there is currently so much change going on in my SL I thought I would take this chance to do a bit of re-branding for Paws 4 Thought. The old logos have served me well, but they are looking a bit tired now after three years.

If you would like to see a preview of the new logo before it goes “live” at my store you can see it here bit.ly/P4T-rebrand.

This fantastic new venue has some much to offer everyone (not just neko’s) – it has an inworld office of Sorka’s Secondlife dating service – Virtual Valentines – which allows people to leave a personal adverts if they are looking for friendship, romance, or more. In addition to this it has relaxed “Reading Rooms” where regular discussion workshops will be held, 5 themed bedrooms fully equipped, a fully equipped dungeon, the club floor and several areas to just curl up and relax.

It opens it’s doors this Friday (26th March 2010) at 2pm SL and will have the fantastic DJ Crusher Jewell spinning the tracks for us until 4pm (although he has said he may stay longer if the party really swings). There will be several prizes of a Paws 4 Thought 100L$ Gift Voucher given out throughout the evening, and there will be goodie bags available to every guest with an exclusive bear, one of my tails, and a 25L$ gift voucher in it.

Event Prize

There is also a “best foot forward” event, so if you come wearing hooves, shoes, boots or pretty much anything on your feet you and enter the contest, you could be up to win a limited eddition version of my newly designed “lil shoe” cat bed (The red version will only be available as a prize for this event) as well as 1000L$!!

For more information about the event and club please take a moment to visit their blog.

Hope to see you all down there

Love Zennie xx

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 =^.^=

“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 =^.^=

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 =^.^=

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?

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.

It is just a short break, I leave Monday the 5th of Oct, and return on Friday the 9th, so don’t miss me too much

In the event of any problems, please drop me a notecard inworld as my IM’s WILL end up capped, or better yet, contact me via the contact form on this website and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

In the mean time, happy hunting, and I will see you all at the weekend.

Zennie =^.^=

As some of you might remember, the old website didn’t really do much – mainly as I never had time to do anything to it. Well that has all changed and with the help of some very talented friends I feel that Paws finally has the website it deserves.

I will do my best to keep you all updated through this blog, on any special offers, sales or new releases. Please try and be a little patient with this kitty if the blog entries slow down – sadly I tend to be too busy for my own good a lot of the time.

So let me say thank you to all involved with the website, and also thank you to you, my loyal customers and friends who have been so patient with me.

Don’t forget there are only a few days of the January sale left now (10% discount if you are wearing your group tag when you buy from any of the Paws vendors in world).

I hope to have some more new products for you soon, but will keep you posted in due course.

For now, enjoy the new site and I will Blog again soon.

Zennie xxx