I am proud to announce that Paws 4 Thought and SophistiKats will be taking part in ”Wear Grey 2010” – this fair is to help raise money for the ABTA who provide critical funding to researchers working toward breakthroughs in brain tumor diagnosis, treatment and care, with the ultimate goal of finding a cure. They are also the recognized resource for comprehensive information and compassionate support for the brain tumor patients, families and caregivers who are living with this terrible disease.

Paws 4 Thought is just one of many stores in Secondlife who are making goods to help raise money for this worthy cause, and there will be many exclusive items up for grabs so be sure to come by and spend some money. The fair is only on from September the 12th – 25th 2010 so you won’t have long to snap up these wonderful exclusives from over 90 of Secondlifes best designers.

Check out this blog or our calender nearer the time for the SURL.

Due to RL constraints Fortyniner and Sorka have made the hard decision to let go a lot of their land holdings, they are keeping one compact retail outlet on Medvedgrad (I won’t use the word “small” as this development holds about 40 individual stores) and Sorka is also keeping the Moonglow Ballroom.

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.

Hi kats and kittens,

I know I have been very quiet lately, part of that is due to RL issues, and part is due to the fact I have been helping get The Naughty Neko Club up and running (although this has now sadly closed its doors) as well as working on a new range for the Paws 4 Thought brand.

I am pleased to announce that “Sophistikats” has been born – this is its own brand under the main Paws 4 Thought banner, and it is clothing for everyone – currently it is mainly sleepwear, with “his and hers” designs and some sexy little baby doll nightdresses, but I hope to expand more as time goes on.

I have included a few pictures for you here, but this is by no means the complete range on offer.

If you would like to see more of the Sophistikats sleepwear range for yourself, then be sure to drop by our store on Medvedgrad.

Hope to see you soon

Zennie =^.^=

I am very proud to announce that I have been asked to sponsor the grand opening of the Naughty Neko Club run by my good friends Sorka Nemeth and Pip Scribe.

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

My good friend Ona Ra, owner of the Cheshire and Jabberwocky sims and the creative genius behind “Jabberwocky Sculpt Collection” decided to have a nice, easy treasure hunt on her sim to celebrate St Patricks Day.

Items are hidden in Shamrocks like these

The prizes which are all donated by tenants on her mall sim are hidden within shamrocks (see picture) and placed in the stores (or stalls) of those taking part on the Cheshire sim. There are some fantastic stores taking part in this including:

• Jabberwocky
• Cheshire Photography
• Tea & Strychnine
• Indie Rose
• Secrets of Gaia
• Dark Sim Designs
• Follow the Rabbit
• Steambound
• Paws 4 Thought (of course)
• Fluffernutters

This is a fairly small hunt as you can see from the list above – which may appeal to some of the newer hunters and there will be something for everyone in the prizes I am sure. The hunt will be running from today (March 10th) through till St Patricks Day (17th March) so don’t leave it too long to go hunting.

My contribution to this hunt is a set of special “luck of the Irish” tails (which will only otherwise be availble as a group gift that will be sent for St Paddy’s day). There are two designs, in there a skinny and a fluffy tail, both with two attach points.

Good Luck and Happy Hunting

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,

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?