Happy Birthday Haedon!

Today is Haedon's RL birthday! But don't tell her I told you. Like I told our group, she loves to get note cards. Read her profile! She asks for them! Please send her lots of birthday wishes via note card. Those fill her inventory up pretty fast. Plus with the capped IM situation, she'll be sure to get your messages if you do a note card.

And now I get to gush for a minute. Hae, you're the most awesome person I know. You're my best friend in the whole world and I'm so, so glad I have you in my life. You're the one person I know is going to be there no matter what, and that is priceless. This day is a celebration of you, and you so deserve it. I hope you have a hundred more, 'cause I'm gonna need you at least that long (you know, until I figure out the whole flexi match up thing). I am so blessed by our friendship and I love you so much. Happy birthday!

If I could, I'd make sure you had doritos and coffee in bed served by a naked butler every morning. (You know the ones.) Since those butlers are over in England someplace...



Don't worry, it was really good.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! <3!

IM IN UR BLAWG TELLIN UR OTHER PEEPZ!

Merry Christmas!

I just wanted to wish you all a wonderful Christmas. May the coming year bring you joy and happiness, and all the things you hold most dear.

I'll refrain from getting too sappy...Santa still has stockings to fill and cookies to eat. I'm glad to have so many fabulous people in my life. You each bring your own magic to my days, and I wouldn't trade that for anything. I hope that I'm able to return that gift to you.

Gifts, Holiday Hunt and Ltd Edition Colors!

There are lots of exciting things at Calla this weekend! There is a Holiday Hunt going on. Hidden in the store and around the island are 25 gift boxes. Yes, I know the ones we did last year were tiny and you all got eye strain. This year, Haedon took mercy on you and made them bigger. There are men's as well as women's gifts! Find the boxes and buy them for L$0!

Under the Christmas tree in the lobby are two boxes. They are wrapped in the Calla logo wrapping paper. One has green ribbons and one has umm...shoot I forgot, I think white ribbon. (Maybe red. I'm not logged in or I'd double check.) There are Holiday Edition Mega Packs of Pine and Larch. They are both shown below!



There are also 19 other styles available in the limited Holidays Packs. These will only be available for sale through Christmas Day.





And finally, a special present for our group members. Need a kiss? Be sure to grab this. If you didn't get the notice, check the group information for 12-21.



Happy Holidays, and a very Merry Christmas from both of us!

Much love,
The Calla Girls

New Shapes!

Each shape is shown with 10 different skins, as well as the Free skin that is included. There is also a note card with each shape that contains all the skin information for the skins shown, as well as landmarks to each store.

Demos are available in store. We are also offering two versions, a copy/mod/no trans as well as a no copy/no mod/trans.

Clicky pictures for a better look!

Have you got the time?

New jewelries @ Calla. Pocket Watch necklaces! They are transfer only, so you can gift them if you'd like. At the bottom of the display is a red gift box that you can take, and pack them into so you can give it to someone in a pretty box. Or put it under the tree!
(Or keep it for yourself whoo hoo!!)

Gift Certificates 50% Off!

From now until December 25th, you can get Calla Gift Certificates for half price! You will see displays through the store. All certificate amounts are included as well as a special 2000L Certificate!

Four More @ Calla

Hiya peoples. Four more new releases at Calla. Here's some pictures! I hope you like them. Available at Calla's Main Store (you know... when the grids up and all)














And just cause I really liked it when I was messing around, I decided the mistletoe would have a special two-tone pack. There's 10 colours in there!:

Four New to finish up the weekend!

Brand new, and in the lobby at Calla!



Chestnut Tree - In trying to come up with some holiday flowers, I kept singing "Chestnuts roasting by an open fire..." and this became Chestnut Tree. It's the perfect look for bundling up in a blanket with a good book (or a good man if you find one) by a fire while the snow falls outside. Color change hair clip, and flexi pieces!



Christmas Rose - This is a flower that only blooms this time of year. It doesn't look much like a rose, but rather this pretty little flower that comes with the style as an optional chin attachment. The flower is not color change. This hair is really cute, and has a little bit of subtle flexi movement.



Lavender - It's not a seasonal flower, but it's been giving me an ulcer for weeks, so here it is. I keep thinking it needs different bangs, but then I keep liking these. Maybe it's one of those either you love it or you don't ones. Who knows. Anyway, there it is.



Poinsettia - Last but not least, this comes with the poinsettia flower you see in the back as an optional chin attachment. It is not color change, because poinsettia's are pretty much red. I actually made the petal and leaf textures the color you see, so it is not really colorable. This is perfect for the holidays. It goes fabulous with a sweater and jeans, or with an elegant gown. The movement makes it great for dancing or ice skating. I've put a bug in Eolande's ear (not that it took very much) to make something for it to wear in place of the poinsettia after the holidays, but it also looks good without the flower!

Hae's Eight..

Ok so, I didn't wanna do this. But for some strange reason I started to feel guilty about it. I was tagged by Marleen, and Truth... I think that's it. I hope that's it anyway. So here goes:

The rules are:
1. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
2. People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog (about their eight things) and post these rules.
3. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
4. Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them they are tagged, and to read your blog.


1. When I was in Kindergarten, our class got a brand new piano. During nap time I chose to sleep under it with my cousin who was in the same class. She dared me to carve my name into one of the legs with a paper clip. I did. My whole name, first and last. When I was done, she got up and told on me.

2. I'm an insomniac.. But when I finally do sleep, I can sleep anywhere. Through anything. It's just the falling asleep part I can't get down.

3. I have 1g plugs in my earlobes. Some people don't know what those are, so here's a helpful picture of someone with them. Mine are smaller than that though, as I tried to stay on the girly side rather than the gross side. I like to stick pens through them and jiggle them around while I fill out forms at the doctors office.

4. I can juggle up to 6 objects at once, but nothing bigger than an orange.

5. I can't do basic math without counting on my fingers. I can do multiplication, and division and fractions ffs.. But ask me what 8 + 7 is and you'll see my fingers wiggle.

6. I write erotic short stories.

7. I like traffic. But only when I'm alone in my car. It gives me time to relax and sing as loud as I want to.

8. One of my 8 facts.. is a lie.

I'm going to tag.. the entire Calla Update Group! Cause I can :D If you don't have a blog, feel free to do it in the comments to this post.
~Hae

Randomness

I must confess. I did my best to ignore all the tagging going on and wasn't going to participate. Then I kept reading all these things about people that I know, or admired, or hadn't really heard of before, and I've really enjoyed getting to know a little more about the people behind the names. To all of you who really didn't want to but did anyway, thanks.

I've had a few rough RL days this week. I was going through the feeds and saw this from GirlWonder Speaks. I absolutely loved the video and it really touched me.

Yesterday morning I logged in and decided to do a little wandering around to grab some of the awesome goodies everyone's giving away and on my list of places to go was Reaction. So I TP'd over and was bombarded by hug pop ups! Not one to turn down a hug, I said yes. I was still rezzing and was being hugged by people I didn't even see! I only went to get a freebie from under the tree (which I completely forgot about) and ended up making several friends. That group of people can't possibly have any idea how much their hugs meant to me. I asked for a sign after a while and headed back to Calla to maybe share some of the love. If just a hug could help me after the last few days I'd had, I was sure going to pass it along to someone else!

Rad and the rest of the folks who'd been over at Reaction came to Calla, signs in hand and we all stood around and tried to hug. I was really, really surprised by the number of people who said no. After a few, it was pretty depressing. My chat looked something like this:

Kitten has declined your hug.
britany has declined your hug.
Zazza has declined your hug.
Lola has declined your hug.
Ayano has declined your hug.
Libertine has declined your hug.
relea has declined your hug.
Shangreloo has declined your hug.
dani has declined your hug.
Lynd has declined your hug.
Valle has declined your hug.
Lang3 has declined your hug.
nadia has declined your hug.
Enchanteddreams has declined your hug.
Hayato has declined your hug.
Ahdri has declined your hug.
Lorelei has declined your hug.
Foxie has declined your hug.

I was quite relieved that 2 of the 3 of the Callatropians to come through did hug me.

But overall, it was a very different experience than what I'd had over at Reaction. It took me an hour and a half to get a dozen hugs at Calla. I even put out a big sign that opens the video url and passes a "FREE HUGS" sign.

I gotta say, I'm a little disappointed. I totally understand rejecting a kiss, or something of that nature. But a hug? Come on people!

I encourage you, if you see someone with a free hug sign, give them a yes. Stop by Calla and get a free sign of your own. If you see someone that just looks like they might need a hug, offer one. Sometimes, a little thing like a virtual hug can make a really big difference in someone's day.

Tagged dang it

I always sucked at running. I've been tagged by Nef and Nicky.

Rules:
(1) Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
(2) People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog (about their eight things) and post these rules.
(3) At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.(4) Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them they're tagged, and to read your blog.

1. I feel guilty drinking coffee but I do it and love it anyway.

2. I have a horse in my backyard.

3. I hate summer.

4. I didn't graduate high school because I failed AP Govt.

5. I don't like Coke or Pepsi, and yes I can tell the difference.

6. I have six kids, two of which were born at home without medical assistance, on purpose.

7. I can't eat anything that looks like it may have been alive at some point.

8. I miss being able to chew gum.

And in the spirit of giving others this fabulous pleasure, I'm tagging:

Eolande
Soda Domela
Betty Barracuda
Janie Marlowe
Nyte
Ariel Black
Arabeth
Julia Soothsayer

Calla @ Le Zoo!

I'm late on this one... I know. But I don't blog, so I didn't really think about it. I have to though, because this sim is so very awesome, and I watched all the hard work go into it. That's right, I watched.

So to save you from all the stuff, and pictures of the stuff that you've already heard about and/or seen.. I'm skipping that. But I will say that you NEED to explore. There's little details everywhere. Animals and caves and golf carts you can run people down with. SO much shopping to be had. Good times.

And... we have a mini store there. Look!


And I do mean mini. We squeezed 4 styles into it, some piercings, and... wait for it...


Wait for it...


a free necklace! yay Look!



So ya. Go pick up a free necklace, and take a look at this sim, it's really neat. You can TP there by clicking here.

I've now filled my blog quota up clear through February.

<3

We're more than a blog!

I'm realizing that a lot of people don't know this! As much time as I've spent (and still spend) on the website this makes me want to cry. So I'm posting this for those of you who may not know that we have a fantabulous website!

All of the styles are broken into sections, just like they are in our store. The styles are then alphabetically listed, just like in the store! Bet you didn't realize that either!

So if the grid is being stupid and won't let you in, or you can't get a teleport to do anything but crash you, or you're feeling lazy and want to find a new style without a lot of hassle, check our website. Pictures of each style are there in thumbnail form. Click it, get big picture, easy as pie. (Why is pie easy anyway?)

If you look over there ---> in the right hand side of the page, the very first listing under "Things we like" is our homepage and it will take you right to our site with all the styles!

Here's a cheat sheet:

Newest stuff: http://callatropia.com/new
Long styles: http://callatropia.com/long
Short styles: http://callatropia.com/short
Mid-length styles: http://callatropia.com/midlength
Ponies & Piggies: http://callatropia.com/ponies
Updos: http://callatropia.com/updos
Men's Styles: http://callatropia.com/men
Discounted Styles: http://callatropia.com/discount

Happy lag-free browsing!