My Skins for Another Fundraiser!

This is one of the most amazing contributions to the grid. Eloh's done an incredibly generous thing by giving the community the .psd files for these skins. I've learned so much over the last few weeks that I've been playing with them. I have a completely new appreciation for those people who make skins. This is not an easy thing!

Here are my donations for the Another Fundraiser. All proceeds from this fundraiser are going to Unicef.

I did three different makeups, in three skintones. Here are some close ups of the faces.







And here's a full ad so you know what you're looking for when you get there.



There are so many skins! I've seen a few blogged that are absolutely incredible, and I'm sure that's just scratching the surface. There are over 100 skins, and they are all 50L$ each. Yes. Five. Zero. Fifty!!! It's for a good cause so please be generous with your L$.

I can't begin to say how much I've learned, and how much I've enjoyed being a part of this effort. I'd like to personally thank Sasy Scarborough for undertaking the organization of this huge effort. She's had skins and ad textures and note cards and questions and who knows what else thrown her way from so many people, and has done a fabulous job putting this together.

I hope to see y'all this weekend, 'cause I am so going to be there grabbing some of these fabulous works of art!

We're in a book!

Calla has been listed in the Second Life for Dummies book as the number 2 place to get hair! We are so honored to have been included.

Haedon received the following message:

[4:42] Typewriter Tackleberry: Just a note to let you know, Sarah "Intellagirl" Robbins and I mentioned your shop in Second Life For Dummies. Thanks for bringing quality to Second Life.

I didn't know anything about it and didn't get a message from them. I'm so far behind in keeping up with the blogs that it'll be next year before I have any idea what's going on.

She goes to look, and then messages me (cause that's what we do) and I go look.

While we honestly, truly appreciate it, and are honored to have been included, there's a very huge printing error.

HAEDON WAS LEFT OUT!!!

That's like the yin without the yang, or the peanut butter without jelly, or the coffee without peppermint! It's the Lily without the Hae! You just can't!

We also got credit for Eolande's Accessories.

I've taken the liberty of making a few corrections.






Woot! That's better.

Really sincere thanks to Mr Tackleberry and Ms Robbins for all of the effort that went into this publication, it seems to be a great guide. (<3 Amazon search inside.) We're proud that Calla was chosen.

And much congratulations go out to everyone else who was included in this book! It's so exciting to see so many fabulous creators receive mention!

/me is a total geek and ordered her copy today.

New Group Option for Calla Update Group!

We've been awfully quiet lately and I'm starting to feel guilty. So here I am! There is stuff going on behind the scenes at Calla. We are here, I promise. We're just knee deep in gift certificates. (We were previously up to our eyeballs, so this is an improvement!)

One of the things we're working on, and I am quite excited about this, is a new group alternative!

Please let me be clear: THIS DOES, NOT NOR WILL IT EVER, REPLACE OUR IN-WORLD GROUP!

We love our group, and have some of the best girls (and some guys) ever. We really enjoy the chats which usually spiral out of control into a completely hysterical laugh fest. So, if you enjoy the craziness that is our group never fear, group chat is not going anywhere!

But if you're like the rest of us and shuffle groups around to get notices and info and goodies, or you just don't want the chatter, we're hoping this helps!

We're trying something a little different than the Subscribe-o-Matic. This doesn't make you find a terminal, but rather it's a HUD that you can attach anywhere. It looks like this:



The "Subscribe" and "Unsubscribe" buttons do just that. If you subscribe, it will send you the group notice as an IM. If you unsubscribe the only time it will talk to you is when you attach it.

The big button in the middle will have different functions, but basically you click it and get something! That's the one that will give you whatever group gifts, notecards, LM's, blog links, etc that we send out.

We will be asking for your feedback, though. We want to make sure it works as well for you, and for us as we think it will.

You can pick one up in the lobby of our main store. Just find the HUD in the lobby near the entrance (I promise to make it big enough to see) and buy it for L$0. We will also be sending one out via our group notices, so you can get it there, too.