Three New and a 40% Sale!

There is a 40% sale going on at Calla this weekend! Simply wear a Calla Store Card while you shop. Every time you purchase hair with L$, you'll get a 40% return on your Store Card!

This would be a perfect time to get some of the styles you've been thinking about, especially now that the Poster Contest is on!

The three new this week are in the Sultry Collection. Click on the pictures for a larger view.

Oleander:



Red Primrose:



White Lilac:



You can pick them up at Calla!

On a personal note, I'd like to thank all of you who have sent such wonderful notes and well-wishes over the last few months. The surgeries I've been having were awful as far as recovery time, and I really appreciate all the good thoughts and prayers that have been sent my way. I have one more scheduled on June 25th, and potentially one more after that if the spinal cord stimulator implant trial on the 25th works.

For those of you who don't know, I have 4 tears in 3 discs in my lower back. This happened in April of last year, and it's been an ongoing struggle since then. Some days are okay, while others are excruciatingly painful. None are good. I'm just plugging along as best I can, one day at a time. But your thoughts and prayers mean so much to me and I greatly appreciate all the support.

Best wishes to all of you for a beautiful weekend!

Everything is Borked ™

Most of you know this already.

If you have purchased something and haven't gotten it due to the borkedness™ please send another note card. You aren't the only one who is losing inventory, not getting delivered items, etc etc.

At this point, I believe to be caught up on all customer issues. So if you're expecting something and haven't gotten it, give me a holler and let me know. I'll need all the usual information again, transaction number, date, item, destination.

Please note! If the destination is Haedon Quine send the note card to her. I cannot verify purchases that went to her, and vice versa. Please contact whichever of us is listed as the destination on your transaction information. That will expedite things for you.

Customer issues aside, I have a confession. I've had zero desire to create anything for a while. I've played with the Eloh skins, and have some that you might actually be seeing sometime soon. I've spent months trying to figure out sculpties and how to make something that wasn't a phallic stand-in. I think, maybe, finally, I've got it figured out to a large degree, and I picked up some sculpt maps on SLX (who knew branches made good hair?) which also helps supplement my less than fabulous sculptistry.

I know most of you are aware of the IP rights campaign.



The content theft has really been a wet blanket to my creativity. It's really hard to want to create something when the fear of it being stolen is ever-looming. And honestly it's taken me this long to come to grips with it. Just when I think I'm okay, someone else close to me has something copied and I take a few steps back. It's really discouraging and sometimes down right depressing.

And this post has now been sitting unpublished a few days (so I'm likely behind again, lol!) because I found one of my styles stolen again. It's been duplicated and mirrored. So far I've only been able to find pictures on ads for said hair, the hair itself doesn't appear to be in the boxes. Which is strange, and maybe someone else got to them first and has filed a DMCA for their own style resulting in removal of all of them at that location. I don't know. But I've spent a fair amount of time trying to track it down so I can file DMCAs.

See what I mean? Just when you start to think "Okay, I can do this," and reach down to grab your bootstraps, someone kicks you in the behind and shoves you face first in the mud.

Anyway, I'm hopefully back to the grindstone now. I just wanted to let you guys know I hadn't been eaten by the asset server, too.

Tag I'm It!

Ryker tagged me, and I'm just now getting to it. Cause honestly I had to wait for a book to end up on my desk that wasn't a board book. So, here we go.

The Book Meme

1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

The Tao of Equus

'The only way you'll be able to wake up from your own nightmare is if you start paying attention to all your feelins, in the present. In fact, I'm going to step off my soapbox now, and ask Noche to help you work on it.'
Because Joy was in such a dissociative state, I decided to let her simply groom the bay horse, hoping he still might help her gain a better understanding of how she lost contact with herself when she felt threatened.

And I'm tagging:

Arabeth Laval
Ciera Bergman
Sachi Vixen
Annyka Beckers
Shelly Toonie

I'm a donut too!

I saw this over on Berry's Blog and couldn't resist.

Krispy Kremes. Lord, had I known when they went public with their stock, I'd seriously have gotten like 100 shares. Anyway, here's my donutality. Strangely enough, it's also pretty much the only kind of donut I ever eat.

You Are a Glazed Donut

Okay, you know that you're plain - and you're cool with that. You prefer not to let anything distract from your sweetness. Your appeal is understated yet universal. Everyone digs you. And in a pinch, you'll probably get eaten.

What Donut Are You?

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