Make mine a venti

Two sets released for you this weekend, and they are both making appearances in two different locations.
Let's start with what the releases are! Both sets are "Cafe Walls Kits" in two separate color sets.

The set in "Cinnamon" has been released in the main store location and is available at the introductory price of just 75L as part of the Builder's Bargains sales hop, which lasts until end of day Sunday. This is a set of 10 wall textures great for any coffee-shop or kitchen/nook area in a home to which you want to give that cozy, coffee-shop feel. The set includes one seamless wall texture, one plain wall texture with moulding, and eight wall textures with moulding and hand-stenciled, unique deocrations.

The set in "Tumeric," which is a rich, orange-yellow hue, has been released at the Spring 2013 Full-

Permissions Mesh-Sculpties-Tex Fair. This fair runs until May 6th, and the set will be available at its introductory price of 99L until the end of this fair! it also includes the set of 10 wall textures including one seamless wall texture without moulding, one plain wall texture with moulding, and eight hand-stenciled wall textures.

Find the fair, my new release and a couple of other discounted surprises here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Old%20Europe/95/208/23

You'll find the Builder's Bargains sale item here:  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Quartz/110/117/21

VIP TWIST: If you're in the VIP group, you can try your hand at winning the Tumeric Cafe Walls Kit for free by hitting up the group board. Or, if you don't want to take the chance, VIPs can pick up the set for in incredibly low 15L for the set! Not a member of the group? No problem. Simply stop by the in-world store, click on the VIP group join sign, pay the 100L join fee, and you're set! You'll find you make up the 100L joining fee in no time ;)

Happy shopping!

Spring Is In The Air!

At least that's what I hear ... not that I see much sign of it where I live, hehe.

Well with today starts the Hello Spring full-perm 2L hunt, and I've got a prize in it, of course! It's a set of 10 seamless wall textures, this time with moulding. The painted wall part uses the stucco texture as its base, but it's been decorated with a delicate flower overlay for a cute, pretty spring texture.

The best part? All the textures in this set matches the Stucco Wall set that was on sale this weekend!

So, stop on over and get this hunt going!

Show Your Stripes!

This week's new release is part of the Builder's Bargains sales hop! In it is my full set of 25 seamless fabric textures, striped and ready for your deck.

This set was made as an add-on to last week's release, Summer Shades, and was created with your lounger, deck parasols and deck accessories in mind.

Stop by the main store and check out this 50% off sale, because it'll be gone by the end of the day Sunday!

Here's your ride: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Quartz/111/117/21

New Hunt Prize

Just a quickie post to let you know that the Temple of Tools 2L full-perm hunt starts today!

I've got a set of 10 tileable wooden plank textures for you for this event. They are stained wood ranging from natural wood tones, to weathered tones, to bright blue and green.

Mosey on over to their blog to see the participating vendors, hints, and to get a preview of a few of the prizes you'll find: http://besthomedealinsl.wordpress.com/

Happy hunting!

Wishing for Warmth ...

This week's release is with summer in mind! While it is cold and slushy where I live, I know that most of you are busy planning your summer builds at this time. So, with that in mind, this week I'm releasing my new set of fabric textures in all sorts of delicious, summery shades.

This set contains 44 fabrics with the newest spring and summer color trends in mind: teals, corals, beige, and spicy oranges and reds. You'll find 22 seamless plain textures, and 22 matching, shaded textures.

For those in the VIP in-world group, this FULL SET is in the group-members-only VIP Midnight Mania board at the crazy low target of just 10 slaps. It'll be up until end of day Sunday, so you can lock it down as many times as you want. I also force the board at least once on Sundays before I log for the day, so if it doesn't lock at first, be sure to keep trying.

If VIPs miss this offer, the cost of this set will be available for 50% off of its regular price for the next two weeks!

Not in the group? No worries, go to my in-world store at the following URL and click on the group joiner that is located right under the MM board, and join the fun!

Here's the shop SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Quartz/110/117/22

IN OTHER NEWS, the Texture Mania 5 hunt started today! Just for this occasion, I put together a set called Ugly Couch, a set of 10 full-permission fabric textures. While it's called Ugly Couch, this set of fabrics really can be used for anything that requires a heavy-fabric feel to it. It comes in all shades from browns, golds and khaki, to bright pinks and green. Be sure to stop by and pick it up, and check out the other amazing creators in this hunt!

Happy shopping and hunting!

Grunginess on Sale!

OK it's official! With today starts the Builder's Bargains sale, and the grungy couch texture set I mentioned to you is now officially available for sale at the reduced price of 150L until end of day Sunday only!

Come grab the grungy greatness before it ends, and be sure to check out the other wonderful creators out there who are also participating in this week's sale. You can find them listed on the Builder's Bargains new official blog.

I'll have some new releases next week including new VIP Midnight Mania opportunities, and starting March 1 is the new Texture Mania 5 gridwide hunt! Keep watching!

And now for something completely different ...

OK, so I've been away for a bit! Now I'm back, and I've got some changes that I'll be slowly stirring into the mix.

First, let me start with what will be coming up this week! On Thursday, I'll be participating in the Builder's Bargains sale for the first time in a bit. For it, I've created a brand new set of textures that I'm excited to share with you called "Ugly Couch." Seriously, it's a texture created with my old ugly RL couch in mind bahaha!  The base texture is shots of the worn-down velour/textile texture from my actual couch, enhanced for use in SL and colorized. The set includes shaded and plain versions of each color.

For BB it'll be on sale for 150L starting on Thursday and ending Sunday. After that, the cost will go up to 300L.

And with that introduction, I wanted to let my loyal customers know that there are some pricing and branding changes coming up on the horizon.

In more than one instance, I've been informed by some of my respected colleagues that my pricing is 'too low,' and in fact, I've been passed up on some opportunities because of it. So, in order bring my textures up to fair market value, my textures will go from the stupid-low price of 5L per texture (omg what was I thinking?) to a more sane 15L per texture.

For those of my supporters who depended upon my lower prices, please don't fear: I will still be participating in the occasional hunt, and if you join my VIP group, you will have the occasional full-pack in the VIP Midnight Mania board that you can count on (which, if they don't get locked down, I offer for a temporary 50% off discount to VIPs only).

Also, I'll be taking part in Builder's Bargains, where you'll find my newly released full packs on sale for 50% off the regular price.

On the heels of this price change will be a name-change and new look for my texture shop. This last bit may take a while as I am a) slow and b) picky ... So stay tuned!

Releases to Keep You Warm!

I've got two new releases for you, sure to help you with your warm and cuddly needs!

Set #1 is the new Gradient Knits set which I've got on sale for you at 50% off as part of the Builder's Bargains sale. Be sure to take a look at their blog to see the other great deals going on there with some of the amazing full-perm content creators on this list!

The Gradient Knits set has 17 full-perm, 512x512 JPEG format knit fabric textures in gradient shades ranging from muted, natural tones great for fall and winter, to bright cheery tones great for any time of year! Be sure to grab it at this special price of just 42L until end of day Sunday only.

The next set I've got available is the Simple Knits set which includes 22 seamless, full-perm, 512x512 JPEG format knit fabric textures. This set of solid-colored textures have been hand-tinted to complement the Gradient Knits set perfectly, and includes shades of Almost White, Dark Gray, Light Gray, Oatmeal, as well as Sunshine, Cobalt Blue, and Neon Pink. You can grab this full set at the Main Store location.

The full pack of this set is on the VIP Midnight Mania board at the low target of just 10 slaps, so if you haven't joined the VIP group yet, be sure to do so and hit that board up!

Enjoy your shopping this weekend!

Frosty New Releases

Have a couple of fresh new releases, as well as some great deals to tell you all about this weekend. Firstly, last weekend I released an add-on to the Cardboard Box Kit, called the Cardboard Box Holiday Add On. It features 10 full-perm, 512x512 JPEG format decorated cardboard textures. The designs include ones that are great for Hannukah, Christmas, New Year's, or any other winter celebration you may have coming around the corner.

The best thing about this release? It's available for just 25L until October 21st, at the Winter Market, a full-perm winter-themed market where you'll find loads of other builder-friendly items for sale as well. Be sure to stop by at this slurl to pick it -- and other deals -- up --> http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Clutter/106/215/3002

The next release is my set of 14 frosty window and glass textures. This set includes four seamless frosted glass textures, and 10 un-framed and framed glass textures great for any of your winter builds. This one is available only at the main store.

For our VIP members, the full pack of this set has been placed into the Midnight Mania board with a very low target of just 10 hits!

You may also preview individual textures at the Main Store by visiting the "Newness" area of the shop and clicking on the Sample panel next to the texture vendor.

Have a great weekend!

Halloween Sale!

It's that time of year when builders are thinking of all those ghoulish things they could be building and creating. To help us to that end, Mandi Blanco -- organizer of the Texture Mania Hunts -- has allowed a few of us to set up shop at her Halloween Harbour location. There, I've got all of my Halloween-related textures set up to sell for 50% off, INCLUDING the newly released set The Haunting.

Be sure to stop by there and see all there is -- there are several texture and sculpt shops there, as well as other non-full-permission designers. Don't miss it!

Still ongoing but wrapping up in the next few days is the Too Cute To Be True 2L hunt for full-perm items.  The last day of this hunt is September 20th, so hurry and snap up these great gifts while they're still out there!

For the VIP members this week, I'm looking head to winter (yes, already!), and I've loaded up the board with the full pack of Winter Ground texture set. The target is the always-low 10 hits, so be sure to stop by and hit it up.

Also exclusive to the VIP group is the 50% discount on the Simple Linens full pack!

Not a VIP members yet? Stop by and hit up the group join board. For just 100L you can join the group to find out about fresh new releases, get free samplings from each new release, a low-target MM board (that gets forced on most Sundays), and exclusive 50% off discounts. Other gifts and prizes are also offered for your loyalty ;) So don't hesitate to join up!

The Haunting Continues!

For all of you builders feverishly preparing your Halloween pieces, I've got another new release for you!

This week, I've put up in the Main Store a pack of 10 alpha-layer scary textures great for all your haunting needs. This pack includes male, female, adult and child ghosts, a screaming face, spooky mask/face, and two cob webs. Each of these are great used full bright and slightly glowing (I've found that setting glow at 0.02 really looks neat, but you can play around with it to get the perfect effect for yourself!).

Also to help you with Halloween building, remember that the cart sale at The Wash is still ongoing. Hurry, though, as this event ends in five short days! I've got my eight full packs of Halloween textures (which I had put away at the end of the season last year) available for 10L a set. If you missed my posting about this last time, check out the last blog entry to see what sets are there!

Back in the Main Store, VIP Group members will find the full pack of this set in the Midnight Mania board set at the incredibly low target of just 10 hits! Also just for VIPs is the Blooming Blossoms full texture set marked down to 50% off. If y'all want to take advantage of these great deals, hit up the group join board that you'll find in the VIP Zone of the shop. There is a 100L fee to join, but you'll find that you make that fee up in no time if you take advantage of the sales and MM board!

Because I've decided to take down my non-group Midnight Mania boards, I've decided to instead offer the Pay What You Think vendors as options for those shoppers who need textures, but may be on a limited budget. Currently in the Main Store, I've got the half pack (the former MM pack) of the Caverns II textures. If you've missed the description of this pack in the past, it's the half-pack of the full set of dark, spooky-colored cave textures great for making, say, a haunted grotto. The pack includes seamless and regular 512x512 textures created from real photos that I took from a real cavern that I visited with my family this summer.

TOMORROW starts a new full-perm hunt called Too Cute To Be True. For this hunt you'll be looking for a pink and white candy-striped sculpty heart, in which you'll find some awesome FP prizes for just 2L each! My gift is called Love and Kisses, and is a set of 10 pastel-colored patterned fabric. The set patterned with the word "L'amour ('Love' in French)" is seamless, the other (patterned with cute lips) is not. This hunt runs starting from tomorrow until September 30th, so stop on down to grab the prize!

OK I think that's everything for this week! Stay tuned for next week, as I'll have some yummy stuffs in the Builder's Bargains sale. Yay!

Hanging Out at The Wash!

Finally getting some textures out there for you, and also have my fall-themed sets out for you at The Wash, which starts on August 15th! I played around with the Cavern I textures from a few weeks back, and jazzed them up for you in time for your Halloween builds! Nope, not too early to think about fall, truly!

So, today, I'm releasing my Cavern II textures. There are 20 spooky cave ceiling, floor and wall textures. They've been manipulated for maximum fright -- shiny bloody colors right down to cool, spooky, cemetery blue and green colors. All of them have been darkened for maximum effect in your dark builds. You can get them now at my Main Store location.

On the weekend, the half pack will be up on the Midnight Mania board with a target of 75, and the full pack will be on the VIP's Midnight Mania board!

For those who are new to The Wash, you must check it out. There are over 80 carts set out around the sim loaded with some of SL's best designer's wares -- nothing is over 10L. You can take a look at their blog for all the details! Also get a sneak peek of some of the sale items on their flickr site too.

On my cart for The Wash, I've got my fall and Hallowe'en-ready texture sets that I've brushed off for you. I've included the pictures of all the textures available with this blog posting. They are all -- regardless of the number of textures in the set -- available for 10L. Be sure to grab this humungous deal while you can, because once The Wash is over on Sept. 15, I'll have these texture sets out, but at their regular prices. When the sale starts, you can find my cart at this SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Wash/165/163/23

They will certainly NOT be available for just 10L again this year!!! So grab them up for a steal while you can!

Builder's Bargains and Anniversary Sales!

Woot woot! Got the Builder's Bargains sale off and running! If you haven't heard about it yet, it's a new sales group that I've organized. Really excited about it as it is one-of-a-kind and has many wonderful creators as its vendors.

For this sale, I've gathered together 25 fabulous full-perm/builder's aids creators. These include creators of full-perm textures, sculpts, mesh, templates, and other builder's aids such as tutorials, vendors, scripts etc. Twice a week, vendors on this sales list will put up one of their items up for a minimum discount of 50% off! The list will be distributed to the Builder's Bargains group, as well as to each vendor's respective store group(s).

Of course, the advantage of being in Builder's Bargains is that shoppers can receive notices about BB vendors' new releases, sales, gifts, etc., and get it all in one convenient group. So, if you haven't joined up yet, be sure to do so!

BB has a blog, too, which shows off all of our amazing vendors, so be sure to visit it. The current sales list is also published there, so DO stop by and check everyone out!

Meanwhile, for this sales group, I put together my two sets of window textures into a discounted bundle. The "Simple Clean" set of windows and the "Distressed Simple Windows" have been put together and are available from today until Sunday for 50L! Normally, if you were to purchase both, you'd have to pay 100L. So, snap up this sale!

Also, while you're checking out the BB sale item, browse around the rest of the textures. Believe it or not, it's been a year since I re-opened my shop and started up business again! To celebrate, I've set all regular-priced items on sale at 33% each.

VIP group members have a few specially-priced anniversary sale items in the VIP group zone. Be sure to stop by!

Happy shopping everyone! There's lots going on.

Texture Mania 4 Starts April 1st!!!

No, this ain't no joke! With tomorrow starts the Texture Mania 4 Hunt -- if you've never heard of it, and you're a builder, DO NOT MISS THIS!

This is a GREAT, super-well-organized builders/creator's hunt full of full-perm textures, sculpts, building kits and tutorial kits. Always full of high-quality items from some of the best creators around.

Here's the link to their blog, where you'll find hints, links, and pictures of the gifts that some of the creators have prepared for us. This is one hunt that I ALWAYS make sure I do ALL of, and you should too!

Check out the Texture Mania 4 blog.

The prize I'm offering for this hunt (whose theme is "Country Pride") is a set of six alpha-layer flowers. In the box I've provided one of these textures applied to a "grass" sculpt prim so you can see how it could look with the appropriate repeats and such applied to the face of the sculpt. These textures could also work wonderfully as a wall decal, appliqué on clothing, or whatever else you can think of!

ALSO on April 1st, I'm holding an APRIL FOOL'S Sale. This will end at the end of day on Sunday, so it's truly just a 24-hour deal. For this sale, I thought I'd mix it up a bit and RANDOMLY mark down all texture packs (except the Limited Edition pack)! They could be down by just 5L, or down by as much as 75%. There is ONE texture pack marked down to 0L! You'll just have to see which one it is. The promise is, it'll be worth your while ;) You won't know until you over your mouse over it and see ;)

Hunt with a message!

Hey all! I've fallen behind a bit with my postings, I realize, and apologize! Got a decent little case of cold/laryngitis in RL which has sapped a lot of my energy, so have fallen behind on the things I usually do ... though I *have* tried to keep up with some of it.

Anyway, wanted to be sure to put it out there that a WONDERFUL hunt with more than just free prizes as its goal. It's called "Take Back The Night" and involves many great designers -- from clothing designers to texture creators and more. You're looking for a moon hidden in the store, and along with the prize, you receive a note card with some educational information on a mental illness. Each card is meant to educate participants on a mental illness.

Much more than that, here's the hunt's blog site that offers education and support information for those who suffer from mental illness, and for family members and friends of those afflicted: Skittles In The Pit.

As part of this awareness-raising event, and as a way to offer awareness of support available, every weekend during the month of march, this wonderful group will be putting together a t-shirt making event, in which participants will make their own SL t-shirts. I've donated a set of tie-dye fabric textures that participants can use for this event, and it is available in the main store right now. It is set to give to members of the Take Back The Night Hunt, so be sure you've joined the group and are wearing the tag!

Happy New Year!

Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year to everyone. May you be blessed this 2012!

To kick off the new year, I wanted to turn your attention to a good-cause event that is taking place in SL. Creator and Chipaholic, Jaxie Oceanlane, who owns *RSS* Rose River Saloon, made the Boudoir Chair that you see in the picture here. She created it using some textures from the "Punched and Stitched" pack that she won in a Midnight Mania board in one of my shops. It's loaded up with 7 very cute poses!

Best of all, you'll find this chair in a wonderful charity event, the 2nd Annual Props and Poses Fair which starts at 9 a.m. SLT today. This event serves to raise money for a wonderful organization called the International League Against Epilepsy. Please be sure to stop by this venue when it opens to support a very important cause, and look for this wonderful chair!

I've also got the Boudoir Chair on display in the Main Store, feel free to stop by and try it out if you'd like!

As for stuff in my shop, while it's not the norm for me to start a new event on a Sunday, I couldn't resist doing something on the first of the year, hehehe. So, I decided to clear out some prims and hold a "Clearing House" sale from today until January 8th. In the sale you'll find the texture packs that appeared as hunt prizes (5L each pack), seasonal texture packs are reduced by 50% off the full price, and older/less popular texture packs that are set to crazy low prices as well (meaning, the equivalent of about 1/2L per texture in the pack. For example, if there are 10 textures in the set, you would pay just 5L for the full pack -- it would usually be 50L!)

Don't worry, the textures will still be available in my Marketplace store, with the exception of the hunt prizes. I just want to make sure I leave myself some extra prims in my tiny shop for all the newness coming up in 2012!!!

Please help!

Today, I learned that a fellow creator, builder, and organizer of several full-perm creator's hunts, Hioh Jinx, is in need of our help. Those of you who are members of some of the in-world Midnight Mania for builders' groups may already have heard the news.

Hioh is in need of some help in getting home to his family so he may see his terminally ill father. To help him to that end, a yard sale has been organized to fund-raise for him.


From the note card I received today in-world:

"On Thanksgiving Day, our friend Hioh Jinx learned that his father has terminal cancer.  Hioh has not seen his family since he moved to Texas nine months ago and does not have the means to return home to see his father.  The cost of a round-trip bus ticket is $400.00.

In the spirit of the season, we're asking for your help in raising the money to get Hioh home to spend time with his Dad.

How you can help:

*donate items to be used as prizes for Greedy Tournaments on Saturday
*make a donation to the tip jar
*come by and make a purchase
*come on Saturday for the Greedy Tournament!

****100% of all funds raised will go directly to Hioh****"

To take part, I've sent over 15 of my most recently released and popular textures, and discounted them all by 50%. My vendors have been set up to send money directly to Mattie Rae, who is sending 100% of the fund-raised money to Hioh directly so he can return home.

Please click here to be directed to the yard sale going on in SL.

Your caring and generosity are very appreciated.

Much love,
Chippie

Spoiled Kitteh Hunt Prize!

Mrawr!

Well here we go with another hunt! This time, we're participating in the Spoiled Kitteh hunt, which starts December 3rd and ends on the 31st. This hunt is organized by the same people who put together the Scary Kitteh hunt that I also took part in during the month of October. It was really well-run with some wonderful prizes, so be sure to check it out!

My prize in this hunt is a set of alpha-layer Christmas tree bulbs in TGA format. There are 10 beautifully decorated bulbs in this pack, and they'll no longer be offered for free after the end of this hunt so be sure to come grab them!

Be sure to check out the Freaky Kyoot Events blog for a sneak peek at other designers' prizes, and I believe hints will also eventually go up. For information on the hunt and starting locations, stop by the main store and click on the hunt poster!

Advent Calendar!

Well with the beginning of December, I'm happy to introduce to everyone a Lucky Advent calendar in the \\CHIPAHOLIC// Main Store!

In it, you'll find a mega-set of new textures that have not yet been released.  This set is an add-on to the set that was offered as the prize in the Up All Night hunt that just ended.

At the end of this month, this mega pack set will be broken up into regular texture packs and sold at regular price.

Here's how the Lucky Advent works: 

Every day at midnight, the Lucky Advent picks a new letter of the day. You need to stop by the store and click on the 'door' of the calendar so it will reveal to you the day's letter. If it matches the first letter of your first name, you win!

If the lucky letter does not match your name, come back again in 24 hours to see if it does! Hope you enjoy the fun and the limited-time prize!

There's more news coming up! Be sure to check back here to find out the news BEFORE it gets sent out in notices!