the wild, wild tiny west

April is Western month at Raglan!  The tumbleweeds and cactus had been encroaching, but they are firmly ensconced for the month and mercantiles and wagons are cropping up everywhere.  OMG, and the language!  ”Pardner” and “varmint” are being slung around like cow-paddies….everywhere!  The Good, the Bad and the-just-plains-tinies are all getting fancy duds and loud guns.

Well, Tiny TAMA is getting ready for all of the tinies, too.  Two new releases are in the vendors at Western town, Tiny TAMA and our Wilcutt store in Tiny Outpost.

The Man With No Name is a beautiful sculpted set.  From head to sculpted toe, you too can walk with confidence, strapped down with your sculpted navy colt, scripted to shoot with a dialog menu.  Bullets are set to no damage and firing triggers the muzzle flash and blast.  Signature sculpted poncho can be removed to reveal your oh-so-hombre -duds featuring The Man with No Name’s sheepskin vest and jeans , sculpted sleeves and boots with spurs.  These fully sculpted legs replace your tiny prim legs for that western silhouette you crave.  Your look is finished off with a sculpted cigarillo hanging from your tiny lips and a well-worn sculpted hat on top of your tiny head.  Available as mod/copy at 295$L.

Our sculpted Sharps Rifle comes with two gestures to aim and put your weapon down.  Clicking on the barrel fires off a long-echoing rifle blast.  Available as mod/copy at 200$L.

Watch for more as the month advances.
~elfa and namaste

jaffas and easter egg hunts, oh my!

We premiered the Tiny Horus Jaffa this week at Tiny TAMA.  This is an exquisite set with a sculpted helmet that animates down.  The texturing is quite beautiful on it and the more egyptian style outfit to go with it that is more in keeping with the Stargate film.  The standard version (300L$) has a deathglider in black.  The ELITE version (400L$) gives you a deathglider that has folding wings, weapons that fire and a hud to control it.

We continue to create for the Tiny Stargate line, but have been asked about the biggies and so stay tuned for human-sized pieces coming soon.

Easter is coming up and the venerable Easter Egg Hunt is being given some great ways to entertain at your festivities or events with the Easter version of our great game line in conjunction with AeonVox.  The Easter Egg Hunt Game comes with wonderfully sculpted game pieces.  An old-fashioned sugar crystal egg decorated with flowers revealing a pastoral scene where Peter Rabbit appears and disappears.  Guests click on the flower cover to reveal whether they win a prize by spying Peter.  And then there are five decorated eggs to hide in two different ways.

Both of these items can be found at both Tiny TAMA and The Oh! Factor stores.

We’ve also just opened a new Tiny TAMA store at Tiny Outpost in Wilcutt. Come down and see us!

Also for those of you who have or have been thinking of getting Sculpt Studio, I’m teaching classes on it. I teach at Mystical Mastery and will have a beginner’s class there this week as well Raglan U! New class coming soon on custom slices!  BTW, most of the store at Wilcutt was sculpted using Sculpt Studio.

~elfa and namaste

games, faeries and a tiny night on the town

Sometime ago, I asked a good friend of mine, Kenn Nilsson, if he could create a script for me to do some games at Tiny TAMA.  The game was incredibly fun and the tinies had a blast.  Kenn created the script to allow for creativity and variety.  The first time we played the game, we used an image of our ninja and hid it.  Now most things are physical pieces that you hide in a few different places.  The person finds it and claims their prize.  This game allowed the one gamepiece to rez in different locations, that I had designated beforehand, for varying times (3-5 seconds).  This meant everyone was searching everywhere for the next place it would pop up and try to be fast enough to click on it before it disappeared and went to its next location.  Each round gave a prize.

The second time we had a tiny sarcophagus with a fox mummy.  The tinies walked up, one by one, and touched the sarcophagus.  If the mummy was there, they had to click quickly because it, too, could possibly disappear before they did so.  Again, the game was a hit.

So Tiny TAMA and AeonVox have teamed up and have brought out the first game now available to the public.  The Skull ‘n’ Bones Treasure Hunt Game has three sculpted game pieces.  The skull ‘n’ bones is for hiding in smaller spaces (under bushes, behind things).  There is a chest filled with gold that can also be hidden.  Both of these items can be used to be stationary and be found by the guest or can be configured (through notecard) to appear and disappear for different intervals.  It can appear/disappear in the same spot or in different locations; much like the Ninja game we did.  The second chest is for a game like the mummy game described above.  The gold inside it appears and disappears.  Your guests click the chest to open it and see if they are quick enough to win.

The prize distribution has a number of alternatives to choose from.  Give one prize or a prize endlessly till you stop the game.  Give from a list of prizes, randomly, or give several prizes all at once.  You choose.  And look for more themed games coming soon!

Next, we have the first Spring Rose Fairy of the season.  Winter is ebbing and the flower faeries are making an appearance.  This little fairy has a beautiful, hand-painted gown with sweet ballet slippers.  She wears a trio of  sculpted roses on her head and has a sweet pair of rose petal wings.  The wings fluttter slowly when standing, a bit faster when walking, and beat at a sweet speed when flying.  In addition, when the fairy moves or flies, she leaves a trail of falling fairy dust.  Also, as a bonus, a flying/hovering animation is included with instructions on how you can add it to your Tinymatic AO or AO Lite.  This animation (by Japanese artist, asakouboo Yoshikawa) is SO cute!  On sale for 350L at Tiny TAMA.

Beautiful color-changing tiny evening gown.

And then there is Bella Notte.  An off-shoulder tiny gown scripted to change to just about any color.  It is also scripted to change size to accomodate different avatars.  A sculpted, stylized rose graces the shoulder and head.  A tiny scattering of custom particle stars falls from the head piece.

Coming up in Raglan, on the first of February and going through Valentine’s Day, we’re having another walk-through-the-shires to see the great merchant wares with The Path to Love.  Watch for more details.

Fox and I hope that everyone’s start of their year is great and continues for the rest of the year.  We have lots of great product coming, including more SGC.  Till next time…

~elfa and namaste

Jaffas invade Tiny TAMA: STARGATE tinies behind the Wheel!

Tiny TAMA unveiled the beginning of its Stargate line and celebrated with the Stargate Chase Race that was held today in front of the TT stores in Morningshire. About a dozen tinies entered their Competition-model Needlethreader Death Gliders to test their skills by racing through five succeedingly smaller rings as they went around Morningshire. The course proved difficult not only because of the rings, but their placement at varying heights. The four winners were Imnada Waffle in fourth, Shady Fox in third, Alohalani Heron in second and Mitchmiester Slade who took the Jaffa Top Gun honors with his first place run of 1 min. and 27.904755 seconds. Congratulations to all who participated and thank you to all who came!

Probably the best part, though, was by Special Award winners, Karmagirl Avro and Sarah Irling. These two showed that it’s in spirit and fun that these things should all be done. Karmagirl, in her blingy Rhino, took a dramatic dunk in the sea and then recovered without her ship and ran all the way to the finish line. Sarah’s little pug tried and tried and SL swept her away, too. Their humor and good cheer in the face of such adversities made us laugh with them and love them. Bravo, ladies!

~elfa and namaste

something wicked this way comes: it’s halloween time!

Scary sounds and animation make for a howling good time this halloween!

Ghoulishly good fun can be had with this animated sculpted pumpkin! The lid pops open and out sneak the charred bony fingers of a fiendish ghoul, propping the lid to survey the land for victims. Could it be YOU?!

This pumpkin animates on rezzing, and loops with a short peek and a bigger peek at intervals.

Available now at my Linji and Tiny TAMA stores.

Thank you to everyone who has come to see or has purchased from me at the Jewelry Expo! Today is the last day of the show and there are some cool things all over the place. Please come see me at my The Oh! Factor-booth 68.

~elfa and namaste

a bauble for your thoughts: sl jewelry expo starts today

Come visit me at the show and say hello.

Ok, it’s been much too long…and all I can say is it’s been a really busy time. Feeble excuse, I know. Mea culpa! We had a great tiny Medieval Festival in September and are heading into Halloween, but we start off the month with a grand exposition of jewelry in Second Life. Miriel Enfield has done a great job organizing it and the rules were stringent, but hopefully will result in banishing the evils of lag which so plagued last year’s expo. Under my store, The Oh! Factor, I have my place near one of the corners at booth 68. One of the rules was textures could be no larger than 256×256. I am presenting the pieces I have at the Expo so that you, and anyone who clicks on my web page loader at the show, can see the work with more clarity. Thumbnails will take you to the larger versions. Hope to see you at the show!

I also have other jewelry which I’ve placed at a show price of 100L$ (regularly 250L$). There is also a charity, which is actually one of my favorites in RL, for which many of us have created or donated pieces to help raise funds. Mine is a new jewelry set called Dove of Peace.

Come enjoy the show. Shop till you drop may definitely be the mantra I keep hearing…so much to see…oooooooooo….SHINY!

~elfa and namaste

Latest doings at Tiny TAMA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We’ve had a lot of fun happenings at Tiny TAMA and in Raglan Shire.  Fox and I have released two major new products, The Dragon Emperor and Little Miss Market Piggy.  The Dragon Emperor is a beautiful set of tiny armor based on the emperor from the latest Mummy movie released this summer.  Incredible detailing and a sculpted top knot, that comes with and without a ponytail, make this outfit a knockout.  12 pieces include a superbly textured sword and sheath.

Little Miss Market Piggy is a charming rendition based on the children’s nursery rhyme, “This little piggy went to market”.  Now you can go in style with a choice of five colors with prim lacings and lacy sleeve cuffs.  The hat has not one, but TWO sculpted pigs…a pig wearing a pig and if you’re a tiny pig, that would be a pig wearing a pig who’s wearing a pig and that would be pure porcine paradise!  There is also a delightful market basket filled with a morning’s stroll to the market goodies: bread, cheese, eggs and, of course, the tiny perfect food, hot and yummy WAFFLES, a food group unto itself!

 

Tinies test their prowess at finding the mummy.

Tinies flocked to Tiny TAMA to test their courage against the Fox Mummy.  Bravely, they opened the sarcophagus to obtain prizes and the coveted Golden Dragon coin.  The holders of the most coins won a copy of the Dragon Emperor.  The game itself is a great, configurable game product by myself and Kenn Nilsson and will be sold soon through Tiny TAMA with instructions how to configure and a couple of games to get you started.  We are also putting together different games that will be sold with these same scripts that you can simply implement at your next event; easily notecard-configured to fine-tune for your particular needs.

A newsletter went out prior to the release of the Dragon Emperor.  A new one, showcasing the Little Miss Market Piggy and previewing our large new line of Medieval clothing, for the upcoming Raglan Medieval Festival, will be out soon.

~ elfa and namaste

 

 

tiny olympics – starts today at 11 am slt in the raglan shires

I have the distinct honor of being the starting torch bearer for the Tiny Olympics. Tinies know how to do things big and with lots of heart. It is what attracted me to this community and has me spending much of my time there. I still am a human, but I admittedly have my most fun when I am with Fox and a tiny.

Starting today at 11 am SLT, the tinies are holding their own unique Olympics. You can see a schedule of events by going to our Raglan blog. Many tinies have created Olympic related products that will help raise money for ONE.org, a wonderful organization whose goal is to decimate poverty. Tiny TAMA has donated their small, but sincere effort with an Raglan Olympics Beach Towel. Buyers are encouraged to go beyond the price listed for the items, if able, and donate directly to ONE.org at one of several kiosks.
~elfa and namaste

floating world pillows: pretty up your big or tiny world

Nothing quite says “home” like a bunch of beautiful, fluffy pillows on which to lie back on and luxuriate. On sale Friday, July 4th, these sculpted decorative pillows will sell for $100 per set and include a round pillow with “sit on” pose and a square one with “sit against” pose. Designs will vary. The sit against pose should allow you to sit against a wall, a log, or (for tinies and their short legs) comfortably in a chair. It’s always nice to have variety. Human and tiny versions included in the same set.

The Tiny TAMA newsletter is out. You can pick one up from our main store in Morning Shire or our new one in Raglan Shire. Offworld, you can view it from the web with Acrobat Reader. Remember, if you join the Eggrollment (in front of our main store), members receive a special Floating World pillow made just for them.

~elfa and namaste

ninjas loose on raglan on july 5

Like a dark wave on the land, discernible yet obscure, there and yet not there…the NINJA descend on the shire on July 5th. Armed to the teeth (or would be if they ever showed them) with a katana, tanto, throwing star and nunchucks, the NINJAs are swathed in black bindings to conceal them while they perpetrate their dastardly doings. Get your NINJA on at Tiny TAMA on this Saturday, July 5th!

AND…to celebrate…Tiny TAMA is having a NINJA hunt! Think you’ve got the skills to find the hiding Ninja? One will hide that day at noon SLT and a second at 6 pm SLT. Find them and win a complete NINJA outfit.