Merry Christmas and lots of newness!

First of all, I wish all of you a merry Christmas! I know it is a bit late but my RL has been hell lately.

I graduaded from university and went through dozens of written and oral exams during the last 14 months. My last one was on Monday, December 22nd, so go figure what I've done the past couple of weeks ;)
But I passed all my exams so that I can now finally leave uni with 2 degrees *yay* But that also meant that I had not bought any Christmas presents yet and I didn't have much time for SL either. The few precious moments I was able to spend online I mostly hung out with friends or was DJing to get my head off from studying for a while.

But I also started moving my mainstore. The old Estates group who was managing the land I had is a bit weird. To be honest, I think something fishy is going on there. During the last year land prices dropped immensly so that everyone who had a few spare Lindens was able to buy the land. The convenant was rather open so that you were able to do pretty much what you want. Which ended in me having a neighbour who rented out part of their land to a sex club who were shouting their "Oh, you're so hot! Do me baby" over the whole SIM and also in my shop. I had to complain a couple of times until it stopped. Since LL changed their pricing of open space SIMs the situation became even worse. There were lots of people complaining in the Estates group chat that they got a notice from LL that their SIM was closed because the Estate owner apparently didn't forward the tier. LL opened the SIMs so that they were able to pick up their stuff, but the tier they pay in the terminals never reached LL. If you try to contact the owner or any of his managers with a problem you have you either never get an answer or you get one when it is too late. And now I had to discover that the neighbouring SIM is already gone and on the one I was only me and the one with the former sex club on it were left.

So I decided to pack my things there and look for a new SIM during the Christmas holidays. But I was lucky. The Estates I have my private land on also has a commercial SIM, the community is great, and the landlady and her estate managers are great. They had a 4096qm parcel free and because I am already in the estates for more than 1.5 years I didn't have to buy in and even got 2 weeks tier free. It was just perfect and meant for me ;) So during the few moments I was online I started to build the new store and moved the vendors step by step.

The new mainstore you can find here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sede%20di%20Marte/29/37/58

At the moment I am doing the most painful work I can think of: Changing the LMs in all items and then changing all the packed boxes in all vendors in all stores *uuurgh*.
Oh, and because I've been busy studying all year I changed my shop name but didn't rename my old items. Which I had to do now as well.
I hoped to be done by Saturday and then have a big opening party but I just didn't make it. It is a rather boring task I was doing while camping for hair or other stuff ;) I am still not done but I hope that I am tomorrow. We'll see how far I get. But when I am bored I have to do some fun stuff in between. And as I have the best ideas when I should concentrate on something else I got some cool ideas for new products, especially my own series of Neko attachments. I have already finished a New Year's edition of ears and tails and maybe I can release them on Saturday, and if not on Sunday. I have lots of other ideas as well which I won't tell you now ;)

But another fantastic thing happened that gave me some inspiration. My SL bf and I spent a few hours online on Christmas Eve. As he's American and I am sitting in Europe time zones were always a bit difficult to manage. So it was already in the middle of the night for me (just as it is now ;)) and I thought about how much he means to me and how close we got. So I clicked that little button in his profile and asked him if he wants to be my partner. AND HE SAID YES :D
He then did the cutest thing ever: He got us rings from JCNY where you can include personal messages. I got one in silver with a diamond heart. It is the most beautiful ring I've seen and I just adore it... and I adore him... :)
And as I am talking about inspiration: I have a perfect pose in mind: What does a girl do when she gets a ring from the man she loves? Exactly! She shows it off to her friends ;)

And now, dear friends and fans, it is 4am for me and I should go and get some sleep.
As soon as my new things are done and available I'll post them up here and keep your eyes open for the invitation to the shop re-opening party! :D

OH! And if you're short on group space, I now also have a subscribe-o-matic. Just go into one of my stores and click it and you won't miss an announcement any more!

And now good night!

Mira