Blogging for POE

We are very pleased to have the extraordinary blogging talents of OPIUM Fashion Agency to review all the gifts from Peace On Earth gridwide hunt. When you have completed preparing your gift send pictures to Emma Portilo and you can also post these to our very own Peace On Earth flickr group

You can also find links to each of the websites submitted by our participants along the right column of the main POE blog. Lets fill the Feeds everyone, we have some really special things to share !!!!

links to note:
POE2 Poster texture
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sequin/4101698760/sizes/o/in/pool-959487@N22/

POE2 blog
http://peaceonearthhunt.wordpress.com/

OPIUM Fashion blog
http://opiumsim.wordpress.com/

POE Flickr group
http://www.flickr.com/groups/peaceonearth/

Peace On Earth Hunt Participants

Below are the Stores participating in this years Peace On Earth gridwide hunt “A SL Holiday Tradition” running December 1st, 2009 – January 2, 2010

:: Sugar Holic ::
!! Never Ever!
!MPOSSIBLE FASHION
.:: LacieCakes ::.
.::La Flat::. Modern Homes and Skyboxes
.:PdC:. PdCreations
.:Twilythula:.
[.:F&D:.] Furniture & Design
[KUE!]
[Lyndz-Matic] Poses and Gadgets
[MC] Milestone Creations
[RockBerry]
[XIII] Gothic, Gorean, Rustic, Medieval : Furniture, Decor & Prefabs
{*Le Melange*}
* Amaranthus *
* Amaris * Designs
*.^ Feeb’s ^.* ~ Phoebe ~Piercings & more~
**Butterfly EfectZ**
*~*Star Kindler Designs*~
*DWB* Designs
*Fairy Pearls* design
*HitR* Honey in the Rough
*IC DESIGN* & BOE
*ICED*
*IW* Inga WInd Clothing
~*~Felicia’s Fashions~*~
~*Animate This*~
~Aries Celestial Designs~
~Houses for You~
~LilyPads~
~Simply~
A Touch of Ireland
A Touch of Surreal Designs / “nuvolino” Studios
Abia Capalini Design
Absentia
Accessories by Eolande
aDORKable Poses
Afflicted Clothing, Inc. / Addiction Jewelry / C’est Ca Furniture
Aintree Gardens
AlaFolie
ALB DREAM FASHION
Alexohol Fashions
Ample Avi – Full Figure Shapes
Angelic Zepp’s Clothing Creations
AR Designs
Arizona’s Fashions for Tinies
Aster’s Built, Wedding Invites and Giver
Attituede
Aud-Mart Gestures
Audacity
Aurora Borealis Jewelry
Azure – Out of the Blue
Baby Makes Three
Barefoot Apparel
Barefoot Homes & Designs
BeanTown Creations
Belle’s Happy Birthday, Rez Day, Party & Seasonal Store
Bertha’s Little World / BB – Bublee Bing
Brocade Tiger
BULL & BEAR
Burning Chrome / Heartsick
C&D Designs – Styled Living
C&S House and Furniture
Calamity Hathaway Creations
Calia’s French Cuisine
caLLie cLine
Cat’s Cradle
CATALYST
CCD – Caithlin Carter Designs
Celestial Home & Garden
Charming Poses
Cheeky Pea
Confederate Rose
Copper Sun Designs
Corrupted Innocence
Couture Chapeau
Création & Design Benelli
Crissy Designs
Culture Cannibals
Dahlinks
Dakara Fashion & Hair
DB Designs
Debutante
DeLa*
Delightasia Shapes, Prefabs, & Asian Retreats
Delightfully Yours Flowers & Gifts
Dellybeams Gem Gallery
Dench Designs
Deviant Designs
DragonLady Designs
Drama Dolls
Dubrovna’s Fashions
Dulce Secrets
DV8
DYN Clothing
Ear Candy
Earth Jewel
EARTHLY DELIGHTS
Elisabeth’s Store
Evaki
Expressions by Total Betty
Exquisite Jewellery
eXtreme Make Over Shapes
FallnAngel Creations
Fashionity
FD Décor
Fire GOOD!!!
Flavor Designs
FlopHouse
Flowers Candles Romance
FluiD Furniture
Fnordian Furniture
Forever Charmed
FORSAKEN
Foxchase Designs
Foxxy Designs
Frippery
Full Moon Fashions
G&N Quality Design
Gairdin na Sidhe Flower & Wedding Shops
Garden Oasis
Gems & Kisses
Get Organized!!
GLITTER
Glitterati by Sapphire
GooDVibeZ
HEAVEN
Heavenly Treasures
Herb’s Garden
Highland Meadow Homes
Historical Heroines
Holli Pocket
Home @ Honey’s
Icarus home and lighting
Inara’s Fantasy Couture
Ivalde Vintage Fashions / L`Abel
JAZMYN D: SKINS, SHAPES & MORE
JD Boutique
JJ Lanes Furniture
Joanne Capras Jewelry
Juice .:. Fresh Menswear
Kabuki Creations
Kate McLaglen Creation
Khargo: Furniture, Landscaping and Custombuilding
Kiki’s Comforts Home Furniture
KISS THIS!
Kissed By Lithium
Kokee’s
Kunstkammer Architectural and Metaphysical Salvage
La Belle Dame Sans Merci – Couture
Lecosse Designs
Leonine – Fantasy Avatars & Accessories
Less Is More
Liquid Sugar
Little Tasta
LOVE TATTOOS
LoveKnot Weddings
Luminous Designs
LusaBella Jewels
Lutricias Luxuries
Luxurious World
Madison’s Creations
Magia
MaXeyes Creations
Maynard’s Low Prim Designs
Meimu
Merrikat Designs
mi pop
MollyWorld Alternative Dwellings
Mondira / Viviane Fashion
MORBID MAUSOLEUM DESIGNS
MP Designs
MudHoney Designs
Mustang Trading Post
MysticHope Design / Mystic Paradise
Naïve
Nefertiti’s Landscaping
New York Couture
Nushru
Oddment
OMFG I Love it!
Opium Fashion Agency
OuT.Rage!
P A S A R E L L A
Paja = Pastaria & Jade Designs
Palm Tree Gardens – Playround Fun / Tutorials 2 Go
Pas De Deux
PELLETTERIA MORRISEY
Pen’s Gems
PhotoGraphique
PIXELBODY
Pout
Prim & Pixel Paradise
PRIME
PrimNotions
Puarangi Designs Jewelry
Pulchritude
R I Designs Furniture
RanZ’
Reasonable Desires
REFLECTIONS
Rhiamon’s Realm
RiSa’s*
RnB Designs Furniture
Ruth’s Creations
S&C Designs
Sacred Lion Portraiture
SandzabaR Store
Sassy Kitty Designs
Seasonal Creations by MamaP
Second Look Art & Photo Studios
Second Music SL Blog
Second Shapes
Shabby Chic
ShaBo Designs
Shapely Designs
She’s So Unusual Shoes
Shiny Shop
Shoe Fly Shoes
Sian Birke Jewelry
Silk Dreams Fashions
Simply Seraphs
Sinuous Shapes
SIRENS SONG
SkyHigh Designs
SL~abrations
Slow Rezz Cafe Antiques & Curios Shop
Snow Rabbit
Solo Creations
sonToria
Special Jewell’s Fine Art Photography
SpellBound “”
Splendilicious Skins
Spoke n’ Cog
Starlight Photos
Sterling Artistry
Sweethearts Cafe & Bakery
Sweetwater Textures and Creations
SzonDesigns
Thalia’s Fashion Collection
The Dress Barn
The Greenwood Homes, Furnishings & Curiosities
The Hatter is Mad
The Hedge Witch
The Home Store at Ville de Giverny
The Lava Gallery
The PeaPod – Rugs & Wall Art
Thistle Homes
Tickling T’s
Timeless
Together Inc.
Total Betty Boutique
Totally Random
Touch of Sun
Trubble
Tutorials 2 Go
Twisted Silver
U&R DOGS
Vamp Shoes
Vanity Designs Inc.
VIRTUAL LIVING
VM DETAIL & DESIGN
Wedding Lane
Wicked Gear
Wildz Creations
Wilson’s Designs for men
Winter By PondLife
Wise Heron Shops
WoE
Worldwide Industries (WWI)
X-Factory
xtc designs
YeeVoo Designs
You Got Cooties
Zahir Design
Zomelia Design / Art Creation

New Poster, Blog, Gifts and so much more…

Stay tuned to this page each day we will have updates and each of them are important you you!

If at any time your land issues change send a notecard immediately to Inahime Spingflower with an updated lm & slurl!! Don’t delay this should be done before the actual change happens whenever possible.

I will continue to say how important it is to provide something for this Grid-wide event that good enough to sell as new and will be very proud of as a gift. This is a chance to reach a whole new group of customers and if you don’t do your best you will never know the joy of increased traffic. If you do a knock off or something that does not represent your best you not only cheat yourself, but you cheat those in the hunt before and after you that will make awesome gifts. There are a lot of hunts this year over the holiday season we need each of you to step up to the challenge so our wonderful fashion team from Opium agency does not feel that they are wasting their time. As soon as you are ready to have your item blogged send a full perms picture in a notecard with your name and the name of the business and a slurl to Anastacia Markova or Emma Portilo. Next join our flickr group and post that picture to the Peace On Earth flickr at http://www.flickr.com/groups/peaceonearth/

We have a new page at the blog with two polls please go vote now on these issues.

We have a new poster which you can lift the texture from the flickr or find in notices in the inworld group. We also have a hunters group found in search as Peace On Earth Hunters. This group is open enrollment and is being run by Eileen Villiers if you wish to have the vendor tag in this hunters group please im her.

POE2 ~ Peace on Earth Gridwide Hunt Application Process

The application process is closed thank you to all that applied. ALL VENDORS WILL BE POSTED BY NOVEMBER 10TH. If you are accepted you will be sent an invitation to join the vendors official group.

Acceptance of an application did not mean entrance into the hunt. We are happy that there was an enormous response and will be saddened to turn any away, but our experience leads us to believe the hunt will be attended and appreciated more if we keep to the criteria we specified from the beginning. Thank you for applying you all are appreciated and have been visited by more than one of our team to complete the selection process. The scrutinizing of placement into the hunt was a team effort, not an arbitrary process, several of the team visited your store to make sure you fit within the criteria and ideals we laid out in the blog. We encourage budding designers, unique content creators and most of all an attitude of excellence despite the experience of the designer or size of their shop to assure a positive experience which will bring the joy of the Holiday season to Second Life! Because of the number of hunts competing with Peace on Earth this year, we felt we could make it a more intimate hunt focusing on the purpose for which the hunt was founded. We would like to encourage growth to these ideals and if you feel like you would like to know how you might adjust to fit the criteria of the Peace On Earth hunt we would be more than willing to work with you to prepare for next years hunt beginning in January. Please drop a notecard to Inahime Spingflower in world for more information. Thank you again all that applied greetings and good tidings sent your way for the forthcoming holiday season and from all of us we wish you and yours Peace on Earth and Goodwill !!!

POE2 Hunt Criteria

We are finding that some clarification is needed to help vendors understand who will be accepted to the hunt and why and who will be denied and why. We are absolutely thrilled by the outpouring of generosity in those that have applied, because as many of you know this hunt is unlike many because of the spirit of this hunt. The Spirit of Peace on Earth is about “GIVING”. That is Giving the best part of of who we are and how we celebrate the winter holidays that month of December and into the New Year. We expect the best out of each and every one of you and that the gift is representative of your best not something simple and thrown together. We are inviting only the best designers, whether they are big or small regardless of designing history, based upon the quality of product they carry in their stores and in the presentation of their stores. December is often a time of great artistic expression and we celebrate this by offering as wide a range of unique items; the more unique your shop the greater your opportunity to be included.

We are looking for shops that have items for women, men, tinys, furrys, the fashion followers, the rebels, landscaping, gadgets, housewares, and more. It is important to us to let each vendor know that the hunt they are joining will foster the best reputation of quality and will reflect well on them for being part of it. The criteria we set is not arbitrary it is designed to foster the greatest traffic possible to your stores and create that Spirit of the Season throughout the grid.

The Criteria:
1. No Resellers. Stores that are more than 25% reseller of other designers big store merchandise. We are looking for the unique designers of distinctive creative content.

2. No Clubs unless they offer a individualized service unique to SL that fits perfectly into the other criteria.

3. No Malls only businesses will be accepted, however Mall owners are encouraged to help owners so they may see increased traffic to their sim.

4. This is a PG friendly hunt no adult images or depictions of nudity (other than skin stores). No gratuitous violence, sex, explicit language, bondage or related equipment or paraphernalia within sight of the store hunt area.

5. The landmark landing zone should be within 20 meters of store entrance or 10 meters from a teleport board. Exceptions would be if half or more of businesses of a sim are participating or it is plain to see your business when landing.

6. More than one store may be entered under one owner under these guidelines.
A. The store must have a unique name and sell something completely different
B. If they share the same sim they will be combined as one entry into the hunt
C. Each store may offer a gift in each store and it will be labeled accordingly.

7. Quality and ingenuity of product is important!!! Stores are to be accepted by determination of whether hunters will be excited to find these gifts, not personal style of those making the determination.

What Is The Purpose?

The theme PEACE ON EARTH was chosen to draw upon the universal sense of unity that we feel during the holiday season. It is meant to be a festive hunt that all peoples can embrace. It will be an opportunity for a grid wide celebration of the diversity that is Second Life. We wish to foster understanding , tolerance, and respect throughout this global community.  We wish to promote those things which bring people together and will select from the applications we receive, the stores and gifts we feel best represent those ideals of unity and trust among nations,peoples, & their communities. We will turn down applications we feel do not meet the above criteria. We are a general audience friendly hunt and are proud to offer our Second Life communities a safe holiday celebration. Applications will be accepted until November 1st, 2009 11:59 PM SLT.

As a vendor you are encouraged to showcase something special about a culture (national or other) , ethnicity and/or faith based belief, Peace on Earth theme or something related to Peace in general. We encourage these gifts to be of a high quality to be truly representative of your best designs. Please remember the spirit of goodwill of the season. We believe that generosity will reap rewards in return visits.

These gifts you will place into the contents of a small earth globe which will be delivered to you. You will place them in your store or mall area, perhaps slightly hidden but manageable to be found in a reasonable amount of time. No altering of the globe and no hidden rooms. We will have a large number of vendors involved and want to make sure that all have an opportunity to be visited. There will be several starting points to allow for an opportunity to hunt without encountering terrible lag. We hope for Peace in our lifetime for our planet and will nurture it in our own pixelated world : )