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Sanu in SL: Time for a remodel and a personal update.

Published on October 14, 2010 in Digital, Sanu Stuff, second life and Update. 1 Comment

I have been busy. Busy busy busy. The past few weeks have been particularly hectic, especially considering that I finally had my knee surgery. I would love to go into detail about what I really think about the whole knee-operation thing, but I think I’d bore everyone to death! In short, if something I was meant to do for you has been slightly delayed, my sincere apologies – I’ve been a little laid up. I’ll be getting to work on some of those things this week.

Now for the important thing… after a bit of a hiatus from Second Life, I’m back and rearing to go! I love the Halloween season in Second Life – it is full of incredibly fun events, cute products and colourful costumes. It really is my favourite Second Life holiday. So, to get into the swing of things, I’ve got the storefront all decorated up for the season.

Although I’ve just put one little picture of the set-up with this post, you can see a more comprehensive set of photos here on Flickr, or you can  visit Sanu to check it out in person.

Sanu in SL: It’s like trying to find a needle in a haystack!

Published on July 31, 2010 in Announcements, Digital, Portraits, Sanu Stuff and second life. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , .

You know, I think a hunt is a great way to kick off the new month. During August I will be participating in the Needle in a Haystack Hunt, hosted by the Happy Hunters group. This will be their first hunt, so hopefully everything will go nice and smoothly for them!

You can find a full list of participating stores on the Happy Hunters website, which will no doubt also have hints and teasers of some of the prizes added soon as well.

The prize at my store is now up and ready to go. It contains two cute skins, in addition to some needles for nomming. (Please don’t try this at home. Like running with scissors, nomming with needles is hardly a great idea.)

You can find these prizes at the Sanu mainstore inside a little haystack, and I haven’t hidden it all that hard. In a big hunt such as this, I just think it is much easier on everyone to have a prize that is easier to find!

In case you do get stuck though, here is a little hint: I’m feeling hungry… do you like cupcakes as much as I do?

Sanu in SL: Hairbows and Shoes and Hearts, Oh My!

Published on July 29, 2010 in Digital, Sanu Stuff and second life. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .

The Albero Gatcha Festival has just launched its second half, and once again there are a bevy of awesome designers from Artilleri to fri.day stuffing prizes into gatchas for your enjoyment. These cute heart hairbows and heart flats are brand new fro Sanu and are currently only at the festival!

Some of the other items I have up you’ve already seen: there are the love letters and poems, as well as the chibi-heart pets. Since the hairbows and flats were specifically designed to match these other items, I just thought it right to set them all up together. Now you can be coordinated from top to toe!

For those who aren’t sure what a gatcha (otherwise known as gacha, gachapon or gashapon) is, it really isn’t all that mystical. You remember those little machines that were around when you were a kid? The kind you stuck 20c (or a quarter, I am assuming, for the American among us) into, and turned the crank to receive a gumball or a toy or something? Well, a gacha is pretty much that, though the term is most often associated with the high-quality capsule toys of Japan, for which the term was originally coined.

Gatchas have become rather popular on Second Life – and why wouldn’t they? They’re fun, largely affordable (although I have seen some that go as high as L$1000 a go! Eep!), and the prizes are great to collect. There’s an element of fun and surprise, not to mention that they make excellent gifts when you get more than one of the same kind.

Anyhow, you can get these great items and many more at the Albero Gatcha Festival from June 28th though to August 14th. Go! Quick! Check it out!

Sanu in SL: Give someone your heart.

Published on July 24, 2010 in Digital, Sanu Stuff and second life. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .

It was so hard waiting off on releasing these until the weekend. They totally made me laugh with barely contained glee when they were all done and finished. Here’s why:

It almost feels like something has been made whole – a cycle has somehow been completed and come back to the start again. Funny that I should say something so monumental about cute little hearts that people can gift to each other, but it is true!

You see, as a child, I used to draw. I drew a lot. And one of the things that I drew a lot of, was love-heart people. They weren’t all that complicated really – their main shape was a heart, and they had eyes, a mouth and a pair of legs. They were sometimes pudgy, sometimes skinny; sometimes they were smiling and sometimes they wore expressions of anger. It all came down to who the heart was, what their personality was like and how they interacted with the other heart people. Occasionally they had arms, but not often… eyes, mouth and legs were the only necessary elements.

Anyhow, when I completed this little chibi-heart pet, I thought, ‘Wow.’

As a six year old kid, happily drawing on the back of scrap paper and inventing entire societies of love-heart people, I could never have imagined where that would lead. I always wanted to be an artist, but to even think that one day I might be creating a derivative of those first simple characters to sell in an online virtual user-led environment to people all over the world would just have been unfathomable. Kinda makes me wonder where things will be in another twenty year’s time… and whether I will still be creating love-heart characters to make myself smile.

You can pick up your own chibi-heart pet in Second Life now at the mainstore! Go ahead… give someone a heart and brighten up their day.

Oh, and please ignore any errors with the site right now – I’m just doing a bit of an update, and a few things have gone a little wonky. I promise I will get them sorted as soon as I can!

Sanu in SL: Love is in the air!

Published on July 20, 2010 in Digital, Sanu Stuff and second life. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .
Sanu in Second Life: Sanura Sakai brings you... love letters! You get an envelope, and anyone who clicks it gets a cute love letter!

I know it isn’t Valentine’s Day, but I say that any time is a good time to express your love and affection for someone. So feeling in a lovey-dovey mood (as you do sometimes), today’s Sanu release includes adorable love letters and love poems!

Sanu in Second Life: Lovely love poems are just what you to brighten up your day and bring a smile to your face.

For both the love letters and the love poems, you receive an envelope, and inside each of those envelopes is an incredibly cute little note that anyone can receive if they give it a click. The love poems take on a ‘Roses are red, Violets are blue’ structure, while the love letters are a bit more free-form.

I had a heap of fun writing them… how can I not? As anyone knows, my products have a tendency to be a bit quirky, so these have poems and letters which span the whole of the love-scale. Some are funny, some are heartfelt, and there’s even a couple of poems in there that seem downright insulting. I mean, with words like ‘poo’ and ‘moo’ rhyming with ‘blue’, you can’t help but work with what you’ve got. Each poem and letter is a lovely surprise.

Stay tuned – these are certainly not the last of the love releases. I’m considering holding back some of the pieces for the second half of the Albero Gatcha Festival, but we’ll see how we go. I might give you a sneak peek sometime soon!