Bronze Ram's Head Corbel from our "3 Sheeps to the Wind" Pub Collection

Hi everyone.  Today's release actually was not intended to be a separate release. Funny how things place themselves at the front of your personal deadlines. I was building a portion of the new bar for the pub and spent most of the day texturing the oxidation of hammered bronze of a ram's head. I was inspired by grotesques and thought I could hang this above the fireplace as well. I'm not sure why it didn't occur to me originally to release this as it's own product. I don't give thought to other people possibly enjoying architectural salvage items the way Alchemy and I do in home decor. I showed her my progress for the day and as she would say, she lost her "little girlie mind." I took that to mean it should be released as a stand alone item. So, because of Alchemy, this is now available in the store for your antiquing and salvage pleasure.

I also plan on using the head as a starting point for redoing the flock of sheep on the SIMs soon. However, we are both waiting to see how the pathfinding experiments go before we create flocks that actually wander around.

Next up on my list of things to create are Guinness specific pouring animations. There is a certain way you have to pour from the tap and thus far we cannot find proper anims that confer this so I might as well make one that fits the beer dispensing system I'm building for the pub, eh? I was hoping to release the home bar today but I keep chasing the details of the bar such as the sheep sculpture and authentic beer dispensing. Oi....but if you're serious about your pints and your pubs, you likely don't mind my taking my time to create the details.

I hope this little ram's head brings a little personality to your spaces,
Immortalis Cyannis

(For a closer peek drop by our new Pub Collection department in our main shop.  He's also available on our Marketplace website shop in both a copy version as well as a transferable version.)

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The Thirsty Sheep (and his very huggable friend)

Our iconic flock has a new recruit, and he's been spotted hanging out in the "3 Sheeps to the Wind" pub atop one of the tables, enjoying someone's pint!

Adopt this saucy critter to tuck him into your own favourite space, complete with optional lapping tongue, and the authentic "pub salute" (em ... burps, that is).

The owner can turn these features on and off at will, or simply enjoy the new addition as a non-animated prop.

Your new pet ships in a crate that is full of the same kind of hijinx the sheep themselves are known for.  Stand back when you unpack it!  It's a live one ; )

For a closer peek and listen, drop by our new Pub Collection department in our main shop.  He's also available on our Marketplace website shop.

FREE GIFT INSIDE!

We've tucked a free gift into the crate for our favourite shepherds: a free "huggable" sheep with pose and soundeffects when worn.

MUGSHOTS!

The sheep have their own group on Flickr and KoinUp!

Want to share the antics of your own herd? Go ahead and post a pic to our wooly family albums:

• http://www.flickr.com/groups/3sheeps/

• http://www.koinup.com/group/3sheeps/

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The Boyfriend Lamp - Steampunk Edition (Instant Romance Kit!)

We've given our original "Boyfriend Lamp" a decidedly Steampunk twist, with a whole new set of themed presets and rezzables, and now even modifiable to boot! (Note: if you're looking for the original lamp, it's still available in our "Alchemy's Attic" shop on Marketplace).

This eclectic little "instant romance" kit is chocked full of fun.

It's a veritable swiss army knife for romance, with chick lit, chocolate & a whole lot more!

20 optional rezzables, including:

• sharable animated chocolates, wine, cognac & tea
• vintage ephermera (old letters, poetry & theatre tickets)
• wearable accessories (including a modifiable ascot)
• secret interactive notes
• drop "the hint" with baby items, including an interactive pregnancy test

KEY FEATURES:

• switch light on and off
• recolourable
• 12 steampunk themed presets
• interactive snapshot with a hidden note feature
• access control (owner only, guest, group or anyone)
• copiable so you can put out lamps in different colours
• free updates!

• Base lamp is only 13 prims. Rezzable prim counts: various.

NOTE: The "Steampunk Edition Draped Memoire Table" shown in ad is sold separately.

Want to take a closer peek? You'll find this item currently on display in the lobby of our inworld store. Click here to peek now, or click the picture at the top of this posting to purchase it.

Want to try the chocolates from this lamp for yourself? Drop by our new "Sirènes et Moineaux" pâtisserie (featured in "Prim Perfect" magazine as one of the 10 most romantic places to spend Valentine's Day) to help yourself, free of charge, to some of the chocolates at our tasting bar.

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Steampunk Edition Draped Memoire Table

Our popular Draped Memoire table is now modifiable and has received a Steampunk makeover, offering:

• 16 different distressed apron textiles
• upper and lower cloths can be changed separately with endless combinations
• lower cloth can be hidden
• 10 pedestal textures
• modifiable so you can add resize and add your own favourite textures

This table has a much darker aesthetic than our original "Stained Ticking and Toile" version (still available in our "Alchemy's Attic" shop on Marketplace and also in our inworld store), and is the perfect companion for the new "The Boyfriend Lamp - Steampunk Edition", with complementary themes, and just the right amount of surface space to support it's myriad of fun and rustic rezzables.

Click the table top to start cycling through the 16 different textile choices available.

Alternatively you can touch the bottom cloth to change it's textures.

To stop the texture cycling, touch the floor near the table's base, then touch again to bring up the menu.

Want to take a closer peek? You'll find this item currently on display in the lobby of our inworld store. Click here to peek now, or click the picture at the top of this posting to purchase it.

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Released Mid-Sized Ornate Bejewelled Presentation Box

We've added a medium-sized version of our new ornate bejewelled boxes for people who are looking for something a little larger than a ring box, but not quite as big as our Keepsake Box. You'll find the new "Ornate Bejewelled Presentation Box", which is suitable for displaying bracelets and other mid-sized props, available both in our Marketplace store, and in our inworld shop.

So what's the difference between the three? Only size. Aesthetically, it's the same elegant display piece, but each is made to suit a particular set of treasures, with the scripting in the lid tailored to open and close it in proportion to each box. Here's how to choose the one that's right for you:

• Ornate Bejewelled Ring Box (small) - suitable for displaying rings and small props
• Ornate Bejewelled Presentation Box (medium) - suitable for displaying bracelets and similarly-sized props
• Ornate Bejewelled Keepsake Box (large) - uitable for displaying necklaces and larger

(Clicking on the links above will take you to the related product in our Marketplace shop).

Want a visual gauge to help you determine the difference between the sizes? Stop by the Jewelry Department in our inworld shop, where you'll find the boxes on display by their vendor (shown in the picture at the top of this post).

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Sneak Peek at Our New "3 Sheeps to the Wind" Pub

When you work with a perfectionist, it's impossible to resist peeking over their shoulder from time to time at their process, and in my case, done almost always in awe. Immortalis has been hard at work on our new "3 Sheeps to the Wind" pub, a space we hope will give our residential tenants and guests a fun and authentically Irish place to share a pint and a bit of cheer.

I'll admit I was already excited when I watched him put together the untextured, plain-prim prototype. It was easy to imagine people nestling into snugs listening to bodhráns and fiddles in this cozy place. And then he busted out the digital NOS :D This week he began bringing in the actual sculpted pieces and test textures, and a very vivid and living energy emerged from the simple facade.

We had a logo! (and of course -it- had the requisite, iconic sheep ;) The textures are touchable and highly detailed, with distressed wood, burnished brass and paint that's literally peeling off the prims, a rare dimensionality that makes it pop out of the screen.

The thing that drives him mad and me to delight is his insistence on upping the bar with every new thing he tackles. He's spent the better part of the past 2 months perfecting his workflow between a very new version of Blender, Zbrush and a handful of SL-based tools that allow him to create realistic sculpts and textures in a way he's never done it before.

Here are much more detailed versions of the pictures for a closer peek:

• Facade # 1

• Facade # 2

• Sign

These pictures really don't convey the essence of what is so darn cool about the build I see emerging in our studio, but we hope the sneak peek will offer a little taste of what's to come.

I'll tuck in one last link, which will port you to the spot on the ground that is the future home of our pub, where we hope to be inviting you in for a pint sometime next month.

Slán go fhoil,
Alchemy.

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New Ornate Jewelled Ring Box and Keepsake Box

If you've purchased our new "Deirdre of the Sorrows" ring, or one of our new "Courage, My Love" finger talismans, then you've already had a peek at our exquisite new 6-sided jewelled ring box.

When -we- give gifts we like the package to be as pretty as the treasure inside, and we're sure you do too, so Immortalis has conjured up this ornate presentation box to make your gifting extra special, complete with our signature handcrafted sculpts and textures, aged and pitted patina, and sparkling jewel.

The version that ships has a lid that opens and closes, but is not modifiable. It presents it's contents on touch, then renames itself to an ornate jewelled ring box that can be used as a display prop.

For people that want a modifiable version to tuck their own favourite things in, we offer one both in our Marketplace store, and in the jewelry department of our inworld shop. We also offer a larger Keepsake version for necklaces and larger props.

We hope you'll enjoy giving this little gift within a gift as much as we do!

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"Courage, My Love" Rings in 5 New Colours and 8 Rustic Metals

Last March we released a limited edition version of our "Courage, My Love" ring, bearing Amethyst stones. It was offered for a very short time, with 100% of the profits going to help fight cancer through the "Relay for Life" effort within Second Life.

Since then people have been asking us to bring this ring back and make it available in our shop. While we won't be doing that, as it was meant to be something unique for the "Relay for Life", we have in fact set out the unreleased versions in other colours.

These elegant cocktail rings have received a bit of a makeover, adding new metals, and the ability to change the "rib cage", "band" and "vines" independently of each other.

NOTE: While the rings in the display ads show a particular set of metals, there are 8 metals in total, with all rings having the ability to display any combination of them.

This finger talisman offers the same firey brilliance that was a hallmark of the Amethyst gems, now in 5 new sets of stones, including the "Amber & Amethyst" version shown in the picture above, and four more companion rings.

The rings also ship in our brand new Ornate Jeweled Ringbox (pictured at the bottom of this post).

Click on the picture to go to the related ring in our Marketplace shop, or click here visit the jewelry department of our inworld store to spoil yourself or your favourite girl with one or two of these exquisite sparklers.

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Win One of Our Gatehouse Cottages, Our Sim Kit and L$5,000 Spending Money!

Some of you have started to notice the gold coins that are tucked into some of our favourite hiding spots around the sim. These are part a "Prim Perfect" magazine quest that could earn you L$5,000, along with one of our Gatehouse Cottages and our full "Elements of Empress and Hierophant" sim landscaping kits.

Pick up the new March 2012 issue of "Prim Perfect" magazine and flip to page 10 of the current issue to learn more about how you can participate, then get out there and find all 10 of the coins hidden on our sims.

(Hint: see "Ten Places to Visit in Alchemy Immortalis" on page 38 for clues).

You have until March 31st, 2012.

Happy hunting!

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Alchemy Immortalis Featured SIM/Designers in Prim Perfect Magazine March 2012

Pick up the new March 2012 issue of "Prim Perfect" magazine to learn a bit more about the team behind Alchemy Immortalis, grab a spring gift, and join in on a quest that could earn you L$5,000 from the "Prim Perfect" team, along with one of our Gatehouse Cottages and our full "Elements of Empress and Hierophant" sim landscaping kits.

You can read the articles online, but suggest dropping by our shop to pick up a copy at the Prim Perfect subscription kiosk so that you can receive the gifts that are embedded in the actual magazine, including the one we've tucked in with our own ad on page 32.

We rarely give interviews, but made an exception for Saffia Widdershin's crew this past month both on "Designing Worlds" on Treet.tv, and "Prim Perfect" magazine. Her staff on both sides are intelligent storytellers both in pixels and word, and a great deal of fun!

Looking for the free gift we shared with readers? Be sure to grab the inworld copy of Prim Perfect and flip to page 32, where you'll find a GIFT tab next to our current ad.

Want to know more about the inspiration behind some of the favourite spots on our Sims? Open to page 22 where AI is featured as "Region of the Month", where we talk with the wonderful Honour McMillan about some of the secrets and magic behind the 5 sims in our region, as well as some upcoming projects, like our "3 Sheeps to the Wind" pub, and the new community garden project.

On page 34 Honour shares a bit about us people and how we collaborate to create the magic that populates our digital canvas.

On page 50 she also shares some of our work as we're featured as "Designers of the Month", including more about those iconic mischief-makers, our Blackface Sheep.

On page 58 CeeJay Writer offers a tour through one of our Gatehouse Cottages (one of the prizes for the lucky winner of the quest!) and the rustic and decadent furnishings we tuck in. (By now you might have noticed, as she did, that we're just a bit obsessed with tea ; )

Thanks so much to Saffia Widdershins, Aisling Sinclair, Honour McMillan, Wildstar Beaumont, CeeJay Writer, GM Nikolaidis, Jedburgh30 Dagger, PJ Trenton, Java Jetcity, Winona Wiefel and the Prim Perfect crew for doing such a beautiful job of sharing our sims and our story!

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Deirdre of the Sorrows Jewelry Collection on Time for St. Patrick's Day

Skip the green beer and help yourself to something more authentically Irish for St. Patrick's Day this year. Head over to Alchemy Immortalis where you'll find a new collection of jewelry honouring the unbreakable devotion of legendary Irish lovers, Deirdre and Naoise.

Parted in death at the hands of a king, the two lovers were buried side-by-side. From Deirdre's grave a tree grew and, from Naoise's grave grew another. The two trees met and became so intertwined that nothing could ever part them again.

Celebrate this St. Patrick's Day with a exquisite unisex ring donning the intertwined branches of these two lovers embracing a stunning emerald and smoky quartz gems. Custom-crafted sculpts and textures are the hallmark of our jewelry collections, with this ring offering 3 different metal choices on the accent pieces surrounding an elegant bronze band.

The rings also ship in our brand new Ornate Jeweled Ringbox (pictured at the bottom of this post).

You can pick the ring up in our Marketplace shop, or in the Alchemy Immortalis shop inworld, where the companion pieces are also on display on a pedestal in our jewelry department. Click the picture below to port to our inworld store to have a peek.

Right clicking the individual pieces in the display will allow you to purchase them.

Wishing you a Happy St. Patrick's Day from the virtual Emerald Isles ...

-- Alchemy and Immortalis Cyannis.

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Alchemy Immortalis Featured on Designing Worlds on Treet TV

Saffia Widdershins and Elrik Merlin of the Designing Worlds show recently spent time with us exploring the 5 sims in our Alchemy Immortalis region.

If you've ever wondered about the inspiration behind your favourite ) AI ( hiding spot, here's the way to find out!

We invited our group to join us as guests in the Designing Worlds studio yesterday for the broadcast, where we also treated them to a special gift, part of our new "3 Sheeps to the Wind" pub collection, as we get ready to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

If you weren't able to attend in person you can still click here to watch the show on demand on the Treet.tv web site.

You can also learn more in the March issue of "Prim Perfect" magazine, which comes out this Friday. We're featured as the sim of the month, with various articles giving an inside look into the spaces, the designs and a bit more about us : ) The magazine hits the deck this Friday, March 17th.

Thanks so much to Saffia Widdershins, Elrik Merlin, Aisling Sinclair, Beq Janus, Judith Lefevre, Wildstar Beaumont and the Designing Worlds crew for doing such a beautiful job of sharing our sims and our story!



Photo Credit: Texas Timtam, Designing Worlds

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New "3 Sheeps to the Wind" Pub Collection - Basic Barrel Table and Chair Set

Now available on the Marketplace web site and inworld at the main Alchemy Immortalis shop.

• 4 barrel stools and a table with realistic shadows, textures, and animations

• lush, tooled-leather seats with realistic shaping

• 14 different animations, including sitting, standing, drinking & smoking

• table is 3 prims (includes optional shadow prim)

• each stool is 2 prims

The heart of Irish culture is the talent for conversation, and the love of music and language. These greatest elements of Celtic history rest in the bosom of the pub. Pubs, throughout history, have represented a link to the outside world, where news could be heard, politics discussed, business opportunities discovered, and friends made. Society has always been divided along lines of ethnicity, gender, race, and class, but in pubs the boundaries often overlap, as diverse groups sit together side by side. Pubs are living history.

The best place to immerse yourself, is by simply finding a pub and taking a seat. Alchemy Immortalis is proud to offer our little barrel table and chair set as the first in a set of props released as part of our "3 Sheeps to the Wind" Irish pub. We hope it inspires you to weave your own little thread in human history.

The set consists of 4 barrels and a table with realistic shadows, textures, and animations.

Each barrel stool contains a total of 14 poses divided between men and woman. They range from sitting, to drinking, and smoking. Props are dispensed when appropriate.

Very soon we will make available a deluxe version with even more animations (including couples and interactive friends animations), as well as stand alone tables and stools for your pub hopping pleasure.

Over the next few months we'll release props as they are finished and fresh from the studio...and build up to the release of the pub prefab this spring. We also have plans to create a pub business kit similar to our popular "Sirenes et Moineaux Patisserie" business kit. The pub kit will allow anyone with a dream of owning an authentic Irish pub to live out your dream, and make a little linden on the side!

We both hope you'll have a wonderful Saint Patrick's Day!

Alchemy and Immortalis Cyannis
Joint designers for Alchemy Immortalis

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Lush New Low-Prim Spring and Seasonal Wreaths

If your first life locale has been swept by those crazy storms the way our's has, chances are spring arrived a little early. To help welcome it we've just tucked 4 lush new collections of wreaths into the shop, with many of the wreaths being as low as 3 prims, and only L$125.

Drop by our landscaping centre to take a peek at these fun new decor pieces, and bring a little spring into your own favourite space.

(We'll tuck a link in to the Marketplace website once they're available there.)

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Residential and Vacation Cottage Rentals at Alchemy Immortalis

In January we opened the doors to our new residential rentals program, inviting guests to rent cottages on our 3 Bed & Breakfast sims. We currently host 5 cottages on Inis Caiseal, 3 on Ceangal and 3 on Saerlaith.

In addition we offer 2 short-term vacation stay skyboxes for daily rentals on our Inis Caiseal sim.

These filled up within hours of opening the program, but from time to time one becomes available again, and will show in our "Rentals Finder" below. (If it's empty, that means everything is currently rented.)



To rent one of our available properties, click the link below it's picture. You will be ported to the rental box. (At the time of this posting, the HippoTech Rentals Finder page was still in beta mode, and we're finding that the links to the map locations are broken.)

You can also visit one of our two rental centres to see available properties based on sim location. You can rent a property from our rental vendors there, or by paying the rental mailbox in front of the available property.

• Rental Centre at our main Alchemy Immortalis shop
• Rental Centre at our rezzing stables on Inis Caiseal

We've updated our rental centre systems to correct problems that have been making it difficult for people to find and rent available properties. We apologize for the inconvenience, and think you'll find the new property listings vendors much easier to use.

Want to be notified when a cottage becomes available for rent? There's a sign in each of the rental centres that you can click to subscribe to our rental property alerts.

We hope that you'll find a homestead of your own within our rustic little community. Please don't hesistate to let us know if you need assistance, have questions, or wish to bend our ear about something that you think will make our little community even more welcoming and resilient!

We're looking forward to having you as our neighbour!

"May your troubles be less
And your blessing be more
And nothing but happiness
Come through your door."

-- Alchemy & Immortalis Cyannis.

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