:: NEW :: Gothic Landing Build

Detailed gargoyles surrounded by fine stone and iron work place this build in a unique architectural category somewhere between Notre Dame and some sort of oversized crypt from a dark fantasy.

Pictured here atop the Raven Tree Main Store on MGM in Second Life the Gothic Landing was designed to accompany your dark desires to new levels of enjoyment. Why is it called a 'Landing' you may ask? Well, it really makes a great central location or 'Landing Spot' for your dark themed SIMs. The included gargoyles are a refreshing new take on a common theme in Second Life. I spent hours and hours creating and texturing all the various gargoyle pieces and all the sculpts for the building itself, making sure the shadows all looked just right. 

There is a large main-level gathering area that could serve easily as 'grand role play stage' or commercial space for the right kind of SL content creator. Above each of the four stairways is a small gathering spot or retail vendor display area—two are roof covered, while the other two are open air. Higher still is a large open deck area where gargoyles perch and keep lookout. Centered in this upper area is a 'hidden' room, the uses for which are limited only by its size and your imagination.

Two of the stairways can be lit with the included gargoyle lanterns – just touch them to turn the flame on or off. Actually, you can light as many as you want with the gargoyle lanterns because they are copy permission and separately linked from the main build.

Building Tip ---->> right click and edit the gargoyle lantern - hold down shift and drag one of the colored arrows to make a copy of the gargoyle lantern for use in other areas! Enjoy.

See more details on the build at SL Marketplace or come visit and explore its incredible 3D experience in-world.

Virtual Democracy in Second Life

Corporate America has a plan for you. Corporate America wants you fat and yet hungry for more. They want you stuffed with fast food and diabetic. They want you awake at 3am watching infomercials. They want your mind useless like a cold wet noodle. They want you sick and prescription dependent. And those that aren't sick, they want you too. They want you slaving away till you die so you can pay that mortgage forever.

Corporate America wants to shove the American Dream down your throat until you choke – they want to wash your brain with their version of enslaved freedom until you completely forget what true freedom even meant. They've had a plan for you since before you were born.

But they can't take away our freedom because we'll always have our right to choose—our ability to say no to the fast food, no to huge extravagant houses, no to cigarettes, no to a prescription for every known bad feeling under the sun, no no no!!!

They can't take that away.

That American freedom is mirrored within a virtual world known as Second Life™. Widely known as the largest user created online virtual world of our time, and practically all built by its residents, Second Life runs on a majorly capitalistic micro-economy based on the almighty Linden Dollar. Residents are free thinking citizens if you will, free to socialize, build, work, develop, create, sell, educate, learn, and do just about anything (please see the Linden Labs TOS for governing law). They are free to dance, to fall in love, to practice all faiths, or partake in the many lifestyle communities that exist in Second Life or dream of those yet to be created.

Just like in America the on-going struggle to remain free while still being governed and living in a law abiding society is always apparent within Second Life. Just like in America Second Life's residents are a mixture of people that give of themselves, people that provide helpful services, people that invent and provide what others are willing to pay for, and people that are willing to break the laws of the land for their own personal gain. Another parallel, is the difficult task of bringing such ruthless people to justice—but just like in America where people don't want the federal government policing all their actions, residents of Second Life don't want Linden Lab turning into the equivalent of the CIA or worse.

Virtual life continues alongside the physical one with its residents facing many of the same challenges we all have as citizens of the real world. Second Life is not a utopia free from real life problems. It is however a grand and diverse virtual place to express ourselves, an environment where we connect with inner truths and like minded people in ways that can be difficult to accomplish anywhere else. Second Life is a place where, if left untouched by the reign of tyrannous governments, all peoples of developed nations and who have high speed internet access can become citizens of an online world where they are free to live as they please. Like America, Second Life is a free country as long as you can afford it.

Valentine's "Hunt for Savings" still going on through February

The first "Jar of Clues" is located in a handy spot right at the Raven Tree Creations landing point in the main store. Just look for the sign pictured here.

A few adjustments have been made to clue locations based on feedback from those that have completed the hunt making finishing successfully even easier than before!

See you here.

Misha Fine Jewelry

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Here I am feeling beautiful wearing new Misha Bangle Bracelets with Onyx. I just love the creative individualism Misha deftly imparts into each piece of jewelry she makes. It's obvious that she loves what she does and it shows! Misha Kerang is definitely one of Second Life's finest new jewelry artisans.


A highlight at DGD Fahion Mall on the Lanika SIM in Second Life, Misha's shop features precious gems as well.


Oh, and the lovely bag I carried home my new jewelry in looks so pretty on my shelf that I think I'll keep it there alongside my books and things. I look forward to shopping at Misha Fine Jewelry often because she is constantly releasing new designs that keep me coming back!


My Hair is from Wasabi Pills. It's called Earleen Hair.
My top and jeans were a freebie at 22769 Casual Couture
My sit pose/animation is from Sissy's Animations

The Small Stone Cottage from Raven Tree

Imagine cozy comfort while residing in this well appointed small stone cottage. This versatile two room cottage looks at home on SIMs ranging from Medieval role play to modern country side living. This cottage is perfect for single rental units. Come see it all furnished at the Raven Tree Main Store!

Features include:

• Sculpted rock walls with rustic original custom stone texture
• Finely sculpted pillars, stairs, and roof prims
• Sculpted arches with custom shaded textures
• Scripted fold-away stairway to second floor room
• Home controller system with privacy mode
• Lock doors and change window textures and opacity using the menu
• Small and functional - it will fit on most any plot of land
• Stairs and door use custom edited sounds, different for open and close. They are professionally edited to sync with the movement of the scripted doors and stairs
• The front gate has its own special professionally edited sound effects for open and closing too
• Control switches for the fold away stairs, one upstairs and one downstairs

122 prims *** no MOD / yes COPY / no TRANS

The cottage measures 14.5 front to back  x 10.28 wide x 22.3 meters high

Pictures following—this quaint stone cottage is the perfect centerpiece for many types of role play and nestles well amongst forests and hills and other homes with its impressive shapes and textures. With architecture that fuses Medieval and Gothic Revival styles it wows the senses in tantalizing ways.

Enjoy quiet evenings relaxing and chatting with friends. Or use the confining upper floor for endless role play situations.

Feast your eyes on the skillfully sculpted and textured stones of the exterior walls, and arches, and cornerstone columns.

In this picture the house controller can be seen glowing and orange to the right side of the entrance. The front gate and double sliding front doors are both individually lockable from the controller menu. With this menu operated controller you can do the following:

• Open and close the front gate and front doors separately
• Lock or unlock the front doors and front gate separately
• Choose between four different textures for the windows separately for upstairs and downstairs
• Choose opacity for the upstairs and downstairs windows separately
• Choose window opacities ranging from 5% to 100%
• Specify a special 'privacy mode' for the windows separately for upstairs/downstairs
• Privacy mode features 35% opacity from the inside and yet 100% opacity from the outside so people can't see in

Drink in the quality of this finely built structure as you take note of its true divided light arch shaped windows.

At only 4 prims each, these windows, with their custom textured arches and sills, with their expertly sculpted wooden mullions, and with their menu changeable glass textures to fit many periods of history are just one of the many highlights of this gem of a cottage.

Give yourself the experience of owning a building that bleeds with creativity. This simple stone cottage can inspire otherworldly, dreamlike outer realms. Throughout history cottages such as this have left their nonhuman, but none the less powerful influences on humanity.

Looking angelic, the cottage is pictured here with some of the Redwood and fantasy trees and ferns from our "Redwood Forest Fantasy" packages. Available at the SL Marketplace online.

Here we see a view of one of the four window texture choices as well as the carefully crafted and sculpted exterior stonework.

Those that appreciate quality sounds in second life will enjoy the sound effects made especially for these items. The front slider doors and stairs use a Raven Tree professionally edited sound that includes an actual 'attack' when the doors close. The front gate has its own custom open and close sounds. These sounds are all professionally edited and layered with stereo quality and feature unique 'attack thumps' and 'sweeteners' that sync with the scripted movement of the gate and doors and interior stairs.

Looking through the lockable front gate past the open, yet lockable front doors and out through the rear window into the forest beyond. The dormer windows look out from the sculpted peaked roof atop the two story cottage.

Windows can be set to 'clear' as well as a range of opacities from 5% up to 100% and feature a menu operated 'privacy mode' that lets you see out while other can't see in.

All Raven Tree Creations products are carefully handcrafted and/or sculpted and are sure to add style and comfort to your Second Life.

Thank you for your interest. And please, feel free to IM with any questions. ~ Ginny Enzo

Valentine's "Heart Hunt for Savings" Going on Now at Raven Tree Creations

Come join the thrill of the hunt and search out the discount vendor containing your FREE ottoman and seriously discounted sex bed! At the Raven Tree Landing Spot you'll find a sign that looks like this:

Hunt for Savings Sign - click this for info

Click the jar or clues in front of the sign pictured above for additional info and special instructions about this hunt. Then Simply touch the  adjacent Jar of Clues and you're on your way. (Remember that all the Jars of Clues 'whisper' their secrets into local chat so you'll need to be within 10 meters of a jar to 'hear' it).

Check posts labeled "Product Releases" for more information on this one of kind canopy covered heart shaped sex bed!

Explore the pretty island with your friends while searching for clues and interpreting hints. The hints are pretty easy to follow, so you'll have plenty of time to carry on with your conversations or do some shopping while hunting. Good luck!

About the Raven Tree Jars of Clues

Jar of Clues

Here at the Raven Tree SIM you may come across an object that looks like this pretty pink jar pictured here. If you see one of these seemingly randomly placed jars, don't be fooled—each one has been specifically placed in connection with the current "Hunt" that is going on at Raven Tree. These simple jars are key when participating in hunts to win various prizes or find featured discount vendors selling special items.

These Jars of Clues whisper into open chat when touched. So a hunt participant needs to be within 10 meters of the clicked jar to get the clue in open chat.

These hunts give you a chance to come and enjoy the beautiful Raven Tree SIM. Stay tuned for announcements and descriptions of current Raven Tree Hunts!

:: NEW PRODUCT :: Raven Tree Four Poster Canopy Lover's Sex Bed

Located at Raven Tree's Main Store (vendors are right in the landing spot) I am now offering this new heart shaped sex bed on sale through the month of February to celebrate Valentine's Day. Come get yours for only 299L$ while this incredible deal still lasts! Oh! And there is also a free gift inside the vendors—a cute little ottoman adorned with pretty pink hearts that includes a single sit animation.

Both versions – with sex and without – look identical

There are two versions of this sensuous bed available on sale now – one with sex animations and one without. The one without the sex animations is also on sale now through the end of February for only 199L$. A great bargain for such a lovely bed that is easily combined with one of Second Life's high quality stand alone sex engines.

Particulars about the beds are listed below – some of which only apply to the sex menu version:

               ::::::::::::  Four Poster Canopy Lover's Sex Bed  ::::::::::::

Highlights:

•    Regal yet rustic Style

•    Warm Plush Canopy

•    Cozy Operable side Curtains

•    Custom Sculpted and Textured finely detailed prim-work

•    MLP2 with 46 total animations included

Quick Start:

•    rezz it, position it.

•    click the curtain tassels to operate curtains (note: curtain at head of bed is stationary)

•    click the curtains or canopy or dark base for a color change menu

•    click the top mattress for sex menu

•    type /1 show or /1 hide to show or hide the couples pose balls (these are separate from the sex engine!)

With its solid post frame in aesthetic contrast with its sensuously, luxurious bedding, canopy, and side curtains, this quality bed from Raven Tree Creations™ is sure to add much pleasure to your Second Life while looking impressive in your room.

Operation of the bed's functions:

1)    Color Change function

a)    The color changer effects the 'canopy', the 'posts', the 'curtains', and the 'tassels'.

b)    Choose 'ALL' or one of the above categories from the menu for your desired color change.

c)    Simply touch a curtain or the canopy to get the menu.

d)    The menu offers a 'default' selection to bring the colors back to how they were when you rezzed the bed.

e)    There is also a 'Raven Tree Burgundy' color selection available on the menu for those of you who love a deep Burgundy color as much as I do. ;-)

2)    Sliding curtain function

a)    Each curtain slides individually

b)    Touch a curtain's tassel to slide it back and forth

3)    Animations are available by clicking the top heart shaped mattress prim for a menu. You can make adjustments to the positions by clicking the OPTIONS button off the menu and making further choices from there.

NOTE: if you find the pose balls hard to sit on because they are inside the bed simply choose the stand button on the menu - the balls will be in a easy place to sit on after that - then you can choose other positions from there!

4)    Pose Balls for the couples cuddle pose are linked into the bed and can be shown by typing /1 show into local chat – or hidden by typing /1 hide into local chat.

Specs:

Dimensions

•    5.13386 wide

•    5.13386 long

•    4.80152 tall

Prim count: 84 total

•    All Phantom

Permissions are: no copy / no mod / transfer

Thank you.

Welcome

I'd like to welcome everybody to Raven Tree Creations new blog—where I'll be premiering new Raven Tree product releases, announcing events, promotions, and/or changes at the Raven Tree Main Store.

I'll also be sharing with you bits and pieces about some of Second Life's finest content creators, designers, animators, and artists—with posts about various things and places I come across in my travels.

Thanks for being here. And I hope to see you around in Second Life!