The Cafe Society

Flamingo Overall Theme Use (2 awards-Rose Farina of Rose Petal Creations for her Black Flamingo Flamenco Dress, and Luicee Babii for her Flamingo Thong

Flamingo High Prim Use Award: Klaang Klaar of Klaar & Co.

Flamingo Low Prim Use Award: Chandni Khondji of HopScotch

Flamingo Sculptie Use Award: Klaar & Co for his Flamingo Passion

Flamingo Sweetheart Awards: Grace Winnfield of Gracie’s

Flamingo Bold Award:Luicee Babii for her men’s thong

Flamingo Subtle Award: Betty Doyle of Ingenue

Flamingo Non-Layer Award: Hibiscus Flossberg of Hi-Flo, The Hidden Jewel for her shoulder bag.

Flamingo Mens Clothing Award: Luicee Babii for her men’s thong

Flamingo Women’s Clothing Award: Rose Farina of Rose Petal Creations for her Black Flamingo Flamenco Dress

Flamingo Accessory Award: Hibiscus Flossberg of Hi-Flo, The Hidden Jewel for her Flamingo Belt

I would like to point out two entrants who created amazing items Kurston Brody, MissPure Voom, and Moire Georgette, they created stunning pieces! We encourage everyone to check out each entrants store if you haven’t had the chance to see our design challenge entries do it while you still can! We would like to thank our members for all the work they have done in pulling of this new concept in events its been a real feat but so much fun! I would also like to thank all the entrants for setting aside time in their First and Second Lives to create an entry. You showed us fun and variety on the creative end in Second Live content creation. We thank you, and enjoyed every moment and item. We hope you enjoyed our challenge and will enter our Summer Design Challenge in July. Theme: Too Darn Hot!/Cat on a Hot Tin Roof/Fever! details later! We also hope that residents enjoyed seeing what a simple theme can develop into in a variety of ways. Please stay tuned for more design challenges, and other Cafe Society Events!

What makes the most exciting event of the season? Challenge designers to create a wearable item inspired by a flamingo, add a hunt, photo contest, four DJs, a live band and Cinco de Mayo extravagance for 12 hours!!!

On Saturday, May 3rd from 12 pm until 12 am, The Cafe Society is presenting an amazing 12-hour event in celebration of Cinco de Mayo!

The theme is “Flamingos and Flamencos,” so be sure to put on your Latin Groove and come on down to be a part of this exciting, sizzling-hot fiesta! During the festivities, if you are not too busy salsa dancing into the sunset, you will get the chance to vote in the Flamingo Design Challenge, where prizes will be awarded to the designers who receive the most votes. Come prepared for a full day of fun events, including a sim-wide hunt, an event photo contest, voting for the design entries, flamingo races, four fabulous live DJ’s, and the best live Latin band in SL — *Shamanes* — performing not one — but two — sets!

Come dressed to salsa dance under the tropical sun by day and shake to the sensual Latin grooves on the steamy seaside promenade at night. Afterwards, join us for an exclusive after-party on our glamorous yacht! You will not want to miss this once-in-a-slifetime event. See you there!

http://slurl.com/secondlife/SoHo%20New%20York/89/222/22

All day Photo Contest

All day Flamingo Hunt

12p Voting for Flamingo Design Awards opens

12p-2p DJ Kianna Noel, live from LA, mixing the best Latin Dance music

2p-3p Shamanes, 5 person live band from Argentina, first set

3p-5p DJ Mere (Meredith Freund), live from the US, playing Dance, Alternative and Latin Dance

5p-7p DJ Kianna, live from LA, mixing the best Latin Dance music

4p-5p Flamingo Racing!

7p-9p DJ Azu (Azufr3 Catteneo) live from Columbia, playing the very hottest Latin Dance

7p Voting for Flamingo Design Awards closes

8p-9p Flamingo Design Awards Presentation

9p-10p Shamanes, 5 person live band from Argentina, second set

10p-12a Dj Marian (Marian Nykvist) live from South America, after-party, streaming non-stop Latin Dance

Reminder to everyone The Cafe Society’s Flamingo Design Challenge’s deadline is tomorrow April 25th 12pm slt. I will post all the items here on this blog Saturday April 26th.

On Sunday April 27th, Luicee Babii and I will be appearing on Tonite Live with Paisley Beebe show.  We will be showing off the Flamingo Entry’s and talking about the Cafe Society on SLCN.TV.   This should be really interesting cause its LIVE, and its VOICE!  Stay Tuned! BTW, we will be announcing the theme for the next Design Challenge for the coming months at this time.  This next design challenge will include Skin, Hair, Avatars, along with this last challenge’s wearable fashion related items.  Check back here soon for details on The Flamingo Design Challenge Party on May 3rd, where we vote on designs and hand out awards!

Flamingos

Due to requests due to the closeness of the deadline and Clothing Fair and a busy Skin Fair we have extended the Deadline for submissions to April 25th!  Yes!  You DO have time now to submit!   Go ahead and put it in your store for sale as soon as you have sent us your entry card.  Don’t forget to add your photos to our flickr group!!!   Go Mad Dahlings!

Party date to be announced!

Woof! Woof!

Be a part of an awesome event to help raise money for homeless dogs while buying awesome creations for your av!

On March 6th the auction will begin for some ONE of a kind designs and special creations!

We have items being auctioned off from Hexed, Neko Gear, Fashionity Fantasy, Fickle fee and AW Design, Ingenue, Inspired, Draconic Kiss, Spirit, Fuel, Lapgirl, Malinconia, Sh*t Happens, Rave Nation, Geometrica Design, Szentasha Designs, and two one of a kind sets from Ravenwear one for him and one for her! Cute shoes from Fuel and Maitreya. There will also be skins by Unpredictable and Skin Within. Some awesome hair for auction by Mau’s and Mej’s and Gurl6! And last but certainly not least adorable animals by Zooby!!

The Fashion show featuring these awesome items will take place on March 9th at 12 noon slt at Ravens Requiem. Bidding ends on march 10th at 6 am slt. We will also be donating off very generous gift boxes filled with gift cards from the following stores:
Alienbear
!TM Hair Styles by Tami McCoy
Digital Dragon Designs
*Ambergris
Grendel’s Children
PopFuzz
Callie Cline
Eolande’s
Caseys Creations
Adam N Eve
GuRL 6
Opium
Mau and Mej
Nevermore
Strokerz Toyz
Ghost
Icing
Silent Sparrow

The auction will open March 6th 8 am SLT at the following slurl. This slurl will not be valid until March 6th and the area will be closed. Ravens Requiem (128, 35, 507)

All money will go to K-9 New Life Center
Donations can be made at a jar or directly to k9newlife ninetails the fundraising av that created for this event so all funds will be accounted for and seperate.
****Note From Raven Lament****

In a nutshell K-9 New Life Center rescues all breeds of dogs has them vet checked and made healthy and then finds them new homes. This can be very very expensive as some dogs come in with such issues as heartworms which cost almost $1000 to treat. They also neuter or spay all dogs before adoption. They also have taken in some really bad abuse and neglect cases including a dog that was pregnant and placed in a trash bag and thrown into a ditch to die and another dog that was shot and left to die. I am happy to say both dogs were nursed back and found awesome homes including all of the mommy dogs pups. I have personally been involved RL with this charity for 9 years and have seen all of the success stories and happy endings. It is an awesome cause and I would love to really try to help them out by using our virtual power!

Visit the K-9 New Life Center to see the dogs for adoption or to read about the rescue!

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Many of the auction items are viewable in The Cafe Society’s Flickr group. Click through to see this amazing amount of One of a Kind items made for this event!!!!

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SEE YOU THERE! <3 WOOF!

See the prior post for (the details)

Want to address a few things that have come up

1.  This is open to all of Second Life’s Fashion Designers.  You do NOT need to be a member of The Cafe Society.

2. You MAY enter more then one item, BUT you MUST complete a entry form FOR EACH item entered if it’s not a complete outfit.. Example    You make a Dress, which comes with hat, gloves, jacket, shirt, shirt, these are purchased as 1 item through your vendor so it counts as 1 item/entry.  You also get so caught up in the fuschia feathered  frenzy you whip a wild pair of jeans.  These are sold through your vendor as 1 item therefore 1 entry (fill out another form to enter it-and label the entry instore as Entry #2)   But no, you dont stop there, you’ve gone stark raving mad and done a set of t shirts.  Well here it gets tricky, if you sell them as a fatpack that fatpack cannot count as 1 entry, UNLESS you ONLY make it available for sale as 1 item.  If you set them separated out in the store too for sale, each one must then count as an entry.

3. yes its a REAL award (all official like cause thats how we roll) in fact its a Flamingo Statuette on base.  Crafted of the finest Purple Gems known in Second Life.  I Spy a diamond for the eye.

Running out of coffee so I hope this made sense

Create an item of wearable clothing (no Skin, Shape, Avatar, or Hair) using “flamingo” as your guide to theme. You may make companion pieces like skin, shape, avatar, and hair, but these are not to be considered part of the design entry. Examples of acceptable items are: Skirts, Shirts, Jackets, Dresses, Aprons, T’s, Tanks, Sweaters (get the hint?), and accessories like purses, shoes, jewelry. See quite Simple, if you right click and wear, and its NOT Shape, Skins, alternative Avatar, and hair, then you are on the right track.

Obtain a Submission form from Whimsy Winx, or The Cafe Group Notices (you can join and unjoin-we know what its like to be limited to 25 groups) Or make a notecard with requested information to be entered into The Cafe Society’s Flamingo Design Challenge. Return to Whimsy Winx by March 20th, 2008. Rename Notecard adding your name to the end of it example: TCS-Flamingo Design Challenge Submission-Whimsy Winx
Date:
Avatar Name(s):
Store Name(s):
Design Submission:
Full Perm Picture/Ad of Designs:
Item Description (this will be used in adverts/blog/etc)

If you would like to advertise the Design Challenge in-store, please use the ad logo. Please ad either the ad logo or the solo pic, to your vendor ad for instore These are available in our Flickr group for download, or in the inworld form.

Set the item in your store for sale on March 25th.

If you have a blog please blog the item.
If you Flickr, please submit your ad/promo to our flickr group
http://www.flickr.com/groups/thecafesocietydesignchallenge/

(optional) add the item to your picks) with the title Flamingo Design Challenge and add the cafe website url.

We will be awarding the following awards at the party on April 1, 2008 (April Fools Day), at 7pm SLT. Location to be announced.

We encourage all entrants to attend, you may send along a representative(s) of your choice if you are unable to attend. Guests attending will also be encouraged to wear items that were designed for the challenge, or be creative with the Flamingo Theme for their attire.

The following awards are up for grabs:
Flamingo Overall Theme Use (2 awards)
Flamingo High Prim Use Award
Flamingo Low Prim Use Award
Flamingo Sculptie Use Award
Flamingo Bold Award
Flamingo Subtle Award
Flamingo Non Layer Use Award
Flamingo Mens Clothing Award
Flamingo Womans Clothing Award
Flamingo Accessory Award
(We are a bit feathered brained so we may add more.)

Keep an eye on this blog for more information.

The Cafe Society is issuing a challenge to the fashion community.

Create a wearable item of clothing or clothing related (No Skin, Shape, Hair, or Avatar) using “Flamingo” as your inspiration/theme. You may make companion pieces that are skin, shape, hair, avatar, to be sold along side. But these are NOT considered part of the Design Challenge.

Have fun, be creative! Register to participate by obtaining an entry form, and submitting it to Whimsy Winx by March 20th. Release your design in store/onrez/Slex by March 25th. This is NOT a charity event. You may charge lindens you deem appropriate for the item. We are planning an awards party to celebrate on April 1, 2008 around 7pm slt. Location to be announced.

We have created a Flickr group The Cafe Society’s Design Challenge for entrants to post their ads/promos to. The Cafe Society plans to host more Design Challenges in the future as well.

We are in the advanced planning stages, more details will be announced here in the coming days so stay tuned. Entry Kits will be available in the next couple of days.

On Valentine’s Day at 8PM SLT in the Rainbow Ballroom, on Masterpiece Island
We Will Announce The Winners of the Silent Auction
Next, Mr. Romance Will Auction Off SL’s Most Eligible Bachelors
to benefit the American Heart Association
and then… we DANCE!
To the music of the Lovely DJ Mere
Attire- Black Tie Formal

CALLING ALL SINGLE MEN!    A highlight will be a Bachelor Auction at around 8pm on Valentine’s Day. We only want to ask the highest quality guys and this means YOU! This auction is to benefit the American Heart Association. Helping out would not only make you a saint for volunteering your time, but it will also give you a chance to have SEVERAL gorgeous girls fighting and clamoring over you for just one evening! You could make several new friends and possibly even some new modeling connections.

So if you are a male interested in this wonderful cause or know a male who might be, please please sendJennyH Gossipgirl a Notecard so we can get you hooked up with the Benefit for the American Heart Association.
Many Thanks To the Generous Hearts Who Donated to the Auction:
Including but not limited to:

Rebel Hope - Rebel Hope Designs, Inc (The Anniversery Gown w/ exclusive jewels & exclusive clutch
Sachi Vixen & Damen Gorilla  - Adam & Eve — Dare to be Different Gown in Limited Edition Color & TWO Pairs of Exclusively Colored Arme Boots)
Sparle Skye - Allure
Melanie Zhao - Zhao’s Shoes (Exclusively Textured - As yet to be released sexyyyy thigh high boots)
Hibiscus Flossberg- Hi-Flo The Hidden Jewel (Exclusive Give My Heart Necklace)
caLLie cLine -caLLie cLine coLLection - (dreSSing veNus gown in Rose)
Ariana Rush - Pattycakes Boutique ( 3 designer outfits)
Dakota Lubitsch- Dakota’s Shapes (your choice of shape)
Ryviana Vanness - Orion Designs (many many designs - including the Guarded Heart Set)
Caroline Apollo - Carolines Jewelry
Sally Soleil - Fierce (500L Gift Certificate)
Jesse Murdock - Sexy Jesse’s Animation and Pose Shop (Romantic Couples dances for the dance)
Ultra Lilliehook - Liquid NRG - DJ and Entertainment Services (event planning coordination)
MissPure Voom - !!!WooT  (two gorgeous outfits)
Klaang Klaar - Klaar & Co. (Be Mine Jewelry Set)
Brett Tiramisu - Tiramisu Home Creations  (Elements Collection)
Ta Moxie - DefCon1 - (Viper)
Digit Darkes - Digit Darkes ($1000 gift cert) Thanks Sasy!
Shep Korvin - LUCKY DESIGNS (bid boxes for the auction)
Fiachra Llach - Essentia (jewelry)
Tesla Miles - Tesla

This Auction is SILENT,  Our Bid Boxes are up and ready for your bids, come see the highest current bid, and get in on the auction!   Whats a BidBox?  Find an item, see the current highest bid displayed.  Submit your higher Bid!  The bid box will hold your $$, until the auction is over, the highest bidder wins, and if you are not the highest bidder ;(, it will return your $$.  Winners announce during the Valentines Dance.

There are some amazing items here, and the bidding is HOT so check back often.

There is TP in Whimsy Winx’s Profile Picks under Silent Auction.