72% off Sale

I am gearing up for all sorts of new, so that means big changes to the store. I have been gone off and on for the last 2 years, but will now be back on a more constant basis.

What does this mean for you?

SALE!

I will be updating the store, been working on mesh, and have many other things planned for the store.

I need to clear out all the old, update some, retire others. I can't really say what is staying, what is going, but anything that does come back will be in new colours(This does not include the petites room, the stuff in there is fine).

I have set the whole store to 72% off, 72 being my lucky number, so I thought to share my luck with you all!

So this includes all the hair, skins and even the petites items.

There are a few extra added bonuses too. I have 5 items set to L$1, L$5 and L$10. This includes the Hairs and Peties Room. I have 2 Skins at L$50. So for under L$200 you can take home some unique items to play with!

I also have the mysterious "Stringer" packs set to L$25. These include 8 randomly picks colours by me, each different for each hair.

Something I want to add, for the last past years I have had a bug to my Demos, The Jira for the bug never got enough vote to fix it, and my demo had been borked for a long time. I spent most of yesterday and today replacing all the prims in each hair that were causing the issue, so I have demos again! I didn't put them back on the vendor boards tho, so all the demos are in one huge bundle, just look to the ads for the name of the hair you want to try out. Demo boxes are all around the store, they aren't all that hard to miss.

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Important Sale Note

I did not put a date on the poster. This is due to the fact that I will randomly be taking down items as they get updated or retired. I will keep everything in the store until the 31st of March for sure, then start taking things down as I go. That way you do have a chance at everything, without worrying about missing something. But if you are late, and come beyond March 31st, and something isn't there anymore, well now you know why =)

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The Stringer Mausoleum TP

Helena's 3rd Annual Birthday Bonanza

It's that time of the year again, when I get older. To celebrate this I tend to do some big crazy things at my store. This year is no different, other then the fact that as I started to set up, I got attacked by hunt harpies! those darn things are everywhere now . . .

Hunt Harpie-A creature not of myth in sl. You will see them all over, following unexpected victims, ready to snatch hunt prizes from said victim's grasp. One of the only deterrents is to bash yourself randomly against the wall, to make them think you are slightly noobish, they don't like the noobs.

So here I was, on my own sim, in my own store, when a crowd of hunt harpies swoop in! Now obviously I was not on a hunt, dude it's my own store. But they don't notice names, they just go "oh there is someone, lets follow them around and see if they find the treasure". This has always been an agrivation for me. When finally after 20 minutes they figure out I'm not doing much of anything, they IM me and ask if I was on the hunt, and if the could get hints? Ermmmmm NO!

Then the whining begins, oh how hunt harpies whine!

Well I was slightly famished, so I put on my best smile, then set out for a bit of harpie flesh. Not the tastiest meat, but hey, it's shuts up their traps right?

A few minutes later, after catching the last one, and plucking each feather from it's body, I notice a slight glimmer to the feathers. Picking one up out pops a trinket of sorts? hmmmm what is this?

Seems like the hunt harpies hide their many stolen treasures in amongst their feathers!

So what is a girl to do, I have left feathers from my mad rampage of plucking all over the store and sim.

Will you help find them all?

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~~~The Festivities~~~

All events will take place between the time frame listed below
April 19th Noon slt-May 2nd 11:59pm slt

~~~The Stringer Mausoleum~~~

All hair packs down to L$50
All Megapacks of hair down to L$600
Various other items in the store down to 1/2 off

*Items released at the Alternative Fair and any new store releases during this time will not be discounted. You'll know if it is new due to the "New" sign in the upper corner of the vendors.

~~~Helena's Birthday Sale~~~
April 19th Noon slt-One Day Only, Ends at 11:59pm slt

This is my actualy Birthday, and to celebrate my oldness, I'm setting for the first day of festivities only, all hair packs to L$27, even the new stuffs! All Megapacks will be down to L$270, which is just crazy! This will be for the hair only. And if you hadn't guessed, I'm turning 27. XP

~~~New Release Mini Hunt~~~
April 22nd Noon slt-Till Quantities Last

Collection of Monday's Release Items and Alternative Fair Items, in Limited Edition Colours and Limited Quantities. Info on Specific items will be provided throughout the store at that time.

~~~Group Members only Mini Hunt~~~
April 25th Noon slt-One Day Only, Ends at 11:59pm slt

A special hunt for my inworld group members. 2 dresses will be up for grabs. Must have group tag on to get the items. Info will be provided throughout the store at that time.

~~~Special Limited Edition Mini Hunt-Search for the Forest Sprites-A preview of a new skin set~~~
April 26th Noon slt-Till Quantities Last

A Preview of a new skin series, the mini hunt will have all tones, with a very special masked make-up. Info on Specific items will be provided throughout the store at that time.

~~~Special Limited Edition Mini Hunt-Blast into the Past-A hunt for 6 retroesque Dresses~~~
April 29th Noon slt-Till Quantities Last

Part of my Shrine collection, a dress that never got released due to there being no Shrine store. No reason to waste it tho! in Limited Edition Colours and Limited Quantities. Info on Specific items will be provided throughout the store at that time.

~~~Giftcard, Trading Card and Bunny Dash!~~~
May 2nd Noon slt-Till Quantities Last

To celebrate the last day of my Birthday Bonanza, I'll be setting out around the whole sim some Giftcards, Trading Cards(for my Trading Card Program) and Ozimals Bunny Nests, for grabs. For tracking purposes they will be set to L$1. These Items will be set to Original, so please pick them up after you purchase them. Limit of one Item per person, as you will have to exchange something to get your prize. I will be there and watching, so please be kind and not a hog!

~~~Group Member Daily Draws~~~

Each day I will pick someone out of my inworld group to select a random gift =) I will post the winner in group, I will *NOT* contact you, you must contact me! It's my Birthday, to busy to hunt you all down. Also look to the blog, I'll list the full list of winners at the end of the 2 weeks, as a reminder.

~~~Hippogroup Daily Draws~~~

Each day I will pick 3 people out of my Hippo group to select a random gift =) I will post the winners in group, I will *NOT* contact you, you must contact me! It's my Birthday, to busy to hunt you all down. Also look to the blog, I'll list the full list of winners at the end of the 2 weeks, as a reminder.

~~~The Sim~~~

~~~Harpie Hunt~~~
April 19th Noon slt-May 2nd 11:59pm slt

Womens, Mens and Unisex items hidden all over the sim, other stores on the sim will have some goodies too. You are looking for feathers, red for womens, green for unisex and blue for mens. Examples will be in the store for you to see, for sizing. Some will be L$0 and some will be L$1.

Any you never know, this is just what I have planned, I might get crazy and put in something else here and there, so keep a watch out!

Helena Stringer
Designer/Owner of The Stringer Mausoleum

HairFair 2009

Yet another year has gone by . . .

and here you are, again,

Battling lag, crowds and general sl mayham.

Your reward?

As always there is the quest of the inventory exploading freebies and dollarbies. There is the adventure of finding that new store, like mine last year. There is the joy of finding your favorite sl hair designers, all in one spot, setting out their wears they have been taunting you with, but keeping in secret for the last few months.

Want more info on this event?
Visit the Main Hairfair Website:
http://hairfair.wordpress.com/

This year I made 2 Bandanas for Bandana Day, which is on July 4th. All proceeds from these go to Locks of Love.









I'm also going to be chopping all my own hair this year, last year it wasn't long enough, so keep a watch out, I'll be taking pics of that and placing them on here.

Time for my hairs!

The "Locks of Love" Charity Hair

The Stringer Shrine Presents



Skittlepop Princess

Wow a Shrine hair! I'm going to finally be reopening the shrine line soon, so I thought what better way to promote it, then do a themed hair for hairfair! Funny story about this hair. I asked Sasy Scarborough about the theme for hairfair this year, a few days before it was going to be announced. She didn't want to tell me so what does she say? Think "What is a Skittle? and it has to do with earth". WTF right. Well I was thinking of lawn bowling cause it's played on the ground, and the thingies are called skittles, that you have to hit. I finally got it out of her, she never knew there was a game with things called skittles. So I thought why not do a skittle hair, it begged to be cutsie too. So it has sweeping sculpted bangs and some cute flexi in the back.

50% of all proceeds go to Locks of Love for this hair.

The Stringer Mausoleum Presents

Mens Hair



Believer

Okay, I really really hate making man hair, and the mens keep asking me, and it practically kills me. But I have one friend/fan I made last year at hairfair. He always believes in me, and I almost always feel put out if I think I'm going to disappoint him. So he is my little believer. This hair wasn't made for you you little buger, but you inspired me to set it out at the fair, so I hope you can do something with it!

50% of all proceeds go to Locks of Love for this hair.

Unisex Hair



Rocker Vines

Had to make a hawk, like duh! This one was sort of inspired by the Rock band Guns and Roses. Or I should say their album art. Or maybe just rock. Anyways there are thorns and skulls and roses, what more can you ask for?

Womens Hair



Hydra Priestess

I wanted to make a really crazy show stopper for Hairfair, something people could just look at and go wow. I didn't really get it right, but still popped out soemthing very cool in the process. Hydras are mythical beasties, a 2,3,5,7,9 or 12 headed critter, depending on the myth. Most often serpent-like or dragon-like in appearance. It, as you can see here, makes a very cool heapiece.



Cog Mistress

This one was sort of inspired by Ruina, a good friend on mine. She wanted Dreads that were uber long. I went off and stuck shit in them tho, as I happen to do from time to time.

We all know HairFair has awesome freebies, and this year is no different. We could do a few things differently this year, so they let us have not one, but 3 freebie boxes out.



Pincushion

This is a offer I have for L$1. It's a hair of a new sort of direction. I'm doing a line that is inspired by rl objects, and turn those common things into couture hair pieces. Big and bold will be all throught this collection.

I have for free a set of texture testers, called Fluffer. It's a wearable mohawk, basically just to let you see what colours you may like. So there is 120ish textures in the pack! Go Wild.

I have one other gift, which all proceeds will go to Locks of Love. This gift WILL be set to L$1, but all of it is for charity. You'll just have to come and see it!

Now for my final show and tell . . .

With all the past Hairfairs there has been a special silent Auction, with unique hairs made by all of use desigers together. This year they went a different route, tho not as fun, I did really enjoy watching the hairs grow . . . 20 designers making one hair? it was fun to say the least. Anyways this year they are doing a One-of-a-Kind Auction. These hairs are donated by the designers and can be anything from a style they made for hairfair, but modded in a special way, special colours, whathaveyou, or a totally unique hairs. This next pic is my style donated to the auction.



One-of-a-Kind Auction ~ Satin Fantail Mohawk

This is a Unisex style, with 12 colours. You get your normal Black, my special personal collection of shine hairs, which there are 5 and then my limited edition textures "Colour Bleeds" which fade from one set colour to the next in a darkened tone.

This style wasn't really started with an idea in my head per say. Originally my thoughts were of a lizard frill, and my Sister thought it turned out more Fishy. The style totally evolved into something I'm actually sad to see as only a One-of-a-Kind hair, which means I did something right!

This thing has mad flexi, which is something you can not see on an ad,so I took today to learn how to film in sl. This is my first attempt so be nice! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJwd3DK02Pk

I hope whoever gets the final bid, loves this thing as much as I do!

Hope you enjoy the fair! And congrates to the First Prize winner of the Hairfair 2009 flickr Contest, they used my hair in such a cool way! http://www.flickr.com/photos/finethanks/3631212334/in/pool-stringerfollower

Okay now I got to make some stuff for the store!

Helena Stringer
Designer/Owner of The Stringer Mausoleum

P.S. All last years HairFair Hairs will be 1/2 till the end of HairFair, so get them while you can!

Hairfair Store-http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hair%20Fair%202009/40/80/22
Mainstore-http://slurl.com/secondlife/Aurora%20Vale/126/90/30
Store Flickr Fan Group-http://www.flickr.com/groups/stringerfollower/

HairFair 2008 Items on Sale!

I've decided as a pre HairFair 2009, that i would set all my HairFair 2008 hairs on sale for 1/2 off. You'll only find these savings at the new Mainstore, on Aurora Vale. Allegory is up on the Unisex wall, I made it super beam, so you'll see it, it's freaking NEON!

I haven't updated the rest of the hairs to the new vendor ads, so they are all in the back "Specialty" Room. I set the backers to white, so they stand out.





Now Yearly Sacrifice was a Limited Edition, due to the themed Headpiece. I've gotten a lot of requests for it recently, seeing as for some reason I've chosen to wear it a lot. *Shrugs Shoulders*

I'm going to take a vote from you guys. Would you like to see this style back, simply called Sacrifice, without the headpiece? For those of you who bought it, do you think this is fair? since it wasn't the hair, but the Headpiece that was the real special edition part?

Please Write in comments, your thought on this matter. A simple Yes or No will do, if you want to type more, that is fine as well.

So the hairs are all set and ready to go out the door!

Find them at Aurora Vale.