Blue Willow Pendant Lantern Only L$99

Inspired by the Chinese Peace Lanterns we're launching from the top of our mountain at the Home and Garden Expo, these pendant lanterns not only add a subtle lighting to your favourite zen space, but a gentle crackling fire from the burning element within them.
They're copyable so you can tuck them into all of your favorite nooks and crannies, in doors and out, and at only L$99 each are a very affordable way to turn a ho-hum space into something really special.

Looks great suspended above the new "Emperor's Throne" chair.

Currently available only at the "Home and Garden Expo 2012".

Available in the following format: COPY / MODIFY / no transfer

Come on out and visit us at the Expo to take a closer look at this high-quality, low-prim, low-priced treasure for yourself.

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Blue Willow Rugs: Low-Prim, High-Detail & Only L$35 Each!

Looking for accents to coordinate with your new "Emperor's Throne" chair? Grab these low-prim, high-detail and very inexpensive throw rugs at the "Home and Garden Expo"!

They're only L$35 each and come with a shape changers that allows you to shift from a rectangular to oval style.

Like the other rugs in our collections, these actually have the pile built into the shape of the sculpt, not the texture, making them authentically plush and very unique.

Currently available only at the "Home and Garden Expo 2012".

Available in the following format: COPY / MODIFY / no transfer

Come on out and visit us at the Expo to take a closer look at these high-quality, low-prim, low-priced treasures for yourself.

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Blue Willow Pillow Pack: 8 Pillows - 3 Shapes Each Only L$99!

All 8 pillows with 3 shapes each bundled up in our L$99 promo pack at the "Home and Garden Expo"!

Part of our new "Haute Seat Collection" of furnishings, the "Blue Willow" edition of our haute couture fashion pillows morphs into 3 differently sculpted shapes, and looks great on our matching "Emperor's Throne - Blue Willow Edition" chairs. (See related posting for pictures and more information about the chairs here.)

Currently available only at the "Home and Garden Expo 2012".

• 8 pillows -- 3 looks each!


• Copiable so you can spread them around your digital digs artfully.


• Modifiable so you can resize them to make them fit your favourite pieces perfectly, and ditch the script once you've got the shape you want.


• Mix and match with the other toss cushions in this collection to keep your spaces fresh and fun.

Currently available in the following format: COPY / MODIFY / no transfer

Come on out and visit us at the Expo to take a closer look at these high-quality, low-prim, low-priced treasures for yourself.

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The Emperor's Throne - Blue Willow Edition Haute Seat Collection

100% of the proceeds from the sale of this chair during the "Home and Garden Expo 2012" will go to the American Cancer Society via Relay for Life.

An elegant addition to our "Haute Seat" Collection, the "Emperor's Chair - Blue Willow Edition" is not only steeped in tradition, but was designed to help fight cancer.

• 4 single male poses


• 4 single female poses


• 4 couples poses


• tight details and scripting


• coordinated pillow pack available separately

Currently available in the following format: COPY / MODIFY / no transfer

The chair is available only at our Expo Pavilion. You can take it home for a minimum donation of L$250.

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NEW! Stone Forest Build Kit (Used to Create Our Expo Pavilion)

If you're looking to create your own soul trek or epic escape you can pick up the builders kit Immortalis created to craft our "Stone Forest" pavilion at the "Home and Builders Expo 2012" (see pictures, below).

The kit contains 14 uniquely crafted and textured stone pieces from our studio, including stalagmites, boulders, animated waterfalls, steps of varying shapes, platforms and even the shadow box display for those who would like to use the kit to create a dramatic gallery or shop.

Please note that the kit does not contain the bonsai trees, mountain brush foliage or pond plants (these will be sold separately in kits released shortly), nor does it contain the pagoda buildings at our display. The Pagodas were created by the very talented first-life architect, ryusho Ort, and can be found here: Ryu chinese square pavilion 48P and here: Ryu hexagonal watchtower 52P Ming dynasty series .

The kit can be picked up at the promo price of only L$199 during the Expo, out at our Expo site. After May 29th it returns to it's regular price of L$299, and will be available both in our main shop and on the Marketplace web site.

While you're taking a peek at the new building kit, don't forget to help us celebrate by launching a set of lanterns from the top of the mountain for as little as L$1, benefiting the American Cancer Society through SL Relay for Life. (You can learn more about the significance of the lanterns here.)

(Available for sale at our Expo site.)
100% of the Proceed go to Relay for Life.
Minimum suggested donation to purchase your own lantern kit: L$125
You can also purchase your own lantern kit for a donation of L$125). Celebrate yourself, friends or family as cancer survivors, or pay tribute to a loved one lost.

If you missed the public launch on Saturday, May 19th, we invite you to join us on the Prim Perfect Expo Stage at 4:00 p.m. each day until the Expo closes on May 29th, or take a trek to the top of the Alchemy Immortalis mountain at any time.

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Launch Lanterns from the Mountain in Honour of Yourself & Ones You Love

Come out and help us celebrate at the Home & Garden Expo, benefiting the American Cancer Society through SL Relay for Life, by launching the lanterns from the mountain top. Take the trek through the Stone Forest up to the top of the mountain to participate. Launch a set of lanterns for as little as a L$1 donation, or buy a lantern kit of your own for a donation of L$125. Celebrate yourself, friends or family as cancer survivors, or pay tribute to a loved one lost.

If you missed the public launch on Saturday, May 19th, we invite you to join us on the Prim Perfect Expo Stage at 4:00 p.m. each day until the Expo closes on May 29th, or take a trek to the top of the Alchemy Immortalis mountain at any time.

We'll post more here in our blog about exciting new releases at promo prices at the expo this week.

(Available for sale at our Expo site.)
100% of the Proceed go to Relay for Life.
Minimum suggested donation to purchase your own lantern kit: L$125

About the Chinese Peace Lanterns

As participants in the "Home and Garden Expo 2012," we created the lanterns as one of the items we donated to to help raise money for the American Cancer Society through the SL Relay for Life.

We were really excited to be part of the "Prim Perfect" sponsored sim, where we were invited to create within the theme of the "Blue Willow" story. While most people are familiar with the iconic Blue Willow China pattern produced by British manufacturer, Minton, many are not aware that the various stories behind the dinnerware and it's elements were fabricated as part of a marketing campaign.

The stories do borrow generously from several ancient Asian legends, (you can learn more about them here), with the romantic version of the story conjuring up tales of a wealthy Mandarin, and his beautiful daughter, who fell in love and ran away with her father's humble accounting assistance in spite of being promised in marriage to a powerful Duke. The china pattern elements convey the story of the lovers escaping and living happily on an island for some time before being caught, and put to death, with doves representing the resurrection and reunion of their souls, celebrating love's ability to conquer all.

Being invited to create 2 pieces that we would give to help raise funds through the expo event, we happily embraced the Blue Willow tale and set to work crafting "The Emperor's Throne", capturing the graceful, downward sloping curves of Ming Dynasty era chairs, giving it a more contemporary feel by adding plush layers of tapestry telling the Blue Willow tale.

For our second item, we chose to create the lanterns. Traditionally in Asia, blue lanterns represent immortality and peace. We thought this not only captured the spirit of the Blue Willow tale, but honoured the undaunted spirit of cancer survivors, and of those family and friends we have lost, celebrating the immortality of their lasting legacies in each of our lives, and the peace that we all strive for during one of the most difficult journeys in any life.

We decided to borrow inspiration from China's "Stone Forest", the world's "First Wonder" of the legendary seven, signifying the formidable trek each of us takes when touched by cancer, (personally, or through that of a family member or friend). We wanted to create, on a small scale, a soul trek that Expo participants could take to the top of the metaphorical mountain, instilling it with the daunting landscape of the stone stalagmites springing forth from the ground in Yunnan Province's Stone Forest, yet infused with the beauty and seeming impossibility of life springing forth from death as living trees and foliage do there from the stone.

We wanted this small inworld journey to embrace a sense of celebration at the top. Whatever our personal milestones are along the way in a journey with cancer, they are significant, and to be celebrated. This is where the lanterns come in.

When adventurer's reach the top of the mountain after their precarious trek, we invite them to launch the blue lanterns in celebration of their own indomitable spirit, and that of family and friends. Weaving one of the more iconic elements of the Blue Willow story back in, we added a final touch in releasing flocks of doves when donations of L$1,000 or more are given through the mountain top lanterns.

We honour those that have walked the journey in first life, and who may still be, and celebrate your resilience and your wins!

The banners welcoming visitors to the Expo site invite them to take the trek to the top of the mountain to release a single sky lantern ...

in memory of a loved one,
in celebration of surviving,
for your husband,
for your wife,
for looking to the future,
for the ones you love today,
for those you'll love tomorrow,
for peace in the world,

releasing a single sky lantern
really is a wonderful way of paying tribute to your life,
of paying tribute to the one who has been lost,
and furthermore, it is the physical representation of an emotional release.

As the lantern rises,
you are surrounded by a sacred personal moment
to remember,
to reflect,
and to offer gratitude.

Peace, resilience and blessings to you all,
Alchemy and Immortalis Cyannis.

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Residential Rental Cottage Available on Our Ceangal Sim

It doesn't happen often, but from time to time one of our residential rental cottages becomes available again.

We have one that has just opened up on our Ceangal sim. There's lots of privacy, being on one of our ocean sims, where there are only 2 other residences. It's got an incredible view, nestled on a cove peering across at our iconic lighthouse on Saerlaith. There's a dock to moor your watercraft, and unfettered channels to sail almost entirely around all 5 of our sims.

Our "An Teach Tramor" cottage is now available for L$3,250 per week, unfurnished, with 700 prims free for your personal use to decorate and landscape.

Click here to head over to the rental box so you can take a peek. The cottages tend to disappear very quickly, so if you think you might be interested slip down and take a peek before it's gone. Please don't hesitate to IM Alchemy Cyannis if you have any questions at all.

Want to Be One of the First to Know When Cottages Open Up?

Drop by one of our Residential Rental Centres where you'll find a sign that let's you join our Notifier list.

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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A Truly Unique New Collection of Rugs -- Bet Ya Don't Have One This Plush!

Drop by the shop to scoop up a handful of our 45 new rugs across 11 different collections, designed to compliment our new "Haute Seat" fashion furnishings and accessories.

Fun and affordable at only L$65 each (discounted even further in our Fat Packs), you can give your favourite space a fast, funky spring makeover. Each rug morphs from rectangular to oval at the touch of a button, and dons a one-of-a-kind ultra-plush pile.

Head over to the gallery in our new releases section to preview and purchase the Fat Packs, or buy the rugs individually from the floor models scattered about the shop. You can also purchase the Fat Packs by right clicking the jewelled dome displayed in the centre of the floor models.

(Not yet available on the Marketplace web site. We'll post links to the Fat Packs once they're available there.)

What Makes the New Collections So Unique?

Immortalis explains ...

Hello hello everyone,

The rug collections in the store came about because I was looking for a rug for underneath my latest chair "Lelio's Throne". Lelio's Throne is a stately and solid chair that needed a strong foundation to frame its design. Rugs are the elements that frame a room. The first, and matching collection is the )AI( - "Tendril Ballad Collection".

Well...then I went a little crazy with themes and colours. From tea in a palace to dining in a gypsy vardo, this world collection takes you on a thrilling tour of the most exotic places on earth. I also encourage you to be challenged by your surroundings, by stepping out of what is comfortable, as you would hopefully do when traveling to new exciting places. For example, the Gypsy Vardo collection isn't one I normally find myself attracted to because of the dominance of yellows or pinks and mish-mashing them all together. However, that collection sets my mind soaring in daydreams of what it would be like living in a gypsy vardo (wagon), sitting around a campfire with the smells of spices, smoke, and earth settling into my clothing. Your surroundings have the power to transport you, and I hope you open yourself up to new sights and habits.

A lot of rugs inworld tend towards thinness, which is a wonderful aesthetic for certain decor styles. It's more rare to find something really extravagant, plush and with a deep pile. This was achieved by hand modelling the carpet pile directly to the mesh, then texturing the mesh object, instead of painting the pile into the texture. I also modeled a depth to the rug including a bound rim that is textured a complimentary colour.

What this achieves is a realistic carpet texture and I hope each rug challenges you, whilst bringing personality to your home.

-Immortalis Cyannis

Available in our shop inworld in COPY/MOD format.

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Onyx Splendor Candlestick Chandelier and Candelabra Collection

Part of our "3 Sheeps to the Wind" Pub Collection, this line of candelabras is designed to compliment our new "Haute Seat" fashion furnishings and accessories.

The heavier, masculine aesthetic makes these the perfect addition to a gothic castle, steampunk salon or medieval pub. But don't let the testosterone tease stop you from mixing them up with fashion furnishings and more contemporary spaces. We've invested our signature elegant detailing into the hand-painted textures, making this piece a sexy companion for your own favourite furnishings.

Dramatise your court with panache!

PRICES:

TRANSFER/MODIFY/no copy - L$125 each

COPY/MODIFY/no transfer - L$245 each

• Low prim, high detail.



• Easy menu to turn electric candles ON/OFF.



• Stylized with art nouveau bulbs instead of flames.



• Holder accents can be changed from Silver to Bronze.



• Highly detailed hand-painted textures with realistic lighting and shadows.



• Gentle, realistic lighting and glow.



• Add names or GROUP to notecard to permit others to manage/use.

Available in our shop inworld, and also on the Marketplace website, in both COPY and TRANSFER formats.


Click the pictures or links below them to purchase the corresponding pieces on Marketplace, or visit us inworld.

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FREE! Complete Garden Party Teaset in Celebration of Prim Perfect's 5th Birthday

To celebrate their 5th birthday, Prim Perfect magazine is hosting one of their biggest quests, with 90 different designers participating and contributing prizes!

Alchemy Immortalis is giving away our complete "Garden Party Tea Set" to help celebrate, including a teapot with steam and drip effects, teacup, animated sugar shell (including a mouse who peeks out from time to time, which can be shut off), one of our Patisserie Opera Cakes, a delicate plant in an antique jam jar, and our skirted tea service table too! All of these items are copiable so you can set out as many as you'd like, and totally FREE :D

How do you get your's? Find the hidden cupcake either in our patisserie, or our main Alchemy Immortalis shop. The cupcake you're hunting for has a large red number 5 on top. Buy it's contents for L$0 to get the complete tea set. To see a picture of it so you know what you're hunting for, check the bottom of this posting.

Wondering where to find it on our sims? (HINT: Come in, grab a seat and have a spot of tea in our garden of jewels, or, if you're famished, a bite to eat where we serve the treats!)

Be sure to visit the other participating shops, where there are a host of other really fantastic gifts. The hunt starts at the Prim Perfect headquarters.

You have until May 31st to find all the gifts before they disappear.

You also have a chance to win L$5,000 from Prim Perfect Magazine, and a top-end motorbike from the legendary Motor Loon

For more information on the quest, see page 10 of the new May issue of "Prim Perfect" magazine. (Click the picture below).

The hunt is arranged by The Whiz Hunts. Additional information can be found at their blog.

Happy hunting!

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We Have a Winner! Bo Eichel Takes Home Our Cottage and Sim Pack plus L$5,000

While more than 30 people submitted complete entries to the "Prim Perfect" St. Patrick's Day quest, only one person took home the grand prize.

Congratulations to Bo Eichel, who not only found all of the gold coins hidden around our 5 sims, and the other sims in the quest, but took home L$5,000 from the folks at Prim Perfect, as well as one of our Gatehouse Cottages and our full "Elements of Empress and Hierophant" sim landscaping kits.

We don't want the other winners to go home empty handed, so stay tuned for a special announcement about a prize pack being sent out to the other contestants who dug in and found all of the hidden coins during the quest :D

If you missed the quest but still want to visit the iconic spots where things were tucked in around our sims, check out "Ten Places to Visit in Alchemy Immortalis" on page 38 of the March issue of "Prim Perfect" magazine. (Click the picture below).

Thanks to Saffia Widdershins and her phenomenal staff for making this so much fun, and to all of the tenacious hunters who scoured the heathered hills in search of the coins.

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