Finally, after months and months, a new bikini range is ready to hit the shops: a wet Summer Fun thong bikini, in 5 bright colours.
The launch is between 7pm and 9pm on Wednesday 21 July, at Wicked Dream Nite club (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Akamai/73/84/24).
Be there! :-)
Dear Club-and-Mall Owner
So, you’ve got a club and your traffic is sort of okay, and you’re thinking, “why not add a mall and make more L$?”
So, you add a few shops, trawl the most popular malls to find out which designers are in growth mode, and send invitations to them to come and rent at your new mall, the brand new one outside your club with the okay traffic.
But, are you going to make sure that your patrons know about the shops outside the club? If you have a fixed landing point, are you going to make sure that all the shops have more or less equal foot traffic going past them? Or, failing that, are all the shops visible from the dance floor? Shops that are tucked away in a back alley is just not good enough. The fact that it’s common practice doesn’t make it right.
Quite frankly, dear club-and-mall owner, I will not rent from you.
And, if you rebuild the club, will you let your loyal renters (the one's who have been renting for years) know in good time? Will you make sure that your loyal renters are close to the dance floor, or to the landing point? No, two day’s notice to move your shop is not good enough. Not letting them know, is not cool either.
If my sales drop, dear club-and-mall owner, and stay down because you don’t know the first thing about club-mall economics, I will leave your mall, find another one, and warn people about you.
On the other hand, if you are one of those wonderful club-and-mall owners that understand how high foot traffic and high visibility means good sales for your shop-keepers, and if you actively work to promote their shops, you will find your mall rented out by loyal, long-term renters, which will be real good for your cash flow when you need to render unto LL at the end of the month.
And if you happen to be one of these club-and-mall owners who take care of your shop-keepers, and if I happen to be renting in your mall, send me a note, because I will be totally happy to sponsor your events in a big way.
So, you add a few shops, trawl the most popular malls to find out which designers are in growth mode, and send invitations to them to come and rent at your new mall, the brand new one outside your club with the okay traffic.
But, are you going to make sure that your patrons know about the shops outside the club? If you have a fixed landing point, are you going to make sure that all the shops have more or less equal foot traffic going past them? Or, failing that, are all the shops visible from the dance floor? Shops that are tucked away in a back alley is just not good enough. The fact that it’s common practice doesn’t make it right.
Quite frankly, dear club-and-mall owner, I will not rent from you.
And, if you rebuild the club, will you let your loyal renters (the one's who have been renting for years) know in good time? Will you make sure that your loyal renters are close to the dance floor, or to the landing point? No, two day’s notice to move your shop is not good enough. Not letting them know, is not cool either.
If my sales drop, dear club-and-mall owner, and stay down because you don’t know the first thing about club-mall economics, I will leave your mall, find another one, and warn people about you.
On the other hand, if you are one of those wonderful club-and-mall owners that understand how high foot traffic and high visibility means good sales for your shop-keepers, and if you actively work to promote their shops, you will find your mall rented out by loyal, long-term renters, which will be real good for your cash flow when you need to render unto LL at the end of the month.
And if you happen to be one of these club-and-mall owners who take care of your shop-keepers, and if I happen to be renting in your mall, send me a note, because I will be totally happy to sponsor your events in a big way.
Goodbye, Green Tower!
Remember how Little Secrets moved into Enercity Weston in September last year? What a party! I can still remember how exited I was at the prospect of not only being able to build a main shop for Little Secrets, but also of being able to do the one thing I’ve always wanted since I started playing Second Life: to build a really really tall tower. I made sure that it will be okay to have a real tall tower before I bought the land, and I remember Ener’s enthusiasm about the prospect.
In the end I didn’t build the shop or tower because I met Steamy, who gave it a go and what an awesome job he did! Ener loved his builds too, so Steamy and I installed the Ancient Spaceship and the Green Tower on my land.
Sadly, my neighbours did not like the tower much. And they never told me. I whish they did! Ener once mentioned that someone complained but she downplayed it and I didn’t find out about them hating it until the new sim owner asked me to take it down. This comes after the real sad weekend when Ener announced that she’s got to let her estate go (sob sob) so I feel a bit shaken right now.
But the Green Tower has got to go! I hate offending people, so it’s time to call the demolition team. I told Steamy. He wrote back: “Don’t sweat it Kim, it’s not worth it! I’ll build you another one when you get land where towers are legal.” What a nice bloke! I do appreciate guys like that.
I loved living in Enercity. It was funky and eclectic, a great place to explore, with secrets spots to find and zombies to avoid, totally unconventional, and always fun to be in. In every sense, it was so like the mood of the bikinis I make and sell: unconventional, a little rebellious, more than just a bit daring, but definitely never downright skanky.
I’ve been wondering today: although Enercity was perfect for Little Secrets, maybe Little Secrets no longer fits into Enercity. Perhaps it never did. Whatever the case, I do apologise to my fellow neighbours for irritating you guys! I’m truly sorry.
I guess Steamy’s right. Maybe I should find land where odd-ball towers are not only legal, but popular too.
That means that the Little Secrets main shop might move again in the next few weeks or months. If that’s the case, I’ll naturally post an update on this blog.
Three Secrets
And the real real real exciting news (for me at least!) is that Ming opened a little shop called Secret Kisses, where she sells the most awesomely pretty lingerie.
Yeah, I'm so stoked about it!
This is me, at the mirror, in Ming's Secret Kisses lingerie:
Secret Kisses is in Shop 14 at the new Secret Passions (http://slurl.com/secondlife/BlueBay%20Shores/58/178/22). I have a Little Secrets branch next door to Ming's shop. Yes, that's a lot of Secrets all together :-)
7 pm Saturday nights are Little Secrets nights at Bound Desires
To make it even cooler, Diandra from Bound Desires created the most awesome dance floor specially for these events: it's got sand, its got flowing water, it's even got fish swimming in it:
The green tower
Steamhand Xenobuilder, the young man that built the Ancient Spaceship that is now the main shop for Little Secrets, build a wonderful tower behind the spaceship, rising high above Second Life's clouds.
A winding walkway corkscrews inside the tower from ground level to a docking platform. Two small spaceships are docked to the tower just below the cloud base, and somewhat above the docking platform.
There is a bright beam shooting up inside the tower, through it's upper platform, into the endless sky. Is this a communication system,built by the aliens that crash-landed here in ancient times? Did they manage to contact their home world, or were they stranded here? Who knows?
To explore the green tower, transport to Little Secrets shop (http://bit.ly/kimshop), and you will find it behind the spaceship.
A winding walkway corkscrews inside the tower from ground level to a docking platform. Two small spaceships are docked to the tower just below the cloud base, and somewhat above the docking platform.
There is a bright beam shooting up inside the tower, through it's upper platform, into the endless sky. Is this a communication system,built by the aliens that crash-landed here in ancient times? Did they manage to contact their home world, or were they stranded here? Who knows?
To explore the green tower, transport to Little Secrets shop (http://bit.ly/kimshop), and you will find it behind the spaceship.
Pumpkin bikini
I don't usually bother with Halloween much... I mean, even daddy long legs freak me out! But I made a pumpkin bikini for a bit of laugh, and added it to the Little Secrets main shop (http://bit.ly/kimshop).
It's not quite as daring as some of the other Little Secrets bikinis, but it is a wee bit transparent, so might get you into trouble, so take it easy with the trick-or-treating :-)
It's not quite as daring as some of the other Little Secrets bikinis, but it is a wee bit transparent, so might get you into trouble, so take it easy with the trick-or-treating :-)
Half-price pink fundraiser bikinis
Morrigan Bellic's running a fundraiser for Breast Cancer Awareness.
Her enthusiasm is so contagious that I added a special deal to my shop at Morrigan's Platinum Lotus Escort Club and Nude Beach: pink Hazardous Stripes and Little Soldiers camo bikinis sold half-price, with all proceeds going to the Breast Cancer Awareness fund.
Considering that this is the only place where you will find a pink Hazardous Stripes bikini in all of Second Life.... go grab it right now! http://slurl.com/secondlife/Beautiful/97/115/21
This offer is for a limited time, until Sunday 25th October 09.
Little Secrets spaceship
It took a week, but the new shop is now ready for business - inside the green spaceship you see behind me on this snapshot:
And here's the really good news: Salmon Scraps' lovely tattoos are now being sold here, too!
You can check it out at http://bit.ly/kimshop!
And here's the really good news: Salmon Scraps' lovely tattoos are now being sold here, too!
You can check it out at http://bit.ly/kimshop!
Apologies for any inconvenience caused during construction
The surveyors came, the architect completed her plans, the local council gave their blessing, and the builders erected their fences. And the digger arrived.
Yes, Kim’s land is about to get teraformed! And once this has been completed to his satisfaction, Steamhand will rez the ship. I can’t wait!
In the meantime, please accept my apology for any inconvenience caused during construction. The temporary building will remain intact as long as possible, and we’ll make sure you don’t drop into the ocean when you TP in.
Visit Little Secrets here: http://bit.ly/kimshop
Yes, Kim’s land is about to get teraformed! And once this has been completed to his satisfaction, Steamhand will rez the ship. I can’t wait!
In the meantime, please accept my apology for any inconvenience caused during construction. The temporary building will remain intact as long as possible, and we’ll make sure you don’t drop into the ocean when you TP in.
Visit Little Secrets here: http://bit.ly/kimshop
New shop and makeover completed
A week ago, I bought my own land :-) Yes I've been renting for more than two years in Second Life, but finally took the plunge and bought a small plot of land in Enercity Weston from the charming Ener Hax.
This is where you will find it: http://bit.ly/kimshop
It took a few days to get sorted, but I've now built a shop, planted a few trees, and parked my beloved steampunk bike on the lawn. (I never had enough prims to do it before!)
Because I had to update all the bikinis in all the Little Secrets branches with new landmarks to the new shop, I took the opportunity to throw out all the old shop displays, and upgrade the branches with the new shop displays!
Here are the latest ones (there are another couple in my previous post):
If you're curios, you can see the new bikini shop displays at http://bit.ly/kimshop
This is where you will find it: http://bit.ly/kimshop
It took a few days to get sorted, but I've now built a shop, planted a few trees, and parked my beloved steampunk bike on the lawn. (I never had enough prims to do it before!)
Because I had to update all the bikinis in all the Little Secrets branches with new landmarks to the new shop, I took the opportunity to throw out all the old shop displays, and upgrade the branches with the new shop displays!
Here are the latest ones (there are another couple in my previous post):
If you're curios, you can see the new bikini shop displays at http://bit.ly/kimshop
Little Secrets Shop display makeover
It's been more than a year and a half since I created my first bikinis. During this time Second Life became much more sophisticated, and way we designed out shops in 2007 just can't cut it any more.
That is why I've spent the last month or two on a new design for the bikinis in my shop. The first bikini range to get it's display-makeover is the get-it-wet bikini collection:
And here, just for comparison, is the old design:
I kind of like the new ones better - don't you, too?
Here's the new shop displays in action in the Little Secrets shop at Betria:
If you're curios, here's the SLURL: http://bit.ly/kimshop
That is why I've spent the last month or two on a new design for the bikinis in my shop. The first bikini range to get it's display-makeover is the get-it-wet bikini collection:
And here, just for comparison, is the old design:
I kind of like the new ones better - don't you, too?
Here's the new shop displays in action in the Little Secrets shop at Betria:
If you're curios, here's the SLURL: http://bit.ly/kimshop
Free bikinis for second life bloggers and tweeters
If you blog or Tweet about Second Life, you can get a free bikini of your choice from the Little Secrets shop, between 24 June and 5 July 2009.How to get your free bikini:
1. Buy any bikini (or combo pack!) from the Little Secrets shop in the mall at Secret Passions (http://bit.ly/kimshop) between 24 June and 5 July 2009.
2. Write a blog post or tweet about the bikini, and include a link to this blog (the short url is http://tr.im/bikinis).
3. Leave a comment on this post, or drop a notecard to Funkykim Schumann, with the address of your blog or Twitter account.
4. If your blog post or tweet is for real (see below), I will refund the money you paid for your bikini.
If you tell me which other bikini from Little Secrets you like, I will send it to you, also for free, to say thank you.
Please note that this offer is only valid if you blog or tweet for real (meaning, if you've been doing it for at least 1 month, with at least 5 updates on it). Okay, a Facebook page counts too :-)
xoxoxo
Kim
Transparent camo bikinis launch party
My newest creation is a range of totally daring camo bikinis, available in dry and wet versions, with bottoms in thong and soldier style, in green, blue, grey and pink.
The wet version is transparent in strategic places, making it awesomely daring.
The official Little Soldiers launch party is being hosted at Secret Passions club, 2 to 4 pm SLT on 14 June, with free bikinis and swim trunks for everyone, $1000 cash prize to the best-dressed sexy soldier, Little Soldiers give-aways, live DJ -- and a landmark to the Secret Bunker Shop where you can buy bikinis at half-price!
Landmark to the Little Soldiers launch party at Secret Passions: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Betria/76/58/21
xoxo
Kim
Preview of the Little Soldiers bikini
Curious to see what Little Soldiers bikinis look like?Secret Passions and Little Secrets have teamed up for a preview of the Little Soldiers bikinis:
Sunday 26 April, 2 to 4 PM SLT, at the Secret Passions swimming pool.
Wear your combat kit! Come and get your free gift!
Don't miss it :-)
http://bit.ly/kimshop
Coming soon: Little Soldiers bikinis
What's happening with Little Secrets?
A new bikini, of course:
Camo bikinis?
"Cool", you're thinking, "but what's special about them? There are lots of camo bikinis inworld."
What's special about them is that, like all the other bikinis from Little Secrets, the new military style Little Soldiers bikinis will be totally daring, that's what!
A new bikini, of course:
Camo bikinis?
"Cool", you're thinking, "but what's special about them? There are lots of camo bikinis inworld."
What's special about them is that, like all the other bikinis from Little Secrets, the new military style Little Soldiers bikinis will be totally daring, that's what!
Cute and daring Little Hearts bikinis for Valentine's day
After a week of frantic inspiration, texturing and testing, a brand new Little Hearts bikini is now available in the Little Secrets shop, just in time for your Valentine shopping.It comes in three colours (red, white and black) and two versions: a cute dry bikini that is tiny but covers all the important bits, and then and a rather more daring wet bikini that almost covers the important bits, but not quite.
Because I've made it for a bit of fun on Valentine's day, each pack (L$100) contains a wet and a dry bikini.
There is also a colour pack that contains all three colours in both wet and dry for L$175, for girls who can't decide which colour they like best (and for you guys that are not quite sure what she likes).
The bikinis are transferable. (Hint for guys that want to get lucky: girls love gifts on Valentine's day!)
The LM to the Little Secrets shop: http://bit.ly/kimshop
New colours added to the hazardous stripes range of bikinis
Since releasing the hazardous stripes bikini a week ago (a bikini that gets girls into so much trouble that we had to stick a warning onto each shop display), I received so many requests for more colours that I've added the three most asked-for colours to the range.
The hazardous stripes bikinis are now available in black, white, red, green and blue.
The LM to the Little Secrets shop: http://bit.ly/kimshop
The hazardous stripes bikinis are now available in black, white, red, green and blue.
The LM to the Little Secrets shop: http://bit.ly/kimshop
Hazardous stripes bikini
I've just completed a new creation called the Hazardous Stripes Bikini.
After seeing it in action though, I realised I may have gone to far, so decided to warn Sl residents against buying it.
Yes, you've heard right:
Do not buy this bikini! It will get you into more trouble than you can handle!
But, if you insist, and can't bear to live in any other way than dangerously, you will find it at my new shop in Nemnem: http://bit.ly/kimshop
After seeing it in action though, I realised I may have gone to far, so decided to warn Sl residents against buying it.
Yes, you've heard right:
Do not buy this bikini! It will get you into more trouble than you can handle!
But, if you insist, and can't bear to live in any other way than dangerously, you will find it at my new shop in Nemnem: http://bit.ly/kimshop
A present for your lady love
How to get lucky tonight:
Yes, it's true: I've added bikinis that are wrapped up to the Little Secrets shop :-)
- Visit the Little Secrets shop (http://bit.ly/kimshop)
- Pick your favorite get-it-wet bikini
- Buy one of the wrapped, transferable boxes
- Give her the gift of her (and your dreams)
- Whisk her away to that quiet, deserted beachthat you've been keeping up your sleeve for months!
Yes, it's true: I've added bikinis that are wrapped up to the Little Secrets shop :-)
About Kim
- Kim (Funkykim Schuman)
- I like chatting, dancing, walking on the beach, shopping, and making daring bikinis. I sell them in Second Life in a chain of shops called Little Secrets. The SLURL to the main shop is http://bit.ly/kimshop.