Two days ago I donated $2500 USD to the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation to help children have a Merry Christmas this year.  A most worthy cause, even though they didn’t understand what SL is  or what a Footwear Expo had to do with their charity! xD

The fair this year was another success, and there are SO many people to thank for that.  It could never have happened without their help and cooperation and I hope that you had as much fun as I did.

My sincere thanks go to the following:

Rosie Shark – My co-organizer for this year’s Fair.  I love you Rosie, you are such a rockstar!  Can’t wait to do it again next year.

Phobos Jamberoo – The amazing person who donated the two Sims we used for the fair.  Visit his company site, Virtual World i.

Delora Starbrook – The owner of Haven Designs who built us another fantastic build this year.  Thank you so much!  P.S.  Whatcha doing next year?

Matthew Anthony, Bax Coen and Echo Siego – Scriptmakers we could not have lived without!

Bethany Heart – A lovely person I’m privileged to call my friend.  She stepped in like a pro when she was sorely needed.  Thank you, Bethy!

Anessa Stine, Uma Ceawlin and Alicia Chenaux – The awesome official bloggers of the event.  Visit their blogs and be amazed!

Amika Jewell – A Japanese translator, we could not have done this without you!

Killian Klein – Moral support, and the idea man.  Thank you. <3

Aradia Dielli – The fashion show maven who is always a style icon for me.  Love you, Ara.

The following people were our very generous advertisement sponsors:

Felicity Blumenthal of Second Style Magazine

Sasy Scarborough of What’s New SL

Luna Jubilee of ShopaholicFeed.com

Carissa Crimson of Fashion Feed of SL

I’d also love to thank the raffle and Flickr contest sponsors:

Phoenix Rising
KessKreations & Hilarious
Slash Me Poses
LeLutka
Molto Bene!
This is Fawn
The Loft
-RC- Cluster
J’s
*HD* Haven Designs
Musashi-Do
Eolande’s
JC’s
G Field
Sable Rose
Tiny Bird
24 Shoo Shoes
Striking Poses
Shoe Fly
Silhouette
MechanizedLife
Courtisane
Heart & Sole
aDORKable Poses
Miau Haus
Reel Expression
Olive Juice
Nyte’N’Day
caLLie cLine
Periquita
DCNY
Enkythings
*Boom*
Felicity Overlord
Serenity Mercier
Long Awkward Pose
Tillie’s Posestand
VR Foundry
Idiosyncrasy Skins
Anessa Stine
Sasy Scarborough

The amazing performers who graced our stage, often refusing tips and instead donating them to the charity:

Kafka Dinzeo

Alicia Chenaux

Prad Prathivi

Harper Messmer

Rosie Barthelmess

Azu Catteneo

Phemie Alcott

And let’s not forget the awesome models for the fashion show:

Colleen Desmoulins

CodeBastard Redgrave

Bethany Heart

Payton Heron

Anessa Stine

Kafka Dinzeo

Jarl Soderstrom

Fann Hyun

Rosie Barthelmess

Sophia Harlow

Felicity Blumenthal

And our awesome DJ for that show, Elle Kirshner

And our awesome sponsors for the show, Alaska Metropolitan, Rack Brautigan, Surrealia Anatine and Luth Brodie

And finally last, but most definitely not least, the amazing designers who signed up for this year’s Expo.

You are all so generous and amazing with your time and talent.

This is for you, about you, and could not be done without you. Thank you.

Rogan Diesel – Diesel Works

Surrealia Anatine – ANA_Mations

IsabellaGrace Baroque – Olive Juice

Dove Swanson – Long Awkward Pose

Beauvoir Rousselot – Maitreya

Adorkable Peapod – aDorkable Poses

Zelly Mornington – Striking Poses

Luth Brodie – Reel Expression

Claire Dallin – Slash Me Poses

hiro7 Amat – NC Plus

Felicity Overlord – Felicity

Erpla Prieto – Periquita

Bax Coen – Bax Coen Designs

cocoro Lemon – Coco

Ansor Hoorenbeek – Hoorenbeek

Guu Nishi – HOC Industries

Eponymous Trenchmouth – JC’s Jeepers Creepers

Enktan Gully & LeeZu Baxter – Courtisane

JB Gazov – J’s

London Dailey - Cherry (House of London)

Jackal Ennui – Lassitude & Ennui

Ding Fotherington – 50 Flats

Cerberus Noel – G-Field

Artoo Magneto – Akeyo

Eclipse Lykin – ED Eclipse

Babette Ultsch - Kitties Lair

Monicuzza Babenco & Monyka Benelli – Your Skin & Your Shape

Enktan Gully – Enkythings

Bijoux Lefavre – Heart & Sole

Damen Gorilla – Adam ‘n Eve

Kookie Lemon – Kookie

naith Smit & Kianna Noel - NSD

2408 Alekseev – 24 Shoo Shoes

Nardya Rousselot – Nardcotix

Novastar Shilova – Nova

Posy Trudeau – Miau Haus

rei2 Aya - R2

sakka Flow – Sakka’s Studio

Tya Fallingbridge – Pixel Mode

Zippir Kayo – Line

Quinlan Quimby – TOSL

Hays Uriza – Haysuriza

Siddean Munro – SLink

CCTV Giant – Shoe Fly

Marie Lauridsen – Milk Motion

Onyx LeShelle – Maitreya

Annette Voight – Decoy

Emma Gilmour – Surf Co.

Magnifico Miggins – Magnifico Exclusive

machang Pichot – Anexx

Nitestar Albion – Freakshow

Grace Selene & 7ommy Gunes – Sentou Yousei

Rowan Carroll - She’s So Unusual

Marzipan Maladay – Marzipan’s Closet

Maris Kanto – Kalnins

Sissy Pessoa – Baiastice

Kryptonia Paperdoll – Sole Asylum

Sakuradawn Lei & Sven Okonomi – Lazy Places

Indyra Seigo – Indyra’s Originals

nuria Augapfel – N-core

See you next year!

<3 Phoenix Chapman

Please join us in congratulating our 2009 SL Footwear Expo Raffle Grand Prize winner Aisling MacMoragh!! She will be the incredibly lucky recipient of the following prizes…

• Phoenix Rising  - fatpack of choice + be a model for an in store vendor
• KessKreations – L$1000 store card
• Slash Me Poses – 7  pose pack (35 poses in all) L$1400 value
• Lelutka – skin fatpack of choice
• Molto Bene! – skybox of choice
• This is Fawn – L$1000  voucher + another for a friend to shop with you
• The Loft – Wisteria House (unfurnished)
• The Loft – L$5000  store card
• -RC- Cluster – Nana’s knitted socks megapack +4 tokens good for any item
• J’s  - Long Boots Round fatpack
• *HD* Haven Designs – 180 day L$1000 gift card
• Musashi-Do – L$2000 platinum gift card
• Eolande’s – Bohemain Chic Bangles
• JC’s – 2 pairs of shoes: All Black &  Strike!
• G Field – Ribbon Slingback shoes
• Sable Rose – Shoe Addict jewelry set (inspired by Expo!),  Jael Wood set, Coexist set
• Tiny Bird – 3 fatpacks of hair of your choice
• 24 Shoo Shoes – Shoes!
• Striking Poses – Snowbunny Pose Set
• Shoe Fly – L$10000 Gift Card
• Silhouette – Fatpack of all Silhouette eyes: Mood Naturals, Fatpack of Widow and Wip Lashes: Natural, Full N Lush
• MechanizedLife – L$2500 gift card
• Courtisane – La Vivien fatpack
• Heart & Sole – 2 pairs of shoes
• aDORKable Poses – Pump It Up Group Pose
• Miau Haus – Designer Skybox (furnished)
• Reel Expression- 4 Pose Sets of choice (L$3200 max)
• Olive Juice – Pose Pack
• Nyte’N’Day – 3 Clothing Fatpacks of choice
• Callie Cline – L$1000 Funky Money gift card
• Periquita – 1 item of choice from store
• DCNY – any 2 outfits/dresses/separates of choice
• Enkythings – L$500 gift voucher
• *Boom* – L$2500 gift voucher
• Felicity Overlord – Grace Stilettos pack & Fiona Stilettos Pack

Our Second prize goes to Fann Hyun, who will receive this also-amazing prize package:

• Phoenix Rising – 1 Fatpack of choice
• Hilarious – L$1000 store card
• Lelutka – skin fatpack of choice
• Molto Bene! – skybox of choice
• This is Fawn – L$500  voucher
• -RC- Cluster – Nana’s knitted socks megapack + 2 tokens worth any item
• J’s – Western Boots fatpack
• JC’s – 2 pairs shoes: Trashville & Vader’s
• Sable Rose – Shoe Addict Jewelry Set (inspired by Expo!), Jael Azure Set, Iwaa Set
• The Loft – L$5000 gift card
• Tiny Bird - your choice of 2 fatpacks of hair
• 24 Shoo Shoes – Shoes
• MechanizedLife – FilterCam Hud
• Olive Juice – pose pack
• *Boom* – L$2500 gift voucher
• DCNY – any 2 outfits/dresses/separates of your choice

Thank you everyone who participated in the raffle sponsorship and for helping to raise alot of $$$ for Toys for Tots!

Questions and concerns should be directed to Rosie Shark.

Huge Gigantic Thanks to Virtual World i® for their generous donation of 2 Class 5 sims for the duration of this year’s Footwear Expo!

Though dreams and ideas are great, you have to be able to get the sims to make stuff like this happen <3

About Virtual World i® –

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by Evelyn Hartshon

Congratulations Evelyn!!! Our team of savvy photo reviewers selected your photo ‘White Baubles’ as the winner of the 2009 SL Footwear Expo Flickr Contest!

Evelyn will enjoy following prizes that were so generously donated:

• The AMS PhotoStage
• LAP poses
• Tillie’s Posestand
• VR Foundry Professional Photo Studio and Hud
• Idiosyncrasy Skins – Fatpack of choice in one tone from the store
• aDORKable poses
• Olive Juice – Exclusive Pose Pack, Group Pose and Pose set
• Your winning picture featured at On Your Toes
• 2000L from What’s New SL

Thank you to Evelyn and to everyone who participated in this year’s Flickr contest. There were some wonderful pictures submitted… you can see them *HERE*.

Special thank you to: Serenity Mercier, Dove Swanson, Tillie Ariantho, Ashia Tomsen, Adorkable Peapod, IsabellaGrace Baroque, Anessa Stine, and Sasy Scarborough for their generous donations to this year’s events and also for their all around awesomeness!

]]> http://2009footwearexpo.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/congrats-to-flickr-contest-winner-evelyn-hartshon/feed/ 3 Rosie http://2009footwearexpo.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/closing-it-down/ http://2009footwearexpo.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/closing-it-down/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:24:00 +0000 Alicia Chenaux http://2009footwearexpo.wordpress.com/?p=327 ]]> Kafka Dinzeo, better known as Microcka, from Chicago, will be closing out the fantastic Shoe Expo at 6:30pm SLT!!

Taxi to fairgrounds!

The official end of the Expo is 8pm SLT, so get over now before it’s gone for good!

The beautiful Alicia Chenaux is going to DJ for us, from 2-3 SLT today.  Come down to the fair to listen!

Prad Prathivi is ready to go in about fifteen minutes, come on down to the fair and listen while you shop!

It’s the very last day of the fair, and I know someone special is releasing some special boots at the fair in just a little while!

For styling information visit On Your Toes Blog.

Shop for some great COCO styles at  Footwear Expo Now!

Winner Announced tomorrow Night… Late! Like possibly midnight slt

The Finalists are…

Janaina Delvalle

Evelyn Hartshon

Flower Ducatillon

Bella Slade

Freyja Nemeth

PacificBlue Hanly

Stay tuned for the winner announcement! You can view all Expo contest entries and misc. other photos at Flickr.