kana’s Neighborhood

Well, it's Christmas at last, and from the sound of you all on Twitter your cards are sent, and your presents wrapped. It's been great hearing all your cries of delight recently, as your poor postmen and women have struggled with packages through the snowy weather! Hope those of you who have time off over the festive season get everything you wish for, and those who are working have more fun than you might be expecting. We've published the dates we're working over the holidays, so if you find yourself in the office, you might well have company here in the UK, or over with the MOO Crew in the US. We've had a great few weeks spotting unique gifts and ideas created with MOO, here's a few of our favourites: A tetrabox advent calendar, by Bcome Also by Bcome, this lovely looking memory game, complete with a great pattern on the back: This super-cute Mosaic Frame, created by thisiswoly. Filled with 20 Minicards, it features the beautiful baby Sarah. These wonderful looking alphabet game cards, by taraghb, which look like they were as fun to make as they will be to use! And last but not least, look at this! another entry into our MiniCard Gift Box competition! Created by emusing-emma, it's really bought an extra flutter of Christmas cheer into MOO Towers. We love his little sledge! Fancy joining in the fun? Closing date for entries to our competition is midnight PST 28th December 2009. Why not grab some festive paper, and see what you can do! More competition details can be found right here. And now all that remains for me to say is a Very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from everyone at MOO!

Well, the last order dates for the holidays have passed, and Santa's final sacks of festive MOOs are filling up fast. We're still taking new orders though, and we'll be shipping them out as fast as we can - so don't hesitate to order thank you cards for all your lovely pressies!

Just so you know, here's our warehouse and customer service closure dates over the holiday season.

Thursday 24th December - LIMITED HOURS: we'll be shipping orders in the morning, but going home in the afternoon to wrap presents.
Friday 25th December - CLOSED : we'll be at home feasting on mince pies and turkey.
Monday 28th December - UK CLOSED: we'll be buying new trousers to fit our expanded waistlines!! (please note this is a UK Holiday only).
Tuesday 29th December - OPEN: business as usual.
Wednesday 30th December - OPEN: business as usual.
Thursday 31st December - OPEN: business as usual.
Friday 1st January - CLOSED : we'll be trying out our New Year resolutions and nursing hangovers.
Monday 4th January - OPEN: that's it, holidays over, back to work!

It's also important to note that our StickerBook turnaround in the UK is severely delayed over the holidays. Any orders placed after the 20th December will not be dispatched until the week of the 4th January.

That's all for now - Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the MOO Warehouse Crew!

今年は暖冬の影響からか、関東では今週からようやく冬本来の冷え込みになってきました。

Xmas tree

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• Illumination Hunt投稿大募集！

【Illumination Hunt投稿大募集！】
先月末から街中にはイルミネーション・クリスマスツリーがディスプレイされています。今年は、東京表参道のイルミネーションが10年ぶりに復活するなど、イルミネーションに関する話題も豊富です。
明日のVox Huntで街中で見つけたイルミネーションやクリスマスツリーのフォトの投稿を出題します。今日から、街中で見つけたイルミネーションやクリスマスツリーの写真に「illumination」と「xmas tree」のタグを付けて投稿してください。携帯カメラで撮ったフォトでももちろんOK。例年盛り上がるこのイベントにぜひ参加してください。

集まったフォトは例年同様12月24日にチームVoxブログに記事を掲載し、ご紹介します。たくさんの投稿をお待ちしています。

--チームVox

Originally published at Simply Kir. You can comment here or there.

Just a special pic for my friends Mike and Pei! ( Pei I hope you like this pic even when it's a bit late ;).

It's available in the shop now!

Originally published at Simply Kir. You can comment here or there.

I cannot believe it's already friday! yay!

Thank you everyone who have been so supportive of my work (:. I am finishing the last 2 orders from October and hoping to finish those by next week so that I may start on the MidNovember/December commission list.

It was so fun to work on the rainbow bunny hats for Blythes, and to work on some more momo hats too. I will make some momo hats for Blythe for the Xmas collection for sure. Thank you very much for ordering them. I will be contacting everyone who placed Blythe orders very soon. ;)

It's shipping date today! Shipping notices will be sent over the weekend. Payments received BEFORE 6PM TUES 10 NOV will go out today==> all orders thereafter will promptly ship out on MON 16 NOV.

Have a great weekend and expect more news from simplyKir very soon!

First, we're happy to announce that the team has identified and fixed the issue with the YouTube conduit; you can now find and add videos from YouTube to your library and posts. As always, thanks for your patience!

The other news we have today is about a new addition to the Six Apart family: TypePad Micro, a new free level of TypePad that is streamlined for microblogging. We see a new form of blogging emerging that lives between the quick status updates of Twitter and Facebook and the long-form posts of "classic" blogging; TypePad Micro is designed to meet that need. You can read more about TypePad Micro in Chris Alden's post on the Everything TypePad blog.

TypePad Micro

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A lot of the new capabilities we've added to TypePad this year were actually inspired by some of the best things about Vox: favoriting, member profiles, a dashboard to follow other bloggers, and easy ways to post content from other social media sites. But the things that make Vox different from TypePad are still there: Vox has always been -- and still is -- the best place for "friends and family" blogging, where you're in control over who sees what. TypePad, on the other hand, is built for the blogger who wants, no, craves, attention.

Do you have a passion or interest you want to share with people beyond your Vox neighborhood? If so, we'd love it if you tried out TypePad Micro. Maybe you've always wanted to start that obsessive blog that's just about waffle restaurants. Or want a place to share videos of your favorite band (Jonas Brothers, anyone? Anyone? ...). TypePad Micro's great for those topic-specific blogs. Take it for a spin and let us know what you think.

On the Vox front, our designers are working on some cool new themes (coming soon!). We'd also love to hear your thoughts about where we should take Vox in the coming year. What are the key things you'd like to see for Vox? If you've had a chance to use TypePad this year, what are the features there that we should bring over to Vox? And, if you're thinking big thoughts, how could we connect the Vox and TypePad communities in order to bring together bloggers and their shared passions? Your feedback is really important to us, so please leave a comment here, or shoot me a message.

And again, thanks for your patience as we found and fixed the YouTube bug!

~ daisy

Well, the weather outside is frightful and the MOO warehouse staff are getting ready for the Holiday rush. Our trusty elves are enjoying their last silent night before a few weeks of rigorous stocking stuffing. Soon your MOO orders will be walking in the air and climbing down your chimney.

You'll need to make sure you get your orders placed before our cut off dates, as we would not want you to have a blue Christmas. We thought you may want to see some of our packers at work in the MOO grotto, so here are some festive snap shots from our Rhode Island office...

If you're worried about your cards getting stolen by frosty the snowman, then we are offering a London, UK collection special. If you want to collect your order, simply send us your order number via the contact form, quoting your order number and "COLLECTION" in the subject line. We'll then flag your order for collection and give you instructions on how/where to collect your order. This is for a limited time only (until the 16th December), so be sure to get your order in ASAP.

As many of you have noticed, the YouTube Conduit is not working. I am so sorry about this; I know how frustrating it is.

The team is looking into how to get this fixed and I will update you as soon as I hear something. In the meantime, not all is lost... There is a work-around for posting videos.

When you're in the Compose Screen, just click on "embed." Ignore the fact that it says "Widget" before everything because you can definitely use this to embed videos as well. You'll just need to input the embed code from the video, enter a title (if you want) and hit OK.

It might not show up perfectly in your compose screen, but when you hit "Save," your video should appear just the way you wanted it to.

Hopefully this will allow you to keep posting videos while we figure out what's happening on our end.

As always, thanks for your patience.

~daisy

Originally published at Simply Kir. You can comment here or there.

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I am very happy to introduce one of the latest girls at simplyKir's.

She arrived a while ago but I didn't have time to upload all the pics I took of her. These are the first photos of Marie, taken the same day of her arrival.

You might know her already, ;). Sorry her first pics are not as good as the lovely makers took but I will do my best to show you her soul ;).

Marie is a little french girl who lived in Paris in the 18th century. Thanks to Ravendolls and Marblehands, she is now with us again and she can tell us in her perfect french all kind of interesting stories.

I hope you enjoy all the pics.

Doll: OOAK DollsTown Mari in a 7year body

Faceup and Blushing: RavenDolls 2oo9'

Outfit: OOAK Marblehands outfit made specially for this doll

Wig in the photos: TinyBear

Eyes: Brown

[More photos of her with her awesome outfit will be posted very soon ^^]

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