Holiday gift-o-rama - gifts are open!

[Sushidragon]

Welcome to the fifth annual holiday gift-o-rama This is your chance to gift Samanayrs, pets, accessories, and more to your friends for the holidays!

There will be a number of free gifts, and also some paid ($USD) gifts available. All of the gifts will be revealed at some point before December 25 (probably Dec 24), but until then you'll only know the type of gift you received, not what's in it

To make things easier for me, all gifts will be given anonymously. You're welcome to let your gift recipient know that you got the gift for them, but it's up to you to tell them, not me!

Rules and info

- Please no pouting or complaining if you don't receive a gift, or if you don't get the gift you want. Unfortunately there is a limited number of gifts available, and while I don't want anyone to miss out I also want to keep my sanity!
- Please don't beg in the thread for gifts. You can let people know you'd like a Samanayr gift by getting added to the hopeful list.
- You can only buy gifts for other people, not for yourself.

There also some limits for free and paid gifts, but there's more information about both types of gifts below. Read on for more info

[Sushidragon]

There's three types of free gifts - Samanayrs, pet tokens, and accessories! Each type is being given out differently, so make sure you read everything in this post to get ready for gifting.

Each person can receive one free Samanayr, pet, and accessory. There's no limit to how many you can gift!

There's also been some changes to the gifting process this year. I'll be having random draws for pet and accessory gifts, lasting a few days, for several slots at a time. Samanayrs and paid gifts will be the same as previous years!

Availability announcements will be posted to either the Sam forum and PI, or just the Sam forum, so keep an eye out!

Samanayrs

This year 12 Samanayrs will be finding homes through the gift-o-rama! Their giftbox is green with a red ribbon.

All of the Samanayr gifts will be given away through a random draw. Each person who wants to gift can include up to three different recipients with their Samanayr preferences for each person. 12 gifters will be randomly drawn, and the first person on their list will receive a gift Samanayr! If the first person listed has already received a free Samanayr gift, I'll go on to the next person in the gifter's entry. If the same happens with the next person, I'll go on to their third person. If all three have recived a gift, I'll go on to the next randomly drawn entry.

Rules!

- Each person can send in one Samanayr gifting PM.
- Please send me a PM on PI or the Sam forum, not both places.

The Samanayrs won't be revealed until the gifts open, but here's a sneak peek at them!

If you'd like to gift a free Samanayr to someone, please send a PM to this account with the subject "Gifting - free Samanayr" and the following filled out:

Username:
First choice gift recipient:
Second choice gift recipient:
Third choice gift recipient:

This will be open until December 20, 12pm (noon) PST/20:00 PI time!

Pets

Instead of a variety of minor pets this year, I'll be giving away 10 semi-custom pet tokens!



The pet draws are all done

Accessories

There will be three kinds of accessories available - a Candle Crown, a Festive Wreath, and Play Wings! There will be a total of 15 accessory slots available, but you can decide which type your recipient will receive

Here's Glow modeling all of this year's accessories:

The last draw for 5 accessory slots is now open! If you'd like to gift an accessory to someone, please send me a PM with the subject "Gifting - accessory" and the following filled out:

First choice gift recipient:
Accessory:
Second choice gift recipient:
Accessory:

This draw will be open until December 23, 12pm (noon) PST/20:00 PI time!!

[Sushidragon]

Paid gifts ($ only) will be available every so often as I have time.

The giftbox for all paid gifts is gold with a red ribbon. Each person can receive a maximum of two paid gifts. There's no maximum of how many you can gift, but each person is limited to one slot per batch. So if there's five batches of paid gifts available, you can purchase one gift per batch for a total of five gifts.

This time around, there's two types of paid gifts

Tokens

Tokens can be redeemed at any time (although it may take me a bit to get to it if I'm busy!), and each one does what it says on the image


Semi-custom token - $10


Breeding token - $20
(please note you can use modiems and one-shot items, just not a combo resulting in multiple foals)


Custom token - $17


Splice token - $25

Single Samanayr and pet custom slots

Prices and options - http://samanayrs.net/customs.php

If you purchase a custom Samanayr or pet, it'll be the usual process - you give me the form, I show you the sketch (unless it's a semi-custom or breeding), and once I've approved your sketch I finish up the custom. The difference this time is that you can't purchase it for yourself, and the recipient will have to wait until the presents open to see the end result!

If you're looking to gift a specific custom for someone, lots of folks have posted their custom wishlists on the Sam forum! You're welcome to add yours too

http://samanayrs.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2383

How to buy

When paid slots are available, I'll make posts in the gifting thread on PI and the Sam forum. You'll have an hour to send in your form, and then the winners will be randomly selected!

In addition, each person who purchases a gift will receive a unique item - the Festive Cat Cookie. This is a one-use item and when used in a breeding, the foal(s) will receive one of these traits, determined randomly:

- Feline Ears
- Rounded Feline Ears
- Paws
- Feline Tail
- Fine Whiskers

When slots are available, please send this form if purchasing a token:

Gift recipient:
Token type:

If purchasing a custom, please use the forms on the customs page and include the gift recipient under 'username':

http://samanayrs.net/customs.php#form

[Sushidragon]

Do you really want a Samanayr for gift-o-rama? Maybe a pet? Let everyone know what you'd like by adding yourself to the wishlist!

If you're interested in receiving Samanayrs, pets, accessories, and/or items as gifts, just post in bold:
(username) is wishing for a Samanayr/pet/item this year! (just remove the things you wouldn't like to receive)

If you'd like anything Samanayr-related as a gift, just post in red:
(username) would love any gift!

Anything Wishlist!

LvSoulFriend
Orasteele
ElvenArcher
Origami_Dragon
Operetta
Janalee
silvermoondragon
Bluestarwolf12
Biadora
yruvian
Thunder Shock
AranelSaraphim
PookaWitch
tbiris
Codress
HybridSiren
FoxyJhai
Kentouma
Cythera
Echos
Jaes
RikkuGirl
jeanstarwind
kaats711
Nova Night
CosmicDragon
Jennalyn
PoisonedPromise
SilverDapples
LBPhoenix

Samanayr Wishlist!

tierasa
Esperanza
amazondreamer
LostDollie
D.eirdre
aholland
Kimmie101
BlueMoonOfSummer
Twiztid
Kelsey
Allihandra
SunBlind
Sarcasia
Bighorns

Pet Wishlist!

amazondreamer
D.eirdre

[Sushidragon]

The gifts are finally open, hooray! If you received a gift you don't need to do anything to claim it, it'll appear in your inventory eventually XD I'm hoping to get everyone's inventories updated by the end of the week.

In the meantime, here's some info about the different gifts:

Pet tokens - Will appear in your inventory! They can be redeemed on the "Do stuff for me!" board - http://samanayrs.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=20

Accessories - Will appear in your inventory (pardon the placeholder inventory images XD)! Can be equipped to a Samanayr on the "Do stuff for me!" board - http://samanayrs.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=20

Custom/Semi-Custom/Breeding/Splice Tokens - These can be redeemed at any time, and how long it takes me to finish them depends on how much work and time I have. Ideally these can be redeemed through the "do stuff for me" board, but if you'd prefer not to post or can't access the forum you can send me a PM instead.

"Do stuff for me" token redeeming post with forms - http://samanayrs.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1735

Samanayrs - Should have your name on the cert already, please let me know if there's any problems! I also realized I forgot to name them, so you’re welcome to name yours if you’d like, and I’ll name the rest after a week or so!

Gifts appear below the recipient's name!

amazondreamer


Biadora


Bighorns


Bluestarwolf12


Codress


CosmicDragon


Echos


ElvenArcher


FoxyJhai


Harroway


Janalee


Jennalyn


Jaes


Kimmie101


LvSoulFriend


Nova Night


oakleafwolf


Operetta


Orasteele


Orca


Origami_Dragon


PookaWitch


Puuka


RikkuGirl


Rythe


SilverDapples


silvermoondragon


tbiris


tierasa


yruvian

[LvSoulFriend]

LvSoulFriend would love any gift!

[Orasteele]

Orasteele would love any gift!

[ElvenArcher]

ElvenArcher would love any gift!

[Origami_Dragon]

Origami_Dragon would love any gift!

[tierasa]

tierasa is wishing for a Samanayr this year!

Splice token! My head just exploded.

I -really- want that minty green one, but you already know that. XD

[Operetta]

Operetta would love any gift!

[Janalee]

Janalee would love any gift!

[silvermoondragon]

silvermoondragon would love any gift!

Since you can select accessories, I would prefer the Play Wings because anything feather related is awesome!!!!

[Esperanza]

Esperanza is wishing for a Samanayr this year!

[amazondreamer]

amazondreamer is wishing for a pet or Samanayr

I'll pass on the accessories this year since I won the ever so lovely model. The Festive Cat Cookies sound awsome, are feline whiskers a new trait?

[LostDollie]

LostDollie is wishing for a Samanayr this year!

[Bluestarwolf12]

Bluestarwolf12 would love any gift!

[Sushidragon]

The wishlists have been updated to this point! Let me know if you're not where you should be!

amazondreamer is wishing for a pet or Samanayr

I'll pass on the accessories this year since I won the ever so lovely model. The Festive Cat Cookies sound awsome, are feline whiskers a new trait?

Yep, it'll be cat-like whiskers instead of the current dragony ones

[Sushidragon]

All gone!

There are four paid gift slots available If you'd like to try for one, please send me a PM with the subject Paid gift and either a token or custom form filled out! See the third post of this thread for details on paid gifts.

This will be open until 9pm PST, and the winners will be randomly chosen from everyone who sent a PM

[Codress]

Codress is Wishing for a pet or anything this year!

OMG sooo excited to see what everyone gets. ^_^ Hope everyone is having a great Dec. so far and able to get ahead this year. LOL i know i'm behind so hope all are doing better than mesa. he hee

[HybridSiren]

Hybridsiren would love any gift!

[Codress]

Question: for the paid gifting can you send ALL in one e-mail to you Sushi or have to be a mail for each one? for just a number sake lets say 4 i was thinking of?

Thank you for your time. ^_^

[FoxyJhai]

FoxyJhai would love any gift!

[Sushidragon]

Well, since there's still a paid gift slots available, I guess it'll go to the first person who PMs for it XD In the meantime, the gift list has had its first update!

Question: for the paid gifting can you send ALL in one e-mail to you Sushi or have to be a mail for each one? for just a number sake lets say 4 i was thinking of?

Thank you for your time. ^_^

For each round of paid gifts everyone is limited to giving one gift, so if you'd like to give more than one you'll have to wait for another round Sorry I didn't see your question earlier!

[Sushidragon]

The wishlists have been updated to this point, and looks like we have our first few gifts bobbing around in the holiday hotspring