Valentine's Day and Chinese New Year!

It's not long before Valentine's Day will be here. Yes, romance is definitely in the air, and we've got some fantastic item replacements to help you create some real romantic ambiance in your space!

We've got a special treat this year - a fantastic Valentine's Day package with a special exclusive item - a bunch of Pink Roses! We also have red roses you can purchase in the Valentines Day space.

February 14th also coincides with a very important day in the Chinese calendar, it's the start of the year of the Tiger - see below for our Chinese New Year theme replacements.

Valentine's Day Package

Ready to shower your Valentine with gifts? With this package, you'll be able to choose more than just one!  With no less than 10 boxes of special Valentines chocolates, 14,000 SmallWorlds Gold to spend, and our exclusive bunch of Pink Roses to gift to someone really special; I know you'll be rushing out to buy this great value package.

The pink roses are an Exculsive item, which means that they will only ever be sold as part of a bundle. Exclusive items may be re-released as part of a different package at a later date, but they will never be available for purchase in any official SmallWorlds store.

Valentines Day Space and Mission!

We've also created a special Valentines Day space and mission for you. Once you get inside the space, you'll be able to buy the new item we've released - a gorgeous bunch of red roses. The red roses are a Seasonal Item, which means they will be available for sale for a limited time only, but will be sold again in an official store at a later date (probably next Valentine's Day). 

The Valentines Day mission can be accessed from within the space, or if you'd like to you can go straight to the mission - have fun!

The Theme is Love!

Simply click on your space theme settings (click on the spanner icon in the space information panel). You'll see a new theme in the dropdown theme options list called "Valentines Day". Click this and you'll activate a whole lot of delightfully romantic replacements in your space!

Below you can see all the in-world replacements that will magically appear when you activate the Valentines Day theme.

A Gift for your Valentine

Perhaps you've got a special someone you'd like to invite to your place for a Valentine's Day treat? Make their visit even more meaningful by having a Valentine's gift all ready for them. We've changed the wrapping paper on wrapped gifts - they're covered in lovehearts! Of course the Valentine's Day theme will need to be activated to see the new wrapping paper.

Remember that the Happy Valentines package above comes with 14,000 SmallWorlds Gold to spend on gifts. Here I am in Smallwear trying to decide on a piece of jewelery as a gift for my special someone - can you guess who it might be...? I thought a necklace or ring would go just perfectly with the Pink Roses that come with the Valentine's Day package.

I confess citizens that I am feeling really rather shy about  going through with my Valenties Day plans, but I am determined to gather up enough courage to go through with it all!

I do hope you all truly enjoy your Valentine's Day gift buying, and the new Valentine's Day item replacements. They will be available in-world from today through to February 19th.

Chinese New Year

Valentine's Day coincides with another important day in 2010, the beginning of the Chinese New Year!

It's the year of the Golden Tiger, and to kick off the celebrations, we've already released our February Monthly Collectible, Lao the Golden Tiger - he's available in Mysterio's now!

To celebrate Chinese New Year in style, we'd suggest firstly making a trip to Mysterio's to pick up your very own Lao, and then activating the new Chinese New Year theme in your space theme settings (just follow the directions as indicated above for the Valentines Day theme).

Here are the replacements we've got for you, they will be available from the 9th of February through until the 19th of February.

We've also created a Chinese New Year space - where you can stock up on all the Chinese New Year items, and a Chinese New Year mission.I'm sure I hardly need to tell you which collectible you'd be best to wear when completing this mission - Roar!

Happy Valentines Day and Happy Chinese New Year!

Such a lot to celebrate citizens... it's really quite an exciting time! I hope I don't get mixed up with the two themes when I invite my Valentine to come to my space and accept her Valentine's gift! I'm a little worried that I might be so nervous that I turn on the wrong theme! I'd just hate to be wearing my Golden Tiger suit and letting off fireworks and accidentally frighten her away!

Anyway, I'm off to choose my gift for my Valentine, and I do hope she likes it.

~ Kent Kronkite