Rebel Spirit

Hello sweets, today I have a gift to show you that’s FREE for everyone, just buy from the vendor for L$0!

This bikini and coverup is no copy, but it’s also transfer, so it would make a nice gift for someone, and perhaps introduce them to the wonderful world of finding freebies 🙂

The dress, bikini bottoms and top are all separates and each piece is sized for Lara, Freya, Venus, Isis, Hourglass, and Physique.

The fit for Lara is excellent!

While I was looking for somewhere to photograph, I came across the Lost Lagoon – Sea Starr.  This place is super well done, and is certainly worth taking your time to explore it, especially if you’re a photographer.  Here are a couple of additional shots…

The attention of little details is really nice, and I appreciate all the hard work that goes into designing and building a place like this. Congrats to Mαяк Ƙηιgнт (knight676) on a wonderful build!


Lemon Drop

An old friend of mine in SL is a full time furry.  I think I met him in my first week and have kept in contact on and off over the years.  He’s one of those people in SL that has been content to be a vagabond all his second life, and never had a place to really call home… until he discovered Lemon Drop Valley.

He told me that he took one look at this place and knew he had to grab a little slice of it, and I have to agree with him, it’s one of the prettiest sims in SL 🙂

The place is owned and run by furries, and they’re the predominant people there, although I see no restrictions on who can rent.  There are a number of established group owned houses for rent, but I understand that you can negotiate with the owners to come to a mutually satisfactory deal (the rent is based on L$1 a prim per week).

The sim is rated Adult, and gorgeously decorated, although it would be nice if there were a few more public cuddle spots that overlooked the scenery.

My photos don’t really do it justice, you should go and have a look for yourself!

Destination: Lemon Drop Valley


Edie

I’m showing you a really pretty summer dress today.  It’s gift for members of SLF&O, which is FREE to join.  When I saw this dress, I immediately thought of The Far Away as a place to photograph it.  If you’ve never been there, it’s the only surviving artwork by a guy that was considered the Banksey of Second Life, AM Radio.

The dress is a one-size-fits-all, and comes with a HUD with ten really pretty patterns to chose from.  The HUD takes a little fiddling, it’s no copy and refuses to copy out of the package.  You’ll have to rez the package on the ground and drag the HUD to your inventory, then attach it as a HUD.  Additionally, it’s rotated 180 degrees lol, so right click it in your inventory and edit it, and rotate it on the Z-axis until you can see it.

Hurry and get this lovely little dress while it’s still available!


Fantasy Faire 2019: A piece of a rainbow

Consider this a ‘thank you’.  While I have a little stockpile of shots of the Fantasy Faire sims that I will post to flickr here over the next few days, this is probably the last set of product shots from the faire, the lovely petite from Fallen Gods that I picked up on the very last official day of the Faire.

This little one is the Garden Sprite from Fallen Gods.  Alia uses the Yabusaka petite as a base, and adds a skin with normal and PG versions, and a HUD with 6 facial/makeup variations.

Garden Sprite was a special for the Fantasy Faire, and to be honest, I’m not sure if we’ll see it in the shop or not.  But I couldn’t resist showing this, because to me, she is a little sparkle of sunshine, a dewdrop on an orchid.

Garden Sprite appears to be based off of Fallen GodsEvolution series of skins, but the beautiful blue base is not available as a normal skin for normal avis at this point.  Mind you… I would love to be able to wear this on my normal avi!  Garden Sprite is complete, with hair and a little mesh bikini.  I swapped out for my own hair — this is Athena from Truth Hair, the unrigged/resizable version.  It works just perfectly.

Sprits’s wings are, unfortunately, unscripted.  They’re wonderfully textured with just the right hint of translucence.  I need to see if I can drop an animation script in there for a little flutter!

This little one is a piece of the rainbow, light diffracted and shining, a little bundle of colour… mischievous, laughing, hiding… sparkling.

As of yesterday, the tally for Fantasy Faire 2019 is just over L$17 million.  That’s USD$68,000.  Just… WOW.  People have come together from around the world to shop, to share, to support.  Maybe you weren’t thinking about the fight against cancer, and maybe you were.  Maybe you thought “well, I shouldn’t, but it’s for a good cause”… and you did.

On behalf of all of us, mahalo nui.  Thank you for everything!

 


Come Home to Fantasy Faire 2019

Welina mai kākou!  Hello my friends!

The streets are yet empty, the marketplaces a whisper… the breeze swirls over the open fields, ribbons fluttering lightly.  All of the preparations have been made, the lands have been made ready.  The 2019 Fantasy Faire to support the American Cancer Society’s fight against cancer is upon us!

Today, no clothes, no jewelry, nothing to buy… i just want you to take a moment and see.

Fantasy Faire is perhaps the most amazing event in all of Second Life to me.  It’s a shopping event, sure — ten sims full of shops and kiosks and markets.  There will be treasures to find, exclusives that you may never see again.  There will be new creators to discover, there will be old favourites to visit.

There will be music and dancing.  There will be gatherings and laughter and special events to keep you busy each moment.  There are six sims just to experience — full of art, full of scenery, some of the finest exhibitions of SL creators.

But stop for now, and take a look around you.  All of this was created for this brief moment in time.  Worlds of details in every square metre… a world just for this, just for us, just for now.

These streets will not be empty for long.  Everyone I have talked to in these moments before the Faire opens has been so very excited to show you all that they have created.  Come, see, enjoy.  Share the beauty that you will find at the Fantasy Faire.  Life is short, and the Faire is but a moment.  Come, dance, shop, laugh, live…. be a part of this wonderful experience.

Fantasy Faire 2019 is open now.  Come, join us, and fill the streets with joy and song, and fill the American Cancer Society and all those who are touched by this disease with hope.

Mahalo nui!  A hui hou kākou!


In marble

Recently, I was researching RLV traps for ideas for some Hallowe’en trickery.  While doing so, I came across a place called the “Art Gallery of Accidental Entanglement“.  The traps here use RLV to transform you into works of art, which is really strange and fascinating at the same time.  There are gardens (stick to the paths if you’re wearing an RLV relay!) and a building with a lot of incredibly well done statues who are really avatars that have asked the staff to pose them for a specific amount of time.

It’s worth a visit.

How this works of course is a script delivers you skin and hair and eyes and so on, and uses RLV to strip you down and then apply the items it gave you.  Having been accidentally trapped by a stand in the garden and been given the objects, I decided to try and make a stand of my own.  I already had the perfect pose for it as our friend Kat asked me for help making a pose so she could try and recreate Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres’ famous painting The Spring“.  So here it is, although I’m not as curvy as the nymph in the painting lol


Baileys Norge

There are some sim builders who just get it right.  I’m always impressed by realism in SL, and Baileys Norge has it in spades.

I only had a short time to take these photos, so I cammed rather than walked to the locations.  I will certainly be going back for a closer look in the coming days.

The attention to detail is really noticeable, including touches like mist over the water.  On our land I wanted a light beam through the trees (aka a “God ray”).  But I didn’t want it static, I wanted it to track the sun (I eventually wrote the script for this after a lot of experimentation, as I was just learning the capabilities of LSL at the time).  Features like the mist on the water make me think things like “How can I script it so the mist appears to burn off when the sun rises?” 😉

Location: Baileys Norge


Spring 2018

Aeon and I get a lot of pleasure out of redecorating our land every major change of seasons.  As it’s now Spring in SL, we were looking around for something to fit for Spring and Summer this year, and we came across this green house, which we both really loved.

We put it out and started filling it with plants and some furniture and nicknacks, when I realized that somehow we were running out of prims.

We have two adjoining parcels, and somehow I’d forgotten which parcel our main skybox was on 🙂  So I had to pick up the new green house and all its contents, and switch it with the woods that cover our other parcel, so we could even out the prim allocation!  What a pain hehe.

Here’s a view from the deck outside so you can see the woods.

I’m not going to list every object in these pictures, but I will highlight a few.  Firstly, the flag is a proposed design for a Flag of Planet Earth.  Both of us think this is a very cool idea!

Next, let’s look at some close-ups.  The hanging lamps in the foreground are by C-Outlet.

We both dragged out our collection of potted plants, and even with both of our collections, realized we probably didn’t have enough to convincingly fill the space.  So we went and started looking and ended up with a really nice collection from Compulsion.

At the moment, we have a large fountain in the middle of the space, but while Aeon loves her water features, I’d rather there was something like a lounge and coffee table taking up that space, and then we could do away with the beanbags in the photo above.  Perhaps we can get it sorted out soon!  Either a smaller fountain and more plants, or some seating.

Don’t forget, click on the pictures for the full sized view, and as usual, all our land with the exception of our house is publicly accessible (we hate ban lines).  You’re more than welcome to come and explore or hang out and relax.  SLurl below 🙂

Selected items in photos:


Witchwood

So much happiness to share!  Petite Mort and Oubliette have moved to a new sim, Witchwood!  It’s a good opportunity to show you some lovely acquisitions I picked up from Petite Mort, the Royal Starlite sweater and the Burnout Velvet Skirt.

Both the Royal Starlight outfit and the Burnout Velvet skirt are slightly older releases.  They feature fitmesh for both SLink bodies and the Maitreya Lara.  Royal Starlight comes with a lovely little matching skirt, but I really liked how the top goes with the longer Burnout Velvet skirt.

Melora has created quite the beautiful little shopping experience at Witchwood.  There are many little scenes (like this one) that are perfect for taking pictures.  It’s really nicely done, stop by and have a look around.

Mahalo!  A hui hou!