Merry Solstice and Happy Yule, my wonderful friends! It’s a season of joy and light, and magic surrounding all of us. Kerryth at Spyralle has the most wonderful gown for the season, CoelisNorth Pole at the Mieville North Pole Event!
Another happy little treasure: I fell in love with EarthStones’ Poinsetta ‘n Bells necklace and earrings. They’re just right for the season, and fit the Coelis gown perfectly. Can you hear the soft tinkling of the bells as you dance?
There truly is magic all around, at Mieville North Pole Event and everywhere else. Peace and joy to you all, my wonderful friends! I wish you the very happiest of the season. Hau`oli Lā Hānau!
All the best to you and yours for this wonderful time of year. No matter how you celebrate, no matter where you are, we hope you have a wonderful time, and the new year brings all the joy, happiness, peace and love you could wish for!
It’s that time of year! Time for warm sweaters and hot cocoa and chestnuts roasting and all that! So let’s do some sweaters, shall we?
Speaking of cold outside… brrrr! That igloo was chilly on the bum! But inside it looks nice and warm. My top here is the Annie Ugly Sweater by Pink Cream Pie, which is available in 12 color/silly saying patterns, as well as a fatpack, for all the major mesh bodies. Both individual color/patterns and the fatback also have 24 colors for the collar and cuffs.
Sometimes you have to really get into the Christmas spirit and just get lit! So I did! Hopefully there is a wall socket nearby, ’cause I really got a charge out of this get up. My sweater is the Mesh Hipster Turtleneck by Addams, available in 21 colors (26 when purchased as a fat pack), along with 18 colors for the neck and 18 for the wrists. It is available for all the major mesh bodies.
Accessories: Santa’s lil’Ho Ho Ho Antlers w/Lights by Danika; *NJoy* Christmas string; Christmas Lights String Necklace; Rhosyn Pink and White Wreath by Hatpins (Marketplace link)
And how about some pink floof ball? Gotta have floof balls in wintertime! Don’t you think this will keep me warm? For a little bum-warming in your snow tent, the Snowball Bodysuit and Leggings from V-Tech / Valentine Technologies has you covered… er, uncovered? They are available in five separate colors, and six color fat pack. The bodysuit is available in Maitreya and boi chest size, and the leggings for Maitreya as well.
This sexy little mini comes in sizes for Lara, Freya, Isis, Venus, Hourglass, and Physique, and has a 15 color HUD in mostly pastels (although it has a really good dark red, which even I can wear!)
The Winter Shop and Hop runs through the 4th of January, so you have plenty of time to go and shop your heart out 🙂
I finally found all the FREE gifts at the Shop & Hop Winter Event, and of course, I couldn’t get through a huge shopping event like that without splurging on something. And when that something is 50% off, how could I resist!? 🙂
This dress and panty set is available from the Scandalize booth for only L$144 per color. There is a wide selection of colors, and a fatpack is also available.
It comes in sizes for Lara, Freya, Isis, and Venus, and the fit on Lara is perfection! I had to resist buying two colors and blowing my discount lol
The Shop and Hop Winter event is on right now, and there are bargains galore, plus lots of FREE Christmas presents for everyone from most of the marvelous creators participating.
The event is across three sims, and it was pretty full when I was there, so you might have to be a bit patient to get in.
Here’s the first gift I opened.
This lovely little dress is in sizes for Lara, Isis, Freya, Hourglass, and Physique. The mesh detailing is wonderful, and of course, I love the color!
This is an old outfit I did for an event ages ago.
The jacket comes in standard mesh sizes, and it also comes in two versions, this one with white sleeves, and a version with black sleeves. Go! Whatever the animal mascot for Second Life Uni is! Go! lol
Lately I have taken an interest in doing clothes texturing, using purchased full perm models that allow one to selectively edit texture faces. While I have pondered selling some of these, which is what most people do who work with the full perm models, so far I have just been tinkering for myself, in order to get unique looks and/or make outfits that reflect ‘me.’ The full perm models are not inexpensive, being in the range of 500L to 1500L typically, as the expectation is that one is selling your new creations and thus eventually recoup your expenditure. However, if the cost does not deter you… follow me on a little path to see what you can do 🙂
For this first installment I will focus on something simple (and very small!). The common component in all of these outfits below is the Angel skirt by Gunshot, which is also a very reasonable 250L. This is a teeny-tiny skirt that really doesn’t cover much at all (which… frankly, was my goal). 😀 Now most people would supplement this with a pair of panties but I chose not to.
The skirt contains three material faces that can each be textured in different ways. They can also be different between front and back but the design of the skirt tends more toward it being the same all the way around front to back. The Gunshot package for the skirt contains models for all of the major mesh bodies as well as four sample textures, a shadow map, and a UV map. All of these latter items can be used in an external graphics program to create your own textures, which can then be uploaded to SL and applied to the mesh model.
In this first outfit, I textured the skirt with an opaque white band around the top, and the two main layers all in lace, to match the lace top and the lace cuffs on the sleeves. This is an example of where I mixed and matched a ton of things, along with the custom pieces, to get just the look I was after, an innocent snowflake faerie (okay, maybe just snowflake faerie…)
For this one I wanted to match the skirt to the top, which is also a full perm model. Before I found the original model, I had purchased a version of it from a vendor who had made her own texture for it. As I liked that shade of blue I wanted to match everything to it, which I did with the Angel skirt and the full perm sleeves from another full perm creator. In this case the top two bands of the skirt are solid, and the small band along the bottom is a lace pattern that matches the lace along the bottom hem of the top.
Top: Kara Top by Vaxer (the full perm model is CBB106 by Cool Big Bird )
Accessories: Good Kitty Collar by The Sugar Garden/tsg; Heart Charm Necklace by Bowtique (Marketplace link); Endear Ladies Key Necklace by EarthStones; Giftwrap Garter and Cuffs by Sweet Thing; Armour Waist Chain and Seacrest Waist Chain by La Sirena (Marketplace store); BoHo Style Hand Jewelry Butterfly by SilveryK
Another vendor who took the Gunshot Baude top and created a nice texture for it is ArisArisB&W, who applied a pretty denim pattern. I created a matching version for the skirt across all three texture bands.
Top: Nicety top by ArisArisB&W (the model is the same Gunshot Baude top as I used in the Snowflake image above)
Accessories: Dragonfly necklace by Pixel Box; Elaine Belt and Garter by Nanika; Armour Waist Chain and Seacrest Waist Chain by La Sirena (Marketplace store);
Arm Harness by L’Emporio
And finally, back to lace, this time with a rose tint and a slightly Victorian look (is not sure the Queen would approve). Here I used the actual Gunshot Baude top with the Angel skirt, modifying the lace pattern from Snowflake to be a little softer in color (as well as a bit more see through… blushes!).
Accessories: Jabot collar by Cog & Fleur; Lolita Lace Cuffs by Sweet Thing; Armour Waist Chain and Seacrest Waist Chain by La Sirena (Marketplace store)
Pose: The Irie Series – Four (m) by an lar (closed)
While these examples of re-texturing have been pretty simple, they’ve been fun in allowing me to make things that are just right for what I want. 🙂 In future installments of Do It Yourself I hope to show you some more complex examples.
Back to Photoshop! More lacy and frilly things await! Cheers!
Solas and Bee at Silvan Moon Designs have created a lovely new gown for you, exclusive at We Love Role Play . Selenia of Galacia comes in four different icy colours, each just perfect for the Yule Ball!
Selenia has a lovely Icy Pearls accent add-on (available separately) that adds a lovely touch to the gown. I’m just a little bit disappointed in the pearls, however: while the Selenia gown comes in Maitreya, Physique, Hourglass and Classic fitmesh sizes, the pearls are available only in the five rigged mesh sizes, and as such are un-resizable. I am wearing the smallest (xs) in the image below, and as you can see, they ‘hover’ a bit outside the fabric of the gown. That’s not terrible, though, it gives some lovely three-dimensional magic to the outfit, which I actually rather like a lot.
Cats in catsuits?! I got this catsuit for the kemono bod from marketplace with a specific reason in mind, which you’ll see if you keep scrolling!
The suit comes in sizes for default, Rei, and Busty Torso, and a set of full perm textures is included. Also included is a texture HUD that lets you colorize any of the five faces on the suit. As it is, it’s pretty nice, and could be used in a number of scenarios without any mods, including in an SF styled sim for example. The normal and specular textures are really well done.
And here we have why I wanted it. Recently I’ve been playing some capture roleplay in a jungle, and do you think camouflage might help some? I’m betting it will! This photo was taken with just a local texture to get an idea how it would look. I’ll do a custom texture with more careful edge matching for the camo when I get a little spare time. As it is, even without edge matching, it looks pretty good!
