Going Goth, or Victorian, or just having fun. May 11, 2008

One of the things I love MOST about SL™ is the ability to change your look to whatever you wish! At the same time, I love being able to build things that strike my fancy. I adore all things vintage, as you’ve probably seen from the absolutely lovely story that Thalia Jie did about me on the Faces blog (THANK YOU!). Any how, I love the Victorian era, all things Victorian and probably would live in Caledon if I could see my way to renting land….So I started this necklace and felt the inspiration flowing back after feeling a bit fed-up with SL due to all the borkedness of late. I love this necklace, so I’m releasing it NOW. You can find it in my shop, Whimsical Creations, on the new releases wall. It also inspired me to dig through my inventory to see what I had to create a sort of goth/victorian look, and what was really interesting was that the outfit I put together was mostly freebies! Ah serendipity. Credits from top to bottom are after the picture!

Hair - Bonita - Black ETD

Skin - Cream - Indigo Freckle LF CHAI Skin

Tattoo - Grumpy Skull Tatt Bryce

Necklace/Earrings - Vintage Victorian Set Dark Mouse at Whimsical Creations

Outfit - Helene - Black PixelDolls

Boots - la venetian The Laughing Academy

Working hard, or hardly working…. May 8, 2008

Well, I’ve spent the whole week (and I do mean ’spent’) shopping instead of building. Suffering from serious builder’s block. I managed to finish some things, but honestly they were things I was working on already, prior to the lack of inspiration rushing in. As I’ve mentioned in the past, I’ve spent the last year learning to use Photoshop, and something tells me, I need a few more years, LOL. My friend Avi tells me that you really never learn it all. I struggled all week with building, so I decided to focus on improving some textures, and seeing if I could get the look I was going for with new ones. Metal is a difficult texture to mimic. I’ve created a new one to mimic marcasite, one of my all time fav’s. My RL hubby, before he was my hubby ;-), used to shop at this little vintage jewelry shop next to his store in San Francisco. He’d pick up little pins and earrings and such for me, and I loved them all. I have a lovely vintage pin in the shape of a jaguar (no, I didn’t build this, just not possible for me at the moment!). I did however make a really cool marcasite and diamond pendant necklace, and some earrings to match. Then I made some bangles with big hoop earrings, again, focusing on textures and seeing the effects that I could get. And last week, prior to builder’s block setting in and sending me on an SL shopping spree, I did a lovely vintage ‘art deco’ inspired pendant necklace with matching earrings. Oh and also finished last week is a lovely necklace to match my mini chandelier earring that I had free last week. I’ve decided that the matching necklace with earrings will be my freebie this week, since I hate ‘creating’ something purposely to ‘be’ a freebie. It seems we are a freebie SL these days. I recall when I first started playing SL (back in the day, lived in a shoebox, walked to natoma through ten miles of snow and all that), it was really rare to get freebies, and actually, something of an occasion - in some ways, this made getting a nice freebie really special. I hope everyone who grabs one knows that I’m not putting junk out there, this is a nice freebie that will be full price next week. Not that I’m complaining (much) since I just scored the beautiful new Chai skin from Laura Fauna (Indigo) which I’ve not taken off since, I’m so in love with it. Here is the newness. Please stop by the shop and take a look, or just sit on the beach and stare at the ocean.

Here is the slurl to my store, Whimsical Creations.

Builder’s Block, or, another excuse to go shopping! May 4, 2008

Sooo, I’ve been suffering from builder’s block. Basically this occurs when anything I try to build seems to suck the closer I get to the end of building it. I usually delete these things in sheer frustration. Then I do a bit of shopping. Then I try to build, and cannot REZ anything! Imagine me sputtering, can’t build, stupid grid, can’t tp, and I had tried to rez a mega prim LOL! ARGH! Then I calm down and decide to shop. So I’m shopping away, and actually purchased quite a bit over the last couple of days. Then I started pulling stuff from my new clothes folder this morning, kind of gandering through. And came up with this outfit, which is actually centered around the SecondWave Ruched Cami which comes in every color and style under the sun! Credits and Slurls are after the picture.

From head to toe

Hair - Tasha - Strawberry ETD

Skin - Nutmeg - Siyu Freckle - LF CHAI Skin

Glasses - DM Catty Eye (Brown) - Dark Mouse at Whimsical Creations

Jewelry - Golden Flower Bangles and Hoop Earrings (erm, unreleased), Aruni Gold Bangles, Tortoise Shell/Gold Beads Dark Mouse at Whimsical Creations

Shirt - SWA..::RuchedCami::..ChocolateSilk - Second Wave Apparel

Belt - (PD) Belts; Dauphine Jacket - PixelDolls

Jeans - *<3C!* Free! White Jeans (SUCH A DEAL!) <3 Cupcakes

Shoes - -DC- Overstrapped Wedge - Black Dernier Cri

Manicure/Pedicure - *ae* coffee bean Adam and Eve

Poses - LAP

I just don’t think I can be more whimsical. May 1, 2008

I’m really hoping that those who read my blog will take the time to stop by the shop this week. I’ve created some new pieces that I’m particularly proud of. The jewelry has a whimsical quality to it - okay so most of my stuff has a whimsical quality to it (note to self, must make some skulls and barbed wire stuff asap) - I’ve got three new releases and one freebie.

Lately I’ve been focused on the combination of colors in my jewelry pieces - I’m really not offering them in a myriad of different metals, because usually the metals I’ve chosen are what I believe to be most complimentary to the colors of the gems.

This week I have my ‘Caught in Amber’ necklace and matching earrings set - only $100L is a very distinctive piece. Reminiscent of a butterfly, it features amber and onyx textures along with a deep silver that I feel turned out well from conception to creation. I love amber, it’s one of my favorite stones. I’ve also made a lovely ‘Vintage Pearl’ pendant, in antique gold that would look lovely with a wedding ensemble (but could definitely go casual with the right look). There are earrings and bracelet to match the pendant. I also made some cute hoop earrings and a beaded necklace, I’m calling ‘Silver Curves’ - I confess the hoop earrings design is inspired by my kids issue of teen Vogue LOL. And finally, I’ve been working on a new design but I don’t have the full set this week, only a pair of earrings inspired by my love of jade and all things pretty and delicate. I made a pair of ‘Jade and Gold Mini Chandelier Earrings’, which for one week only, will be available FAH-REE in my shop. Please stop by and grab a pair! I will make these part of a set for sale next week, so come by soon.

While you’re in the shop, take a look at my fabulous collection of prefab homes, and low prim furniture. I’ve been working on a new piece of furniture, a ‘cuddle’ bed of sorts, it will feature multiple animations in a cool new way to look at and use animations! I hope to have it ready for sale sometime next week.

Here is the slurl to my store, Whimsical Creations.