Free Stuff!

I know I haven't blogged much lately, the time I have spent in SL has mostly been setting up rental locations and spending quality time with friends :) And I think I needed a little break from building.

But I'm back (ish!) and to celebrate, I've put a couple of brand new freebies out in my Butsu store!

First we have a classic pair of diamond stud earrings, featuring large square cut diamonds and a little sparkle :)





And second, a pair of rubik's cubes! This just seemed like a good idea at the time *grins* But hey, they're free, go grab yourself a pair and remember the 80's!

Find them both directly infront of the entrance point at my store in Butsu.

Much love, Cai <3

Temporarily mislaid!

I've not been around much lately, either in SL or blogging. My back is still very painful, which limits the amount of time I can spend sitting infront of a monitor. I've also got a bit of RL work to do (yay, income!) and that's keeping me amused for the past week or so :) I'll be back!

The whole CopyBot thing blew up over the past day or two. It's depressing. The items I make are particularly at risk, due to them being pretty much unscripted attachments (bling scripts don't count, because there are umpteen million floating around the grid anyway). I have no wish to spend hours making intricate items just to have some asshole click a button and make a full perm copy. I really haven't felt like logging in in the time I do have available... *shrugs* maybe a few days away will help.

Bah.

'For Him' necklaces and rings

The first official releases into the new 'For Him' range (I know I made the men's inset rings, I'll have to repackage those to match) are a couple of necklaces plus the rings I posted about here. I'm really pleased with the necklaces, I'm tempted to shrink one down so my normal avi can wear it!

Sunburst Necklace

A black leather thong, threaded with chunky silver beads. Features a round silver pendant carved with a sunburst design. Comes with a matching bracelet. I didn't do bling versions of this, it just didn't seem right.

Talon Necklace

The same black leather thong and silver bead design, but this time with a talon suspended at the bottom.

Hope y'all like them! Here's a link to the forum post announcing them all.

'For Him' range formally released

So, I've just finished the forum post formally introducing a new range called 'For Him'. I made a couple of new necklaces for the guys, and I decided I wanted a box style that differentiates them from the ladies stuff. After all, most of my womens jewellery is pretty, delicate, floaty and well... girly! So far, the men's has been chunkier, simpler, sleeker designs, and much more monotone due to just using silver. I dunno... I just can't get used to the idea of making gold jewellery for men. I'll break myself in gently, using hints of gold here and there I guess :)

Anyway, I wanted a box design that reflected the jewellery. I've been using the same style of box for 18 months or so now, and there are a few problems with it. Having the border where it is loses me a lot of box space, plus it's totally the wrong colour (being gold!). The Cailyn's logo is too hmm... well elegant and feminine for what I want. And I've never really liked the hand-drawn permission marks, just I never got around to changing them.

So, out went the logo, and I made a new one with the 'For Him' name. The border was dragged out right to the edge of the box, and recoloured silver. I've repositioned the permissions, got rid of the ticks and crosses, and just put silver dots in to show which are allowed. I've also decided to stick with just one font across the range; that will help to tie it all together. And finally, for big pieces, I've added a polaroid style photo to show the model wearing the item. This has the advantage of defining a space for the picture, I can crop photos wherever I like and it won't look strange because it has the edge around it (so I could zoom in on an ear & earring, for example). I'm very happy with the result, and it has retained enough elements to still look related to the women's line.


Eventually, I'd like to split my store in three - a section for women, a section for men, and a wedding section. That's a fair way in the future though. I'm trying to decide now whether to lose the clothes and accessories, and just focus on jewellery. I won't be making any more clothing, I lost the urge to do that a long time ago. I'm happy slinging prims around :) The recent island price increase debarcle have made me wonder how long mainland tiers will stay the same. LL have been mentioning Feb 1st as a possible date for price increase announcements... I guess nothing will change before then. But should the price go up, I'll be tiering down, and that means just focusing on jewellery :(

And having gone off at a tangent (oops!) I'll leave this post *grins*

More for the guys

Four new rings for the guys out today!

Top left - 3 diamond silver band
Top right - onyx & silver band
Bottom left - 2 tone diamond band
Bottom right - 3 onyx bead band

As usual, the box contains sparkly and non-sparkly versions.

I had a really nice review of my inset rings over at Men's SecondStyle, so now I'm totally inspired to make tons of stuff for the guys! I'm going to try a necklace next, I'm thinking silver and black leather. yummmm.

Cailyn as you've never seen her before o.O

Aren't I a cutie? *laughs* I decided I needed a male avatar for making mens jewellery and for doing some adverts. I've tried using alts to build with but however careful I am I always end up with permission problems *sighs*, so I have to use my main account.

So this is Carl, my alter-ego. I've tried to make him as average (shape-wise) as possible - I couldn't resist prettying him up a bit though! After all, I'm the one that has to stare at him while I work *grins*

Anyway, he's mostly the work of Naughty Designs (hair, skin, shirt & jeans), the shape is by me, and the boots by Shiny Things. He's actually just the male version of my normal shape, tweaked a bit to um.. 'bloke-ify' him! Oh, and the pose is from Anomations. It's really hard to find decent male poses - I'll have to break out poser again.

Is it unhealthy to drool over your own avatar? *giggles*

Tired and grouchy

I'm tired. I'm grumpy. Six or seven years ago I slipped a disc in my back, ever since then it reoccurs every so often. Yesterday was one of those times. Painkillers dull it to a manageable throb, but they also make me sleepy. And the backache makes me grouchy because I can't get comfortable in any position. Being in SL is pointless right now, I can't concentrate for more than 5 minutes, I have no patience, and my moron-tolerance level is waaaay below zero. Grrr. I need sympathy and chocolate!

Enough moaning... here's another preview. It's a ring, called 'Banded' (I so need to employ someone to come up with names for me). The pic shows it in diamond & onyx, i've also got diamond & ruby, diamond & sapphire etc.

I've also got a tiara sitting 1/4 built - it's not coming out the way I wanted it too, so not sure what will happen with that. I usually just leave the partial build in my workshop until inspiration strike again - walk round my skybox and you'll bump into half-finished earrings, beads, and god knows what else (probably a few long lost rings too, if i drop them they are very hard to find again!)