Yay!

Whoohoo I've been added to Fashion Planet! Yay, thank you Tao :)

Crimson Shadow Fashion Show - Tues 4th Dec

Tomorrow night Crimson Shadow hosts a fashion show, featuring clothing by designers Moxie Polano and Forda Fairlane, and jewellery by yours truely! There is some beautiful clothing going to be on show - there are some georgeous dresses to see! Everything has a gothic theme, and it's all on sale in the galleria behind the catwalk. The show is on 12noon to 2pm, then repeated later at 6-8pm SLT. I'll be at the earlier one hopefully!

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Crimson%20Shadow%20Rezzable/199/223/26

See you there! <3

New Necklaces

Just a quickie - I've put out a new necklace today, it's a simple plain chain. I've been asked why I don't do simple items... moi? But I like complicated! Anyway, just to make it harder for myself, I sculpted each link! It's available in gold or silver. Pics coming up now:

OnRez Listing - SLX Listing - Gold version

OnRez Listing - SLX Listing - Silver version

Of course, it's available inworld too, at my store in Gisborne. Demo version available there too.

I forgot to note down the credits for the model :( Off the top of my head, the skin is an old one from TaP, eyes from Sin Skins and top from Pixel Dolls. I'll try and remember to update this tomorrow.

Stop me now!

Noooooo... someone had to go and introduce me to Flickr. I'd been trying my hardest to avoid it, but now I'm sucked in. Bah. Just don't expect me to work any time soon, I'm too busy taking piccies.

Cai's been shopping

I don't normally do fashion posts (mainly because there are a million and one fashion bloggers out there that can do it better than me!) but this I had to share.

For the first time, in nearly five years on SL, I bought a skin fat-pack. I'd seen the blog post from Nephi advertising new skin tones at Stella di Roccia - I'd tried demos of this skin line in the past but they were always too dark for me (I'm pale and interesting in RL - I tend to prefer my avi the same way!), so when I saw new pale skin tones I was so there!

And, wow, what can I say. As far as I'm concerned, absolute perfection. So I bought the lot *grins*

This is me in the Lait skin tone, Lucrezia (cateye liner) makeup. Because I'm not a fashion blogger, you only get to see my face :P And while I'm here, I might as well plug the jewellery, which is one of the sets I made for the Crimson Shadow collection. The beautiful dress comes from there too.

• Hair - Frangipani - Mostaccioli in Espresso
• Skin - Pixel Spa - Lait in Lucrezia
• Eyes - Pixel Spa - Adorable:Rose
• Dress - Crimson Shadow - Webbed n Lace Red Dress
• Jewellery - Crimson Shadow - Blood Vial Set
• Nails - TaP - French Pink
  

New Freebie!

I've put a new freebie ring up at my store, I've had this one lurking in my inventory for a couple of months but I never got round to making any more, so I'm giving it away :)


And if you want more freebies, join my update group! I sent a gift parcel containing another 5 rings out yesterday... Click on Groups and search for 'Cailyn's Update Group'.

Wood is good for the soul...

Lately, I've been doing so much work with black and red and silver - I needed a change! My inner pastels are screaming to come out to play *grins* This time of year (it's autumn/fall here) browns and oranges always make an appearance in the fashion world, and so here's my contribution - with a splash of green too!

The first release today is a set - a wooden necklace, bangle and earrings, highlighted with gold accents. I'm really pleased with this set - the green bangle especially - I think my texturing skills have improved no end the past few months. Anyway.. the pics:

SLX Listing - OnRez Listing (Orange version)

SLX Listing - OnRez Listing (Green version)

(yeah, I got bored of my old box designs too). A quick rundown on what I'm wearing, incase anyone is interested!

• Eyes - *Sin Skins* Intense Ocean/Obsidian Eyes
• Hair - >FD Hair<>
• Skin - *CS* Charmed Skin - 20 (red-Diva)
• Top - Last Call - Kimberly Leather Bustier w/Lace (platinum)
• Jeans - LF Sherry Jeans. [Light]
• Boots - Maitreya Dune - Brown

Next up, a wooden & bead necklace. Really pale wooden beads (I love pale wood) teamed with shiny black beads and tiny white seed beads. Oh, and a big black shiny sculptie pendant.

SLX Listing - OnRez Listing

What I'm wearing here:

• Eyes - *Sin Skins* Intense Ocean/Obsidian Eyes
• Hair - *HCT* (Platinum) Sunshine
• Top - []::Tuli::[] Ana earth (exclusive group gift)
• LipRing - *SM lipring_spiky steel (Synthetic Memory Jewellery Expo gift)
• Skin - (Mojo) Skin - Tone 1 - 10
  

This release marks a couple of new things for my store too. From now on, all my new releases will be mod/copy only. Inventory in SL seems to get flakier by the week, so making things copyable makes sense to me. I list on SLX and OnRez, so it's possible to gift items that way, or a quick IM to me inworld and I'll pass an item on. The second thing - I've started to make demo versions of new releases. There are demos of the above necklaces available in my store now :)

... I'm still here! ...

Poor, poor neglected blog! Never mind, I'm back again (for a while, at least!). Been very busy lately helping my partner Jimmy get Crimson Shadow launched, then making a jewellery collection for them. I've got a week of dead time before I start my next commission, so I've been making a few bits for my store... yes, there will be an update soon! I've got some stuff that's been lurking around in my inventory for ages, so I'll probably make those into new freebies... anyway, back to work!

<3

The Crimson Shadow Collection

A couple of months ago, I was approached by Rezzable Creations and asked to make some jewellery for their vampire themed sim, Crimson Shadow Rezzable. I created 10 sets of gothic styled jewellery and accessories, ranging from headpieces, feathered shoulder decorations, corset style chokers and cuffs to the more traditional lace chokers and blood vials.

They are available in-world only, exclusively at Crimson Shadow Rezzable.

Here's a few pics to illustrate!

Jewellery Expo 2007

The Jewellery Expo is now open! (yeah, yeah, so I spell jewelry as jewellery - it's the Brit way) All of the best jewellery creators in SL (including me *grins*) gathered together in one sim for a week long festival of all things sparkly and gemmy. Yum! There's also a charity auction and treasure hunt going on during the week.

I've already done a quick tour of the site, picked up tons of freebies (oh my poor inventory!) and marked out the items I want to buy! If you're going along, please please pleeease remove all your attachments, especially AOs and primmy jewellery/shoes/boots/belts/hair whatever, to try and make it as lag free as possible for everyone.

Many thanks to Miriel Enfield for organising the expo, and for being so patient with me while I messed up my stand (twice!).

Jewellery Expo 2007 at OnRez Orientation.

The SL Jewelry Expo 2007 website.

New choker set!

I'm really not good at keeping up with the blog *grins* I'll try harder, I promise!

Well, it's 4am here (dontcha just love insomnia!?) so please forgive any typos and ramblings. Actually, this is the third attempt at this post, I keep managing to delete half the text somehow..

'Victoriana' is a delicate choker featuring large shiny cabochons (polished unfaceted stones) and a sculptie teardrop.

The teardrop was made using ROKURO, a little freebie sculptie editor designed to produce lathed shapes. It is very simple to use, although limited in what shapes it can produce. I'm currently battling Blender to see if I can master that... I'll be honest though, Blender is beating me hands down!

Anyway, back to the set... it comes with matching dangly teardrop earrings, and is available in Ruby (my favourite, shown above), Amethyst and Emerald. No bling on this one, I didn't feel like it needed it. But it's mod, so feel free to add your own.

Available now from the usual places - Gisborne (inworld), SLX and SLB.

Time flies...

... when you're having fun! Cailyn has been a build-free zone for a couple of months, I've just been hanging with friends (and someone special *blushes*) and just generally chilling. It's time I started working for a living again though, my shopping habit needs feeding ;)

So... ( 'scuse me a minute while I blow the dust off this blog...) hopefully tomorrow I'll have a few new bits to put out! yay! I've just got to photoshop up a pic for the last one.. and then.. sleeeeeeep... zzz

No preview pics because I haven't been organised enough to make any. Brain is scrambled. Bite me. (gently, please)

xxx Cai

Project Open Letter

Cristiano Midnight (the genius behind SLUniverse and Snapzilla) has written an open letter to Linden Lab, outlining the problems we face on a daily basis, and requesting that they finally be fixed. So far over 3000 SL residents have signed the letter, and it seems that LL are beginning to take notice, organising a town hall to respond to some of the questions.

Show your support, and sign your name at Project Open Letter.

On hiatus

Oops! over a month since the last blog post. I had an enforced two week break when my internet connection was cut off (luckily I was away camping for half of that), and since then, I've just been bumming around in SL. I don't feel the urge to build anything lately, and the state of SL makes it pretty difficult anyway. Plus, in a weird RL-mirrors-SL kinda way, I've been starting to make jewellery for real! I'm currently experimenting with stone tumbling (collected from the beaches of North Wales) and later this month I'll be going on a lampworking course. Once I get to a point that I'm happy to show my work, I'll post a few pics here (and maybe even eBay links ;)

Iced Velvet

This has to be one of my favourite necklaces. I actually started making this way before Christmas, but it just wasn't coming together right. So I saved all the bits and forgot about it. I was looking through my work in progress folder last week (where I save all my experiments and current projects) and pulled it out again. After a bit of rearranging and tweaking, I ended up with something I'm now really, really happy with :)

'Iced Velvet' is an unusual square linked necklace, with cube beads along it's length. Anyone in my update group may have seen a plea I posted asking for help naming this set - I have terrible trouble coming up with names for things! Anyway, I got some wonderful suggestions, and 'Iced Velvet' from Persian Chevalier just seemed to fit perfectly :)

It comes in both gunmetal and silver, in the 7 colours shown on the poster. The gunmetal looks more casual... silver more dressy ... I love both looks though! Here's the silver/wine pic for comparison:


See? more delicate and dressy :) (I think I get waaay too involved in these things!)

Again, available inworld at my Gisborne store, on SLX, and SLB as soon as I've updated it.

New bangles

These have been ready to go for a week or so, but I held them back until I had something else to release too. (look! proper product ads! Hooooo!) They are called 'Chunky Cuffs' (I know, I suck at naming, more on that later), and come in polished gold with a choice of 12 different stones. There's so many stones because I couldn't choose which ones I liked the most, so I released the lot. I came to regret that decision 12 box pictures later.

Available now inworld at my Gisborne store, or on SLX. I'll be updating SLB a bit later, I've got 50+ items to upload and my willpower is drained for today.

Lillyane Bangles

Finally, a new set of bangles called 'Lillyane'. These feature *huge* stones, surrounded by tiny diamonds, and look stunning on your wrist. Available in gold and silver, and also in a fab black gunmetal which shows off the stones beautifully!

There's lots of stones to choose from - amber, aquamarine, emerald, opal, pink rhodium and ruby. Box contains sparkle and plain versions as usual.

New Earrings!

On to the new stuff! Made a few sets of earrings - I'll start with my favourite pair :)


These are my Pearl Drop Chain Earrings, they are very long earrings which brush the shoulders and they will look great with a long slinky dress and a fab updo. Only available in silver.


Pirate Hoops! A fun pair of earrings with various different beads, chains and charms attached.


Finally, my Heart Drop Earrings. I forgot about these for Valentine's Day *sheepish grin* so they're coming out now. Available in pink, red and white.

Updates to Edwardian Rings

The next updates are to my Edwardian Engagement Rings. Again, I had a request, this time to make a matching wedding band that could be worn together with the engagement ring after the wedding. I thought this was a great idea, so I created a set, and then added a matching wedding band for the groom too. So now, it's called the Edwardian Engagement & Wedding Ring Set, and is available in the original 5 stones - amethyst, emerald, blue topaz, ruby and sapphire. Emerald shown below.


The box now contains a lot of rings - the original women's engagement ring, a new womans engagement + wedding ring, and a new mans wedding band. Plus sparkly versions of all three for those that like bling. The original engagement rings are still available seperately for those that just liked it as a dress ring.

Updates to Christobel

I've added a few new colours to my Christobel set. I had a request for sapphire, amethyst and jet versions, and so that's what I've added!


My personal favourite is the jet version - black goes with just about anything (except maybe brown) and so it's so versatile. And it looks all shiny, which is never a bad thing!

Lots of new stuff to blog about!

But before I do (going to do several posts to cover it all) I'd like to say thank you to everyone for all the birthday good wishes, cards, flowers, clothes and baby pandas! awwwee cuuuute things!


I had an awesome birthday, and you all helped to make it special. <3 you all!

Coming up

*bats away the tumbleweed*

Sorry about the lack of blogging - RL has taken over again. Just to reassure you all I've not stepped under a bus, walked off a cliff, or anything sinister like that. I missed my 4th rezday in SL (10th march) - oh well, never mind. It's my RL birthday soon (19th), have to make sure I don't miss that one!

I've got a ton of stuff to release, as soon as I've made up 56million box pics (ok, slight exaggeration!) Two new bangle designs, several new earrings, new ring, plus updates of Christobel and my Edwardian Engagement Ring. Hopefully I'll have them out in the next week or so.

How cool is this?

I often get chatting with people I meet in my store. Sometimes it's a brand new noob that has crashlanded and wonders where the hell he is, sometimes an older resident that I've heard of via forums or designs, and it's just nice to put a face to names. Sometimes however, it's someone that is just bursting to design and get creative.

I met Riley Rothschild a couple of weeks ago; she told me she was just starting to design her own clothes and we chatted for quite a while. This morning I got a surprise package in my inventory - she's created a new dress based on my Looped set of necklaces... I'm lovin it!

It's a loud 'n' wild print, perfect for crazy parties... the dress has a funky 70's vibe to me, especially with the one-shoulder-asymetric design. I teamed it with my Looped jewellery (of course!), Mischief Bound hair from Playful Kitten, and pinkred Lollies from Shiney Things (although you can't see those in the picture). Skin is my usual Nimbus Sultry Liner from Sin Skins.

And just because I'm a narcistic tart who can't resist taking photos of herself (grins) here's another view:

If you'd like to see more of Riley's designs, her store is called Fashion Slave, and is in Bravehearts.

I'm truely honoured to think someone has gotten inspiration from something I've made, and in this case is especially fun since the Looped set was inspired by an item of clothing I'd bought. Design circles in SL! Hooooo!

And so, here endeth my first attempt at fashion blogging.

Valentines gift to my group :)

To say thank you to all my lovely update group members, I've put up a new set of heart jewelry just for them! The stand is right at the store entrance in Gisborne, and it will only give out gifts to group members (you have to have 'Cailyn's Update Group' as your active group to get it). If you aren't a group member (and why not??!) there are instructions here on how to join.

It's available in diamond and ruby versions, and the box contains bling and plain as usual.

Happy Valentines! <3

Edwardian Engagement Rings

The first new release today (which has to rate as one of the most stressful releases I've ever done, thank you SL) is a set of stunning Edwardian Engagement rings. These were actually a commission for a wonderful couple (*waves to Howard & Grace*) - when I saw what they wanted I couldn't resist making it, even though I don't usually do custom work. It's a beautiful big bold gem design, with a tiny contrasting heart on the shank. I really want one of these in real life!!
As you can see, they come in five stones - Emerald, Blue Topaz, Ruby, Amethyst and Sapphire. My personal favourite is the emerald one, which is the one I originally created for Howard and Grace.

Although these are engagement rings, they could easily be modified to wear on the right hand to add a spot of bling to a georgous gown. Not that they bling that much... but as usual there is a sparkly and plain version included.

Modify & Transfer, available now from Gisborne, and later today from SLX & SLB.

Normal Service is being resumed!

... slowly but surely :)

I'm back inworld and building things - in fact I'm trying to package up two new items right now, only SL isn't playing ball. Things never make it to my inventory, and textures won't upload... what the hell has happened to SL in the few weeks I've been away??

Many thanks to everyone who has IMd asking if I'm ok (and especially thanks to Spike who sent a prim tub of Ben & Jerrys!! <3 <3 ) I'm just about over the flu now, and slowly recovering from the back pains that all the sneezing and coughing brought on. Don'tcha just love winter?

Anyway, I really wanted to have made loads of new sets for Valentines Day, but what with the flu and being unable to sit at the PC for long, nothing much got done. *sighs* Still, like I mentioned, I do have a couple of bits to release, one of which is a group special... but more on that later today!

urghhh...

I'm getting over the flu. Still feeling like sh*t. Send me sympathy and chocolate please! (a tub of Ben & Jerry's Phish Food would be most welcome too)

On a brighter note, it snowed here last night. I love the snow. I sat around midnight for an hour, just watching it fall, silently covering everything. So peaceful. I haven't felt that calm for months.

I'm moving!

Mat and I have bought 10km of land in the brand new Gisborne sim (which happens to be the name of the rather *yummy* baddie in Robin Hood) and so Cailyn's will be moving! I'm about halfway through building the new store, then I have to put out all the jewellery... change the LM in around 300 boxes... change the LM in all the SLX and SLB boxes... omg... this may take some time!

Coming very soon!

It would have been today, but I forgot it was update day. Boo! So this will be released tomorrow instead.

It's the first of my valentine releases, not overly slushy I hope! (slushy releases are coming up ^_^) It's a long drop necklace with a filigree heart pendant, and some dangly chains that I added just a touch of flex to so they sway when you move.

I can honestly say that this was one of the most difficult designs I've ever done. I restarted that damn chain at least four times, plus I had to make several new textures for the flexi chain, the balls, the filigree inset, and I tweaked my gold texture a few times until I was reasonably happy with it. *phew*

I'm including a full length shot so you can see just how long this necklace is.. the end of the flexi chains falls to around waist level (at least on my av, Cailyn is a bit on the short side!)

It will be available tomorrow from all the usual places, in either gold or silver. I didn't add any bling to this, because I really don't think it needs it. And it's modifiable and transferrable, so good for gifting :)

In case you are wondering... hair in the pic is Drew from Panache, skin is Vogue in Pure (Pink - Light) from Celestial Studios, top and jeans are from an outfit called Hellenas by Dazzle, and shoes are Patent MaryJane Ballets from Boing Fromage (and they are sooo cute too!).

I've got another set to take pics of and box up, plus some fun earrings that are boxed but I haven't got around to releasing yet. I need more hours in my day... anyone know where I can get those from?

New 'Wedding Belles' set released!

Yup, I've done another set specifically designed for weddings, although that doesn't stop you wearing it with evening gowns!

This set is called Layla (I've got that Eric Clapton song in my head right now, no idea why!) and it's made up of white moonstones, tiny diamonds and silver surrounds. Me likes :)


I'll be putting this out later today, in all the usual places, and one lucky person in the update group will be getting a copy!

Modify and transfer OK, and as usual the box will contain a plain version and a subtly sparkling one. Box pic coming up...


(Skin and eyes by Sin Skins, Hair by Panache, Wedding dress & veil by Rebel Hope Designs)

I've started working on valentines sets now, got one already completed but I've still a few ideas to work on. I'll be making a special freebie for the group too... but more on that nearer the time!

First release of the year

I had hoped to get this finished for Christmas, but never mind, better late than never!

No name for this one, I did think to call it 'Antoinette' but I can't spell it the same way twice. So Pearl Choker it remains :)

I've never been a pearl person in RL, but for some reason the idea of a pearl choker appealed. Hence this set! I still wanted some focal point at the throat, so I added a large stone surrounded by tiny diamonds. I think it works rather well.

First pic has been photoshopped, second (box pic) is how it would appear inworld.

Skin in both pics is 'Amie *pale*' from /artilleri/, eyes from Sin Skins. Both hairs from Gurl6 (I'll add the names in an edit, it's past midnight and I'm going to bed soon!)

The pearl choker is available with 8 different stones - amber, amethyst, aquamarine, emerald, moonstone, pink rhodium, ruby and sapphire.

As always, box contains a plain version and one with a small sparkle. Modify & transfer OK.

Available now from SLBoutique, SLExchange, and inworld at my Butsu store.

Edit to add: oh yes, forgot to mention it comes with a matching three-strand pearl bracelet. I'm tired.

Join the update group!

I meant to blog this before the xmas hols.. but the brain cells are fading and I forgot. I finally got around to creating an update group for the store, so I have yet another place to announce new releases! (oh joy)

Benefits of joining:

• be the first to hear about new releases
• advance notice of sales
• random freebies!
• it's free!

How to join:

• Log into SL (duh) - if you don't have an account, click here!
• Press the Search button
• switch to the Groups tab
• in the Find box, type 'Cailyn's Update Group' (just 'Cailyn's' should work too) and press Search
• press the 'Join $0' button
• all done!

Happy New Year!

Well I'm finally back from an extended visit to the family over Christmas, so this is just a quick post to let everyone know I'm alive and kicking!

Three things to mention:

First, I came home to several hundred offline IMs. I'm slowly working my way through them all - if you IMd me over the holidays I will be responding soon, I promise! First priority is gift certificates and help requests, then I'll be doing the rest.

Second, I'd like to send much love to my new baby nephew Aaron, who was born on Christmas day :) Welcome to the world little one, I wish you much joy, happiness and laughter in your life here!

Finally, to all my friends, family, customers.. and everyone! I wish you all a happy and peaceful 2007, and hope you get all you want and desire during this new year.

*hugs* Cai