New Necklace

Yay for 'flu! (not really... it sucks. Knocked me out for a good week.)

Anyway. Today's release is called Tulia. Don't know why. Just seemed like a good name. (Can you tell my head isn't right yet?) Tulia has been hanging around my workroom for a few weeks, but I've not been able to make textures I was happy with. Well now I have. And so here it is. It's a pretty, graceful silver chain featuring three large flower designs, in five different pastel shades. White (ok, so that's not really pastel), cherry, teal, lilac and rose. Comes with matching earrings. Mod & Copy, and demos are available in store as usual.

There ya go. Mwah. Until next time.

"Queen of the Shadows"

I would like to present to you my contribution to Rezzable's "Killer Designers" Crimson Shadow event, which previews today at 12pm.


This is a huge set, comprising of a necklace, tiara, 2 armbands and a pair of earrings. I took inspiration from the circular theme of Crimson - if you've explored there, you'll know how one vaulted round room leads to another. The idea of this piece was to make the spirals look as if they organically grow .. I hope I achieved it! The colour scheme of Crimson is also reflected in the set - dark black metal settings hold softly glowing marquis cut rubies, with teardrop rubies scattered around for added highlights.

It's hard to show full details in a single box-artwork, so here are a few closeup shots of each piece. Click on them to show the bigger picture.




The set will be available only at Crimson Shadow Rezzable for the duration of the Killer Designers event, after that I will put it up for sale in my stores. There will be a demo version available on the vendor for you to try the set out for fit. All pieces come with modify & copy permissions.

One last thing, I'm away on vacation from 19th October through to 2nd November - so if there are any problems with the "Queen of the Shadows" vendor, please contact Lokum Shilova who is authorised to deal with it in my absence. With that, I'll love you and leave you... see y'all in two weeks!

Killer Designers at Crimson Shadow

A few weeks ago, Rezzable showed the 'Passions of the Black Swan' - (vid) - a collection of fabulous gowns, skins, hair and accessories from some of the hottest designers on the grid. Tuli, Sn@tch, Nomine, caLLie cLine, Philotic Energy.. to name but a few. Basically, the designers had to come up with an item that was inspired by the Black Swan sim.

On Sunday, 19th October, through to November 9th, a new collection will be shown. This time, the fashion is inspired by the Crimson Shadow sim (which has been my favourite place in the world, for many reasons). I was delighted when Lokum asked me to participate in this collection, and so I've been busy the past week or so making something fabulous (I hope!). I can't tell you what yet.. but it's the biggest set I've ever made.

I can't wait to see what the other designers have come up with. Hopefully I'll be getting a sneaky preview when I put my vendor up.. but if it's anything like the Black Swan collection, it will be totally amazing. Fantabulous. Breathtaking.

If you haven't visited Crimson yet (why not?!) this would be the perfect time. More info on participating designers, and location pics, here.

New Victoriana Sets

Last year some time, I made a set of chokers called Victoriana. They've been one of my more popular items over the last few months. Scroll forward in time now, to a couple of days ago, when I was watching the chat in Fashion Emergency group as I worked on something. I can't remember why I commented, but Scar Ayres piped up and mentioned how much she loved this set. And could I make it in more colours please! So you can blame her for these ones.



I've added three new stones to the original ruby, emerald and amethyst. The first is sapphire, a fab deep blue stone, but everyone knows that! Next is moonstone, which is the creamy off-white one, and finally white quartz, a cloudy pure white stone (and also my favourite of the new bunch). As before, the set contains the choker and matching earrings. Unlike before, it's now Mod/Copy only. I've also put up demo versions of this set in the store. Available in all the usual places (see right hand side for locations).

And because I'm feeling extra nice, I've added the moonstone version to my lucky chair.

Treasure Hunt ends midnight

Just a quick reminder - my treasure hunt ends midnight tonight. So if you haven't found them all yet, better be quick!

Treasure Hunt Location.

Treasure Hunt!

To celebrate rebuilding my Gisborne store, I'm having a treasure hunt!

I've hidden 15 jewelry boxes around the store. They are all marked for L$0, if you find one, buy it.

There is a catch! I am the mistress of tiny prims... and also an evil bitch ^_^. The jewelry boxes are everso teeny small... so you'll need patience and lots of camming to find them all!

They contain various stuff.. some current jewelry stock, some older ones.. there's some lingerie and poses in a couple too.

Hunt ends midnight PST on Wednesday 1st October. That should give you chance to find them all.

Treasure Hunt Location

xx Cai

p.s. Originally had Wed 1st November down here - too much wine rots brain cells, I did mean October. Oopsie.

Jewelry Expo 2008

It's that time again! (well nearly) Miriel Enfield is busy organising the second Jewelry Expo, which this year runs from 5th to the 11th of October.

7 days, 75 designers. That's a lot of sparkly stuff. And I will be there too :D

Get saving your Lindens now!

Rebuilding, please mind the dust

I've moved the entire Gisborne store up to 300m while I (attempt to) build a new store. Hopefully I've reset the landing points correctly so you shouldn't notice a difference.. but this is SL and things do go pear-shaped. Regularly.

New sculpted rings

If you ever met me in RL, one thing you might notice after a few days is that I love my rings. And I'm not just talking about a plain gold band with a small subtle diamond either. As far as I'm concerned, the bigger the better! It doesn't have to be gold & precious stones either - my collection contains silver, wood, plastic, glass, beaded rings... I'm not fussy! (As an aside, one of my favourite stores to pore over is The Carrotbox - I could quite happily order pretty much anything from there and love it to bits.)

So, now you know where these rings are coming from. They are big, and bold, and eye catching. All the things I love on a finger :) I've done three different stones to start with, all available in gold or silver. I'm not going to post them all, because that would make a huge post and bore you all to death, but here's a couple as samples.

Group members - if you're a member of my HIPPO group, I've just sent out a update pack which includes a group exclusive version of this ring, in silver and black. Details on how to join are here!

Rings are available now, inworld at Gisborne and Fuzzy, and on the web at SLX and OnRez. L$150 each, modify & copy only, but you can send as a gift using the web stores. Enjoy!

More Adele Necklaces

I hade a request inworld, asking for more subtle colours for my Adele necklace. Subtle? Me? Heh, well, I've tried! I've done darker versions of the red and blue, plus a new rose quartz texture that I'm pretty proud of. Here's a quick pic of the new colours:


The rose quartz looks much better inworld - go and try a demo! Recognise the orange/black one? Yep, it's the same stone I made for Aisha! I thought it looked pretty good here too.

Demos of all the new colours, and all the old ones, available at Gisborne or Fuzzy.

Quick preview

I'll be releasing these Monday or Tuesday, as soon as I've got all the boxes done. Couple more colours of Adele necklace coming too!


xx Cai

Two more new necklaces

I've been wanting to do another long necklace for a while, and so Adele was born:

I thought about reusing the chain from my heart drop necklaces that I made ages ago, but after working on the pendant, I decided the old chain looked too clunky, so I made a new one. I think the new version looks much slinkier, and more polished overall. So - Adele, a long drop silver chain, with an eye-catching glass donut and suspended flexi chains. It comes in three colours so far - red, black and blue, though I'm happy to take suggestions for others!

The second new release is actually a set, named Aisha. It features orange glass stones, mixed with random silver hoops. I couldn't decide whether to make this a single or double strand, so both are included in the box! The orange texture is actually an attempt at making an amber texture - obviously nowhere near yet, but I really liked the effect so I kept this one. There's matching earrings included too.


Both styles are available now at L$250 (Adele) or L$300 (Aisha), from either of my stores (Gisborne & Fuzzy) or from SLX (Aisha, Adele Black, Adele Blue, Adele Red) or OnRez (Aisha, Adele Black, Adele Blue, Adele Red).

Demos are available at the inworld stores too. Why not join my update group while you're there? *grins*

New Update Group.. and freebies!

I've finally gone and got myself one of these new fangled update group thingumybobs, so you no longer need a spare group slot to join my group! yay!

And just to show how much I wub you all, if you join up you'll get a freebie package to say thanks :

(please note, it's a set of bangles, not me nekkid *grins* I'm much more expensive!)

There's six colours in all, and they come for both left and right wrists. So mix n match how you like.

The sign-up terminals are at my stores in Gisborne and Fuzzy, right infront of the entrances.

The clearance sale is still going on in Gisborne.. come and grab some bargains while they are still available! Sale ends 1st September, and after that I'm deleting those items for good.

More new necklaces

Two more new necklaces were released last night (would have blogged them straight away, but RL intervened!)

The first is the Crescent necklace. It's made up of sculpted silver cubes, and sculpted stone beads of either turquoise or carnelian. I then added a silver crescent pendant, with a few more smaller stones to tie it back in.



The second necklace is my favourite, and is called Eden. I saw a RL friend wearing one very similar to this, and I just had to make a version for SL! I love the shapes in this one, the mix of small round beads to the large (what do you call that shape anyway?) beads. Hers was a black plastic.. I've textured mine to look like dark wood (and it's come out melting-chocolate colour.. yummy)


All three are available now at L$250 each, from either of my stores (Gisborne & Fuzzy) or from SLX (carnelian, turquoise, eden) or OnRez (carnelian, turquoise, eden).

Demos are available at the inworld stores too.

Sale update - I've fixed the vendors, so everything should now be available to buy! Don't forget, it finishes Sept 1st, and everything on the upper floor is L$100 or less. Lots of rings, earrings, necklaces and general shiny stuff to choose from. ** Only at Gisborne location! **

Clearance sale!

I've run out of room in Gisborne! So, I've decided to have a clear out. I've moved lots of rings, bangles, earrings, necklaces and sets to the upper floor, and marked them all to L$100 or less (in most cases, much less!)

This is only in the Gisborne location!

I'm gonna delete them all Sept 1st 2008. Once they're gone... they're gone. Finito.

New necklace!

Yay, new stuffs! Like I mentioned before, I've been playing with baking textures, and this is one that I've come up with. It's a really yummy polished bead effect, so I strung a load of them on a long drop necklace and messed around until I had a look I liked. The finished product:


The pic shows the blue version, which is my favourite, but the necklace also comes in red, purple, black and green. They cost L$250 each, and are available from my stores in Gisborne and Fuzzy, and also on SLX and OnRez. Demo available inworld. It's good to be back creating again!

Hey, remember me?

This blog's been quite for a while, huh? So, a quick update - round about January time, a few things happened which killed my desire to be in SL. My partner left (for RL reasons), I got a new RL job which takes up huge amounts of time, and I got myself addicted to EVE Online *sheepish grin* (BTW, if you play, say hi to Amirylla, that's me! And don't shoot me please!)

The past couple of months I've been flitting in and out of SL, not really achieving much. Mostly shopping and freebie hunting. My inventory is soon going to implode, I just know it. I'd been participating in a thread on SLUniverse called 'Show your style', where we just took pics of whatever outfit we were wearing that day, and where to buy all the bits. From that, I got contacted by Tenshi Vielle, and asked to do pretty much the same kind of posts on her & Iris's blog, Shopping Cart Disco. I've now done a couple of posts there, and it's much fun :) But the urge to create is back (plus I need funds for shopping!)

Also, I've been slowly learning how to make sculpties, and bake textures. I got hold of an old copy of Maya from a work colleague, and I've been happily spending hours playing with nurbs and shaders. I'm still a novice, but I'm learning! And I've come up with one bead texture that I'm really happy with (more on that in another post :)

Finally.. I opened a new store in the Fuzzy sim. If you haven't been there, it's a fantastic cute shopping sim, with lots of little boutiques to browse. It's run by the wonderful Popfuzz, who I had the pleasure of meeting when I rented the spot. We chatted for ages, and she showered me with gifts... I feel loved! lol

Anyway, there we go. A potted update. I'm back. Yay.

Who the hell let me go shopping??

Oh boy. I shouldn't be allowed out. I found shoes to die for today.. I so want these in RL!



Found them in a store called 'DeLa*', they come in 11 colour combos and I would have bought the lot if they weren't L$400 a pair. So I settled on the red ones :)

Stuffage:

Shoes - =DeLa*= Sandal "Polina" Red (slurl)
Hair - ARMIDI Hair - Secret - Light Blonde
Shirt - ASH STYLE : plain shirts white (freebie! slurl)
Jeans - *LAST CALL Kimberly Cropped Jeans
Skin - (SdR) Lait tone: Chanteuse (cateye liner)
Bag - (CS) Hobo Bag - Patent Cherry (group gift - can I put this on my RL want list too?)
Belt - Crimson Shadow Valentines Set (see here!)

Valentine Freebies

Quick post to say I've put my freebie valentine set out again in the store entrance, it will be there until the 15th (well probably longer, I've got to go to hospital on the 15th so I won't be in SL much :( ) It's a little heart necklace and earrings set, which comes in silver/ruby & silver/diamond.

Happy Valentines Day everyone! xxx

His & Hers Valentines Sets

well January was pretty much a washout for me, both in RL and in SL. I managed to spend maybe 10hrs total inworld. bah. anyway, enough moaning.

I'm pleased to announce a new release especially for Valentines Day, commissioned by Rezzable so it's part of the Crimson Shadow collection. I've made matching sets for girls and for guys!


First, the girls - the set costs L$400, and contains a necklace, earrings, ring and a belt. All pieces carry the same double heart design, and it's available in silver & ruby only.

The belt is black leather, with silver studs and fastenings, and features the double heart design all the way around.

Here's a close up of the pendant (click to enlarge it) - I think it's really cute :) The earrings have the same design.

And for the guys, a toned down, more macho (lol) version! The guys set includes a necklace, ring, wrist cuffs and a belt, again with the double heart design. Also L$400. The chain on the guys necklace is bulkier, but a more simple design, and I think it looks pretty good without going into OTT bling.


Guys get a black leather belt too, although theirs is taller and has double rows of studs, and also the matching black leather studded wrist cuffs.

Both sets are available now, exclusively at Crimson Shadow Rezzable. Demos of both sets are available in the store to try before you buy :)