A few press mentions

Just a quick little note here today to catch up on some minor press mentions I haven't gotten around to blogging yet.

Firstly, from way back in September on Closet Crisis, a mention of one of my fave freebies; Womens Tantari Ring.

(found @ http://closetcrisis.com/?p=224 )

From Issue #11 of Second Style Magazine, a little mention of some of my items created for the Mayan project;

(found @ http://www.secondstyle.com/downloads/Second_Style_Issue11.pdf )

From one of my faves, Ameila Book, mention of my Changing Squares set;

(found @ http://slfashionnotices.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/new-pretties/ )

And again mentioning my newest jewellery set, The Enchanted Collection;

(found @ http://slfashionnotices.wordpress.com/2007/12/23/sensual-aspen/ )

That pretty much catches me up to date on all of the SL press I know about.

~Enchanted Collection~

Original Rlease Date: December 13, 2007

This is probably the biggest set of goodies I've released all at once in awhile now. The entire collection was inspired by my rl daughter, six years of age, and currently going through a very heavy princess fad. She has been nagging me for awhile now about not having anything fitting for a 'royal ball' in the stores, so this one I dedicate entirely to her.

There are 12 different dresses in total. A color for every mood really. They are built in such a way that they could easily double for a wedding dress if the desire to use them as such were there, but they are in my opinion, just plain pretty.

As some of you are probalby already aware, I am not a big fan of the typical sl prim skirt. It bothers me more then I can even communicate to have it sticking out of my body all higgly piggly. I know that this is just the way things are done around here, and have been done since long b4 I came on the scene, but this doesn't mean I have to like it. Though I've used the typical method for skirt creation several times, the only other time I've made something even remotely formal, I opted to do it in my own style. Again, with this set, this is what I've done.

Rather then hiding the skirt pannels in the body, each attaches ever so perfectly (trust me, this is a time consuming method) to a delicate, gem lined waistband. As with all of the gems in this entire set, those on the waistbands are scripted to change through the 12 traditional birthstones via simple voice command. And yes, for the record, I am very much in love with this method of creation lately. I like to give a lot of options in my creations, but it makes it a little cluttered around the shop to be creating them in every different version. Much simpler, and more efficient I feel, to have them all inclusive with the different options.

Each of the 12 dresses sells for $500 linden. The packs include the skirt base, done on a pant layer as I very much prefer over the skirt layers, lace lined top, flex skirt, optional flex hairpiece, AND matching shoes. This is another thing that has become a recent obsession for me, adding the shoes in with the packs that is. I have a few too many outfits in my own inventory that I have such a hard time matching shoes to, that I often just go barefoot or dont bother to wear the outfits at all. Matching shoes included? Viola! Excellent. No fuss, no muss.

Along with the dresses in this collection, there is of course jewellery; Two necklaces, two rings, bracelet, and earrings in both gold and silver. I did the jewellery just a little different this time around. Let me explain. When I first started tinkering with options for the jewellery, I created a longer necklace that dangled ever so nicely on the chest, but seemed to be missing something to me. I then scratched that idea, and recreated a completely different necklace that I very much prefered. However, at one point I wondered how they would look together, so I placed the original necklace on the spine attachment, the favored on the chest, and I so much liked the combination that I decided to toss the original necklace in the collection after all. Also, though I may be entirely alone in this, I am a big fan of some of my metal shoe versions. The cold and silver can fit in so nicely with almost anything after all. So as an afterthought, I decided to do up a set of the shoes in both gold and silver to match the jewellery sets. Interestingly enough, these shoes turned out to be my faves in the whole collection. Again, all of these pieces come all inclusive with the texture change gems.

Finally, also upon my daughters beckoning, I did something I havent done in a very long time; I made an enourmous bundle pack that includes litterly every single piece from this entire collection. I also set this bundle at such an amazing discount that truly, it makes it very worthwhile I should think.

So in a nutshell, theres the Enchanted Collection broken down for you. Don't forget to pick up your free xmas goodies in store while you're visiting! And on that note.... have a very merry christmas folks, I look forward to bringing you some interesting things in the new year. :)

~Goddess Collection~ ~Winter Wonderland Collection~ ~Diva Collection~

Original Release Date: November 25, 2007

This is a strange sort of release month for me; instead of one large collection, instead I've released 3 mini collections and a couple of freebie goodies. The ~Winter Wonderland Collection~ (shown above in red and below left in black) is just a cute little ensemble released in 4 different colors; red, black, white and green. Perfect for spreading a little extra warmth this winter, this outfit comes with top, skirt base, flex skirt, crochet sweater, scarf AND boots.

The ~Goddess Collection~ was initially meant to be released in several different versions, but in the end, I really prefered the idea of just putting a whole wack of options into one perfect set. 46 different texture options in all, there is not an outfit out there that this set can not be made to match. On top of the texture change ability, this set is all lightly scripted to move, making it rather hypnotic to watch. (fullset shown below)

The ~Diva Collection~ consists of 3 different options (shown below in black) and is simply a sexy little outfit that's been kicking around in my personal stash for awhile now.
I also mentioned freebies:). Shown below are the goodies from the two boxes found near the Christmas tree in my mainstore right now, stop by and grab yourself a set.

Another Renovation

I'm not sure how I keep doing it, but I seem to keep running out of space.
So, once again, I doubled my land, altered my store and renovated everything.
This time around, there's a few new things of worthy mention; on the second floor (yes, the second floor is new too) I added a Newbie wall. This is just horde of goodies I've purchased for just such a matter in order to help out some of the more linden challenged amongst us. It took me a sick amount of hours to sort through all the stuff I collected to create this wall (it's been an ongoing project for about 2 months now), which is the only reason you'll find much of it with a 1 linden price tag on them. For folks 30 days old or less, however, I've put together a male and female 'freebie package' that can be aquired through either myself or my partner. The packages contain a few of the esentials; skin, hair, eyes, shoes and clothing, and are provided absolutely free of charge. The entire idea, after all, was brought on by a desire to help out those just coming to our wonderous little community.
Also new, and located on the second floor, is the official ~Aries Celestial Designs~ discount wall. These items are not new, but the prices are. At the moment, the items on this wall are all from my first two collections created in game, but as that I can't seem to stop myself from building, look forward to finding more goodies up here eventually. I've cut this stuff down in price by about two thirds.
And finally, since I'm in such a jolly ol' mood about acomplishing so very much in the past few days... from now until the 15th of September, mention this post and recive half back on any ONE item purchased in store. (just IM me either before or after purchase and be patient... I'm away from the comp quite often these days.
Happy Shopping folks:)

~The Pierced and Painted Collection~

Original Release Date: September 4, 2007

This is a pretty large collection; 61 boxes to date. It's something I've been thinking about doing for a long time, but have kept putting off for some reason.

There are so many pieces in this, I'm not even going to attempt to show them all here. Just a couple highlights instead.

The begining inspiration to this entire collection really, is the corset piercings.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm all for piercings and tats in RL, but this is one set of piercings I would NEVER want to get for myself. It looks damn right uncomfortable and difficult to manage. Still... they've been drawing my interest of late, and I was curious to see how well I could adapt the idea to Sl. Turns out, pretty damn well actually. While not a huge fan of them in Rl, I find myself in growing lust with these intersting jewellery tidbits. I've scripted them to change via voice command through 10 of my own fave lace and satin textures, though, they can be adapted to add any of your own faves to the mix. They're actually incredibly sexy.

Moving on to the brow art; again, this is something that's been kicking around in my head for some time now... and these were incredibly interesting to make. I went above and beyond with these and all of the facial jewellery created in this set. Not only are they scripted to change through each of the twelve traditional birthstones via voice command, but I've also included another 34 of my fave gem textures just to keep things fresh and intersting. I absolutely love these things; they're original, sexy, and very feminine. Not to mention, they draw just the right amount of attention, hehe.

I don't know about you, but I love my cartoons. Any of you who might know about my home in the Bedrock in Sl might have guessed this by now. I feel there is always more room for our fave cartoon charactors in game... and so I brought in a few more.

12 in total to be precise; Scooby, Scooby with the gang, Betty Boop, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Yo Sammity Sam, Smurfette, Papa Smurf, Mickey mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck and Daisy Duck. Now each of these wonderful creatures is appearing on both belly rings and chin studs. (ps. in Rl I own the labret studs with Scooby, Papa Smurf and Mickey Mouse... I'd kill for a Betty Boop, just in case any of you fine people might know where to locate one.) There are a slew of other facial piercings in this set; monroe, labret, reverse labret, eyebrow, nose, nose bridge... you name it. There are some nice simple metal versions, and some wonderful texture change gem versions. If you'd like to see the rest of them, stop on by the store and check them out.

~The Changing Squares Collection~

Original Release Date: August 31, 2007

Ok, truthfully, this isn't what I'd typically call a 'collection' which is why it (just as the last set) is unofficially titled and sort of blends in with previous items. In all honesty, it's just been an insanely busy summer for me in RL, and when I went to work on this particular set of jewellery, I never expected it to bare any edible fruit. I was just trying to brush off the cobwebs.
Like with many of my sets, it began as just an experiment with prims, twisting and bending the poor little buggers as I so enjoy doing... but then something began to take form, and before I knew it, I was actually working on a set.

The end result was small'ish compared to many of my past projects, but stil impressively complete; rings, bracelets, earrings and necklaces, coming in the options of gold, silver or my new fave medium, black shine.

Though I'd initially just been working with a pretty amber texture I've recently fallen in love with, in the end I saw the jewellery as being capable of so much more. I first thought of doing multiple stone selections, but finally decided to give this jewellery the ability to change through the traditional birthstones. After all... those traditional birthstones are what gave my building career in sl it's birth, and I can't help but find myself constantly drawn back into using them.

Second Life Sightseer Rocks!!!

Imagine my giddiness at returning from my vacation to find this waiting for me!!! I was seriously tickled.
When I read down to the comments about the pink sweethearts silks, I actually chuckled outloud; god how I hate pink, but my more comanding partner (my six year old daughter who is more my boss then my partner I think) demands on a certain amount of pink added to my builds with such insistence that it is indeed a must.
All in all, this was the greatest honor I've recieved in my SL buisness life, it was a great article... yes, I am biased, but it was awesome nonetheless.

Jewelry: Aries Celestial Designs - Heart Birthstone Set
Hair: Sinsation - Carlie II Chocolate
Skin: Naughty - Alina Eye Shadow Smokey, Red Lipstick

Posted by Morgana Fillion at 2:38 PM

To read the rest of the article, go to:
http://slsightseer.blogspot.com/2007/08/i-heart-aries-celestial.html