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Evita, from Lupoaica, for Fantasy Faire 2013.
Fantasy Faire 2013 has made a lot of money for the American Cancer Society, but they’re not finished yet! There’s lots more good stuff to be bought and you’ll see a lot more fundraising events.
Lupoaica owner/designer, Meka Aeon, has put this braided hairstyle up as her donation item for Fantasy Faire 2013. This style is very typical of what any medieval maiden would wear; it’s a simple braid pulled back and secured with a bow. This braid is long, and reaches almost to the floor! When you purchase the hairstyle, don’t forget to pick up the HUD, which is free. It’s straight forward, and easy to use, just make sure to read the included note card first. Be patient, it takes a few seconds to fully load the first time. One hairstyle, and one HUD means you inventory stays a little lighter than if you had to store each individual colour. Less stuff in my inventory? I like that!
Details
- Evita, from Lupoaica, for Fantasy Faire 2013.
- Gypsy jewellery, from Sn@tch.
- Lynette wench dress from Kouse’s Sanctum.
- Hygeia Skin from My Dear.
- Eyes from Plastik.
- Lupoaica is located at H on the Ravenshard sim for Fantasy Faire 2013. A Ravenshard map is not included at the Fantasy Faire 2013 blog, so I’ve included a direct teleport, just follow the bouncing red arrow.
Now, if you teleport to Lupoaica Fantasy Faire 2013 location, you’ll also find a free gift. Shown above is Topanga2, set of reds is free at the Faire location. Below is Puck, with a pack of blacks and whites free at the Faire.
Details
- Lupoaica hairstyle from Lupoaica.
- Lucine Gothic Skin from Tuty’s.
- Fantastical Eyes from Sterling Artistry.
- Belladonna Collar and jacket (oldies but goodies) from Prim & Pixel.
Puck, from Lupoaica, free at the Fantasy Faire 2013 location.
Details
- Puck, from Lupoaica.
- Fantastical Eyes are from Sterling Artistry. Colour shown is Enduring (prim eyes are colour change, size change via script)
- Neko ears from p/a. No longer available.
- Gothneko skin from Den Dou. No longer available.
You loved dressing as a princess, or a fairy, or maybe a fairy princess a as child, and now Second Life is no different: You love playing dress up. I think we all love playing dress up: putting on those personae that we can’t put on in real life. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could go to work dressed the way we really want to dress?
Designers like Kouse Singh, of Kouse’s Santum sell us the tools to carry out our fantasies in Second Life in a way that we can never carry them out in real life, and for pennies on the real life dollar. Now you can dress the part of your favourite fairytale heroine and donate to a good cause.. all at the same time!
Kouse’s Sanctum is a merchant at Fashion for Life, and there are not one, but four gorgeous gowns to purchase as Donation items.
Two, RFL Jupiter, shown above, and RFL Tranquility, the last gown shown, are more like the medieval gowns we expect to see in high fantasy role play. You know, the kind of role play where we pretend to be fairies, and elves, and princesses.
Kouse Singh has put a more modern twist on some of her newer designs, like Madison, shown immediately above, and Selah, shown directly below. These more modern gowns can take you from the high fantasy sim to the modern ballroom with a mere change of accessories. If you’re a busy girl on the go, flitting from event to event, these gowns are just what you need.
All four gowns are Donation Items, which means that your purchase price goes to relay for Life/The American Cancer Society, so splurge a little and buy them all!
- Kouse’s Sanctum Main Shop: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Avilion%20Hinterlands/180/55/36
- Kouse’s Sanctum Blog: http://kousesingh.wordpress.com/
- Kouse’s Sanctum at Fashion For Life: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/DreamSeeker%20Epoque/66/83/25
I have gowns in my inventory that date back to my noob days in SL, some things I never get rid of.
Like gowns form Kouse’s Sanctum. I have so many of them that it would probably take me a couple months to wear a different one each day. I keep them because they are beautiful. When I first started picking up beautiful gowns form Kouse’s Sanctum I never would have thought they could have been improved upon, but somehow Kouse Singh has managed to do exactly that. The textures are smooth, the fit is flawless, and the designs just keep getting better.
You can try the fashions at Kouse’s Sanctum for a minimal amount of money with two great deals. Tranquil, shown above, and Brianna, shown below.
I’m not one of those people who follows popular trends and fads, I have a certain style I like, and follow that pretty faithfully. In SL there are few designers who design to fit my style.. and fewer of those design quality goods.. so I have a pretty narrow field of shops to choose from. But that’s ok, because there’s something special to being different.
And speaking of different, take the time to pop into Bizarre Creations to check out the hairstyles there. You’ll find styles that are a little out of the norm. Styles that are perfect for your medieval princess, elven maiden, or temperamental sirena. Mystica Matova has been working on a little more conventional set of updos lately, like the ones shown here.
All these photos were taken at Lofty Aspirations in Junlong. As you can see, the scenery is awesome.
- Kouse’s Sanctum: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Avilion%20Hinterlands/178/56/36
- Kouse’s Sanctum Blog: http://kousesingh.wordpress.com/
- Bizarre Hair: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Junlong/230/29/652
- Bizarre Hair at SL Marketplace: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/21350
It’s been an interesting year so far.
A gallery exhibit (SL) was canceled because the gallery is closing its doors, Artis Gallery will be sorely missed. There are several good galleries in Second Life, but it’s always sad to lose one. and we’ve lost two excellent galleries in the past couple months.
Then my computer got the virus from hell. I hope the people who developed marezer get hit over the head by an infected computer.
But if things start out bad, they can only get better! That means the rest of 2011 is looking great!
I revisited Second Norway, a sim I’ve used for photos before, because it’s too big and too beautiful to see only once. When I was looking for a sim to relocate Lofty Aspirations to, this sim was in my top two list.
Look at the great hairstyle from Bizarre Creations. This was actually a New Year style, but it’s still a great party hairstyle… or wear it to a club and forget those high drink prices. Yes! That’s a bottle of bubbly on top, along with a champagne flute (in case you don’t like drinking your bubbly straight from the bottle). This hairstyle is not free, but the options are so much fun.. and totally worth the purchase price.
The dress in the picture above is Dress Rozenn, from Dany’s french Touch. shhh.. no one will know it only cost a single L$. This feminine dress has photo realistic textures, and I love the way the skirt flows when I walk.
The dresses at Kouse’s Sanctum just keep getting better and better! This beautiful gown, called Sophie, was a 10L$ preview of things to come in 2011. Elegant designs combined with seamless textures.. it doesn’t get much better than this!
But I’m sure Kouse Singh will find a way to make it happen.
=)
- Bizarre Creations: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Junlong/84/75/50
- Dany’s French Touch: http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Toulouse%20Algiers/16/210/701
- Kouse’s Sanctum: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Avilion%20Peninsula/127/49/22
- Second Norway: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Norge/63/158/22
#1 Never look back.
Instead look to the future, and work to mold your future to what you’d like it to be. Leave past mistakes in the past. Learn from them of course; but after you’ve learned from them, leave them in the past and move forward from there.
#2 Be confident in your successes.
You’re the person who took the risks. You’re the person who did all the hard work. So why shouldn’t be thrilled with what you’ve accomplished? Don’t ever let anyone else make you feel otherwise.
#3 Rise to your highest potential.
Don’t let anything hold you back form being the best you can be. Reach for your dreams, and hold on tight.
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Kouse’s Sanctum is having a hunt for the Perfect Snowflake. The information from the note card is below. Have fun, and stay warm!
To celebrate the opening of this wintry wonderland, there is a hunt. Simply find the seven large snowflakes around the Avilion Peninsula sim, and buy them for $L1 each. Inside of each are two things, first, a special edition ’Ice’ version of a best selling gown. Second, a ’Perfect Snowflake’. If you remember the Allegra Hunt, you’ll know how this works, if not, here’s the explanation:
Collect all seven of the ’Perfect Snowflakes’ and put them in a folder. Name the folder with your name, and ’Ice Hunt’. All completed folders with all seven pieces inside will be rewarded with a special bonus prize.
Now, to make it easy for those who don’t wish to spend a lot of time searching for items but do want the prizes, they are available in the main store for $L100 each, but the downside to this is the Perfect Snowflakes are -not- included, so you must complete the hunt in order to receive the bonus prize.
- Join the fun at Avilion Peninsula: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Avilion%20Peninsula/113/12/35
These are not different looks for me, but I wanted to show how a simple change of only a couple items can give you a whole new look. You can get everything I’ve shown in this post for next-to-nothing; you don’t have to be fabulously wealthy to dress well in Second Life or real life.
In this picture I’m wearing one of the stunning gowns made by Kouse Singh, of Kouse’s Sanctum. It’s fairly typical of her designs in that most are floor length medieval style gowns suitable for historic or fantasy role play.
Pairing the gown with the sweet Anarchy mohawk from Hairy Situations gives me a more high fantasy look.
- Kouse’s Sanctum: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Avilion%20Vale/48/64/2
- Hairy Situations: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fleets%20Cove%20Beach/41/128/22
Without changing jewelry, hair, or skin, I put on a shorter corseted dress, over-the-knee pirate socks, and high top sneakers; then look at Shang go from hi fantasy to punkish goth look.
The Dress is from KBL, and was a recent Midnight Mania score. Socks are a free gift from Grim Bros, just stop by and look around for them – you’ll find them eventually. =P High top sneaks are a recent Shoes and Accessories Hunt find from Duh.
- KBL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Prim%20By%20Prim/193/63/21
- Grim Bros: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Clematis%20Island/121/53/22
- Duh!: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Katachi/217/46/22
Poses in today’s post are from Diesel Works.
I love finding a sim that is beautiful to take photographs in, you photographers out there know what I’m talking about. Taking a photo in a studio is appropriate for some applications, but for setting a mood nothing is better than a “shot on location” photograph.
A big thank you to Morgaine Price, of Mer-Elf Creations for sending me a teleport to her Vanity Fayre boutique shop — and for putting a subscribe kiosk there. Now even people who don’t want to give personal information to LL can subscribe to receive Mer-Elf Creations notices. You can read more about Mer-Elf Creations here.
Vanity Fair is a scenic sim that includes boutique shops of most, if not all, of my favourite medieval and fantasy clothing designers.
Shown above is a wonderful mermaid style gown from LVS & Co, not the Vanity Fayre sim, in bright red. The form-fitting gown flares just beneath the knees to form a tail that moves gracefully when you move. Almost-there sleeves end in festive red cuff that acts as a backdrop for your holiday jewels.
BlakOpal Designs has this gift sitting just inside the shop, there’s a gift for men too, which I’ve shown below. You can find BlakOpal designs in the Vanity Fayre shops area.
The men’s gift from BlakOpal looks nice on us too, ladies. The ruffled collar is from Arundel, and adds a more feminine touch to this outfit.
Mystic Sky has the Ella gown in a green that is perfect for this holiday season. Stop by the main shop to see if you get lucky, it’s worth a trip. Don’t forget to check out the Mystic Sky Vanity Fayre boutique too!
Shown above is a cloak and dress that will keep you toasty on your Christmas Eve caroling excursions. This set, from Sky Qi’s Vintage Apparel Emporium was a gift to group members (thank you!) Visit the shop in historic New Toulouse to browse the vintage wares to be found there, and don’t forget to join the group for other wonderful gifts in the future.
Kouse’s Sanctum has an Advent board (you have been checking it daily, right?) that has this sweet dress. The longer version is up for grabs tomorrow. The gowns and dresses in the Advent board have been set at 20L$ to 30L$, which is definitely a bargain for these exclusive holiday colours.
- LVS & Co: http://slurl.com/secondlife/LVS%20Drive/38/42/33
- Mystic Sky: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Existence/36/251/22
- BlakOpal: http://slurl.com/secondlife/BlakOpal/99/102/23
- Skye Qi – Vintage Apparel Emporium: http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Toulouse/104/179/24
- Kouse’s Sanctum: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Avilion%20Vale/48/64/2
Photos were taken on location at the Vanity Fayre sim, and at Hikaru.
Are you looking for a little holiday colour as we wind down 2009?
Crystal Queen has this very festive paints suit for you for the unbelievable low price of only 15L$. Touch the subscribo while you’re there to hear of other great deals ahead of the rest of the crowd to avoid the inevitable lag.
Whether delivering or receiving Christmas gifts, you’ll look adorable sitting beside the tree in this cute elven set from Nushru. This was delivered to subscribo members a few days ago, so I’m not sure if it’s still available. Don’t miss out on future deals though, go to Nushru and join the subscribe or in world group today!
I’ve been a fan of JetDoll clothing since my first stop there. The clothes to be found here are truly representative of another, more innocent, era.
This wonderful flounced mermaid gown was a recent MM board prize.. and it’s a gown that makes you feel like a girl with it’s curves-hugging sheath-style dress and spill of ruffles down the front.
The MM board changes frequently, so don’t be shy: Stop by JetDoll today and see what’s on the board.
If you’re looking for a fantasy gown, Kouse’s Sanctum has just what you’re looking for. The Advent Calendar in the shop is filled with beautiful gowns in the colours associated with the holidays. All of the gowns already revealed on the calendar are still available, so stop by and stock up.. you won’t get another opportunity like this!
- Crystal Queendom: http://slurl.com/secondlife/River%20Island/129/174/734
- Nushru: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cherry%20Park/234/219/803
- JetDoll: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bangu/100/65/1005
- Kouse’s Sanctum: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Avilion%20Vale/74/76/41
Kouse Singh is well know for the wonderful medieval gowns she makes. If you love Sanctum gowns, but couldn’t keep the group.. I feel your pain acutely. The good news is that Kouse’s Sanctum has a subscribe group, and there is a beautiful Caribbean blue gown waiting for you.
There are other bargains to be found too!
The Eilistraee Gown and Leathers set is perfect for summer with it’s bared midriff top, and at only 75L$ it’s a great value. I’ve shown it with the Natalie hairstyle from Kouse’s Sanctum in the picture below.
And look at the skin. Is that the subtlest, prettiest shade of green you’ve ever seen? Does it look maybe a little like Fabfree green? Teagan Blackthorn of TeaLane sent out these pretty skins as a congratulations to Fabfree for hitting the 5,000 member mark
5000!
Wow!
But I’ll show all the great skins in the TeaLane gift in a moment, because there’s one more gown for you to see.
Cyrenia is currently available in special release colours.. one colour in each shop, for 50L$. Shown above is Cyrenia in Midnight.
- Kouse’s Sanctum: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Avilion%20Vale/48/64/2
Now, about the skins…
Starting at the top left, and moving clockwise: Jade Skin, Birch Skin, Honey Skin, and Sugar Skin.
To the Reader of this parchment:
Some mischievous sprite chose to take my box of trinkets from me. While I was able to retrieve the box, the trinkets within, all part of a special eight piece set, are still missing. Won’t you help me find them?
For each one you find, the sprite will be forced to surrender not only the trinket to your care, but also a gown, in hue matching the trinket’s largest jewel. As a reward for finding them all, when you return them to me, you will be presented with a special thank you gift.
Up for the challenge? I hope you are, as I can barely wait to see my trinkets safe once more!
(To submit your proof of completing the hunt, put all the tokens that are included with each trinket, one from each, into a folder, this should total eight (8) tokens. Put your name on the folder, and as soon as they can be processed, your prize will be sent to you. REMEMBER: Your name MUST be on the folder.)
On the left is one of the hunt prizes that is inside the trinket. You get a prize gown, Allegra, inside each trinket (1L$ each).. shown above in azure. Each trinket has a different coloured version of the gown.
On the right is the current Lucky Chair prize, worn by Hawkreloo.
- Kouse’s Sanctum: http://slurl.com/secondlife/SeaBreeze%20Oasis/29/30/46
