Raven - Witch Costume

Cute witch's outfit. I got a little bit carried away with this one and ended up including the mushroom chair area I made for the picture pose with it!


Featuring:

* Witch's Hat with Tintable Flexi Ribbon
* Flexi Skirt with Tintable Underskirt Layers
* Tintable Striped Stockings
* Black T-Shirt and Under Skirt Pants.

Also comes with a mushroom chair posing area which has:

* Mushroom seat with pose ball
* Grass area with tree stump, log and fern
* Glow light that lights up the person sitting on the mushroom at night
* Pumpkin light plant.

Witch's Hat Gazebo

Hmm, I seem to be more productive when I've quit - lol. I'm still not really working, I have been messing around whilst Ferret works on his latest script (he's been working on it non stop for days now) and there's nothing good on the TV, and why am I making excuses anyway?

So, here's an example of how boredom and me usually produces something very very strange:



Witch's hat gazebo! It's what you get when you stretch a witch's hat to max and stick a gazebo underneath. Well I like it anyway :p

Witch's Hat

I wasn't working, honest! Really, I was messing about and ended up making a witch's hat for halloween. But not just any witch's hat...


Nope, I made a black witch's hat with color change stripe and moving spider!

* Stripe changes color using easy menu controls. Just touch the hat and select the color you want (or choose any custom color).

* Spider dangling from the hat moves between three different height positions randomly.

Available at Exchange, Boutique, inworld at Escape and also inworld at the new, still in production Neverwhere Halloween shop located next to Noramyr's Flights of Fantasy.

'Ashley' Cropped Shirts

Well after spending a while catching up with everything I had promised I would make in SL at the weekend (not quite what I had in mind when I said I quit!), I finished the cropped shirts in the Ashley range this morning.


The light blue cropped top is also now in the Lucky Chair! And now I get to take the rest of the day off - yay.

All Work and No Play

I started creating in Secondlife about 10 months ago now. But it doesn't seem like it. The time has flown by. No sooner had I delved into Photoshop than 10 months of my life had flashed by in a blur. I've learnt a lot in that time, had some good days and some not so good days. But lately it seems as though the not so good days are more and more frequent.

I started off this evening proclaiming to Ferret that 'I Quit!' I even made a lovely graffitti graphic of those words and plastered them on the side of our SL house. Then I moved it inside (and promptly lost it when it went flying off somewhere in the sim, meaning I spent half an hour looking for it!) so that it didn't seem like I was just jumping on the latest bandwagon and quitting in frustration. Then I spent another hour or so customising a flexi skirt, making pants for someone for another dress of mine that currently had only a underskirt, and making a custom tattoo I had said I would make a while back before realising I had lost the name of who I was doing it for.

And before I knew it, yet another night had passed with me sat at the computer. I've spent 12 hours in front of this computer today, and it has to stop.

I won't really quit, not as in, never come here again. I will probably end up spending 16 hour days in photoshop and SL again before I know it. But I hope not. Because there is more to life than this. I sometimes wonder if SL should come with a health warning 'Caution: Secondlife can seriously damage your first life!'

So I am going to spend less time creating for a while. I will probably try to limit myself to a set working day (so yes, I will have to become one of those dreaded content creators with working hours. I hope you'll understand, that I need some time outside of SL too). And I'm going to get back to writing. Hopefully pick up where I left off when I signed up to SL.

I think the real straw was the fact that this hasn't been fun for a while now for various reasons. Mostly because of the increasing number of bugs that make it hard to work, but also because I am not and probably never will be a 'big' content creator. And I'm tired of trying to work my way up to that, for diminishing returns, both financial and in terms of the satisfaction I gain from creating clothing.

After all, Secondlife is supposed to be just that, a second life, not a replacement for my first one. And I have some catching up to do in reality :D

'Ashley' Shirts

As part of a planned mix and match display board for the 'Ashley' range I have brought out 'Ashley' long shirts in eight colours:


Next will be cropped versions of the shirt, then corsets, flexi skirts and pants that can all be co-ordinated to create your own 'Ashley' outfit, tailored to your taste.

'Ashley' in Red/Black

Another 'Ashley' outfit, this time in gothic colors. Black cropped and long shirts, black short and corset shirt combined, red corset, black pants and flexi skirt included.


Available at SL Exchange, SL Boutique and inworld at Escape in Neverwhere.

Body Fire!

Burn with your touch!

Body Fire comes in a 12 to 16 attachment point (very large avatars will need the extra attachment points) easy-to-use system. It listens on a channel so you can either directly control all the prims, or one quick command pulls up a menu to select from.

Body Fire:
* Can ignite other Avatars on contact
* Can turn that feature off so as not to cause grief
* Can quickly turn the particle fire on and off
* Consists of 31 to 35 tiny invisible prims
* Can make prims large and visible for easy editing
* Has a burning sound effect that can be silenced
* Allows for choice of nine colors
* Burns other Avatars in your current flame color!

This System comes with a special script that has all the functions as the others, except it does not change size or visibility. You can use this script to place Body Fire in your prim shoes, hair, or any other attachment that would otherwise cause a gap in your flames!
As a side note, I put out 2 more Prints today: Pirate Prints and Multiple Human Prints (Footprints, Women's Shoe, Men's Shoe, Sneakers) - But I like the burning more! But the Multiple allows you to put any other Single Print in it too, so you can have up to a dozen different prints!

'Ashley'

Cute corset and shirt set with black pants and black flexi skirt options.


Comes with:

White Shirt and Grey Corset Top Combi Top;
Tintable Long White Shirt;
Tintable Cropped White Shirt;
Corset Top;
Black Pants;
Black Pants (on underwear layer);
Under Flexi Skirt Pants;
Black Flexi Skirt.

Aura Combat Tank (In Tiny Version too!)

Aura Tank is the normal sized avatar version, Tiny Tank is tailored to tiny avatars...




Easy to control, realistic sound and particle effects, lots of fun! Battle and destroy other Aura Tanks, Vehicles and Aura Combatants (people wearing an aura field).

The Aura Combat System features realistic damage. The Aura Tank is a heavily armored vehicle and as such will take a lot of hits from other aura enabled weapons and vehicles. However, from another Aura Tank, it will take about 3 hits to be destroyed.

The tanks show progressive damage, firstly by the tank lid being destroyed and smoke pouring out of the tank, and when destroyed, the tank will become unusable, eject the driver, burst into flames and disappear after about a minute.

If your tank is destroyed don't worry! Simply rez a new one from your inventory and seek revenge!

Main features:

* Fully combat ready tank, battle other aura tanks straight out of the box;

* Easy to control driving system;

* Change the color of your tank to one of eight preset colors or choose a custom color;

* Turn the lights on your tank on or off;

* Open or close the tank hatch;

* Tank leaves dust trail as it drives;

* Animated tank tracks when moving;

* Control the elevation of the tank turrent to aim the tank shell;

* Tank shell leaves smoke trail when fired, and explodes upon impact;

* Tanks show damage and eject driver when destroyed;

* Built in stealth mode, turns the tank black, the lights off and closes the hatch when enables, allowing you to sneak up on your enemies.

Available at:

Aura Tank: SL Exchange, SL Boutique

Tiny Tank: SL Exchange, SL Boutique

Both tanks also available inworld at Escape in Neverwhere.

Flame Prints

New flame prints that leave a trail of fireballs as you walk (can't promise we will stop making prints anytime soon, we're having too much fun!):


* Prim prints with high quality particle fireballs;

* 1 prim, therefore only one attachment point;

* Turn on or off;

* Fireballs fade and die after time;

* Fireballs alternate between right and left footprints as you walk;

* Perfect for dragons of any size as well as anyone who just wants to leave a trail of destruction in thier wake!

Available inworld at Escape. Not available yet at Boutique or Exchange due to the grid attack! (But will be available there probably tomorrow).

Blood Splatter Prints

After Morticia's spiders, I decided to up the 'ickyness' stakes! Blood Splatter Footprints:


Leave a trail of blood as you walk:

* High quality prim prints with no white halo;

* 1 prim, therefore only one attachment point is needed (attach to wherever you want);

* Ability to turn prints on or off;

* Prints fade gradually as they disappear;

* Menu system also allows print box to be made invisible or visible for easy positioning.

* Prints alternate between left and right feet and also choose randomly between four different blood splatters.

Morticia

I've started gearing up for Halloween, so here's my first offering, Morticia:


It comes with bra top, corset top and spider tattoo all on various layers for easy wear, plus under skirt pants, gloves, scripted flexi skirt and spider prints.

The Spider Prints leave a trail of spiders as you walk. The flexi skirt comes with spiders that drop out from under it. Both of these features can be disabled if you want. The skirt also comes with a poofer script that poofs spiders on command (accessed by a touch menu).

Ferret thinks it's icky! Which I think is kinda the point :D

Prints Released

Okay the Prints I mentioned yesterday are finally out, come and get them!

Prints Paused

Thought I would make a blog post while we're down for the whole [bad word] day. I have Men's Shoe Prints, Women's Shoe Prints, and Dog Prints done - Kya needs to help me with the picture and they'll get posted. Sneaker Prints are on the way, too, and when they're done I have a multi-Print that will have Footprint, Sneaker Print, Men's Shoe, and Women's Shoe. The multi-Print animal tracks and tiny animal tracks will have to wait until I have a few more done, dog bird and kitty aren't enough for me!

Favorite animal suggestions anyone? No promises...

Spider Prints

Not to be outdone by Ferret and his pawprints/footprints...


Leave a trail of spiders as you walk:

* High quality prim prints with no white halo;

* 1 prim, therefore only one attachment point is needed (attach to wherever you want);

* Ability to turn prints on or off;

* Prints fade gradually as they disappear;

* Menu system also allows print box to be made invisible or visible for easy positioning.

Red Cropped Sweaters and Skirt Set

Pack of red cropped sweaters, in long, short and sleeveless versions with roll neck attachment, plus a dark grey flexi skirt trimmed with grey lace:


I'll be working on more colours for this in the coming days.

Politics and pawprints

So it would seem one of the big creators in the game posted about the paw prints in their well-read blog. Yay! Then a couple hours later they took out their post and replaced it with a link to my forum post and said "Someone said this is a freebie so I took out the post." Boo.
So with only a mention from someone else and no research I got instant loss of sales and reputation because I get lumped into the "this guy steals freebies and resells them" category. Kya came to my rescue and the person pulled that too and said "will pull it off until this is resolved" in response to Kya's post. I waited, waited, waited. Nada. So I finally saw the person online, asked about it. They told me no more than what I saw, someone mentioned it to them so they posted it.
I guess a retraction would be too much but they at least pulled Kya's post and their reply. But how many people saw, although not in so many words, "Ferret Bjornson resells freebies"...

If I deserved it that's fine, I can take criticism... I'd love constructive criticism. It makes the next thing I sell better. If someone out there has a pawprint that:
- is prim, not particle
- uses a high-quality image with no white shadow
- uses only one attachment point (not one on each foot)
- is only one prim
- creates left - right stepping prints with perfect spacing and never repeats a step
- always faces the print in the direction you were walking when it's laid down
- has the prints fade out gently then vanish
- is FREE

.... please let me know!

Red Bandeau Sweater and Jeans

This is a modified version of my beandeau sweater and jeans set. Red knit sweater with black bandeau overlay and black jeans. Jeans come on pants and underwear layers for easy wear.


Also includes plain sweater plus bandeau on its own on both shirt and undershirt layers. Available at the usual places!

More prints... no kitties!

Footprints and Bird Prints! Woo Hoo!

'Aimee' Dress Update

Now available in three colours, red/black, blue/black and white/black :)

Paw Prints!

Kitty Paw Prints and Tiny Kitty Paw Prints!

One prim - Only one attachment point!

On and Off Button

I figured out the scripting with Kya's help -
She made the flawless, shadowless image

Available on SL Exchange, SL Boutique,
and of course...
at Escape!

'Aimee' Dress

Despite a day spent changing passwords (I managed to remember my security question answers to both my main and alt accounts - yay), and taking a picture, crashing, logging in, taking another picture, crashing, logging in....I managed to create 'Aimee'. This dress comes in red and black floral brocade, with oriental style jacket with racing back and cute flared flexi skirt.


I'm not complaining though. Poor Ferret lost an hours scripting work when Neverwhere crashed. Then another hour when it dutifully crashed yet again. He's still busy scripting away and I just have this nagging feeling I should keep sending him IMs saying 'backup your work!'

Lace Trim Bra Tops

I spent this afternoon working on these tops instead of a custom build I need to do, so no prizes for guessing what I'll be doing tonight.



These tops come on both shirt and underwear layer and are available individually at Exchange and Boutique as well as individually and part of a pack inworld at Escape.

Animated Kitty Paw Prints

Whilst building the new Escape I had the idea of taking the animated paw prints off the paw print frames and putting them on the floor. It worked amazingly well. I had been meaning to get around to tweaking the script to sell them on thier own, but as always with me, a million and other things came up and it got pushed to the back of the queue.

Anyway, I had an IM from a customer this morning asking if they were for sale, so never one to let a customer down here they are :D

Bandeau Sweater and Jeans

Just a quick note to let you know about today's new item - a black knit sweater with bandeau overlay and dark grey jeans. Jeans come on pants and underwear layers for easy wear. Also includes plain sweater plus bandeau on its own on both shirt and undershirt layers. Available at Boutique, Exhange and inworld at Escape.


Now I have to go to the sim opening party whilst simultaneously nursing this cold I seem to have caught :(

Updated Vixen Outfits

The vixen outfit range has been updated. These outfits now include new textured tops and flexi skirts. Having looked at them again whilst re-stocking Escape I decided they weren't quite detailed enough. So I cracked open Photoshop and redid them :D

Renfest is no longer

We deleted the marketplace about an hour ago. After dealing with someone who called me a moron who didn't know anything about SL marketing (and who also said she was representing Renfest Marketers...um, the group I founded!), presumably because I was deleting a sim that was costing me enormous amounts of time and money each month in favour of one that will make me money, I took another picture of the new Escape...


I think it's all starting to come together now, and I'm really pleased with it. The plan is to build the connecting bridges from the hub to everyones area tomorrow and then relaunch the sim as Neverwhere on Sunday :)