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.