Sunday, February 13, 2011

A Journey through Lost Haven


Omen Zero here, there are some hidden gems in this world, places of dark beauty and rarity. This particular post is focusing on one of them, and honestly it is one of my favorites in Second Life. Lost Haven is store that is decidedly different. It has rare and unique items that are both hard to come by, and exquisite. Honestly, I find it hard to even -want- to share it in case it becomes so popular that the beautiful rarities that I have bought and modified from it become common place!



However this blog is for the good of all, and so therefore the amazing works of Lucia Cyr and Tala Laval must be shared! What makes this place so unique you might ask, well the proof is in the photography. Within the halls of Losthaven you will find everything from Accessories for your character, amazingly crafted masks, virtually free 3D moving paintings, weapons and detailed armour sets, and not to mention their fully working 3D D&D play boards, with models.

As seen throughout the photos the work is simply of the highest quality, and due to this I would certainly not classify lost haven as cheap. I would however call it incredible value. Nothing is ultra expensive, and even new releases often retail at around 600-800 Linden for full armour sets and the like. Not to mention that at this point in time there are some fantastic specials on sale, though it wont last long I imagine.


Some of my personal favorite work is the full monster forms. There are nagas, clock work soldiers, dryads, demons and much much more. Their goblin forms are fantastic, and even have their own AO created for them. My screenshots do not do them full justice, it truly needs to be seen to be believed.


There really is something for everyone in Lost Haven, and most objects have multiple colours, additions, changes and accessories. There are even Werewolves for those who enjoy to hunt at night.
The accessory sets(Some containing 20+ masks, or objects) are all fantastic looking, and sculpted and cost around 250-400 linden per PACK(not each). The Collars and cuffs are some of the best I have seen in second life, and are all fully scripted. Best of all, nearly every object in the entirety of the store is full Copy/Mod. Yes you can edit it as you see fit, this makes it a modders paradise. I personally love the freedom that is given with such things.
All in all the store is truly a wonder to visit, all should take a look at it. You can find things for any type of character, be they gorean, old world, monster, high fantasy, sci fi, steam punk, post apocalyptic or much, much more. There are often sales, and a permanant 50 Linden clearance board for those who wish something incredibly cheap, not to mention some of the most beautiful dollarbie macabre paintings around. I seriously advise you to take a wander down to lost haven, and be lost in their world for a while, I know I did. I leave you all with a photo of my mask, made and modified from one of the mask sets bought from Losthaven itself.

Chinese hearts

Its Valentines day and Lika Ruby has a new groupgift. Its a chinese dress in brown and gold. On the skirt is a big read heart. As everything from this store its a very elegant dress. The brown fits perfectly to the red of the heart and of course to the gold. The collar has golden and red decorations. The skirt is a combination of a primskirt and short trousers on the pants layer.Dress: +Lika Ruby+ china dress heart (0 $ Groupgift)

A fine romance? prt.2




Today  his mind wandered as he wondered whether she would come back. He noticed that she visited the restaurant every day that week, and he couldn't think why he was so curious about her, so as he entered the Bar he was strangely comforted to see her there.

"Hmmm she's alone again, yet rather dressed up" he pondered whether she might be meeting someone this evening, then Marthe  his waitress and family friend spoke to him and interrupted his thoughts as though she were reading his mind. The wise mature lady had noted his curiosity as subtle as it was "she is an artist and is keen to view the exhibition upstairs this evening, perhaps you may like to accompany her and introduce her to some of the locals? ....." said Marthe .... "me? why would I do such a thing?" he scoffed  and headed back to the kitchen muttering under his breath, as Marthe smiled to herself.

[ There is an art exhibition at the location in this picture where my fictitious story a set  Sunday 13th February at  noon SL time with singer Sweetlily at 12:30pm  with DJ Nani to follow please go along for a wonderful evening of pre-valentine culture Paris metro art gallery ]



Hair: Free group gift > Liriope
Necklace: L$99 ( part of a set > Ganked
Top: Free cupid hearts hunt item ( it's actually a mini dress) Les petits details
Skirt: Free gift > Gasqhe
Boots: free if you are lucky enough to get the L$1000 gift card on the MM board Grumble

In black lace

She had started to use the black needles a year ago. They were a gift a strange guy had given her. He had told her that she would become more and more beautiful when using them daily. And indeed her skin became softer and somehow her body changed. Not much but on a way which was attracting for men and women around her. And this changed her character. She became arrogant, annoying and just horrible. The black needles worked well. After a while she even started to wear the necklace he had given to her. She had to hurt herself to wear it but that was a fair price in her opinion.

Fishy Strawbery has a valentines sale. I really liked the black lingerie and after some male help i decided to buy it. Sometimes i like things but be not sure so i need friends to have a look to help me decide. Actually Storm sent me to the sale and Omen helped me to decide. The set consists out of a corset, undies and stockings. All parts come in a lot of versions. There are two parts of stockings, it could be worn with or without suspenders and there are many layers included. The black needles are an other item from a:s:s deluxe. They are very pretty in my opinion and the right item for letting the evil slowly drain into your rp character. Lingerie: *Fishy Strawberry* Ignition Lingerie - Black (90 $)
Armpiece: A:S:S deLuxe - Tears and Chains, female (158 $)
Necklace: A:S:S deLuxe - Strangeland, female (186$)

Jewellery for the Elite

Two weeks ago A:S:S released really great jewellery (i even learned to spell jewellery because of that. Sorry i have spelled it all the time wrong). Its accessoiry which is a bit darker. But extremly well made and pretty.

The butterfly necklace is not symetric what i normaly would dislike. But its tricky to controll butterflys somehow they are unwilling to learn to sit in a symetric way. To make it short i like it. Necklace: A:S:S deLuxe - Le Papillion Noir, female (115$)

The big black disks of this necklace fit well to a simple dress. If they would be less elegant they would easily remind on the 70ties but they do not. Which is a good thing in my opinion. There are fitting earrings available. By the way the hair on that picture is a gift from a lucky board. I have been in the store some days ago and its still possible to win it.
Necklace: A:S:S deLuxe - Shoya necklace, female (169$)
Earrings: A:S:S deLuxe - Shoya earrings (0$)
Hair: *mikan-hair-2010LB_MOMO (0 Linden Lucky board)

This necklace is my favourite piece of the a:s:s deluxe collection. It is dark, elegant and hurts. Being tucked into the skin and not wrapped around the neck it forces the one who wears it to bleed a bit. But its just worth the pain. The blood for the skin comes on all layers and the necklace has as all the others a resizescript. I love the picture on the gems.

Necklace: A:S:S deLuxe - Strangeland, female (186$)

The top which is seeable on all those pictures comes from Lika Ruby. Its the top of a dress i blogged ages ago.

[lotn: slacker sunday]

Crawling out of the coffin and being too lazy and comfortable to change, this is what I ran around like inside of the house just until now. The undies, which are actually swimming trunks, are VITAMEN'S freebie for February, and I really like the bold, floral print in black on white.


A:S:S's latest release includes this semi-sheer tee that comes in all layers; there are 5 dark and 5 light colours to grab, with a price of 50 L$ for one or 180 L$ for a fatpack of 5.


Skin: .:Hermony:. - Kriz ST1 - Shaved
Hair: =EkoEko= - sharp3
Eyes: [T.P] -Frozen Soul- Blue

Shirt: A:S:S - Dawn tee - white
Undies: VITAMEN - Monthly Freebie Feb2011 (free)
Tattoo: ::Para Designs:: - Tribal Gift Light (free)
Eyeliner: A:S:S - Guyliner - 01

A fine romance?

   


He is the owner of the Restaurant, a chef of the highest esteem. His passion is in his creativity,and whilst his good looks have brought him many female admirers he has never taken a wife,he is married to his art, for it has been his lifes work.

He doesn't have time for distractions like women! but today he is distracted by a woman,a woman that has been frequenting his restaurant quite regularly , although he never noticed before. What made him notice today? she wasn't paying attention to him, not in the least , not like most of women that came to his Restaurant and ceaselessly flirted to no avail, but still he noticed her as she was gazing from the window seemingly deep in thought....just for a few moments he noticed and then he continued with his daily regime.
She was an artist, a bohemian of sorts, carefree with no need for the trappings of modern society or the need for material gain. Paris was just another place to which she had wandered and intended to capture the essence of before wandering on to the next place. She was charmed by the Restaurant , and not for it's handsome owner but today she was admiring the beauty of the honeysuckle that sat outside the window where she sat, it's sweet aroma filling her nostrils. Quite out of nowhere she became distracted, for no known reason it felt as if someone had invaded her thoughts and were trying to steal them for their own....then the feeling was gone and she continued with her day.




                        Hair: Free group gift > Liriope
Top: Free gift at the new pig store ( other items also scattered about ) Pig
Skirt: L$50 - sk.002 > Solita
Socks: Free gift > Pig
Shoes: Free group gift . Les petits details
Bag: Free daily gift at The fashion Garret > Label mode