A fine romance? [4]

 

Gascon left the Restaurant  and headed for where he might find her and sure enough he saw her painting outside Cafe Guerbois . She had not seen him , but on this occasion he had not wanted her to see him. He felt disgruntled that she was now customer to  Cafe Guerbois and not his restaurant, but also relieved just to catch a glimpse of her. Now he was no longer just curious about her, he wanted her back in his restaurant and away from Auguste!

Auguste did not cut a fine figure of a man, in fact he was rather plain looking, the kind of person you could meet 10 times and never remember, not by his looks in any case, but he had an aura about him and was extremely charming. There was something about Auguste that one simply could not resist, it was almost as if  he aroma about him, and once that aroma had filled your nostrils you were completely and utterly  intoxicated by it.., and a great many women had not resisted him.

Whilst she was blissfully unaware of these male attentions, it would be no secret soon of who her admirers were as quite out of the blue she received a gift. Excitedly she opened it to reveal the most beautiful  hand crafted amber  bracelet . There  was no note, no message in fact it was a complete mystery as to where the gift had come from.

Hair & hat: Free group lucky board item > Heart softens

Scarf: Free part of group gift > Bubblez designs

Top: Free group lucky board item ( upstairs )  > Zenith

Skirt: L$30 part of a 3 pack > Mother Goose

Socks: L$10 part of a 3 pack >Mother Goose

Shoes: Free group gift > Tokidoki

Bracelet: L$99 > SKIFIJA

Perfect blue

Wandering around and getting wet and cold feet because of all the snow which is still near the beach. But this is the price of being well dressed. I love kimonos. And i love them even more when they are a bit special and different. This one is kind of a mix between a loli goth dress and a kimono. It comes with a fitting headdress, socks and shoes. Although i normaly use the shoes from the brown version of the dress. There are blue ones included but i like the ones from the brown one better.

The textures of the dress are lovely. Shades of blue mixed with white. There are a lot of flowers in the print and the little bands for the socks are just lovely. And the socks are kept in place as well. The skirt has some lace and several layers of prims (its only one skirt but made of many prims). A system skirt was also used but the gap between the system skirt and the top gets covered with the obi so it looks fine.

The poses on the pictures are all contained in the Geisha AO from ## CI ## Animations. Its a great ao with many many poses. Included are also an ao which could be used with a fan (there are fans included) and one for parasols. The poses in the ao seem to be perfect for a kimono. That means the legs are very close to each other all the time so that they do not peek through. I have not tested the ao yet with a long kimono but i suppose it will be perfect for a long one as well. Using it with the short Kimono it looked very cute and elegant at the same time. And there are several versions of the ao included. So there is an extra version of the ao for smaller avis in the set.

Dress: *Milky Kimono Yuki-Maihana BL Mini* (500 $)
Uses AO: ## CI ## Geisha AO (400$)

The dark weaponsmith

Omen Zero here, continuing in my series of excellent hidden stores, but this one has a bit of a twist to it. Those of you who know me know that I often roleplay in a sim called City of Lost Angels. This sim is a fantastic haven for dark urban roleplay, and yes one day I will do a blog post upon it. However, what you may not know is that it is a metered combat sim, and as such you travel through a lot of dark places. When you travel through dark places sometimes your hands and feet really aren't enough to keep you safe. I know that personally a big sharp stick is preferable to a floppy fish when it comes to keeping yourself armed, and when a big stick simply doesn't cut it, I got to The Covenant Realm.

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The Covenant Realm

Now when it comes to the sharpest of the sharp, Whreckz Constantine(The owner of TCR) knows how to sharpen a blade. He has a range of weapons, clothing, skins and much more that is truly both unique, and beautiful. Now most might not understand what I mean when I say they are beautiful, but when you have seen a pair of these weapons in your hands, used them swung them and played with the customization+ao, you will finally understand what I mean.

Close up of some products

TCR is a store where if you have a need for combat, CCS or otherwise, you can find the answer here. From his collection of excellent(My favourite weapons infact) gauntlets with extending claws, to scythes, fist weapons, straight razors, swords and much much more you will find a good variety of weapons, and the best thing is, they are incredibly cheap for what you get. 600-800 linden for items as detailed as this is simply phenomenal, especially when they come with custom built ao's and plenty of customisation. Below are just a tiny amount of the options, for the gauntlets, which include changing texture, colour, glow, shine and more.

Original with "Draconic" texture.

Showing off some glow and shine differences

Showing off different Textures

I recommend that all go and take a peek at this store, even if you are not a CCS user. The weapons look beautiful and work in many places like DCS and more. Upon speaking to Whreckz it has also been confirmed that Gorean Meter may be the next meter to feel the presence of his blades. I leave you all with a final photo, showing off the AO that comes with this particular set of claws. Look out for my upcoming Weapon Review upon them, and the scythes, coming soon.

One of the four AO's standing positions.

Hunting for a skirt

Being dressed nicely for a walk in the forest. Although the mushrooms grew a bit much lately. It is a nice walk. And its autumn. At least at Sanu where i took those pictures. What a great oposite to all the winter and summer sims at the moment. The skirt and the short trousers are the hunt gift in the Hani 3rd anniversary Hunt. It takes place in all three shops of that store. In the main store are five bags hidden and in each of the satelite ones two. The price is the skirt on the upper picture and the trousers on the picture below. The trousers come in two forms. I liked this one better. The top was in a set from the Honey Kitty lucky board. I used it because i think a top like this one fits to the skirt and the trousers.
Hani also has some freebies and cheapies. For example this dress. It comes with two kinds of skirts and even kind of a sweater is included in the set. The dress is also on one of the lucky boards but if having to decide between paying 5 Linden for a dress and waiting to win its easier to pay instead of hanging around at a lucky board. I like exploring sims so i found a japanese sim today. In a mall on it i won those icecrystal wings.
I have forgotten to blog the freebies from Sterling Artistry Eyes lately. So here a picture of one pair of the current freebie eyes. It is very dark but the eyes look like they are bright and shinging although being brown.

Items in this entry:
Skirt and Trousers: *Hani* 3rd hunt prize (0 $) (Satelitestore 1, Satelitestore 2)
Dress: *Hani* Ballerina Yoru > Happy (5$ or 0$ at the Lucky board)
Eyes and Nailpolish: Sterling Artistry February 2011 freebies!
Makeup: A:S:S - Guyliner (20 Linden)
Wings: +++ict+++ wing(W) (0$ Lucky board)
Necklace: A:S:S deLuxe - Le Papillion Noir, female (115$)

A fine romance? [3]

He had attended the exhibition, and tried to find an opportunity to introduce himself to her. Not because he was desperate to meet her, of course he was curious about her, but more than anything he wanted her to know who he was, he wanted her to notice. Unfortunately no such occasion had presented itself, as Auguste Chevallier a local cafe owner seemed to be taking her attention all evening!

 He was not so fond of Auguste, and not because he was considered competition in the world of gastronomy! absolutely not! it was more about his overt superiority complex that did not bode well.

That was the last time he had seen her for over a week. He had got quite used to her daily visits to his Restaurant, and had felt surprisingly uplifted by her presence, of course he hadn't realised this until she was no longer there. He casually dropped it in conversation to Marthe that he hadn't had any odd requests for hibiscus tea for a few days. Naturally Marthe picked up this as only the one customer had ever asked for such a thing  " that is one request that Auguste Chevallier will be getting these days as he has commissioned her to do a painting" Marthe replied........ that was when he decided he needed a little fresh air.

Hair: Free lucky board item >W&Y

Scarf: L$25 > The fashion garret

Top: L$1 ( comes with skirt part too) > Diapop

Skirt: L$1  Awram Viie

Tights: Free ( white) > Awram Viie

Shoes: Free > Lemon ginger

Bracelets: Free group/subscriber gift > The sea hole

Golden Emotions

Being dressed in gold while walking through flowers. The dress is elegant but it works for going for a walk as well as for attending an important ceremony. To say it briefly its a great dress for roleplaying.

This beautiful dress from Emotions is named Minerva. The roman virgin godess of poetry and wisdom. So its not really surprising that the dress is golden. All the primparts even the wristlets and the ones of the upper arms come with a resizescript. That means the outfit is easily to adjust. For those who prefer complete outfits is also fitting hair included. Its a good thing that Emotions is also a great store for hair that means you often get hair with an outfit. If you look at the EMO-tions blog you could see the outfit with the hair. Im very bad in makeing hair fit so i didn' t used it for the pictures. The skirt is made of lots of double layered prim parts. So it moves very nicely.

Dress: EMO-tions : Minerva (499$)

Blue

Another song title? yep the outfit is mostly deep blues and what do I think when I think blue? no not sea or sky but the song Blue by Joni Mitchell...sorry can't help it music is on my blood. Ok enough about music ..get a load of these tights!! oh how I love these tights which are a group gift at Luce. There is also a paler pair in the same gift which I shall be wearing as soon as I have finished this post!! The dress and bag come together as a gift by Label Mode at the Fashion Garret ( more bargains to blog about there but that's a whole other posts worth).

Dress & bag: Free gift from Label Mode @ > The fashion garret

Tight: Free group gift >Luce

Belt: Former FLF item > Miel

Shoes:Free lucky board item > Honey kitty