Fantasy Faire 2012 - Cropped Wheat

Laurentiana felt a bit sad, yet very, very proud. Even as a little girl she was dreaming of becoming a „Croppie”, as her people lovingly called the college of priestesses responsible for a rich harvest. Little Laurentiana was so envious of the ladies who walked with royal dignity, always wore wonderful dresses whose soft folds embraced their majestic figures, and always displayed the symbol of their office, too: a handful of golden wheat.

What little Laurentiana didn’t notice, though, was that some of the queenly priestesses walked around bald... because, whenever the promise of a rich harvest was at risk, like when the gods forgot to send rain or a thunderstorm threatened, a priestess had to crop her hair in order to placate the supreme powers. And now adult Laurentiana, a proud “Croppie”, was expected to offer this sacrifice, and she was ready to do what was required of her. Your hair grows back, after all... while a field of wheat, once damaged, is lost for good.

„Indira” is another RFL donation item from Elvenbreath, and with it Selina Forder has created a beautiful gown in a vivid pink and such a light powder blue that it almost appears white. I particularly like the softness of the dress, and the beautiful golden ornaments shaped like bunches of delicate wheat. The dress also includes a pair of long sleeve attachments that I’m not showing you here. You can find Elvenbreath in the “Shifting Sands” sim.

The “Hawk2” hair is also a novelty that made its debut at the Fantasy Faire, and it’s already a classic, like practically each and every creation of MissAllSunday Lemon, the brain driving Wasabi Pills. You can find her shop at The Tides, where you can buy a special edition of “Hawk2” as a donation item for RFL.

The “Caritas” skin has been created by Pixy Snook for the April “Structure Your Skin Project” event. I’m blushing because I’ve been planning to show you it for some time, and now the SYS market is closed in order to prepare the next show. Luckily, “Caritas” is now available in the main PixyStix shop in five different tones.

Outfit including the necklace: Elvenbreath “Indira” – RFL donation item (350 L$).

Bracelet and headpiece: Mashooka “Arpita” – a previous hunt gift not available any more.

Wreath: Unveiling the Goddess “Golden Laurel Wreath” – a previous hunt gift not available any more, but you can find a similar wreath in the shop for 149 L$.

Hair: Wasabi Pills “Hawk2” Mesh Hair – 250 L$ for a colourpack that contains a “normal” and a “boobs” version of four various shades, the matching hairbases and a HUD to change the hairband colour.

Skin: PixyStix “Caritas” in Custard - 100 L$.

Eyes: Sterling Artistry “Jelly Eyes” Princess – free camping prize in the shop (0 L$).

Poses: Glitterati “Long Hair” - it was a previous hunt gift, now the single poses are available for 50 L$ and the 10-pose pack is 250 L$.

The pictures were taken at The Tides, the breathtaking FF sim built by Alia Baroque.

[horned and butterflied]

Fantasy Faire is a huge success - big enough that it's gonna last one more day than additionally planned. You can now visit the gorgeous sims with their extraordinary variety of fantasy-related stores until Monday, the 30th of April! I've been there rather early, right at the beginning, and as soon as I entered [ni.Ju]'s booth and my eyes focused on these gorgeous horns, I knew they had to be mine. The attached 'armor' is scripted to texture change (you can swap between gold, silver, black and bronze - silver is shown in the picture above) and the pearls are colour changeable as well... no less than 16 colours are available to pick from! A version without the armor is included in the pack, too.

Quite fitting for this fantasy look was one of Miamai's latest releases, the Catwalk Lashes Fantasia and Fantasia II, with either tiny butterflies or likewise small dragonfly-wings bustling around on your lashes. -Glam Affair-'s TDR-skin, Leah, which comes in an ethereal shade of blue and the cutest freckles, was the perfect skin to complete the look.

On Raven

Skin: -Glam Affair- Leah - Fantasy Line (at The Dressing Room)
Hair: =TEKUTEKU= - Float (store has closed)
Eyes: Izzie's - Dark MESH Eyes *clear blue*
Lashes: Miamai - Catwalk Lashes_Fantasia_Blue Butterfly

Horns: [ni.Ju] - Portmanteau (black) (at the Fantasy Faire)
Corset: TheAbyss - F_Gear//Pruriency_Corset [Black]

GPD at The Fantasy Faire

      

I am pleased to say that the Fantasy Faire has extended for another day yipeeeee! so any of you unfortunate folks that weren't able to get there yestersday due to SL being down for the craziest amount of time, can breathe a sigh of relief and cram your last bit of shopping in today. If you like a bit of Gothic then please do take a peek at GPD which specialises in Gothic themed clothing and is where this saucy little number I wear is from. I would like to add more to this post, but I'm afraid that my computer keeps freezing and I am conscious of getting it published ASAP ...and I did have a lovely little story planned to accompany the picture too. Not to worry, happy shopping for the most worthy of causes, remember it all makes a difference.

Outfit: 200L -  Hearts - red > GPD

Lovely Pet

The neighbours tried from time to time to complain about the strange sounds, which were located on the balcony. It never helped. Hestor hadn't served for centuries in hell just to let humans ruin his retirement. He always had dreamed of spending time on a calm island after having finished the years of work he owed some demonlords. But also wanted to live close enough to humans to be able to corrupt one or two of them to his own pleasure. He had two choices either he would bring people to a calm island or he would bring an calm island to a town. Knowing his obsession for all kind of entertainment a town offered he prefered the second. So he somehow transported a part of an island onto the balcony of his flat. Luckily the walls were high enough so people were not able to see much of it. Unfortunatly he also brought a aligator egg with the rest of the island. And when the aligator hatched Hestor wasn't able to resist its cuteness. He had to keep him. So he decided to call the aligator Pinky and Pinky grew fast. Hestor was not worried about it. He had dealt with way bigger beasts and he loved his aligator as much as a demon was able to love. Hestor did his best to get meat for Pinky and even tried to teach her - he had found out that the Aligator was female - how to eat well mannered as he always dreamed about taking her out to dinner. But Pinky was not able to learn those things at all. She kept eating very very loud. Not that Hestor cared of course it would have been nice to go out with the aligator but there were other jolly things he could do without Pinky. Only the neighbours were a bit annoying as they complained about the sounds Pinky made while eating. But with the time Hestor had less and less neighbours. Ursula allready blogged many of the lovely things De la Soul released to the Fantasy Faire. This demon is a mix of some of their items. The Wings, Horns, Feet and shape belong to the purple demon set. This set also contains a skin and ears. The skin is one of the relay for life donation items from the same store. I really like the patterns around the eyes it has. The skin comes with fitting ears. The decorations in the background and the aligator come from 2xtremes. Its a great store for elegant furniture, skyboxes and wild animals. The aligator can be chained and has a great animation which looks like it would eat people when they sit on it. Besides this it makes all the time great munching sounds. 2xtremes has more animated animals and its worth to visit their mainstore to have a look at them. But the store takes also part in the fantasy faire.
The hair is the Telooh hair from Wasabi Pills. Its a really great mesh hair which is available for both genders. The poses come from purple poses which have a growing section of male poses.

Avatar:
Shape, wings, hooves, horns, clothes: De la Soul - Deamons - RFL Violent Male (1000 L$ Relay for Life Donation item at the Fantay Faire)
Skin:  De la Soul - FF 2012  - Beaux IKON - Chrys (350 L$ Relay for Life Donation item at the Fantay Faire)
 Hair: /Wasabi Pills/ Teeloh MALE Mesh Hair - (1500 L$ for fatpack 250 L$ colourpack sold at the Fantasy Faire)

Crocodile: :: 2Xtreme :: man eating gator box (725 L$ sold at the Fantasy Faire)
Skybox: :: 2Xtreme ::  Skybox New York box v5.0

Pose: Purple Poses

Fantasy Faire 2012 - Raggedy Rosie

Rosie May Copperstone was poor. So poor that she couldn’t afford to buy a proper dress in her entire life. She wandered around in the country, sometimes she asked for food, but more often she begged for a piece of rag, an old shirt that nobody used any more, a skirt that was too small for the lady of the house. She was very apt with the needle, and quite soon people were calling her “Raggedy Rosie” because of her billowing, huge patchwork dress.

Then, one bright summer day, Rosie met her luck. A pair of lovely shoes lay scattered along the path she was taking, as if they had been waiting for her to pass by. Rosie May didn’t think twice, she put the shoes on... and after a few steps she felt so very odd. Why was she walking with such ease now, as if she were flying? And when Rosie May looked around she discovered she was indeed floating, the butterflies on her shoes came alive and a swarm of these beautiful winged creatures was also grabbing at each square inch of her colourful dress, whisking her away. People were talking about Raggedy Rosie for a long time thereafter... but nobody saw her and the patchwork dress again.

I still remember how I first arrived to the shop of Grim Bros. One day I saw a girl wearing a long, floaty dress with so many lovely details that I just had to find out about the creator… who happened to be one Cutea Benelli. I immediately TPd over to her shop, where I got a minor shock seeing what an unbelievable product range she offered… and how incredibly crazy and quirky some of her creations were. Ever since I’ve been a regular at Miss Benelli’s lair and whenever I feel like wearing a truly creepy funny demented avatar, I only have to look under the „Grim Bros” chapter of my inv.

Cutea has her shop at the Fantasy Faire and offers many RFL donation items, among which the explosively colourful yet lovely „Patchwork Princess” gown and the pale „Butterfly Mask” skin that completes the look. Yet my personal favourites are the „Butterfly Love” heels, not only because the colour of the shoes perfectly matches the blue of the butterfly mask, but also because the butterflies are animated and they gently flap and flutter… now who wouldn’t want a pair of heels like this?

You can find Grim Bros in the Meandervale sim. Check out the shop thoroughly, because you’ll find many more RFL items that you’ll certainly covet and, quite probably, also buy... and if you click on the white commando bunny that hops around in the booth, and you answer his riddle properly, you even get a lovely prize!

Dress: Grim Bros „Patchwork Princess” – RFL donation item (180 L$).

Shoes: Grim Bros “Butterfly Love” heels - RFL donation item (150 L$).

Jewellery: Finesmith “Enlightened” set – April group gift (0 L$).

Skin: Grim Bros “Butterfly Mask” skin - RFL donation item (40 L$).

Hair: Evie’s Closet “Butterfly Effect Hair” – Crazy Hair Hunt 3 gift (0 L$). The hunt is on until April 30^th.

Eyes: Sterling Artistry “Neko Felidae” Look – camping prize available in the shop.

Butterflies: Talevin’s Designs “Staff of Butterflies” – MM Board prize (0 L$).

Poses: No Strings Attached “Frankenfae” in the first picture and Long Awkward Poses “Butterfly” in the second one – neither are available any more.

The pictures were taken at Alirium Gardens.

Seadryke

The fish flew when feeling it come closer. The waves it created in the water were something they hadn't felt before and they prefered not to get in contact with something they didn't know. So it cry got lost unheard. Not that there could have been many of its kind around. It was a fugitive just escaped the mental chains its former owner had used to controll it. Now it was swimming freely for the first time it remembered. The feeling was great. Before it always had been just a living weapon in the strange wars of the seafolk. Its race had been created by them using what ever creatures they found useful until they finally got its kin. The seadrykes. Swimming feeling felt amazing. And it recognized the difference between the deepth where it had been kept all its life. Like a waterbutterfly it was gliding higher and higher leaving the cold zones of the sea. In its long time as useful prisoner it never had the feelings it was having know. The witches of the seafolk always kept their pets caught in dreams. It would be fatal if they would realize their powers. Not fatal for the seadrykes but for the seafolk which prefered using them to defend against others.
The moment when it crashed through the watersurface and jumped into the air was a shock for it. But the air felt as good on its wings as the water did before. The stones of the towers vibrated as it started to call the ones of its kin which were still kept underwater. Now nervously moving in their dreams.
Europa is one of the amazing stores which have a truely own style no matter if its wings, dragons or more human like avatars. This makes them fit so wonderfully to the fantasy faire. The seadryke in coral is one of their many donation items. Its a complete dragon avatar with a very unique look. It comes with an own ao which contains several poses for the avatar. The ao also has beeing used when taking the pictures. The movements of the dryke somehow remind of a fish. The avatar consits of a mix of sculpted and flexi parts which makes it very beautiful to look at. On the Europa store at the fantasy faire its not only possible to buy their wonderful creations they also show some of their art and a model of one of their dragon avatars. Their sim is also definitly worth a visit.
The pictures for this blogpost have been taken at the Tides. Which offer a perfect contrast to the tones of red of the seadryke.

Avatar: [europa] CORAL Seadryke (1200 L$ sold as Donation item for Relay for life at the Fantasy Faire)

+ eX + e z u r a X u e at the Fantasy Faire

"Ahhh..." sighed Caliope with an air of satisfaction as she stepped out onto the rotting log, dank moss springing her step. Turning her face to the sky, eyes smudged with soot and ashes from the fires of divination she had tended throughout the day, she gazed at the heavens. "Stars be bright tonight.." she mused to no one in particular. "That's good..." Her soft drawl turned the heads of the toads sitting on the swamps ragged lily pads. Ripples spread across the dark water as the eyes and snouts of alligators rose up, moving languidly toward her. Everything in the swamp was as anyone would expect, covered in lichen and dirt, all natural, all living and dying in turn so other things could live. Everything was coated in slime, cobwebs or dirt, all except the chest in her den, the chest where she kept her few lasting treasures, including the silks she wore tonight.

These garments were special, as natural as the rest of her world, woven intricately with both the silk of swamp spiders, and golden thread she had made from small discs of the eternally shiny metal she had found in the deepest pools in the midst of the mangroves. She wore these on the nights of the ritual. Her footsteps along the crumbling bough over the water were sure, even though her gaze never wavered from the sky, her eyes seeking out the moon. Clouds scudded across its face, the longer she looked, the clearer it became, gilding the swamp and all of its creatures with moonlight. The pulse of the fireflies intensified, snakes writhed over the muddy ground as the miasma swirled around her feet and legs, dampening the silk, giving it weight and presence as a soft dew formed over the gold, making the runes shimmer and seem to move. Murmuring the incantation they depicted, she began to fade from view, becoming part of everything. Sinking into the mists she would be everywhere, able to see all, and feel all, protecting this sanctuary for another season. 

 

This is the Arcane Mage outfit, one of the Relay for Life donation items at + eX + e z u r a X u e. It helpfully comes with a guide to resizing the prims - which is very good for anyone who hasn't done a lot of modifying. The collar and skirt prims sit very nicely. The runes throughout the outfit tie all the pieces together, and this would really work for any mage or soothsayer RP, as an outfit for rituals - or just because you like it!

Outfit : + eX + e z u r a X u e  +Arcane Mage   Relay for Life Donation Item @ the Fantasty Faire 250L
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Shadows%20Claw/196/127/26
Skin : :::insanya::: Marzia Wheat - ZombiePopCorn Special Edition (Old Hunt Item)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sintoma/127/162/25
Hair :  NV  AFRO FUNKY MEGA  145L
http://slurl.com/secondlife/MARQI%20GLOBAL/173/191/2002
Nails : [Virtual/Insanity] : Kitty Galore Sharp Claws (Twisted Spring Hunt Item 2012)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bada%20Bing/131/154/36