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Crias Rowlands has made an absolutely gorgeous jukebox in the new Mesh format. Would you believe it is only 8 prims, and incredibly detailed, both in the modelling and in the texturing. It works as a land radio, and is going to be a must-have, I’m sure. It exists in a couple of versions: classic, as seen here, and modern. Find it at the Stuff Store !
A new one-stop sim dedicated to Home & Décor stores. There are so many to discover — many I don’t know, I’m sort of getting out of the loop there — I couldn’t see them all yet. You’ll find me also if you wander there, down Main Street by the gas station.
So, I was just visiting Tatty Soup, where I had never been before, and camming out on their homestead I spotted this house and started snapping away. It’s really, really nicely decorated. The house and most of the furnishings are from POST by Van Auster, and everything else comes mostly from Kopi, Clutter, North West, iTuTu, LISP Bazaar, tram, Y’s House, nordari, Second Spaces, Picnic and Tatty Soup (love their rusty tub at the mainstore, by the way). Sorry for not listing exact credits of everything, but there’s quite a bit, plus you can teleport and check things out yourself anyway, at least as of this posting (of course there’s no knowing that this will all be there forever, BUT THAT’S LIFE). I guess also there’s not much point in blogging edited pictures of stuff; but I was looking to age or distress the pics a little bit and when I tried black and white, I just thought, this looks, woah… nice. Noir and just slightly moody. I wish the SL viewers had a feature to see everything in black and white with adjustable contrast, grain and sepia too.
So I’ve been thinking lately that I am kind of blah about blogging, and I really am, but just today I stumbled upon this skybox by Magneto Jie of Drobak while traipsing around. Inspection says it might be as old as 2009 so it might not be so new but it’s new to me and it’s always nice to be reminded of how good things can look in SL if you have the skills and patience to make them so. If just all of SL could just be like that, not necessarily in that style, but as good as that… It really could, you know. Just see what a talented person can do ! It might be a little hard to furnish; you might have to either use other Drobak furniture, of which there is not an abundance, or you’d have to find other things that match the clean, modern, carefully baked style. Anyway, just empty, it is pretty fantastic, although too modern for me but I can appreciate the skills. It is 66 prims in all, counting the light fixtures and what furniture there is (mostly it is a commode). The demo is here.
This will probably be the only post I make on the Home & Garden Expo and I’m focusing on the items that some of us vendors will be putting out, where the proceeds of the sales are going to Relay For Life, plus some new releases here and there. Oh, and it’ll open later today, at noon SLT.
Above, the adorable little retro coffee table is one of the two items from artilleri for RFL and the caravan is a new release ! It comes in at least six colours, I think. [expo slurl]
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The Home & Garden Expo is around the corner, and with that, I wanted to make a little highlight on one excellent store I didn’t know before that specialises in retro furnishings: the Stuff Store. It doesn’t have too many items and it is fairly new, although once I had a moment to open the few packages I received, the name of the creator, Crias Rowlands, started to ring a bell to me, and indeed ! Once upon a time, years ago, as I was walking around the Wastelands I saw something I liked very much, so much I had to ask for it, even though the creator didn’t appear to have a store at the time (and that was Crias Rowlands, in case that wasn’t clear).
This high-quality skybox by Mattew Lacombe is currently free on the marketplace. It’s copyable and 90 prims for the skybox alone. There’s also rezzers included for two other versions where the skybox opens onto a tunnel road. So very well textured ! I don’t think I saw a single seam anywhere. If we could only see more like this on SL. But I know this is a whole lot of work. It’s also a pretty masculine space with all the bricks and woods. I decorated it sparingly to make it a bit more homey for the pictures. I generally liked the proportions and the wall recesses to cram personal touches in. It doesn’t feel cagey, and it even feels cozy after you have put a few things out. And I think I might have really loved this prefab to death, and paid good money too, if it could have been in a lighter colour theme (though I understand this is a one-off and not only was I lucky to snag it for free, but who knows how long this will even be around).
Here’s what some of the Home & Garden designers have in store for you at the Seasons Hunt Spring starting tomorrow !
Garden set: The Loft, Shelf: Little Boxes.
Table set: Kari.
A little update on some of the new stuff I have been doing lately, at North West. 
The Gustav lamp I made a week or two ago; the hanging chalkboard changes textures, oh and also, more chairs, in more motifs than is shown here. 
These are actually just two lamps; if you touch the shade, it toggles between a plain or grunge version of the fabric. 
I made this set for Themeory Project this week-end; all is included for 75L, except the lamp that is from Kari and the rug from Sea Salt. They really complete the set ! There’s enough room left for you to add your own touch.
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