Sakura Petals

In my last post I promised more info on the brand spanking new poses by Roquai and their awesome collaboration with *NAMINOKE* available at the 2016 Fantasy Faire. 

I planned to do this post at the weekend but... well... I have new kitten in RL who is proving to be very demanding on attention and I can't resist her so finally here it is lol.

Roquai's Pamakhala Girl (300L$) and Pamakhala Boy (250L$) pose sets can be purchased in separate packs. The 'girl' pack contains 6 poses and the 'boy' pack contains 5 poses. What's really cool about all these poses is they are designed to work great individually or they fit together as couple poses easily! You can snag the fatpack with all the couple poseballs for 500L$. These poses are all very artistic and the sets contain a mix of kneels and stands, which are full of emotion and motion. 

The sakura petal 'dresses' by *NAMINOKE* come in both girl and boy versions in a variety of petal colours. They consist of several different petal attachments and these absolutely beautiful wings. 

A single outfit is 480L$ and an outfit with HUD is 600L$. 

Even better, you can get the Fatpack with it all for 1500L$!

The poses and dresses are designed to work really well together and allow for some great photo fun!

The fabulous shoes (perhaps fabulously lethal too! lol) are by Azoury and you'll be able to snag them at SaNaRae in 4 different colours. They are designed for the new SLink Pointe feet only!!

The mesh head is new by GenesisLab and I'm really loving 'Giorgia', which can be found at the current round of Shiny Shabby. She's both elegant and beautifully imperfect in her looks. There are 6 different skin colour to choose from and you can find the matching skin appliers free in the mainstore. 

The petal circlet and pauldrons are by Zibska  at WLRP, which is nearing the end of this round, so be sure to stop by soon to get the items at the discounted price! I thought the petal accessories matched perfectly with the outfit. The 'Roos' set includes colour HUD too so that you can adjust to your styling needs. 

Petal Dress & Wings: *NAMINOKE* - *N*(GIRL) Sakura Petal Black *Fantasy Faire*

Bikini/Lingerie & Bodychain: Blueberry - Oakley (Rare bottoms, common top and chain) *The Epiphany*

Shoes: Azoury - Circus Ballet Shoes - Black *SaNaRae*

Circlet & Pauldrons: Zibska - Roos *WLRP*

Mesh Head: Genesis - Giorgia Cream *Shiny Shabby*

Mesh Body: Maitreya Lara

Hair: Entwined - Hannah *Shiny Shabby*

Pose by Roquai - Pamakhala (girl) Kneel *Fantasy Faire* 

Loose Petals by {anc} - Garden - Petal Rain *Fantasy Faire* 

Flowers by {anc} - {anc} fish shop daughters lotus dark

Mist by {anc}

The Landmarks:

Fantasy Faire - Fairelands Junction

Fantasy Faire - Echtra

We Love Roleplay

SaNaRae

The Epiphany

Shiny Shabby

Rising From The Depths

The Second Life Fantasy Faire 2016 is open!!! This is the big event for all types of fantasy folk, from elves, fairies and mermaids, to medieval courtiers, princesses and warriors alike. The best part? There are an absolute ton of vendors that donate to Relay For Life, with some RFL vendors providing 100% donation to this extremely good cause. Full credit to the sim builders this year for the amazing job. I've included some pictures of my favourites further down in this post, taken prior to the Faire opening. I fully recommend going back after the initial shopping days to experience the sims when they are less crowded and enjoy them in their full splendor!

The tentacle "outfit" I'm wearing in this picture is by Storybook, new for Fantasy Faire. I was so excited when I first saw the WIP pic for this stunning new creation and after trying it out I'm in love! It really is so cool. I've also used it for props in my pic!

There are a bunch of different colours available, in addition to a Fantasy Faire exclusive edition to benefit RFL. It's made to fit Maitreya Lara, SLink Physique and Hourglass, and Belleza Venus and Isis. The outfit consists of a main body part, plus separate add on pieces for each leg.
You'll find Storybook on the Dangarnon sim.

The fabulous fantasy skin is a new line by The Plastik, available at the Fantasy Faire. It's called 'Constella' and there are multiple skin tones and hues to choose from. Each has lots of appliers included in the pack, including Maitreya and Genesis as shown, but also Lelutka, Omega (head and body), Belleza, SLink and others.

The pose is by Roquai and is part of a fabulous new set available at the Fantasy Faire in collaboration with NAMINOKE. I'll be doing another blog post tomorrow with more info on the full set and collaboration but I couldn't resist using one of the poses for this pic too! Head to the Echtra sim to find the store ;)

Tentacle Outfit: Storybook - Chasm - Oil Spill *Fantasy Faire*
Skin: The Plastik :[P]:- Constella Skin - Atlas *Fantasy Faire*
(On Maitreya Lara & Genesis Nicole)
Hair: Tableau Vivant - Editorial Eastern Wind - Funky (old Arcade item)

Pose: ROQUAI's Pamakhala - Pam Breeze *Fantasy Faire*

Fish: 22769 ~ [bauwerk] Floating Fish Iron
Mushrooms: A.D.D.Andel! Mushroom Fairy Ring
Flowers: {anc} fish shop daughters - lotus dark

Dangarnon by Jaimy Hancroft/Eowyn Swords

Malfience

The Golden Delta by Alia Baroque

The Landmarks:

Fairelands Junction

Dangarnon

The Golden Delta

Echtra

Serenity

Artemis

If you've been waiting for the crowds to die down at The Epiphany, we're now a few days in and you should find things a bit easier going. Storybook have created their third instalment in their Greek mythology series especially for the event and bring the 'Artemis' gacha collection. The set consists of breast armour in 6 different metal colours, matching colour leg ribbons and flowing wrap skirts that also come in 6 different variants (skirt not shown). All are exclusively Maitreya lara fit. The rare items are the bows and antlers, each in 2 colour variants. 

I'm totally lovin' the knotted dreads hair styles Besom has designed for this event. There are 3 different versions - 2 common styles and 1 rare - with the commons coming in single HUD colour packs and the rares being split into 2 prizes containing 3 colour HUDs.

If you have multiple items you don't want and can't sell/trade, The Epiphany allows you to trade the extra's for points to purchase items that will be sold exclusively as specials at the current round of the event. Info on how to do that can be found here.

The beautiful necklace by Empyrean Forge can be found at the current round of We Love Roleplay and is available in gold or silver, each containing a colour HUD for the accent sections.

Bra: Storybook - Artemis - Breast Armor Gold (common) *The Epiphany*

Leg Ribbons: Storybook - Artemis Leg Ribbons Gold (common) *The Epiphany*

Antlers: Storybook - Artemis Deity Antlers The Hunter RARE *The Epiphany*

Bow: Storybook - Artemis Lunar Bow Helios RARE *The Epiphany*

Necklace: Empyrean Forge - Ah-Kin Collar Gold *WLRP*

Hair: Besom - Burn Down Blondes (common) *The Epiphany*

Tattoo: White Widow - Charade Arms White (common) *The Epiphany*

The Landmarks:

The Epiphany

We Love Roleplay

Survivor

The Epiphany is open and [The Forge] has an awesome new post-apoc style set for you to collect! Everything is unisex and resizeable. If you need a reminder of how the epiphany points system works to purchase the Exclusives, you'll find it here.
[The Forge] is also taking part in The 100 Block and this very cool 'Trelis' Top is available in black, brown, gold and red. The top is unrigged and mod, with normal and hourglass shapes included in the pack.

The goggles are part of the set Yummy has to offer at this round of We Love Roleplay. The HUD allows to resize as well as switch between 4 different options for the metal.
The shorts can also be found at WLRP, by =Zenith=, in a selection of colours.
Everything at WLRP is discounted by 25-50%!

Mask: [The Forge] Junker's Arsenal - Junker's Gasmask, Black *TheEpiphany*

Axe: [The Forge] Junker's Arsenal - Salvage Axe, Dark *TheEpiphany*

Mech Hand: [The Forge] - Junker's Arsenal - Cynet Surge Arm Steel RARE *TheEpiphany*

Knee Guard: [The Forge] Junker's Arsenal - Avocet Knee Guard *TheEpiphany*

Goggles: Yummy - Desert Warrior Goggles *WLRP*

Top: [The Forge] Trelis Top - Black *The 100 Block*

Shorts: =Zenith= Tie Up Short - Black *WLRP*

Belt: [The Forge] Saddle Belt - Black *WLRP*

Hair: Besom - Dreadheads Navi

Pose by Diesel Works

Fencing by Remarkable Oblivion (past Arcade item)

The Landmarks:
The Epiphany
The Epiphany off-sim shopping
We Love Roleplay
The 100 Block

Picnic

An early spring Sunday morning on Nymphai and dolly settled down on her picnic blanket to enjoy the sun. It was also a prime opportunity to show off some of the gorgeous new gacha collection by Astralia for the spring round of The Season's Story. 

The 'Glicine Picnic' set includes a rare hat (with colour HUD to change ribbon and flowers), plus common flower hair accessories, ruffle cushions and picnic baskets. There are 6 different colour versions of each of the commons. There is also a special prize picnic pose prop, with 6 poses and colour HUD to change the blanket (version without poses also included), which is awarded after a set number of plays on the machine.

Hair Flowers, Picnic Basket & Ruffle Cushions: Astralia - Glicine Picnic *TSS*

Hat: Astralia - Glicine Picnic RARE *TSS*

Dress: =Zenith= - Cutout Shoulder Skirt - Snow *FaMESHed*

Hair: Truth - Ainsley

Doll Head: *COCO* - FashionDoll Head Nora

Doll Body: *COCO* - MyDollKit Body (Fitted)

Picnic Blanket Pose Prop: Astralia - Glicine Picnic Prop Special Prize *TSS*

The Landmarks:

The Season's Story

FaMESHed

Nymphai (Part of The Ippos Collective)

Sunflowers

Collabor88 is back for a new round and its all green and spring themed this month! =Zenith= has created a lovely vintage style picnic dress and rattan accessories to go with. The dress is available in 5 different textures, in both Maitreya lara and standard fitted mesh sizes. A HUD is included to allow for switching the pants on/off and to change the colour of the sweater (5 options).

The picnic basket also includes HUD to allow texture change of the fabric and ribbon. Included with the basket is the small wearable bunch of sunflowers and some water bottles for rez. 

Glam Affair is also taking part at the new round of C88, with these darling studded flats. They're available in a bunch of different colours and are non-rigged.

And yes, I'm still loving my fitted mesh doll body - more about that in my previous post!

Dress: =Zenith= - Vintage Picnic Dress D *C88*

Hat: =Zenith= - Spring Rattan Hat Light *C88*

Basket & Flower Bunch: =Zenith= - Spring Picnic Basket Light *C88*

Shoes: Glam Affair - Aly Flats - Peach Echo *C88*

Doll Head: *COCO* - FashionDoll - Nora Peach *NEW*

Doll Body: *COCO* - MyDollKit Body (Fitted) Peach *NEW*

Hair: Truth - Aspen

Pose by Grafica - Ciara

Puppy by {anc} -  flottante puppy. cream . walk / withCollar

Sunflowers by Heart

The Landmarks:

Collabor88

*COCO*

Heart

Grafica Poses

Dreamy Doll

I've always been a huge fan of the doll avatars by *COCO* so I couldn't wait to check out their newest release. I love love LOVE it!! Finally a fitted mesh doll body! 

I've tried it with several fitted mesh dresses that are designed for Maitreya Lara and had no issues with the fit, no poking out through arms or back etc. It's awesome. I did try a few tops and shorts and these are a little more tricky, so bare in mind not everything will work but this doll body certainly allows for more flexibility when it comes to dressing in 'normal' clothes. As for the fashion doll range by *COCO*, designed for the standard *COCO* fashion doll body, not all will work with this one but the ones that will are indicated on the vendors.

*COCO* has also released 2 new doll heads. I fell in love with Nora instantly. I think she has a slightly alien look to her features, which personally I find cute. The great thing about these new heads (for me anyway) is that they have a closed eye feature again, which the other heads in the fashion doll range have been missing. Even better, there are eyelashes included for both open and closed eye versions. Eyes are separate attachment from the head and 2 colours are included in the pack.

The body (900L$) is modifiable and the new heads are available in both mod (900L$) and no mod (450L$) versions. Texture maps are included with MyDollKit mod body & heads. 

Quick animated image of body inworld

One of the first dresses I tried on the body was the new 'Spring Dreamy' dress by =Zenith=, available at The Project Se7en. There are 4 packs available, each including 2 versions of the dress changeable by HUD. The cute bunny toy is also by =Zenith= at the same event and includes colour HUD to match to any of the dreamy dresses.

Dress: =Zenith= - Spring Dreamy Dress - Beige *The Project Se7en*

Bunny: =Zenith= Dreamy Bunny *The Project Se7en*

Doll Head: *COCO* - FashionDoll Head - Nora - Peach *NEW*

Doll Body: *COCO* - MyDollKit Body(Fitted) - Peach *NEW*

Hair: Argrace - Saki

Pose by Roquai - Tarot Priestess 2b

(right arm position changed at elbow using Animare Hud so dolly could hold bunny!)

Flowers: The Little Branch - Bouton d'or Yellow *FaMESHed*

By the way, The Little Branch is holding their first ever photo contest!

The contest is running Monday, April 4th - Monday, April 18th.

Anyone can participate, 3 winners will be chosen for the "Favorite Pictures" category and there will be a random lottery using random.org to determine 10 winners.

1) Take a picture featuring at least one product from The Little Branch. The picture can include your avatar too if you wish. 

2) Join The Little Branch flickr group and submit your picture here:

https://www.flickr.com/groups/2714389@N25

3) Tag your picture with "The Little Branch" and "The Little Branch Contest"

4) Join the FREE in-world group (copy and paste this in your chat, then click to join): secondlife:///app/group/e6520a3a-8eb5-5355-0266-09c419948b10/about

4) Contest winners will be announced on flickr and in The Little Branch in-world group. 

Follow The Little Branch here: 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/129494941@N05/ 

Contest Winners Award

1st Place: 7K Lindens

2nd Place: 3K Lindens

3rd Place: 1,500 Lindens

10 Random Participants: Pack of The Little Branch's last 5 releases

The Landmarks:

The Project Se7en

FaMESHed

*COCO*

Roquai

Isilla

The all new round of We Love Roleplay opens tomorrow, 4th March, and Azoury has created some beautifully dark horned skull headpieces called 'Isilla'. I love all things skelly & skully so obviously immediately fell in love with these! The textures are incredibly rich in details and there are 3 variations available - white horns, dark horns or red horns. Each will be 202L$ instead of 289L$ whilst at the event until the end of April. 

The harness I'm wearing can also be found at WLRP and is by ieQED. The 'Lotus' harness is available in a selection of colours and matches the belt of the same name that ieQED released last month. There is a colour HUD included with each version, allowing you to change the metal and gem colour of the clasp. 

Everything at WLRP is discounted 25-50%!!

The armour set I'm wearing is by Storybook and can be found in 6 different metal versions at The Fantasy Collective. It's unrigged and includes resizer script.

Headpiece: Azoury - Isilla *WLRP*

Armour Breastplate & Cusp: Storybook - Aries - Obsidian *TFC*

Pearl Harness: ieQED - Lotus - White *WLRP*

Silk Wrap: May's Soul - Angelica - White

Skin Applier: Glam Affair - Simone Exotic 

(on Lelutka Stella & Maitreya Lara)

Hair: Argrace - Haruka

Pose by Del May - Help me up

Script limits in place for first few days of WLRP!
Script Count: 50
Script Memory: 2MB

Script Timing:  .350

The Landmarks:

We Love Roleplay

The Fantasy Collective

Lelutka Mainstore

May's Soul