October Wildness at Wild Style

OK, topics for today are: Membership drawing winners, the store remodel, treasure hunt, new stuff.

Membership Drawing Winners:

• 06/06/2008 Kyona Kawanishi L$500
• 07/05/2008 dac GossipGirl L$500
• 08/09/2008 Sharron Sellers L$500
• 09/12/2008 Jobelle Sugar L$500
• 10/14/2008 to be announced tonight...

The store remodel:

So, I happened to visit Kalnins main store and met Maris Kanto. He was really nice and offered to take a look at my store. Then he gave me some great advice about comparing my store to the big names like Armidi, so you'll be seeing some more changes...

Treasure Hunt:
Planning to hide some jack-o-lanterns with a freebie outfit... I need ideas...

Newest Stuff:

Skull Undies and Wicked Witch!

Please Pardon the mess :)

Remodeling is underway at the main store in Cheonma. I added a mall across the road, and moved most of my affiliate vendors to the new mall. It's looking really classy :)

... now back to designing clothes...

Introducing: Fran!!!

It has been one heck of a ride, but finally she's done!

Wild Style Fashions presents: Final Fantasy Fran. After developing the Balthier costume, I had several requests for this outfit. It took 5 weeks, but here she is, FINALLY. This set includes everything from heatd to toe but the skin and hair:

* Sculpted prim Viera ears

* Prim helmet

* Prim armor skirtie and tail

* Prim sheer undershirt

* Sculpted Prim bracers (arms)

* Sculpted prim leg armor

* Sculpted armored shoes

* Armor shirt layer

* Armor Pants layer

* Avatar shape

Skin for Fran is available exclusively through Body By Eve (LM in the pack). Custom Fran Hair available exclusively through Analog Dog hair (LM also in the pack).

Wow, what a week!

Over 2200 customers now, so I guess I can stop counting :)
I just finished Fran!!! Now it's time to get the ad board ready and see if Queue and Eve will have their parts ready this week... If so, this will be one really big week!

Having not heard from Queue recently, and only needing helmet and hair for Fran, I decided to take a break and have some fun. So, in the parcel across the road from the main store, there's now a chillin' pavillion. It's a great place to sit and relax. It needed something though...

A bartender! So, using the NOOB I got from a Fashcon Cafe member, I added some drinks and a script...

Say hello to Bartender Bob! :)

Fran is coming along...

...Even though it's killing me :)

So, I started Fran on August 2nd, knowing that she would be a tough job. Mentally adding up the bits and pieces was overwhelming. So this is all of what I have so far:

• Shirt Layer armor on avatar mesh
• Pants Layer with thigh armor on avatar mesh
• Underpants layer w/o thigh armor on avatar mesh
• Socks layer Thigh armor (but I think it doesn't go high enough, so I may just trash that)
• Gloves on the avatar mesh
• Smexy sheer undershirt layer with prim dangly bit in front
• Sculpted prim bracers on the forearms with lots of prims added to the sculpts
• Prim tail armor
• Prim ears
• Prim skirtie
• Sculpted prim shinguards with lots of prim pieces
  Sculpted prim anklets
• Sculpted high-heel (double-heel) shoes with claws
• Avatar shape

So now, all that's left is the little bootie plate thingie on her right foot (presumably for kicking ass), and her helmet. The foot piece will need to be a sculpt, and the helmet... well, nothing like saving the hardest thing for last...

Still hoping to have Fran ready by Mid-September... I'm hoping that Queue Marlowe will have the hair ready by then.

New to the project: Eve Express is making a skin with white eyebrows that will fit Fran nicely :)

1600 customers now!

Amazing but true, traffic at the store has been averaging 50 new customers a day now for some reason. I'm not sure what happened, but now more than 1600 different avatars have been to Wild Style Fashions :)

So, I slaved for a couple weeks, learned how to make sculpted prims, uploaded textures multiple times to get everything right, and FINALLY... I managed to create a Balthier costume for Second Life that does him justice.

Of course, everyone says "Now you need to do Fran!" So, I start slaving away. Then, I'm totally blown away because one of my designer idols - Queue Marlowe of Analog Dog hair - says she wants to work with me! Me? Little ol' me? WOW.

So what's next?


I can't wait to find out...