Category Archives: lighting

Mar20

wishes.

Posted on March 20, 2013 by elle

You know how sometimes you wish your SL room was also your RL room? Yep.

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The Tiffany Bedroom Set is new from PILOT and Kaz Nayar, available now at this month’s Collabor88. I love that bed – gorgeous bedding, lovely curves on the headboard, and a ruffly bedskirt! I love a ruffly bedskirt!

The vase of lilacs is just beautiful. As much as I love the whole set, I really think those lilacs are my favorite piece. Perfect! ♥

Speaking of perfect, I’m also crazy about this Jar Chandelier from Cory Edo and Trompe Loeil, also available at Collabor88. Rustic! Pulleys! Rustic pulleys!! That would be a great band name!

All this awesome stuff is set up inside more awesomeness – the new prefab from Barnesworth Anubis (oddly enough, also available at Collabor88) — the Haight Apartment Skybox!

Two nice large rooms, both with wonderfully soaring bay windows, AND a cute little bathroom off the back. I also love those french doors! ♥

Pick up this amazing stuff at this month’s Collabor88!! [SLurl]

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Bed, bench (under the window), and nightstand: PILOT – Tiffany Bedroom (Kaz Nayar)
Bench (at the foot of the bed): fri.home – poet’s bench (Friday Monday)
Pillows on bench: PILOT – Tiffany Extra Pillows (Kaz Nayar)
Bedside lamps: Trompe Loeil – Funky Lamp (Cory Edo) **currently available at The Arcade Gacha Event [SLurl]
Bunting on wall: floorplan. bunting (Tegan Serin)
Mirrors: floorplan. – porthole mirror (Tegan Serin)
Cabinet: floorplan. quilt cabinet (Tegan Serin)
Tray of coffee: Cheeky Pea – Dandelion Coffee Tray (Isla Gealach)
Phone: floorplan. – antique telephone (Tegan Serin) **currently available at The Arcade Gacha Event [SLurl]
Bedside plant: MudHoney – Plant in a Can (Rayvn Hynes)
Floor lamp: Trompe Loeil – Spotlight Lamp (Cory Edo) **currently available at The Arcade Gacha Event [SLurl]
Radio: Cheeky Pea – Millesime Baignoire Radio (Isla Gealach)
Tie rack: PILOT – Snyder Tie Rack (Kaz Nayar)
Baskets (at the foot of the bed): MudHoney – Woven Basket (Rayvn Hynes)
Books (on bench seat): POST (Van Auster)
Box with manuscript (on floor): floorplan. – jack’s manuscript. (Tegan Serin)
Cup of pencils (on the floor): POST – Darkbloom Pencils in Retro Cup (Van Auster)
Rug: PILOT – Tiffany Rug (Kaz Nayar)
Glass bottles: POST – Trio of Salvaged Glass Bottles (Van Auster)
Picture frame and stacked books: fri.home – book stack & frame (Friday Monday)
Tray with lilacs: PILOT – Lilac Tray (Kaz Nayar)
Crate and books: MudHoney – Laura Fridge Crate and Mesh Books (Rayvn Hynes)
Magazines: MudHoney – Magazine Pile (Rayvn Hynes)
Curtains: floorplan. – color block curtains (Tegan Serin)
Deer head: floorplan. – oh deer wall decor (Tegan Serin)
Baskets (on shelf under bench): Y’s House – Kago01 (Yacchan Clip)
Chandelier: Trompe Loeil – Jar Chandelier (Cory Edo)
Skybox: [ba] – Haight Apartment Skybox (Barnesworth Anubis)

Aug4

[Insert post title that has something to do with hump day]

Posted on August 4, 2010 by elle

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Hi there! Some cute stuff for you today…

Mainit Hellman of [Baustein] sent me his latest release: the Chapman set (named after SySy Chapman). I have always loved this sort of mudroom/entry hallway furniture – perfect for hanging coats, storing hats and scarves and umbrellas, a great little drop off point when you first walk in the door. If I should ever have a mudroom in RL (which would be AWESOME), it’s guaranteed that I will have a set up like this.

I love the wicker baskets and the shopping bag – nice touches to make it feel ‘lived in’, which I really like. As always, Mainit has done an awesome job with his shadows – great depth on these pieces. For my personal taste, I would like these shadows to be a bit softer…but either way, it’s an excellent job of adding shadows. (Just to be clear – the shadows you see are included with the furniture – I do not have SL shadows enabled.)

The empty frames are a nice decorative touch, gives a little bit of glam to the set up.

Great job, once again, by Mainit – and only 19 prims, btw. Be sure to stop by [Baustein] to see it for yourself! [SLurl]

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More cuteness, and quite exciting, at that — Saeya Nyanda of Kyoot has recently opened Kyoot Home! Hopefully, dear readers, you all know Kyoot for their clothing and hair (awesome), and I am very excited to have a Kyoot home store available now! It’s a small inventory at the moment, but definitely worth checking out. Be sure to join the SOM group, too – the group gift is adorable! You can see that in the first pic, below…

…along with a sampling of what you’ll find at Kyoot Home. Be sure to get over there to check it out, and I look forward to seeing what else Saeya comes up with!

Kyoot Home [SLurl]

Apr1

Whirlwind updates…NOW!

Posted on April 1, 2010 by elle

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Hi there! I am currently busy with these things:

These are both amazing and awesome events, so make sure you check them both out!

Now, because of these awesome events, I am not acting the part of faithful blogger like I should. I do have stuff to share with you, and I’m gonna – it’s just gonna be in a quick whirlwind of vendor pics and very few words. How’s that sound? Alright? Let’s go!

First, a new release from La’Licious Designs – super cute dollhouse bedroom!

La’Licious Designs [SLurl]

Next, we have a new shop – Growbox! Designed by Makaio Stygian and featured at Trompe Loeil Prefabs, a great new place for really gorgeous sculpted flowers.

Growbox [SLurl]

Cheap Cheap – another new shop with a precious logo and an enticing name. 😉 I haven’t had a chance to check out the shop yet; designer Flanelle Bebb sent me a folder of pics and things to play with, and it looks like cute, shabby chic, and sometimes silly stuff! That’s my kind of stuff!

Cheap Cheap [SLurl]

And finally, the team at NOTsoBAD has been super busy! They’ve just released a few new series of beds – gorgeous, of course, as is everything from NOTsoBAD – and also packed with tons of really fun animations! They include the naughty stuff 😉 but also lots of casual, fun, hanging out animations. You can see the menu in the first set of pics, below:

There are also a bunch of new, modern, low prim lighting options…AND, if you’re in the SOM group, then you already know about the group gift, the Nottam skybox! If you’re not in the SOM — well, you should be. So, go join. 🙂

NOTsoBAD [SLurl]

Talk to you soon! Now, go shop!

Jun11

Designer Review Forbidden Thorn

Posted on June 11, 2009 by elle

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I’ll be honest – when designer Xadie Katscher sent me a review folder for Forbidden Thorn, the shop name led me to expect dark, gothy furniture – lots of black and red mixed in with, well, thorny roses. Not so! Forbidden Thorn is a very welcoming, warm, open-concept shop, and Xadie’s designs are what I would call “soft modern” with fun and creative twists. It’s a relatively small stock at this point (a little birdy told me bedrooms will be coming in July 😉 ) but definitely worth a look!

Lynn set: a nice, minimalist seating set – I love how Xadie incorporated the circles and the curved arm – it’s a great job of breaking up the squareness of the pieces. My absolute favorite detail, though, is the windchimes in the corner of the sofa. 🙂 How awesome is that!? A great, unexpected touch!

lynn set

Fae set: I truly don’t think I have ever seen a set like this in all of SL…and I think it’s awesome. It reminds me — in a good way — of a hamster village, where you can add the tubes and whatnot to create a whole little playground. This looks like you could keep adding pieces to create a mega seating area and no one would ever have to sit on the floor! Utopia! Anyway…this is really fun, and I can just imagine all the photo ops created with this piece and your closest 8 friends.

fae set

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Jan11

Designer Review Lofty Lighting

Posted on January 11, 2009 by elle

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Balthasar Bookmite of Lofty Lighting was kind enough to drop a review folder on me, so I took a look today. Balt specializes in loft lighting — very modern, oversized pendant lights, ideal for those open and airy lofts. He’s also recently released the House Collection, a line of smaller lamps. All of his lamps are copy/mod, which I think is awesome since I’m a big fan of multiples.

From the Loft Collection, here are the Alia and the Emilia lamps. I included the picture where I’m standing next to the lamps just to show the scale — these are large lamps!

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From the House Collection, we have The Edd and The PT — the ad shots show them in Matte Black, and my pic-for-scale shows them in Steel. I love The Edd — it’s like something out of the Jetsons. 🙂

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(Please excuse the wardrobe in that last pic — it was taken after my club events, and it was late, and I was too tired to change.)

I did pop in to Balt’s little shop, just for a minute, and saw a few more worth-checking-out lamps, so get over there and see for yourself. You can visit Lofty Lighting here or on OnRez here. Enjoy!

*I know I’ve been a bad blogger lately — I’m rebuilding my sim and that’s taking all my time. I do have another special series planned, and hopefully another design contest in the near future! Thanks for sticking with me!