Star shaped tables at Okinawa New Year Festival. Three table sizes- small side tables in short and tall, and a low coffee table; each with 20 solid color and 5 marble tops, and 4 metal leg options.
Plus find some gifts at the event for the new year- champagne for 2023, a rabbit cookie for the year of the rabbit, and a mini top hat. It's mod, so you can make it a full size top hat if you prefer, I'm not the hat police.
At Okinawa New Year Festival, December 26@7am SLT - January 13!
Happy year of the rabbit! Japonica is celebrating the new year, and a rabbit has taken the place of the mochi in my kagami mochi 鏡鼠 this year. The bunny comes in or out of the tray, with an orange on the head, the offering tray 三方 and paper, together and separately are also included, 1 LI each piece. If you have Kagami Mochi or Tsukimi Dango offerings from previous years, pick up an update by touching the black sign- there are some more texture options and fixes that have been added to them!
And a new set of 菰樽/飾り樽 sake barrels decorated for the new year, with a maneki neko and a rabbit version, a kumade (rake decorated with lucky symbols to rake in luck) in normal and rabbit version, zodiac clay bell, and a tama usagi (a traditional papier-mâché rabbit of Fukushima Prefecture). Stacks and single barrels, 1 to 2 LI each at about a standard 4-to 72 liter size of about .65 meters tall barrel, with extra shading options to choose from if you are picky in how you stack! (There are versions of top and side shadow boxed so you can stack them on top of each other or next to each other and keep the shading they have in the particular stacks also.) HUD texture all to your desires- set them all the same, choose individual labels to texture to exactly what you want, or let it randomize them for you with the mix button. You can also mix HUDs from other sake barrel sets for more options, even in the same stack.
At Japonica, open December 25 at 8am SLT - January 22 at 8am SLT.
Holiday antlers for Okinawa Christmas Festival! Reindeer antler bedecked with ribbons, with optional mistletoe (a version with just ribbons is also included). Texture change with black, white, bright, and pastel ribbons, and 13 shades of brown and desaturated antlers. Vaadin is the Finnish word for female reindeer, and also the name of a mythological Finnish reindeer that assisted Seppo Ilmarinen on his journeys.
At The Okinawa Christmas Festival until December 26!
Meet some birds Under the Mistletoe at Collabor88! Winter is the roundest birb season, with the puffing out feather fluff to stay warm. Round robins (European, not American- European robins are rounder), chickadees, and mountain bluebirds all snack on berries in the winter to distribute their seeds (and also to, you know, starve less). Three poses of birds with berries and three poses of birds with branches, with holly or mistletoe- plus 3 mirrors of each. The pack includes a texture change HUD to choose your type of bird, and both holly and mistletoe- each bird and each plant are also sold separately. 1 LI each at bird size- they are all pretty tiny birds, but even quite a bit larger they stay 1 LI each.
At Collabor88, December 8 until January 6!
Champagne adjacent, being neither actually made from grapes nor from the Champagne region of France, Six Seeds is a sparkling wine made from pomegranates. Pomegranate wine tends to quite dry- not a sweet wine by nature (though of course that can be adjusted in the brewing process). And the sort of not-champagne you might drink in the Underworld to celebrate your anniversary with Hades at this Dark Romance round of Collabor88. (Actual romance involved in that story varies by interpretation, but a great chunk of the rest of the mythology isn't exactly big on consent either, including some...reasons she might have wanted to get far away from her father.)
Bones are texture change with 12 options of bone and metal. To hold and drink for you: glasses with a left or the right boney hand holding it aloft. To rez: glasses with left or right boney hands with or without extra pomegranate seeds next to them, a bottle held by a disembodied skeletal hand while it pours endlessly, an opened bottle, a closed bottle only or held by a disembodied hand or with six seeds next to it. All bottles also include versions that will give glasses of sparkling wine to your guests- choose the bones distributed by bottles with the HUD as well (bones will match those on the glasses).
At Collabor88, until December 6!
A Drop of Bittersweet Amber is a visual novel for the spooky season, from the people that host Japonica. Like The Dolls from 2 years ago, it's a beautiful story you slowly uncover as you progress through the areas. You should do it!!
There is also a little market attached with a few shops- there are some freebies, some sales, some new releases. I'm late finishing up my new thing! but finally have, some foxes on cushions (more accurately, kitsune on zabuton). There are 7 poses which each include mirrors, and each pose has a fox with one tail, or some configuration of multiple tails- 2, 3, or 9. All are texture change with 6 fox colours (two shades of orange fox, pure white fox, pink fox, and 2 different white foxes with red markings), 4 eye colours (gold, brown, blue, and red), and 12 zabuton (kitsune patterned, with different background colours). 1 LI each at "realistic" size (which is actually a little large, foxes are deceptively tiny!)
There are also 2 new free gifts to be found there, aside from the treat bucket variant also there waiting for you: an eyeball you can eat with chopsticks, and a plate with a pile of salt, to keep evil away.
Go play A Drop of Bittersweet Amber before it's gone!
Hallow Manor ihas opened with still life with skulls, skulls with various things on them: The Wages of Sloth (3 snail options to choose from, change each snail separately or to the same options), Flighty Delusions (4 butterfly options to choose from, each individually or all to match), Venomous Thoughts (16 snake options, loosely with some of the snakes of Europe), and Odin's Rose (a lot of rose options!). 1 LI each at realistic skull size.
Plus! Hallow Manor is a shopping event plus hunt every year- you pay to unlock prizes you desire. The prize from me is another skull, this one turned into a planter to hold a Crawling Octopus Aloe, also 1 LI at realistic skull size.
Hallow Manor is open October 14 at noon SLT to November 1 at noon SLT.
Maybe I love dressing up virtual animals because all the real ones would never put up with it? This is the thing with cats, I suppose. And Schipperkes, the dogs who might as well be cats. Anyway! Ravens in hats (and other headgear) for Panic of Pumpkin! 6 hats to choose from (top hat, bowler hat, veiled pillbox hat, witch hat, fez, and crown), or a pack of them all- hatless ravens included with each as well. 6 static poses of all ravens, hats and hatless. All ravens are texture change with a desaturated option and a bluer option of shiny feathers, some of the accessories are texture change (metals for crowns, feathers on top hat and veiled). 1 LI at raven size, which is massive, seriously, ravens are huge birds. You can also scale them down to somewhat less massive and pretend they are crows.
Also! My day of the door is October 18! At 8AM SLT, my door can be tricked or treated at for a free gift, after October 19 at 8AM SLT, it will be available for purchase instead until the end of the event. A candleholder fashioned after a raven's claw: with tall, short, and no taper candles. Touch to light candles, texture options for both candles (brights, darks, pastels) and candleholder (bare metal and painted pastels) to choose from.
At Panic of Pumpkin, October 7@8AM SLT to October 31@midnight SLT!
p.s. There's also a treat bucket to be found at my booth!
Celebrate a Halloween Night with your BFF's with some mugs full of tea and candy at Collabor88! Each mug has eyes or no eyes versions, and they come full of candy to hold or rez to give candy to your guests, full of tea with flavor options, and empty for extra decor. Each mug is 1 Land Impact when rezzed, mugs full of tea or candy can be held in your left hand. Bat, cat, and devil mugs each sold separately, or in a pack of all three.
At this Collabor88, until November 6!
Shop&Hop is a massive mall full of gifts and sales, the Halloween round is here! You will find my gift there, a little black ceramic bat to rest your chopsticks, or your paintbrush, on. Don't use the same one for both unless all your paint is edible! Each one is 1 LI each. Plus! Find a special variant of the yearly treat bucket next to it. Everything else in the store is on sale, 20% off.
Shop&Hop is open until November 1!
Fallen Gods is celebrating another year, with a baroque party! Part of the party is a rooftop market full of friends of the Gods, and once again I'm honoured to have been invited to join in- the festivities run all month long and also include hunts and parties and fish slapping, there's a bit there for everyone! Another crystal masquerade mask, joining the two previously released. Texture change with all sorts of gemstone options and a few metals for the settings (golds/rose gold/silvers/coppers/iron).
At the Fallen Gods Anniversary Market, this month of October!
Salem has flown in on dark wings a bit early this year, so you can start your spooky shopping early! The Polidori Oxfords are named after Dr. John Polidori, one of the less well known guests at Lord Byron's extended house party during the Year without a Summer of 1809, that inspired Mary Shelley to create Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus. Polidori wrote one of the early works of vampire fiction, "The Vampyre", from other ghost stories told during their stay. "The Vampyre" was often accredited to Lord Byron, but Dr. Polidori was the actual author- and, well, the titular vampyre Lord Ruthven was probably based on Byron (also a bit of a womanizing asshole from all accounts).
Single Polidori oxfords are one colour for the shoe shell, but include HUDs for the bones, stitches (two sections to mix or match), and soles. They can be joined by another single colour, or all on its own with the pack, to allow you to also mix the two outer sides and tongue, and change left and right shoes differently if you so choose.
Rigged for men and women: for men they are rigged for Slink Physique Male and Belleza Jake bodies, for women they are rigged for Slink, Maitreya, and Belleza female flat feet. Plus there are unrigged modify (resizable) pairs to fit Classic System Avatars, as well as shaped more for feet-feet to perhaps wear with other bodies. Belleza Jake and Maitreya Lara rigged shoes can be adjusted in size with the foot size slider, as those feet will change size.
At Salem, September 24- October 22!
A black witch hat, lit up with neon for living your best futuristic witch life, at TOKYO ZERO! Create your own neon color, or pick from a number of colors for the neon lights, which can cast a little bit of light on your face too (light settings are editable and will be remembered when the light changes color to match the visible neon- so you can brighten it up or tone it down).
It's also an anniversary round, which means YOU get presents: many designers have free gifts for you if you join the TOKYO ZERO| Event group- a lit up neon daruma is the gift waiting for you there from me.
TOKYO ZERO is open September 10 @ 8am SLT to September 25 @ 8am SLT.
This Collabor88 may Smell Like Teen Spirit, but sorry, I was listening to The Cure. Also INCOMING SPOOKY SEASON don't care. A set of painted pumpkins, with gold and some silver! Each pumpkin comes separate or in a one piece group of 4, 1 LI each. There are 2 groups of 4- one with the purple pumpkin and one with the black pumpkin, with the crowned skull. You can sooooort of see a face in the pumpkin with the hands (and Air is the nose!)
At this Collabor88, until October 6!
Share your Sweet Dreams at Collabor88 with the moon, brought down from the sky for you. Hold it on a string, or place it in a birdcage- moons can softly glow with a little bit of light, or be unlit.
The moon balloon can be held in your left hand, or rezzed- there are 2 versions to rez, a floating one with just a trailing ribbon, and a weighted one, tied to a rock so it can't fly away. Ribbons are texture change with black, white, silver, gold, and rose gold options.
I'll Cage the Moon for You has the moon trapped in a birdcage, to use as a nightlight to illuminate your bedside (or wherever else you desire), or just as a moon in a cage.
At this Collabor88, until September 6!
12 flavors of Ramune at the Okinawa Summer Festival! English and Japanese labels, decor items (including full, empty, half empty, sealed, extra trash pieces, and a 2LI touch to animate opening version) and wearables (including a sealed when you wear it- unwrap and pop the marble version, as well as hold and drink versions of empty, half empty, and full).
Plus it's 10 years of Team Okinawa! In celebration, a fruity parfait in a pineapple with a shisa chocolate is there as a free gift! You can retcon the flavours to be anything you like, but I'm going to say that the blue ice cream is ramune/pineapple swirl, the purple ice cream is beni-imo (a purple sweet potato), the orange ice cream is mango, the pink ice cream is strawberry, and the green soft serve is matcha.
Find them at Okinawa Summer Festival, open August 5 @ 8am SLT to August 30 @ 8am SLT!
Way back in the olden days of the first round of Arcade, there was the breakout hit of the Beetlebones Drawf Hamster avatars. They're cute, they're goofy, they roll around and flop, and we loved them. Every year in the summer, there is a festival still devoted to them: even though suetabulous Yootz of Beetlebones has retired from SL, other people are making things to this day for her hamsters, and dressing up as hamsters and playing. As they say: it's big in Japan, especially. I look forward to the Hamster Festival every year- it's cute and goofy and full of weird and wonderful fun stuff, a departure from the more "practical" side of SL (SL isn't practical, but you know what I mean). This year is the first year I found out about it being open for applications early enough to do something about it, so I did!
You will find a pair of stone hamster statues there- these are low key komainu statues, you know the guardian foo dogs that hang out in pairs at entrances, but they do not have to be if you don't want them to be. One is stuffing his face, and the other one is more sedate, both in 3 stone options, with and without pedestal base to sit on (plus extra base if you have any need for that).
Hamfest also often has gifts, so a free gift of one toothed geta for hammy feet. Those little feet are so not made to wear geta, but I prevailed. (You can also try to fit them to some other feet, but I am not optimistic on your chances.) Texture change with some solid strap options, you can also use other Geta Strap HUDs.
Hamster Festival is open July 31 @ 5am SLT to August 20 @ 8am SLT. You don't have to be a hamster to attend: it is open to (and carries things for) all avatars, even non fluffy ones!
If you don't have a hamster avatar but want one: with the death of gacha, since sue is not still active in SL, you can't get them from a gacha anymore! You can still find them on the secondary resale market on the marketplace though, and sue does have a little mainland spot she keeps that has a fatpack of all the hamster avatars: do NOT pay the gacha machines, they do not work, and some are not even scripted at all, it's just leftover menu stuff from when they were!
A round low table and wall hanging windows based on rose windows in churches and cathedrals for Midnight Order! The table is 2 LI at table size (shrink it down a touch and it can be 1 LI), the windows are 1 LI each up to a bit over 2 meters wide/tall. Texture change with 3 stone options (old and spotty, pale, and sandstone) and 5 wood options (light, medium and dark wood, plus black and white), with 2 stained glass options for the ones with panes. The tables have optional "shadow" prims with cast light (adjust transparency and glow to suit your space), and the glass windows have optional projector lights. Projectors are only partially scriptable under current tools- in ways that break them completely, so each glass is currently included separately instead of scripted texture change. I'm hoping some day some Linden actually uses the permissions system that already exists correctly and implements that the rest of the way, but for now, it's just...not ready to be used.
Midnight Order is open July 20 at noon SLT to August 20.
Creepy spiders with eyeballs to hang around at this Upside Down/horror themed round of TOKYO ZERO! 6 poses plus mirrors, 1 LI each at realistic eyeball size and a bit larger, plus lower LI versions at a larger size, with and without rotatable eyeballs to look where you want them to. Texture change with red, brown, blue, and green eyes; and black and red bodies.
TOKYO ZERO is open July 10 @ 8am SLT to July 25 @ 8am SLT.
Fresh strawberries and fresh cherries in green open weave punnets, at this Collabor88! Each come with filled baskets, half full baskets, empty baskets, and 2 single fruits. The strawberries are texture change with juicy red and pink strawberries, and white pineberries; the cherries are texture change with bright red and dark cherry options. 1 land impact each piece- descript and link to make 2 pieces 1 LI.
At this Collabor88, until August 6!
A summery Japonica, filled with stars!
Kazashi 簪 hair sticks- a "round" Tama Kanzashi with a star instead, and Dangling Star Kanzashi with each charm editable to rotate if necessary to fit. Both have star stones, each texture change with 14 stone colours to choose from, and 3 metal options for the hardware (gold, silver, and blackened iron).
A bottle of Celestial Sake and wooden masu cups to drink from, filled with the stars of Tanabata 七夕: Orihime 織姫 also known as Vega in the Lyra constellation, and Hikoboshi 彦星 also known as Altair in the Aquila constellation, separated by the river of the Milky Way. The bottle comes in open and closed versions, including givers for your guests to hold masu cups, the masu cups also come separate for you in rez and hold versions.
Plus starry platform geta 下駄 okobo おこぼ (also called pokkuri or bokkuri 木履). Hoshi Okobo Geta feature 16 color options of bold large stars, with 24 solid strap options and 16 colors of large double stars straps. Celestial Okobo Geta feature 12 colors of the Tanabata constellations- Orihime is the largest star on the right side of each geta, and Hikoboshi is the largest star on the left side of each geta- with 24 solid strap options and 16 colors of small scattered star pattern straps. Unrigged and modify to adjust to your body and poses.
At Japonica, open June 30 at 8am SLT - July 24 at 8am SLT.
Marble tables with seashell shaped tops for Summerfest! Tall skinny side table and a wide squat coffee table, each with 12 colors of gold-flecked marble to choose from, and 4 metals (gold, silver, rose gold, and blackened iron). 1 LI each table at "realistic" size (and a bit larger).
At Summerfest, June 18-July 10!
Some bubble tea from the Boba B(e)ar picked up during your Wonderful Day at Collabor88! 10 single flavours of boba, plus some extra fruit teas (no milk, white tapioca balls) in the uberpack. Rez them at 1 LI each, or carry them in your left or right hand with original bento pose.
At this Collabor88, until July 6!
Two gemstone masks for the first masquerade party of the Social Season at Collabor88.
The Gemma mask is a bit of a pun: gemma being both flower bud and gemstone. Texture change with silver, gold, rose gold, platinum, copper, and gunmetal metals; plus an assortment of gemstone options. Change all the gems to match, or mix leaves, petals, and centers.
The Ciglio mask includes a few variants: with and without dangling teardrops of assorted number and length. Like Gemma, texture change with silver, gold, rose gold, platinum, copper, and gunmetal metals; plus an assortment of gemstone options. Change all the gems to match, or mix small gems, large center gems, and teardrop gems.
At this Collabor88, until June 6!
A pair of gifts to find at the Aurelias Easter Egg Hunt!
Attach some daisies to your cheek with transparent tape, and grow seedlings in teacups. Eggs are a decent size and mostly hidden in plain sight.
There is also a spring market: find the neapolitan bunny parfait there at half price.
The event at Aurelias is open April 10 - April 20.
