Should have said...

36 new cat eyes instore, along with the Leon beard and a completely new men's braided set called Kaiba...




Come get some!

Until next time,

Kalli

P.S. Have to add... Kaiba looks great on men... but equally good on the ladies...


Or, for those of an industrial bent...



Love it!

Starstruck series now live....

15L each or 75L for a color block of nine shades...

I'm relocating the eyes to the main store as and when they're updated, so for now, come look upstairs by the beards.

Until next time,

Kalli

I mentioned eyes a few weeks ago...

I did... yes...

Confession time. I was going to roll out another two panels of the new series 3 human eye range... but I didn't... because I've been working on a few more. In fact I can now reveal that the series 3 eyes - now dubbed "starstruck" due to the shininess within have been reworked into no fewer than 54 colors... That's 9 more than the last lot.


I'm about to commence loading vendors... so watch this space...

Until next time,

Kalli

You ain't seen me... roight?!

Hi... just checking in from beyond the grave... uh... RL, just to say that yes, I am on a period of absense set to last for five days or therearound. Updates to product lines are running slow at the moment, combined with the hoopage Hair Fair requires of me, I'm working flat out (when actually working and not on the skive that is) resolving those kinda things.

Well actually, no... I'm not...

I've come up with another 18 eye colors in the "Mena" line that I intend to launch fairly soon as part of the re-establishment of the eye hut. It'll be relocated to a sensible location on the new lot (up next to the beards, I suspect... but we'll see...) so, just to make it interesting, I offer you this incentive. In-store I have a subscribeomatic. If you fancy 9 sets of eyes free before the end of the month, touch it for in-world updates... ;)

Until next time,

Kalli

New store now open...

Yes... after bleating and bemoaning it for weeks and more, the new store is now live... YES.. you heard... the refit has been finished and the old vendors have been removed... the old store is history and the new stuff is well and truly in situ...

Thanks be to Alice for her help... and for the excuisite build. It's different that's for sure!

Let me show you around...

The TP landing point takes you into the back area as shown here... where in time I'll have all the latest announcements, maybe some TP booths and the rest... At present there's logos, the Fashcon phone and the nails tops that I've had to hand but not been selling, waiting for somewhere to put them



I've tried my darnedst to break things into a logical order... so the beards and associated have been gathered together on the top floor... accessible by a flight of stairs, or simply by flying up from the entryway...



It'll get bigger,.. I can assure you of that, and I hope to have a dollarbie soul patch out later... possibly as soon as tonight, but the neko parts are drawing my attention...

Still onward... The men's styles are stacked in the open area...



While the women's are in the main under the gantry that makes the second floor.



The eyes have been moved up and out the way until I can refurbish them... but it won't be long in coming... but with Alice's help, I've made use of the entire store and even hung vendors on the trees that make an integral part of it...



One thing that's for certain... and not coming across in the pictures is the sheer scale of the place... the building is 3600 square metres in size... standing 18m tall

I love it... hopefully you will too...

More styles to follow... I gotta fill it now!

Until next time,

Kalli

Alicia and Felicia live for four days now...

Sorry..

Currently somewhat unenamoured with Second Life after a few events of late, on a personal nature, that have left me a little deflated. Initially I came to SL to meet people, then to make things... and so on and so forth... but it seems that it's all becoming about agendas, popularity contests and more which, dear reader, I couldn't under normal circumstances, give two flying shits about. In all honesty, if that was my intent, I'd be on "There" instead. Now don't get me wrong... I do have an account there too; but it's seen 90 minutes of use.

Well..

Long and the short of it, Sales are stagnant... the new shop release is perilously close, but my personal daemon's kicking in saying how the new stuff... well... the older new stuff, isn't up to it... blah blah blah blah blah. That and I've gone back to RL work, leaving me with less time to concentrate on things.

Hmm...

Well I guess the simplest thing to do is take a little while away to get my head in gear and come back guns blazing, release Keiko, Matsuko, Axe, Aya and Crista... work on a few more styles that I need (Jude, George, Sam, Oscar and Siren), then, and only then, call for a big release, getting the new shop off; or more strictly on the ground.

Either way... from a shop standpoint, Series 3 eyes are currently a linden a pair until Sunday. Enjoy.

Until next time,

Kalli

Image Dump: Releases this last week...

OK... hope yoiu don't mind... but I've been being a bit lax on the actually supplying images front. This ought to resolve...

The products released over the last seven days...








Lara / Phoenix multi pictured below is also out...

Eyes are 15L each, in nine colors...



So there you go... all up to speed...

Until next time,

Kalli

Got distracted... so I made some new eyes

Title says it all... flipping around the great big Internet and came across a striking pair of eyes looking back at me... So I was inspired to make some new ones for the store.

9 colors out now... 15l each... up with the new hair until I find somewhere better to put them.



Until next time,

Kalli

A subtle clarification, and news of further developments.

The last post is a little confusing I now see, reading back over it. It implies that both Aidan and Li are already out... well... Aidan is, (as of late last night) but Li is yet to go... I suspect, if I pull my finger out it could be launched today... but hey... we'll see!

Never mind!

Further news: a troll in a bikini has been spotted shamboling around Synchronicity Island. If you see him, do not approach as he could well be dangerous... or it could simply be Alice working on a couple of freaky avatar shapes to go with the Demon eyes, which are set for a relaunch shortly!

I've whipped up another 12 colors, stretching the line to 27 colors total. There should be a freaky color available for you, should you be so inclined! The Demon shapes will go on sale too, and come with a couple of optional prim horn combinations.

Hair-wise, once I get this little lot off my back (that's an expression, not a statement! Honestly!), it's on with the schedule... Next up I suspect will be the long open men's, as we have nothing like it at the moment in store... but I could be sidetracked once more...

Until next time,

Kalli

These ones are superlucky!

OK... taken my time to update this, but I've been noticably busy in-store. We've had something of a shakeup and more "coming soon" vendors have been added. What's more, the eye hut has taken a hammering and both cat and anime eyes are now available.




Both retailing for 15L a colorway or 75L for a palette of 9... there are three cat and two anime palettes to choose from - so knock yourselves out!

Like the shapes in the Anime ad? Well... they were created by Alice Hoyer - the poor schlubb called in to model for me in the early days, who is now a resident in the shop, assisting with sales when and where she can. If you've ever seen Alice in person you'll know that she plays the sliders expertly; and rattled off these two shapes, named Ai and Yu (girl and boy) for me in no time flat. She's also agreed for them to go up for sale... so we now have shapes again! No skins though... just shapes...




The shapes are 75L each - and they're copy mod, as all self respecting shapes should be. I've seen people charge 800L for a mod shape, so once again, in true -dD- tradition, you're onto a bargain here. Just FYI, the skins pictured are, on Yu, Gabriel in Early Tan by Lost Thereian; and on Ai, AYSK NoSun (Light makeup) by Ayiki Takakura - which also happens to be the one I generally wear now!

Also in the offing are two new men's hairs... Aidan and Li. Aidan sticks rigidly to the plan - a long male ponytail as advertised before the new year; but Li happened by accident when someone walked into the shop and said he was after a chinese style pony, all set at the back of the head. I had Wisper stall him and ran across the island and whipped one up in what could have been no more than 15 minutes... either way, I was quick about it... Named after the first character named in Crouching Tiger - Li Mubai

Anywho... vendor shots for the pair of them...




More stuff to follow as more stuff is made!

Until Next time,

Kalli

The eyes have it again...

Well... back earlier than expected this year.. but no bad thing. I've had the opportunity to reassess the eyes - particularly the cat eyes that, while popular, have been lacking a few colors. Well now I've upped the ante, raising the bar from 15 to 27 colors; and they're nice ones too, unlike the first cat releases that were a little abrupt.

They're currently available in the crate only - 27 eyes for 199L... but I will be going live with the individual and fatpack purchases, much as I have with the human eyes, in the next day or so.

Furthermore, a set of 18 anime eyes will get their launch as soon as I can figure out a way of geting a reasonable looking Anime avatar to model them without shelling out 2500L at Boingo to do so... not that i'd complain... it's just at 15L a pop, that's close to 180 sales to break even... not including the upload costs.

Still... more news and pictures when they comes to anything.

Oh yes... before I forget... there is now a small display of 9 hairstyles in Sterling Grove, set in the barbershop over the Marzipan tearooms. Here's hoping it bucks the trend and actually generates me some coin! Have a looksee if you wish... the two owners are lovely!

Until next time,

Kalli

Fast approaching the end of the year

Well guys... it's nigh on six months since I opened the doors on this little venture, and things are ticking over now. This wek saw the release of Mu, Hydra, Sakura and the Hydra/Chimera double pack... and George finally being upgraded from 32 to 48 colors... All in time for everyone to disappear offline for a few days over the festive season.

Talking about disappearing, I too kate off tomorrow for a week or so; braving the family gathering as befits tradition. I'm sure you all have yours and for teh sake of your dsanity I'll spare you mine.

Just thought that seing as it may well be next year before teh next article follows, I'll post some resolutions now.

OK...

The first five hairs of next year will be a masculine ponytail (which is already in the workshop, nearing completion of the proto), a long open male one inspired by a certain video game character, another for the guys that's long at the back and short on top without being a mullet... I promise(!)... A set of sensible length girly pigtails and another short asymmetric men's do with some movement to it. I cannot guarantee the order, but those are what's in my head now.

Eyes-wise, I'll be working on a set of Anime shaped ones in the new year... look out for the debut 18 soon in the new year. The charity crate is on standby - read postponed until further notice.

Alice, bless her, has thrown herself into the breech and is making some entry level skins for me so that the shapes, all six of them now, can be relaunched guilt free... They'll happen in time.

OK... on that note, Gift certificate exchanges are now on hold until January 2nd, when I expect to be back seriously, and recovered from NYE... which I have actual factual plans for for the first time since Y2K.

Anyway... on a personal note... to all of you who read this (and I know some of you do) I wish you all the best for the forthcoming year. I hope, whatever you're doing over the break, it's peaceful, relaxing and fun.

See you in-world in 2008!

Until next time,

Kalli

Older.... wiser... smarting...

Every once in a while I escape from my little patch on Synchronicity and actually experience something of teh virtual world called Second life... Sadly this week those experiences have been negative...

First of all I need to make one thing absolutely clear. I'm naive to a fault; and as a result, I've paid for my trusting nature.

To clarify. I discovered that the skins I was using in my instant avatar packs were resold illegally - ripped from others' work... and I cannot be a part of that; so as soon as I discovered this, I pulled the shape with immediate effect. Instead I'm going to have no other choice but to make my own skins for them, so I can be wholly certan that my ass is covered from a copyright standpoint. I wouldn't want anyone ripping me of, and I refuse to play a part in it. The shapes will be back, along with two more, Heather and Norman, that I was finalising before the shit hit the fan.

Furthermore, the satellite store on Full Moon Island has been abandonned for reasons that I will not go over in depth - but the primary, of course was that after 6 weeks, it hadn't paid for the first week's rental. There were a few other minor issues relating to neighbours that didn't help either, so I bailed mid-afternoon yesterday.

On a more positive note, the human eyes have been reworked to provide 2 styles in each color for 25L, or fatpacks of nine colors, two styles each for a lowly 99L - or 5.5L an eye... not bad at all. Chimera has finally been launched, and after sweating blood; I can reveal that Sakura has been fixed with respect to alpha issues, so hits the tinters shortly.

Photos to follow... but right now I'm feeling too drained... sorry guys...

Until next time,

Kalli

Developments, and why the heck have I not released anything this week?

OK, what can I say...?

Asset server issues in the main - every time I find the time to tint and clone, LL prevents me picking anything up - it's frustrating in the extreme and there have indeed been tears of frustration; but Siren and Mu will be coming shortly. That said, seeing as I cannot tint and clone, it hasn't stopped me building.

I've created a cat tail and ears set (the basic neko kit) which I will be launching as is, and with Aya and packs of cat eyes as a complete neko kit - 39 and 149L respectively.

Also I have created two additional hairstyles - a funky four-way pony called Hydra, set for imminent release, and a two-way long flexi pony based on Hydra called Chimera - both will be set for rapid deployment at 99L apiece, or as a double pack for 149L. Pics to follow once I get the vendor boards assembled.

Furthermore, this means some serious moving about to get everything to fit in. Zoe has been retired, along with Band. The Marion Eowyn double pack has been deleted, and Eowyn has been cut to 49L. Further developments are likely to see the early retirement of Kate, a cut in price for Joss, Aki and Heidi to 49L etc. etc.etc. I could go on, but really... if I did this post would last forever...

Eyes wise, the charity crate is on hold pending a complete reworking of the human eye colours - all forty-odd, to give dilated pupils as an option. We're nearly there, but I'm not gonna upload them until I am SURE I can set up the eye hut to accommodate, so please bear with me.

Furtherore, Wisper has announced her intention to start making hair (under my tutorage, the poor thing), so watch this space for news of her work becoming live... and she's looking at specialising in men's hair, which is likely to be a relief to all and sundry... myself included.

I only hope that I get enough time to make a decent stab at getting things online soon.

Until next time,

Kalli

developments of late...

Hey all!

RL issues after RL issues... well... Illness followed by much needed holiday... so that explains the lack of -dD- releases of late... There was one... Aki, another female hair, that for some reason I totally forgot to mention here!



It's similar to Aya in it's movement, but shorter and cuter for those who want... I like it... but if I'm being brutally honest, it should have feathered ends... but when I put them on SL ate the hair... it looked HORRIBLE... hence the blunt tips... it works from a distance though... ;)

OK... I was ill!

Still the forthcoming month's likely to be quiet too, due to additional work and all manner of other stuff going on in my life... but fear not... work will continue. Plans are afoot for a new hair release... and a limited edition charity eye box - 16 colors for 100 lindens... ALL proceeds going to charities selected at monthly intervals either by me, or my suggestions made from you guys. The November charity of choice for the eye box is nanowrimo.org (as it's taking place in November, and collects money to help literacy projects around the globe... so it seems worthy to me!) Further details of the charity eye box when it launches... SOON!

Hair wise has seen a request for the most outlandishly flexy ponytail in the history of SL's outlandishly flexy ponytails... so Nariko will hit the shelves soon... and when it does, prepare to be dazzled. Modelled here by Martha... in other words, me...



Don't worry guys... you've not been forgotten... I've made a start on aanother gent's style that lifts the bar slightly... utilising the technology I've mastered with the last three female releases to make a short but nicely flexi men's do that I've entitled James... Just got the basic head covering done so far, so not a lot to show... but it'll be there soon!

Nil desperandum!

Until next time,

Kalli

Black eyes...

Working as I have been of late, chopping between hair and eye production, has given me two things I never thought it would - one is an understanding that the color alteration tools in Gimp are a lot more powerful than I first thought, and that no matter what I do, I'll never be able to figure out where any of the other controls are... so don't expect any skins from me in the next few months...

Still...

We have new products again, with the launch of the 15 Demon eye colors - black borders, horizontal pupils, utterly freaky and out in time for Halloween! Do swing by the ever expanding eye hut on Synchronicity to see these babies for yourself... they're fun... and like ALL our eyes, sourced from an original stock photo...

Hair-wise, Aya is going down well, but requests have been made for a shorter version, so work persists there, hopefully with an iminent release on the cards...

Until next time,

Kalli

Long time since the last update again...

Terrible apologies to one and all... I have my reasons for being so crap... again mostly health related... but I won't dwell on them.

OK... Updates... there have been several... Dexter is live, as is another random style, Aya that simply dropped into existance after talking to someone about how flexi flexi-hair can really be... the movement on this one is amazing and you owe it to yourself to try it out, if you haven't done so already.

Further more, we now have 45 Human eyes and 15 cat eyes available, along with an 11 "most popular eyes" collection and, for you lord of the rings fans, Sauron - evil eyes inspired by the eye of Sauron itself...

Come give them a looksee!





Until next time, which I promise will come sooner...

Kalli

OK... so once again, time marches on...

Alright folks... just to keep you all up to speed on what's been happening on the Discord Designs fromnt in the last week...

Well... We've opened a franchise in the 'Hair n Shoes Required' mall on Lucid Dreams to what so far appears to be a rather smal customerbase... there have been some sales, but things aren't overly promising as yet... but never mind... early days...

Dexter was launched on Thursday... yes... tht's the balding style... and again, things have been relatively slow... but that could well be the nature of the grid at the moment... or maybe it's to revolutionary in a world where everyone is young and beautiful to offer a "solar powered sex machine" hairdo...

Finally we've also launched a range of a dozen neko / cat eyes for your perusal... 15l a pop, like the others... and rather fun... so do have a look... tese are available only at the main store so do swing by for a nose..

Until next time, wen there'l be some photo updates...

Kalli

I'll see your nine and raise you thirty...

OK guys and girls... there are now so many eyes in-store that they have been shifted to a purpose built area just past the office... Yes... The eye hut is open, holding no fewer than 39 different colors to choose from... All the colors of the bow, no less... including some utterly beautiful multiway ones that have to be tried to be believed... Luna is lovely... but Terra and Nebula have to be my favourites... So give them a look... or even just pick 'em up and se for yourself... That's $L15 apiece, people... you cannot go wrong here!

Also noteworthy is that, time permitting next week, the first Discord Designs franchise will be opening... I'll fill you in as and when there's stuff to see, but overall it should be a goodie... That's if the guys advertising the mall are up to thier word!

Still... finer notes... Criss is now reloaded live in 48 colors, rather than 32... Tori and Marion are set to follow soon. Dexter is in second phase development and is set to be tinted and cloned by the end of the week... So...

Busy busy busy!

and watch this space as always!

Until, next time,

Kalli

I really must stop distracting myself...

Every once in a while I get a hairbrained idea... as you well know by now, all those who read this. The latest was no different. I've been debating the logistics of expanding the shape packages I intend to offer to include skins, hair and eyes to make an all-in-one instant avatar for a reasonable rate...

Well... that's all great in principle, but it means learning a hell of a lot about how graphics software works... and no, I've not succumbed and picked up a copy of Photoshop. I've been yutzing about with my ancient Heath-Robinson technology and created the easier of the two texture-based deals... eyes!



Naturally, I'm telling you this as the vendor is now live... and pictured above... so do come and give them a look! They're up in the accessories gazebo, and in true Discord Designs tradition, they're cheap and cheerful. Hope you like!

Until next time,

Kalli