Two new for you...

Ok... so I've been a little busy loading like an idiot this last 24 hours. Emphasis on 'like an idiot' as I cloned one style fully before I realised that the perms were wrong; but that's resolved now. Rush is now live in Sync and at Hairspray - and another braided number, Sasy, likewise.




Sasy is named after Sasy Scarborough who was bemoaning no less than 48 hours ago that I hadn't got enough long braids... couldn't have that!

So... yours to own should you so desire...

Until next time,

Kalli

Further evidence of expansion...

Noticed a 4096 for rent right on top of the store owned by a pair of good friends...

Checked the prim count... noticed the 1.4x bonus...

Checked the initial outlay... 100L...

Checked the monthly rent...

Salivated...

Bought...

Erected a new store...


Welcome to Fantasy Land 3... 25 styles, neatly categorised for once! Offering the popular braids, men's hairs, pigtails, long open styles and short women's ones.

Might not have the range of Synchronicity but it sure is better ordered...

Until next time,

Kalli

I have not been playing Mercenaries II...

But something somewhere has evidently sunk in...


This is Forkboy... New beard... named after the first track on the Lard album, "The Last Temptation of Reid"... and for no other reason than it looks like a pitchfork at the end...

Speaking of beards, I have come across 200 prims or so on Burns, and have planted a viral ministore there, selling Leon, Robert, Vladimir and Frank... well, it was free, so why not?

Forkboy out when I've sorted some model photos..

Until next time,

Kalli

Closing down sale...

Ok... just to confirm, I'm NOT leaving SL... but I am streamlining a little bit. What with taking on the Hairspray site and the Admicile location, my costs have gone up by close to 20,000L a month, so I'm having to make a few cutbacks. which basically means ditching the locations that are currently running at a loss...

Well, location.

It pains me to say it, but the Suburbs Mall store has been, for want of a better word, unviable since I moved in. Not a single week has gone past where it's made a profit; and in fact it's often 10 days between demo sales there. So basically I'm opting to cut my losses and leave, despite the fact it's owned by some dear friends.

Josey... Sid... I'm sorry.

So basically I've got 24 hours left on my contract... so until it expires at 1pm SLT tomorrow, everything instore is 83% off...

Landmark in the Discordant Retail section.

Until next time,

Kalli

Two more for the Victorians among you...

Burns and company - barbers to the aristocracy and masters of the tonsorial arts - present their latest brace of facial hairpieces for the astute, sartorially minded gentleman...

...or in 21st century parlance... "Two new beards @ Discord Designs"




Both now live... both now L$60 a box.

In other news, The Admicile franchise has been expanded from 11 to 17 men's styles... Hairspray will be expanded tonight to incorporate some more bits 'n' bobs after investing in some advertising space and if I can swing it, there'll be another norse beard out in the next couple of days.

Watch this space...

Until next time,

Kalli

200th post... Monumentous events... :)

Well it's happened... hit the big 200-post mark finally.

What's to add? well...

In the last week I've put together a new sculpted cornrow set named Sol, set up a men's showcase store in the French-owned region of Admicile, and not only that, in four hours' time, the door opens on another satellite store on Hairspray 2.

Sol is going to be based solely at the Hairspray 2 location, and will be on sale for A LINDEN a double... yes you heard. Why? Because I want to offer something special at that location, as I feel that the organisers there are doing a great job, and ought to see a little traffic... and as dollarbies tend to attract said traffic... why not?

Links to all shops are now listed in the "Discordant Retail" section on the right hand side.



Hope you like!

Until next time,

Kalli

Another new one on the horizon..

Spike now launched... New shop open to a massive fanfare... many MANY sales... Jude now recreated and soon to be made live..



Until next time,

Kalli

Alright... OK... I said I wouldn't, but...

I have succombed, and talken on a franchise.. offered by someone who was both very flattering and very persuasive...

But there's more to it than that. I've wondered about how the hell someone who offers 72 colors could hope to create a vendor setup that could be installed in a regular mall. Well... the offer wasn't for a regular mall, and seeing as the two people who twisted my arm between them have already spent enough in-store to cover the first week's rent, I thought what the hell. I have ideas, and it's going to look a little weird. Chaos in situ; is my thinking, but I can lock and load it using existing vendors up to around 150 prims (10 per style... so just the most common sales colors) with the initial investment of around an hour of my time.

That's the plan... I'll see how it goes, but it will not distract me from my plans for getting the shop out there on the current site.

Mall-leeches... please note that this does NOT mean I am in the market for mall space... heck no... far from it. I've taken this on as the cost is very reasonable... the prim limit is large(r tham most malls can accommodate) and isn't a mall... more a collection of satellite stores for handpicked designers (including one of my friends... which is nice to have a store side by side)

Well... further details when there's more in there than a cube that says "rented by..."

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

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

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